AMA | February 2021
Welcome to the February 2021 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also […]
134 | Robert Sapolsky on Why We Behave the Way We Do
A common argument against free will is that human behavior is not freely chosen, but rather determined by a number
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133 | Ziya Tong on Realities We Don’t See
It’s a truism that what we see about the world is a small fraction of all that exists. At the
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Bonus | AIP Oral History Interview
Here is a special bonus punishment treat for Mindscape listeners: an interview of me, by David Zierler of the American
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132 | Michael Levin on Growth, Form, Information, and the Self
As a semi-outsider, it’s fun for me to watch as a new era dawns in biology: one that adds ideas
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131 | Avi Loeb on Taking Aliens Seriously
The possible existence of technologically advanced extraterrestrial civilizations — not just alien microbes, but cultures as advanced (or much more)
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130 | Frank Wilczek on the Present and Future of Fundamental Physics
What is the world made of? How does it behave? These questions, aimed at the most basic level of reality,
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129 | Solo: Democracy in America
The first full week of 2021 has been action-packed for those of us in the United States of America, for
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128 | Joe Henrich on the Weirdness of the West
We all know stereotypes about people from different countries; but we also recognize that there really are broad cultural differences
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Holiday Message 2020 | The Screwy Universe
Welcome to the third annual Mindscape Holiday Message! Just a chance for me to be a little more chatty and
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