Psychologist Discovers the "Worm at the Core" of Human Consciousness | Sheldon Solomon
Danny Jones
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Description
Psychologist Sheldon Solomon helped build terror management theory, the idea that awareness of death drives much of human culture. On Danny Jones's podcast, he discusses what he calls the worm at the core of human consciousness: the knowledge that we die, and the civilizations we build to avoid facing it.
Solomon explains the experiments behind the theory, in which reminders of death measurably shift people's politics, faith, and prejudices. Jones tests the idea against the show's usual subjects, cults, conspiracies, and apocalypses, all of which Solomon's framework reads as death-denial in costume. The episode is among the most scholarly in the series, and its claim is unsettling precisely because it is modest and testable. Listeners get a serious thinker's summary of his life's work, in conversation.
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| CREATOR | Danny Jones |
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| COLLECTION | PODCASTS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 115,912 bytes |
| LICENSE | YouTube Standard License |
| RIGHTS | EXTERNAL SOURCE |
| SOURCE | YouTube |