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Episode 39: Byrne's Methodology for Discovering Animal Insight (part 3)
Season 1 Episode 39
Richard Byrne has spent his whole career trying to determine when animals learned to 'think.' We discuss Richard Byrne's methodology for determining …
4 years, 3 months ago
Episode 38: Animal Learning and Popper's Epistemology (part 2)
Season 1 Episode 38
Karl Popper has a radical theory of 'dualistic evolution' where behavior had to evolve first before physical evolutionary changes could be taken adva…
4 years, 4 months ago
Episode 37: Animal Intelligence and Knowledge Creation (part 1)
Season 1 Episode 37
How intelligent are animals?
In this episode, we introduce our series on animal intelligence rooted primarily in the research of Richard Byrne. Richa…
4 years, 4 months ago
Episode 36: Failure is an Option!
Season 1 Episode 36
In this episode, we discuss the value of failure and how businesses have yet to fully embrace the Popperian notion that we learn from our failures, s…
4 years, 5 months ago
Episode 35: Physics and Relationalism: An Interview with Julian Barbour
Season 1 Episode 35
Sadia, in her four episodes on unsolved problems in physics (first episode here), was clearly heavily inspired by the work of Julian Barbour. So we i…
4 years, 5 months ago
Episode 34: Alpha Go and Creativity
Season 1 Episode 34
When Alpha Go beat Lee Sedol, the world Go champion, it came up with creative new moves never previously seen before and even invented a whole new st…
4 years, 6 months ago
Episode 33: Unsolved Problems in Physics Part 4 - Possible Solutions and Criticisms
Season 1 Episode 33
We wrap up our discussion with Sadia Naeem covering possible solutions and criticisms of those solutions.
4 years, 6 months ago
Episode 32: Unsolved Problems in Physics Part 3 - Symmetry and Novelty
Season 1 Episode 32
Sadia Naeem continues the discussion about unsolved problems in physics. This time we talk about (among many other things) symmetry and novelty.
4 years, 7 months ago
Episode 31: Unsolved Problems in Physics Part 2 - Clocks, Blocks, and Eternalism
Season 1 Episode 31
Sadia Naeem joins us again, this time to explain clocks, block universes, and eternalism.
4 years, 7 months ago
Episode 30: Unsolved Problems in Physics Part 1 - The Mystery of Time
Season 1 Episode 30
Sadia Naeem joins us to discuss her own research and musings into the problems and mystery presented by time.
4 years, 8 months ago