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AMA | February 2023
Feb 06, 2023Welcome to the February 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 Pa...
Michael Tomasello on The Social Origins of Cognition and Agency
Jan 30, 2023Human beings have developed wondrous capacities to take in information about the world, mull it over, think about a suite of future implications, and decide on a course of action based on those delibe...
Edward Tufte on Data, Design, and Truth
Jan 23, 2023So you have some information — how are you going to share it with and present it to the rest of the world? There has been a long history of organizing and displaying information without putting too mu...
Tania Lombrozo on What Explanations Are
Jan 16, 2023There are few human impulses more primal than the desire for explanations. We have expectations concerning what happens, and when what we experience differs from those expectations, we want to know th...
Andrew Strominger on Quantum Gravity and the Real World
Jan 09, 2023Quantum gravity research is inspired by experiment — all of the experimental data that supports quantum mechanics, and supports general relativity — but it's only inspiration, not detailed guidance. S...
Adam Bulley on How Mental Time Travel Makes Us Human
Jan 02, 2023One of the most powerful of all human capacities is the ability to imagine ourselves in hypothetical situations at different times. We can remember the past, but also conjure up possible futures that ...
Holiday Message 2022: Thinking Really Slowly
Dec 19, 2022Welcome to that beloved Mindscape annual tradition, the Holiday Message. An opportunity for a quicker and less-well-thought-out solo episode to round off another year. Ironically, this year the theme ...
Lara Buchak on Risk and Rationality
Dec 12, 2022Life is rich with moments of uncertainty, where we're not exactly sure what's going to happen next. We often find ourselves in situations where we have to choose between different kinds of uncertainty...
AMA | December 2022
Dec 05, 2022Welcome to the December 2022 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 Pa...
Dani Bassett and Perry Zurn on the Neuroscience and Philosophy of Curiosity
Nov 28, 2022It's easy enough to proclaim that we are curious creatures, but what does that really mean? What kinds of curiosity are there? And how does curiosity arise in our brains? Perry Zurn and Dani Bassett a...