Ryan sinks deeper into the world of depressing holiday specials while Dan reels from the horror of Meta's ill-fated AI-generated Instagram account. Then the two get to work in discussing a variety of informal logical fallacies.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Informal Logical Fallacies: A Brief Guide by Jacob E. Van Vleet

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Three ghosts visited Ryan in one night and convinced him to keep doing this podcast, meanwhile Dan can't get any ghosts to visit him. Also, Dan and Ryan talk about a YouTube video that claims to show how science disproves free will.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• "Free Will" by Mark Balaguer
• "Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will" by Robert Sapolsky
• "Neuroscience of free will" on Wikipedia
• "Science Suggests Free Will Doesn't Exist" from Ben Miles on YouTube

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Seems like our old pals Smith and Jones are at it again, this time baking cookies with potentially deadly results. Also, we can't seem to stop ourselves from dunking on the late Stephen Hawking. But can we be blamed? Or did the universe make us do it?

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Do we have free will? If not, then who should we blame for the movie where Nicolas Cage plays a Vegas magician who can see two minutes into the future? Personally, I blame Ryan.

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What do evolution, a cat named Nacho, and 108 philosophy podcasts all have to do with the problem of skepticism? I'd tell you but I don't know anything.

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Dan and Ryan know things, allegedly. But what does it mean to know something? And what does this have to do with a man named Jones bringing loose change to a job interview?

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Do minds even exist? Will Ryan let Dan remove his brain for scientific purposes? It's all part of their ongoing discussion about the mind-body problem.

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What is the self? Is it possible for mental substances to interact with physical bodies? Dan and Ryan continue discussing the mind-body problem and consider some of the problems related to substance dualism.

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