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Tim Maudlin on Locality, Hidden Variables, and Quantum Foundations
Jun 26, 2023Last year's Nobel Prize for experimental tests of Bell's Theorem was the first Nobel in the foundations of quantum mechanics since Max Born in 1954. Quantum foundations is enjoying a bit of a resurgen...
Andrew Pontzen on Simulations and the Universe
Jun 19, 2023It's somewhat amazing that cosmology, the study of the universe as a whole, can make any progress at all. But it has, especially so in recent decades. Partly that's because nature has been kind to us ...
Brian Lowery on the Social Self
Jun 12, 2023There is an image, especially in Western cultures, of the rugged, authentic, self-made individual choosing how to navigate the intricacies of the social world. But there is no mystical soul within us,...
AMA | June 2023
Jun 05, 2023Welcome to the June 2023 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). We take questions asked by Patreo...
Scott Shapiro on the Technology and Philosophy of Hacking
May 29, 2023Modern computers are somewhat more secure against being hacked - either by an inanimate virus or a human interloper - than they used to be. But as our lives are increasingly intertwined with computers...
Brooke Harrington on Offshore Wealth as a Complex System
May 22, 2023The modern world is large and interconnected, and there are a lot of systems that might be important to how it functions but about which most people are barely aware. One of these is the offshore weal...
Thomas Hertog on Quantum Cosmology and Hawking's Final Theory
May 15, 2023Is there a multiverse, and if so, how should we think of ourselves within it? In many modern cosmological models, the universe includes more than one realm, with possibly different laws of physics, an...
AMA | May 2023
May 08, 2023Welcome to the May 2023 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). We take questions asked by Patreon...
Andy Clark on the Extended and Predictive Mind
May 01, 2023What is the mind, and what does it try to do? An overly simplified materialist view might be that the mind emerges from physical processes in the brain. But you can be a materialist and still recogniz...
Tobias Warnecke on Cellular Structure and Evolution
Apr 24, 2023Eukaryotic cells manage to pull off a number of remarkable feats. One is packing quite a long DNA molecule, with potentially billions of base pairs, into a tiny central nucleus. A key role is played b...