Episode One of my new series of podcasts “The Absolute Truth” is available now.
The series of eight episodes is called “Not 42, The Real Meaning of Life, the Universe and Everything.”
Watch the trailer here:
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In Douglas Adam’s wickedly funny book, The Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy. The answer to the question of the meaning of life, the universe and everything is… 42. In this series of podcasts, we are going to discover the real meaning of Life, the Universe and Everything.
The podcasts will take you on a fascinating (It is to me!) journey that uses evidence, reason and science to find the best possible explanation for what is true. It might take you to places you don’t want to go, and where, maybe, I don’t want to go. But it always follows the evidence, and could perhaps take us towards a new enlightenment, where we discover that, in contemporary society, we have fundamentally misunderstood what it is to be human. But you the listener can be the judge of that.
But before we can set off on our journey, we need to know what is true. How can we find Truth, and how would we know it if we found it? Episode One will consider that question. Because we all know something must exist – we wouldn’t be here otherwise, and there are some things we can say about it: it has a description. I’ve called that description the Omnitruth: the true and complete explanation of everything that exists, has existed and ever will exist. But how do we know what it is? Answer…: we don’t! All we can say about it is that there are some general facts about it that are indisputable, such as that the Omnitruth is complex, organised and the part of the universe where I am is dynamic. For reasons that are a bit involved for this blog entry, we know that we can’t really know anything, at least with absolute certainty than the, very general, comments I’ve already made. But if we make certain assumptions, such as the world around us is real and not some kind of dream or hallucination, then we can still know some things are true. The claim I’m making here, is that if we use evidence, reason and science, a method I’m calling “Best Guess Reasoning” we will find the most likely explanation for what is true.
In the rest of the podcasts, we will use best guess reasoning to the most likely truths, about what matters in the universe, what is wonderful – and dangerous – about being human, and what the future of our species might look like.
All the episodes that are currently live are available on the podcast page of my website at www.peterdfisher.com/podcasts, and also all the most popular platforms, links can be found on the podcast website at https://podcast.peterdfisher.com
Peter D Fisher 