Ian McEwan: Brexit, Mistakes in Literature, Moral Decision-Making | Full Video | The Origins Podcast
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Ian McEwan sits down with Lawrence Krauss to discuss everything from Brexit, revolutions of social behavior, to mistakes in literature, and a new era of moral decision-making.
Ian McEwan is a British novelist, screenwriter, and political activist. He is the author of 16 novels, 5 screenplays, 2 plays, and many short stories.
McEwan is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the Royal Society of Arts, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
An avowed atheist, he has spoken out regularly against Islamism for its views on women and homosexuality. He is also a staunch supporter of Humanist causes and in 2011 he was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the Freedom of the Individual in Society. He is a strong opponent of Brexit.
McEwan has been nominated for the Man Booker Prize six times, winning the prize in 1998 for his novel Amsterdam. His book Saturday won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 2005. He has also been the recipient of many other awards including the 1999 Shakespeare Prize by the Alfred Toepher Foundation in Hamburg and the 2019 Golden Plate Award from the American Academy of Achievement. He was awarded the CBE in 2000.
11 of his stories have been adapted into films, including his novel Atonement which was nominated for 7 Academy Awards, winning one.
The Times featured him on its list of “The 50 greatest British writers since 1945” and The Daily Telegraph ranked him number 19 in its list of the “100 most powerful people in British Culture”.
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The best talk I have ever attended, was given by Ian McEwan in Athens, Greece in 2018. He was enthrallingly articulate, on several subjects, for 1,5 hours non-stop. I've never envied another person's intellect so much, as when he was holding forth on every topic under the sun, in mellifluous sentences.
sure he holds forth ln everything he's a bloody elite left-wing precious transhuman specimen.
Mellifluous: smooth and gentle flow. Very pleasant to listen to
We don' t have the word in Spanish or rather, never used in this positive sense
I stumbled into this engrossing conversation. My mission now is to read all of Ian McEwan’s works. Such an interesting man.
Great interview Lawrence. One of my favourites! Please keep them coming.
Glad to see you back again.
Thank you Lawrence and Ian for this wonderful conversation.
What a rich conversation. Thank you so much.
Thank you for all your work.
Fascinating interview
Yes!!! Re-reading is amazing!
what an amazing interview. so true...thank you
Always a treat to see Hitch’s various friends carrying on with chats together.
How enlightening!
Wonderful interview. Thank you!
Ian McEwan personifies excellence in critical thinking, creativity, and an eros-driven, extremely generous kind of human emotional intelligence and sensibility -- thank you! This talk also reminded me of E.O. Wilson's book Consilience, a gem of a book carrying related, provocative, and inspiring ideas.
A good episode. I would love to watch and listen to Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro in this podcast.
I really like the idea that consciousness doesn't exist, in the sense that it's a concept that represents a hugely dynamic set interactions that is just computationally unreasonable for us to deal with.. outside of borderline metaphysical vagaries
If consciousness doesn't exist, what is it that likes the idea that consciousness doesn't exist?
This beautiful discussion reminds me of the movie Departures
Brilliant.
Diving into their minds is just wonderful & a lifetime
Wonderful conversation, thank you
Krauss rocks the party.
Wonderful--I am so thankful for intelligent conversations these days. Thanks Lawrence. Keep it up.
thanks
Hi Kraus!
well this is an unexpected delight.
Science = organized curiosity. Nice.
Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
Is this the book Ian McEwan mentions??
Yes
32:00 on rereading books you read decades ago
How many adverts?
i only had two RUclips adverts
First?! Hello, is this live or just premiered?!
Premiered
The hunger by Martin Caparros.
Lawrence, your questions were insightful, however I was wishing that you would step back and let Ian speak more words.
"we delude ourselves so efficiently.." that will do when it comes to human consciousness. how efficient our delusions are. poetry, psychology and science, all in one. humans are doomed, so we better get on with the serious business of dreaming.
@53:00
Krauss points out one reason why super intelligent creatures dont come to Earth to visit us.
To paraphrase his answer:
We're not exactly hunting down our microwaves from 1997 to see how they're doing either...😆🙃
If I were them, I wouldn’t visit us. Why would I? Observation from afar is enough of a reason to stay away.
I realize the morally cathartic (if less than emotionally cathartic) conclusion to the plot mentioned with lying about rape to make jail time for a true rapist who cannot be tried would be for the man to lie to the court and confess to a rape which did not happen, and for the woman he falsely claims to have raped to admit it did not happen and for *him* to go to jail for lying to the court. Assuming the only reason his true confession wouldn't bring jail time is because too much time passed from the crime since his confession is the faster solution.
