253 | David Deutsch on Science, Complexity, and Explanation
David Deutsch is one of the most creative scientific thinkers working today, who has as a goal to understand and […]
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Philosophy
249 | Peter Godfrey-Smith on Sentience and Octopus Minds
The study of cognition and sentience would be greatly abetted by the discovery of intelligent alien beings, who presumably developed
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244 | Katie Elliott on Metaphysics, Chance, and Time
Is metaphysics like physics, but cooler? Or is it a relic of an outdated, pre-empirical way of thinking about the
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241 | Tim Maudlin on Locality, Hidden Variables, and Quantum Foundations
Last year’s Nobel Prize for experimental tests of Bell’s Theorem was the first Nobel in the foundations of quantum mechanics
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231 | Sarah Bakewell on the History of Humanism
Human beings are small compared to the universe, but we’re very important to ourselves. Humanism can be thought of as
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230 | Raphaël Millière on How Artificial Intelligence Thinks
Welcome to another episode of Sean Carroll’s Mindscape. Today, we’re joined by Raphaël Millière, a philosopher and cognitive scientist at
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228 | Skye Cleary on Existentialism and Authenticity
God is dead, as Nietzsche’s madman memorably reminded us. So what are we going to do about it? If there
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220 | Lara Buchak on Risk and Rationality
Life is rich with moments of uncertainty, where we’re not exactly sure what’s going to happen next. We often find
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215 | Barry Loewer on Physics, Counterfactuals, and the Macroworld
The founders of statistical mechanics in the 19th century faced an uphill battle to convince their fellow physicists that the
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207 | William MacAskill on Maximizing Good in the Present and Future
It’s always a little humbling to think about what affects your words and actions might have on other people, not
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