284 | Doris Tsao on How the Brain Turns Vision Into the World
The human brain does a pretty amazing job of taking in a huge amount of data from multiple sensory modalities […]
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283 | Daron Acemoglu on Technology, Inequality, and Power
Change is scary. But sometimes it can all work out for the best. There’s no guarantee of that, however, even
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282 | Joel David Hamkins on Puzzles of Reality and Infinity
The philosophy of mathematics would be so much easier if it weren’t for infinity. The concept seems natural, but taking
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AMA | July 2024
Welcome to the July 2024 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who
281 | Samir Okasha on the Philosophy of Agency and Evolution
Just like with physics, in biology it is perfectly possible to do most respectable work without thinking much about philosophy,
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279 | Ellen Langer on Mindfulness and the Body
For those of us who are not dualists, the mind arises from our physical bodies — mostly the brain, but
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278 | Kieran Healy on the Technology of Ranking People
We claim to love all of our children, friends, and students equally. But perhaps deep down you assign a ranking
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AMA | June 2024
Welcome to the June 2024 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who
277 | Cumrun Vafa on the Universe According to String Theory
String theory, the current leading candidate for a theory of quantum gravity as well as other particles and forces, doesn’t
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276 | Gavin Schmidt on Measuring, Predicting, and Protecting our Climate
The Earth’s climate keeps changing, largely due to the effects of human activity, and we haven’t been doing enough to
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