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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...
Hugo Mercier on Reasoning and Skepticism
Apr 17, 2023Here at the Mindscape Podcast, we are firmly pro-reason. But what does that mean, fundamentally and in practice? How did humanity come into the idea of not just doing things, but doing things for reas...
Amy Finkelstein on Adverse Selection and Hidden Information
Apr 10, 2023If you knew exactly when every person was going to die, or require medical care, you could make a killing buying and selling insurance. Nobody knows these things, of course -- the future is hard to pr...
Ask Me Anything | April 2023
Apr 03, 2023Welcome to the April 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 Patre...
Sarah Bakewell on the History of Humanism
Mar 27, 2023Human beings are small compared to the universe, but we're very important to ourselves. Humanism can be thought of as the idea that human beings are themselves the source of meaningfulness and matteri...
Raphaël Millière on How Artificial Intelligence Thinks
Mar 20, 2023Welcome to another episode of Sean Carroll's Mindscape. Today, we're joined by Raphaël Millière, a philosopher and cognitive scientist at Columbia University. We'll be exploring the fascinating topic ...
Nita Farahany on Ethics, Law, and Neurotechnology
Mar 13, 2023Every time our brain does some thinking, there are associated physical processes. In particular, electric currents and charged particles jump between neurons, creating associated electromagnetic field...
AMA | March 2023
Mar 06, 2023Welcome to the March 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 Patre...
Skye Cleary on Existentialism and Authenticity
Feb 27, 2023God is dead, as Nietzsche's madman memorably reminded us. So what are we going to do about it? If there is no powerful force out there to guide us and give meaning to our lives, how are we supposed to...