Raymond Tallis: Are We Destined for Freedom? A Case for Compatibilism & Ontological Agnosticism

Raymond Tallis is Professor Emeritus of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Manchester. He is a philosopher, poet, novelist, cultural critic, and a retired physician and clinical neuroscientist. He trained in medicine at Oxford University and at St Thomas’ in London and has 4 honorary degrees: DLitt (Hull, 1997) and Litt.D. (Manchester, 2001) for contributions to the humanities; and DSc (St George’s Hospital Medical School, 2015; University of East Anglia, 2017) for contributions to medicine. He was an editor and major contributor to two key textbooks in the field, The Clinical Neurology of Old Age and Textbook of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology and author of over 200 original scientific articles, including papers in Nature Medicine, Brain, Lancet. He has published fiction, poetry, and over 30 books on the philosophy of mind, metaphysics, philosophical anthropology, and literary and cultural criticism.

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0:00 - Introduction
0:40 - Ontological Agnosticism re: the Mind-Body dichotomy
7:07 - Philosophers who have influenced Raymond
10:00 - Nature of Time
16:43 - Nature of Reality
22:15 - Scientism & Psychiatry
29:17 - Consciousness & Intentionality
39:47 - Determinism, Laplace's demon & Benjamin Libet
47:44 - Compatibilism & Free Will
58:09 - Animal Consciousness
1:04:25 - Artificial Intelligence
1:10:38 - Religion & Humanism
1:16:40 - Extraterrestrial Minds
1:19:07 - Advice for Young Naturalists
1:22:45 - Philosophy/Book Recommendations
1:26:38 - Raymond's Book "Freedom: An Impossible Reality"
1:31:51 - Quantum Consciousness, Panpsychism, Illusionism
1:37:55 - Conclusion

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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - Introduction
0:40 - Ontological Agnosticism re: the Mind-Body dichotomy
7:07 - Philosophers who have influenced Raymond
10:00 - Nature of Time
16:43 - Nature of Reality
22:15 - Scientism & Psychiatry
29:17 - Consciousness & Intentionality
39:47 - Determinism, Laplace's demon & Benjamin Libet
47:44 - Compatibilism & Free Will
58:09 - Animal Consciousness
1:04:25 - Artificial Intelligence
1:10:38 - Religion & Humanism
1:16:40 - Extraterrestrial Minds
1:19:07 - Advice for Young Naturalists
1:22:45 - Philosophy/Book Recommendations
1:26:38 - Raymond's Book "Freedom: An Impossible Reality"
1:31:51 - Quantum Consciousness, Panpsychism, Illusionism
1:37:55 - Conclusion



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[drtevinnaidu]

My sincere apologies for the annoying audio reverb. We were experiencing some technical difficulties during the recording of this episode. Raymond and I recorded this episode last year. I took a break from the podcast due to COVID and other unforeseen circumstances. Fortunately, we're back up and running! Also, I'd like to thank you all for your continued support and constant requests for the podcast to continue. New episodes will be coming soon! Take care, be safe, and enjoy!

[adamd]

I listen to a lot of podcasts. I've recently discovered Raymond Tallis. He's incredible and I would say the BEST at communicating ideas👍

[SpiritualAtheist]

Really enjoyed this. Great channel! 👍

[armanshaghi]

Another great podcast, well done mate

[dcleve]

I have not read his books, but the limited exposure I have had to Dr Tallis, he seems to bring a lot of commonsense to philosophic questions. Good choice of interviewee!

Several of his points are very good sense. YES, scientism is silly. And Block Time does not capture all aspects of time. Of course not all knowledge can be gained by science. And science is neutral to ontology. Additionally, his critiques of interativism, quantum consciousness, panpsychism, and of illusionism are very commonsense challenges. All of these have some support, but are overgeneralizations, universalizing valid local observations, leading to invalid generalities. Rather than considering time as beyond science, he could treat block time as an example of the same principle -- SOME aspects of time make it very useful to treat it as Block time, others like a logic sequence, still others as a past book with future undetermined (growing time). Empiricism -- science -- is very open to accepting multiple local models, which have not yet been integrated into a coherent global model.

I could not tell if Dr Tallis has been reading contemporary philosophy of science. Current phil of science accepts pluralism and holism as useful perspectives that supplement and sometimes displace reductionism, and which accepts that there is no "unity of science" based on reduction, but instead science is a family of research programmes based on a commonality of epistemology.

[chrisbennett]

ypu need to get bruce lipton on
and Rupert sheldrake
thanks for getting on Raymond Tallis

[WalterBurton]

Raymond Tallis should read Lisa Feldman Barrett.

[WalterBurton]

"I immediately stub my toe on the word model." Yikes.