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Stewart Brand on Maintenance as an Organizing Principle
Jan 19, 2026"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold," wrote W.B. Yeats. I don't know about the centre, but the tendency of things to fall apart is pretty universal, ultimately due to the Second Law of Thermody...
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein on What Matters and Why It Matters
Jan 12, 2026At any given moment, an uncountable number of events are happening, but only some of them matter to us. What does it mean for something to matter, and more importantly, what does it mean for us to mat...
Ned Block on Whether Consciousness Requires Biology
Jan 05, 2026It's become increasingly clear that the Turing Test -- determining whether human interlocutors can tell whether a conversation is being carried out by a human or a machine -- is not a good way to thin...
Holiday Message 2025 | The Romance of the University
Dec 22, 2025Time for the holiday message! Rounding off the year with a brief and casual reflection on some issue that doesn't quite rise to the level of a full solo podcast. And hopefully something uplifting. Th...
AMA | December 2025
Dec 15, 2025Welcome to the December 2025 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...
Ryan Patterson on the Physics of Neutrinos
Dec 08, 2025The story goes that Wolfgang Pauli, who first proposed the existence of neutrinos, was embarrassed to have done so, as it was considered uncouth to hypothesize new particles that could not be detected...
Kevin Zollman on Game Theory, Signals, and Meaning
Dec 01, 2025Game theory is a way of quantitatively describing what happens any time one thing interacts with another thing, when both things have goals and potential rewards. That's a pretty broad class of intere...
Anil Ananthaswamy on the Mathematics of Neural Nets and AI
Nov 24, 2025Machine learning using neural networks has led to a remarkable leap forward in artificial intelligence, and the technological and social ramifications have been discussed at great length. To understan...
AMA | November 2025
Nov 17, 2025Welcome to the November 2025 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...
Andrew Jaffe on Models, Probability, and the Universe
Nov 10, 2025Science has an incredibly impressive track record of uncovering nonintuitive ideas about the universe that turn out to be surprisingly accurate. It can be tempting to think of scientific discoveries a...