What is the nature of the soul? In Part I we look at this question through the thought experiment of the Transporter Problem. What is it that would have to be preserved in a transportation process in order to say that the person stepping out on the other side is the same person? What are the implications for the nature of personal identity and the makeup of the human person, or soul?
Part 2 of our discussion. Jeff and Todd talk Star Wars, the great cultural mythology of the modern age. We talk about our own histories with Star Wars, each of the trilogies, other films in the Star Wars universe, Clone Wars, the Mandalorian. Also the cinematic genius of George Lucas, Joseph Campbell and the monomyth. This was our introductory “overview”, even though we couldn’t help going deep into a couple of topics.
Part 1 of our discussion. Jeff and Todd talk Star Wars, the great cultural mythology of the modern age. We talk about our own histories with Star Wars, each of the trilogies, other films in the Star Wars universe, Clone Wars, the Mandalorian. Also the cinematic genius of George Lucas, Joseph Campbell and the monomyth. This was our introductory “overview”, even though we couldn’t help going deep into a couple of topics.
In this episode we discuss the two creation stories in Genesis, the Documentary Hypothesis and the P and J sources, differences in their vocabulary and portrayals of God, comparisons with the Babylonian Enuma Elish, creative wordplay, and possible ways to think about all this from a religious perspective.
Todd Decker 