PowerFish

Mental Reps

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Welcome to the Mental Reps! This is philosophy with the boys.

Author

PowerFish

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Society

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Latest episode

May 4, 2026

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Episodes

Ep. 66 | Biblical or Made Up? 16.06.2025

Today, we compete for the title of "best bible knower" by guessing if these verses are holy words or just plain hogwash. 00:00 Intro 02:03 Round 1 04:54 Round 2 09:44 Round 3 12:55 Round 4 17:20 Round 5 20:45 Round 6 25:35 Round 7 33:25 Round 8 37:30 Round 9 42:15 Round 10 46:12 Night at the Museum 52:33 Names 58:55 AI 1:02:27 Outro

Ep. 65 | Brother's Settle Their Differences: God, Faith, And Divine Hiddenness 09.06.2025

Today Ben debates his brother on Christianity. Timestamps: 0:00-Intro 1:50-1. Why Should We Believe A God Exists? 2:41-Romans 1:18-25 3:27-Creation Testifies To A Creator 4:40-Jesus Christ As Evidence For God 5:27-Why Ben Doesn't Believe In The Resurrection 7:37-Rebuttal To Creation Demands A Creator 18:04-Jesus And The Resurrection 22:20-Did Jesus Claim To Be God? 24:41-More On The Resurrection 3...

Ep. 64 | Exploring Other Dimensions 02.06.2025

Fish today decided to present an interesting hypothesis of consciousness. 0:00-Comment 0:29-Jordan Peterson On How Context Can Alter Perception 9:51-How To Finance a McChicken 15:25-Insane Pizza Place 16:50-Theoretical Dimension 29:48-Could Consciousness Be A Dimension? 43:39-Panpsychism 46:22-Animals Are "Obviously" Conscious 49:49-Is Ben Conscious? 51:46-Nihilism 1:01:54-Terraforming Mars 1:03:1...

Ep. 63 | Dealing With Loss... 26.05.2025

Today, Ben and Fish explore the difficult subject of grief and discuss personal loss.

Ep. 62 | Ben Met A Jehovah's Witness Girl... 19.05.2025

Ben met a JW girl.... Should he call her? 0:00-Intro 0:45-More Meditation Growth 5:31-Where Are All The JW At?? 9:27- Ben MET a JW Girl 12:35-Jew Tunnels 20:46-The JW Girl Gave Ben Her Number 26:32-We Got A New Pope 30:04-Someone Help Ben With His Oven 34:05-Can Art Be Objective? 38:08-What About Music? 51:55-A Game Demonstrating Loss Aversion 1:00:31-How This Applies to Sales 1:03:02-Ben's IN...

Ep. 61 | Is Obesity a Choice? 12.05.2025

Ben and Fish challenge the beliefs of fat shamers, anti-vaxxers, and creationists. These takes are about to get HOT!

Ep. 60 | What If I Convert To Christianity? 05.05.2025

In this episode Fish and Ben talk about what they would do in some given religious dilemmas provided by our savior and LORD ChatGPT. 0:00-We Will Answer ANY Question 1:26-Should You Tell Your Family If You Change Your View Of Religion? 21:13-How Should You Handle Converting Religions? 31:35-Should Beliefs Be Private? 39:47-Can You *Actually* Change Your Worldview? 1:02:48-Do You Think Good People...

Ep. 59 | Your Life Has INESCAPABLE Value 28.04.2025

Ben and Fish take on the tough task of deciphering Jordan Peterson's quotes and take another dive into the deep end on consciousness.

Ep. 58 | The Self Does NOT Exist: My Experience With Meditation 21.04.2025

This episode Ben talks about his early experience with meditation, as well as the nature of consciousness. 0:00-Ben's Experience With Meditation 12:00-Introspection VS Meditation 16:10-Non Existence Of The Self 20:08-Fish's Experience With Meditation 29:09-Seeing The World As Empty 38:34-The Purpose Of Consciousness (maybe) 53:04-Is Consciousness Necessary For Language? 1:04:10-What Does S...

Ep. 57 | STOP Analyzing, START Doing 14.04.2025

Fish talks about his recent MLB game experience as well as both of their experience with starting a business. 0:00-We Totally Will Talk About Droogs 0:53-Fish's MLB Baseball Game Experience 17:45-How Baseball Rules Work 26:37-When Is A Drowning Child Not Important? 36:38-Should We Be Angry At The Rich? 40:54-McDonalds Origin Story 44:02-You'll Never Be Happy With Your Income 50:04-Winning The Lott...

Ep. 56 | Morality: Objective vs Relative 07.04.2025

Fish and Ben get quite heated in this argument over objective vs relative morality. 0:00-Black Hole Stuff 3:29-How Objective Morality Can Exist 12:03-Human Sacrifice 23:28-Is Morality Still Relative? 47:06-Just The Tip Of Sam Harris 51:24-What If Someone Needs The Suffering Of Others? 1:05:37-Can An Action Always Be Immoral? 1:18:03-Is There Any Utility In This?

Ep. 55 | 5 Questions For A Healthy Relationship 31.03.2025

Ben and Fish discuss the difficult subject of relationships and 5 questions to ask yourself to determine if your relationship is heathy.

Ep. 54 | Should AI Get Rights? 24.03.2025

Fish and Ben go through some tough moral dilemmas in this episode.

Ep. 53 | Should There Be VR Prison? 17.03.2025

Ben and Fish tackle tough topics and difficult dilemmas.

Ep. 52 | Why Can't You Escape A Black Hole? 10.03.2025

This is a wild episode full of boats, NDE's, and black holes.

Ep. 51 | She's Not Into You 03.03.2025

Today, Ben and Fish talk relationships, attraction, and mummies.

Ep. 50 | Atheists Proclaim The Christian Fallacy 24.02.2025

Ben and Fish talk about Ben's brother and his response to our comments on Calvinism.

Ep. 49 | Did The Future Already Happen? 17.02.2025

Today, Ben and Fish revisit the topic of free will in a God-created universe, this time through the lens of the B-theory of time. Also, cool bibles, the depth of scripture, and professional debaters.

Ep. 48 | What IS Quantum Immortality? | Existential Crisis Iceberg - Part 2 10.02.2025

Lots of big ideas in this one, big ideas talked about by not big brains.

Ep. 47 | Are We Truly Alone? | Existential Crisis Iceberg - Part 1 03.02.2025

Ben and Fish plunge into the deep waters of the existential crisis iceberg.

Ep. 46 | Free Will CANNOT Co-Exist With Omniscience 27.01.2025

Fish and Ben get into quite a debate in this one about free will and it's ability to coexist with an omniscience.

Ep 45 | How Well Do You Know Jesus? 20.01.2025

Ben and Fish test their knowledge of Jesus Christ. How much do we really know about our favorite guy?

Ep. 44 | Why You Feel Good About Yourself 13.01.2025

Lots talked about in this one, leave a comment on what you think about tips for feeling good about yourself.

Ep. 43 | Top 20 Most ABSURD Trolly Problems 06.01.2025

What would it take for you to pull the lever? Today, Ben and Fish put their morality to the test with a list increasingly crazy trolly problem scenarios.

Ep. 42 | You CAN'T Know The Truth 30.12.2024

Today Fish and Ben discuss how through evolution and natural selection, why may have evolved to never know what is really true.

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