Is doing nothing still a moral choice? In this episode of D & Candy V, we dive headfirst into the uncomfortable gray area between action and inaction—and whether “not choosing” is actually a choice with consequences.

This episode started with “What is consciousness?” and very quickly turned into a spiral involving flatworms, Lego robots, emergent behavior, AI fear of death, free will (or the lack of it), and why humans seem absolutely obsessed with meaning.

“The miracle of Toy Story isn’t that the toys come to life when no one is watching... it’s that when we are watching, the toys show us how to come to life.”

Joe Fingerhut talks Unicycles, Taxidermists, and Speaking Japanese