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Philosophers of mind and science Richard Brown and Pete Mandik burn the book of the world while orbiting a decaying black hole with Maxwell’s demon, a reversible cellular automaton, and can of whoop-ass worms. Will they survive? Will one of them successfully execute the argumentative equivalent of the Five-Point-Palm Exploding-Heart-Technique against the other? And how would you even know?

(Audio for this episode is drawn from the video chat viewable here: @YouTube.)

• Sturgeon’s law 
• Black Hole Information Paradox 
• Reversible cellular automaton 
• Maxwell’s demon 
• Physical Information 
• Dogmatism Paradox 
• The Value of Knowledge