Keen On

EPISODE 1496: In this KEEN ON show, Jeremy Sherman, the author of WHAT'S UP WITH A******S, offers a psycho-proctological analysis of why there are so many a******s around these daysOnce there was no life. Then there was life. Now there’s so much strife we might end life as we know it. Jeremy Sherman researches all of that - strategy from the origins of life to everyday and political life. With a Masters in public policy and a Ph.D. in evolutionary and decision theory, he has collaborated for 20 years with Harvard/Berkeley scientist Terrence Deacon trying to solve the biggest mystery in science today: How mattering emerges from matter, life from chemistry, means-to-ends trying from cause-and-effect phenomenal. Sherman’s new book, Neither Ghost Nor Machine: The emergence and nature of selves (Columbia University Press) harvests altogether new scientific perspectives on value, significance, purpose, information, free will, and society. Sherman has also written over 1200 articles for Psychology Today on everyday