Sean Carroll
Christian List on Free Will and Levels of Reality | Mindscape 354
Christian List redefines free will as an emergent property of intentional agents, compatible with physical determinism at lower levels, and applicable to AI and corporate entities.
J. Eric Oliver on the Self and How to Know It | Mindscape 350
Explore the multi-layered nature of the 'self' as a dynamic process, not a fixed entity, integrating insights from physics, philosophy, and psychology to understand human experience and well-being.
Adam Elga on Being Rational in a Very Large Universe | Mindscape 345
This episode explores the profound challenges to rationality and Bayesian reasoning when confronted with extreme uncertainties, such as self-locating problems in vast cosmological models or the implications of Boltzmann brains.
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.
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein on What Matters and Why It Matters | Mindscape 340
Philosopher and novelist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein explores the 'mattering instinct,' arguing that humans uniquely strive to justify their inherent self-attention, leading to diverse and sometimes destructive ways of finding meaning.
Mindscape 339 | Ned Block on Whether Consciousness Requires Biology
Philosopher Ned Block challenges computational functionalism, arguing that consciousness may depend on specific biological or sub-computational mechanisms rather than just the 'what' of computation, with profound implications for AI.
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