Sean Carroll
Jessica Riskin on Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Life as Creative Agency | Mindscape 348
Re-examining the historical and scientific legacy of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck reveals a nuanced view of evolution, challenging the passive organism model and highlighting the active role of living beings in shaping their own development and environment.
Tom Griffiths on The Laws of Thought | Mindscape 343
Cognitive scientist Tom Griffiths explores the historical quest for the 'laws of thought,' revealing how logic, probability, and neural networks offer distinct yet complementary frameworks for understanding human and artificial intelligence, especially concerning resource constraints and inductive biases.
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