The book, "Anurag Sager Of Kabir" COULD INTEREST YOU.
You know, this discussion made.me rethink the "smallness" scale.of civilization success. At first I thought ranking a civilization by mastery of the small was futile. Surely that would just be a component, where a species would expand just with tinier and tinier circuits. Nor are small aliens a new concept, I remember the old Animorph books I read had a species of small invaders, and since the author borrowed from the Invasion of the Body Snatchers for the primary plot I assume she borrowed that too. Then Accelerando argued if an AI-human pre-singularity shot a sophisticated set of AI agents to visit a brown dwarf on the edge of the solar system and came back, the advancement at the singularity would be so great by comparison to the coke-can-computer to render the journey meaningless. Here, we see something similar... Why put ten million humans on this station, two billion on this planet, when we could fit sixty trillion on earth by making people smaller. But I think the value in expansion is still in redundancy - the more planets, the more collisions and other solar system phenomena required to end life. Hell, the more stars it becomes even more resilient.
Im watching from Argentina and there are so many adverts. If announcers understood how one can hate the product advertised and swear to never ever buy it.
😄 I consciously and deliberately do that; and bad mouth the advertised article or service whenever the occasion arises. Perhaps they'll learn.
Brexit - is independence that's for what
And is independence supposed to be intrinsically good? Or is it just a religious and tribal irrational value?
@@tefilobraga it's the only true good. Liberty is the founding principle of all democratic countries!!!
Dinner Time!!
Chaos theory Consciousness.
We are unwittingly constructing the Matrix
Hey, maybe the octopus' are the intelligent aliens.
if they end up in my plate, they aren’t that intelligent. First sign of intelligence is becoming the apex predator.
Hello my 👽s
Listen to the archetypal petit bourgeois rant about
Brexit and lost trade deals at the end . Can anyone
seriously imagine Proust / Mann / Tolstoy or any other
truly great novelist chuntering on about lost trade
deals ?!?!..... Sums McEwen up perfectly.
P is
God created man so he can experience what he jacked, mortality and ignorance.
Great interview, although it's clear that Ian hasn't had a serious debate about Brexit to help him understand the real issues.
You provide not a single argument in support of your statement, Mr Linton. Because there is none. As McEwan says Brexit has become a religious belief unsupported by evidence.
@@davidleibel I assume projecting Brexit as some kind of religious belief makes you feel comfortable inside lol... It's not a good look to the outside world.
Lawrence, quit interrupting
AI = BLX
Just let computers do the boring bits.
Krause sure likes to hear himself talk...
He's got a guest but spends more time pontificating his own views rather than listening
... if you've got it, flaunt it... some need to be pontificating to...
It is not an interview it is a talk
@@monicaangelini3324 exactly
Get rid of the background noise
As much as I admire him as a writer, it’s clearly easy to boggle his mind, and in stating that no-one is making an economic argument for Brexit he’s clearly very short sighted on the costs of uncontrolled immigration that the EU refused to budge on, forcing us to leave. A “folly” according to the multi-millionaire whose living standards haven’t been impacted by 40 years of real wage deflation
Please don't forget that it has been UK government policy to encourage immigration (to help the economy) over many decades, not the EU forcing uncontrolled immigration upon us. Pressure for the UK to leave the EU came predominantly from the very wealthy (many overseas) who funded the Brexit campaign. Brexit was driven and motivated by money, power and the retention of control of British tax havens for the wealth of the few. For the vast majority Brexit is bringing a lower quality of life; lower regulatory standards, fewer opportunities to study, work and live our lives where we want, negatively impacting the economy and with it public services and infrastructure - not to mention the undermining of established security alliances. In my view his mind is anything but boggled!
your uninvited and under-informed OPINION is noted.
@@daviddavids2884 If you say so, snowflake 🤷♂️
Fastest way to lose respect for an intellectual with their arrogance towards the majority of people when they don't like their decisions.
And why should he LIKE the majorities decision
@@johnlee5423 he should at least respect it
@@doyle6000 why
@@johnlee5423 because it's a democracy - majority rules!
@@doyle6000 stupidity of the majority does not have to be respected
again with loaded questions pushing right wing narrative that krauss buys into.did it with woody allen also.
Lawrence feels forced, something is wrong. - Perhaps the fact that Ian doesn't think science is anything more special than organized curiously.
it gets better
boring self-indulgent nonsense
You’re projecting again… 🙄
Amazing interview, thank you.