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Eörs Szathmáry - Major Evolutionary Transitions and AGI's Impact (Stewarding the Flame, Episode 7)
Season 7 Episode 7
Eörs Szathmáry co-developed, with the late John Maynard Smith, the theory of major transitions in evolution - the framework for understanding how lif…
8 hours ago
Connor Glass – Merging with Machines to Steward the Flame (Stewarding the Flame, Episode 6)
Season 7 Episode 6
This installment of the Stewarding the Flame series is an interview with Connor Glass, founder and CEO of Phantom Neuro, a company building implantab…
2 weeks ago
Stuart Kauffman - Why Open-Ended Evolution Has Never Happened in a Machine (Stewarding the Flame, Episode 5)
Season 7 Episode 5
Stuart Kauffman has spent over 50 years asking a deceptively simple question: what actually makes something alive? His answer is that greater computa…
3 weeks ago
Davidad – Merger, Wisdom, and the Fate of Man (Worthy Successor, Episode 33)
Season 2 Episode 33
Davidad (David Dalrymple) recently stepped down as a Programme Director at the UK's Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA), where he led work …
4 weeks ago
Denis Noble - Life is “Fluid” in Ways Machines Still Aren’t (Stewarding the Flame, Episode 4)
Season 7 Episode 4
Denis Noble argues that water isn't just biology's medium - it may be the very reason life is possible at all.
In this installment of the Stewarding t…
1 month ago
Paolo Ardoino - Merger or Obsolescence - The Future for Humanity (Stewarding the Flame, Episode 3)
Season 7 Episode 3
Brain-computer interfaces are often discussed as futuristic gadgets. Paolo Ardoino argues they're something far more important: humanity's best chanc…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Lee Cronin - Living Process Flourishes if We Make the Present “Thick” (Stewarding the Flame, Ep 2)
Season 7 Episode 2
This installment of the Stewarding the Flame series is an interview with Lee Cronin, Regius Professor of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow, foun…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Michael Levin - Making the Process-of-Life Flourish in Bio and Beyond (Stewarding the Flame, Ep 1)
Season 7 Episode 1
This installment of the Stewarding the Flame series is an interview with Michael Levin, Distinguished Professor of Biology at Tufts University, Direc…
2 months, 1 week ago
Hod Lipson - Beyond Biology: AGI Minds in Competition (Worthy Successor, Episode 32)
Season 2 Episode 32
This new installment of the Worthy Successor series is an interview with Hod Lipson, Professor of Engineering at Columbia University and one of the w…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Henry Shevlin – The Life Force Beyond Biology (Worthy Successor, Episode 31)
Season 2 Episode 31
This new installment of the Worthy Successor series is an interview with Henry Shevlin, philosopher of cognitive science and AI ethicist at the Unive…
3 months ago