Rainn Wilson

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3,063 appearances 12 recordings 7 series first heard Jul 2024 last heard 7 Jul

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The Checkup with Doctor Mike · Why Rainn Wilson Loves Paramedics & Thinks Dwight Schrute Is MAHA · 17 Sep 2025 podcast

If the priority of our culture is

is to take care of the least privileged among us and of the sick, as Jesus talks about ad infinitum and works on nonstop as serving the lowest among us.

How would that transform the healthcare system?

But that's a big cultural shift, but I do think that spirituality and even religion can aid in that path.

Well, my favorite quote of all time is from Father Teilhard de Chardin, who's a Jesuit priest, but he was also a scientist, philosopher.

I think he maybe was a doctor of some kind.

And he said, we're not human beings having a spiritual experience.

We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

So when I hear that quote, to me, I feel like you talked about your definition of the soul of what medical science has the least understanding about.

I feel, to quote C.S.

Lewis, I don't have a soul.

I am a soul.

I have a body.

It's a shift in thinking.

I am a spiritual being.

This consciousness that I have, this miraculous consciousness that we're having this conversation and I'm having memories and thoughts and feelings and taking in the surroundings.

And no one can figure it out in a laboratory, no matter how many brain scans they do.

They can't figure out like, where is consciousness?

Like,

Yeah, certain parts of the brain kind of light up when certain things kind of happen, but no one has come any closer over the last 50 years of doing MRIs and brain scans to figure out how consciousness works.

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