Steve Hsu has fun with - but answers quite seriously - whether we are just meat machines programmed by evolution to believe we have free will or similarly, to be religious. The first part of the interview is about education, especially in a Chinese-American context, the rigor of physics and mathematics versus other disciplines, and the censorship of many voices, not just conservative ones, by wokesters in the academy.
There is a transcript to the interview for those who prefer that.
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I used to live in Zhejiang province, China, back when my wife was a visiting artist there in 2000-1. I got to know several older academics who had survived the Cultural Revolution. They had nothing good to say about it, although also (and wisely) nothing much. What little they said was clear enough.
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