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Back to SearchEp 170: Are creativity and consciousness the same thing?
Episode 171
I refer to three other articles I have written related to this piece:
1. "Free Will, Consciousness, Creativity, Explanations, Knowledge and Choice" -…
3 years, 2 months ago
Ep 169: Livestream & Happy New Year
Episode 170
This is a podcast in 2 parts. I begin with a 10 minute introduction with some very broad remarks on the year and response to a question from a Patreo…
3 years, 3 months ago
Ep 168: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 9 ”Quantum Computers” Part 1
Episode 169
Here we set the scene for an explanation of the functioning of quantum computers and their significance. What are the problems that quantum computati…
3 years, 3 months ago
Ep 167: ”Degrowth” - the plan for civilisational decline and disaster.
Episode 168
In this episode I respond to an article in the Science Journal “Nature”. Here is the link: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04412-x
Nature…
3 years, 3 months ago
Ep 166: Newsletter 18: A weekend of Twitter
Episode 167
This is an out-of-the-box episode. 2 hours and 20 minutes of me discussing some Tweets. It was an experiment of sorts: with Elon Musk taking over own…
3 years, 3 months ago
Ep 165: Knowledge and Ignorance Part 5
Episode 166
Here we delve more deeply into the ways our senses and our reason might go wrong in the creation of knowledge. There are no authoritative inerrant so…
3 years, 4 months ago
Ep 164: Knowledge and Ignorance Part4
Episode 165
John Locke, Voltaire, John Stuart Mill and Bertrand Russell are herein credited with advancing the cause of tolerance. Popper makes the case for tole…
3 years, 4 months ago
Ep 163: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 8 ”The Significance of Life” Part 2
Episode 164
Here we cover the cosmic significance of life and thought. I begin with some discussion of Stephen Jay Gould's view of aspects of evolution by natura…
3 years, 4 months ago
Ep 162: Steven Pinker’s ”Rationality” Chapter 7 ”Hits and False Alarms” Part 1
Episode 163
Here we consider whether when collecting data we are able to distinguish between the signal (hits) and noise (false alarms). I make the case the auth…
3 years, 5 months ago
Ep 161: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 8 ”The Significance of Life”.
Episode 162
This chapter is about just what you get in the title: the significance of life. Is it true we are just a chemical scum? Much of "The Beginning of Inf…
3 years, 5 months ago