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Episode 109: Genes, Emergence, and Platonism (round table with Sadia and Ivan)
Season 1 Episode 109
In this round table discussion with Ivan Phillips and Sadia Naeem, we begin by discussing differing viewpoints on “third way evolution,” or a gene-ce…
10 months, 4 weeks ago
Episode 108: AI and Obedience (with Dan Gish)
Season 1 Episode 108
This week we are joined by fellow traveler Dan Gish to discuss LLMs and AGI. Does it really, truly make sense to think that OpenAI or DeepMind are no…
11 months, 1 week ago
Episode 107: Was Popper a Fideist?
Season 1 Episode 107
Here we discuss fidesim and critical rationalism. Fideism has many definitions, but at least how we are thinking of it, it is the idea that something…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 106: Karl Popper and God
Season 1 Episode 106
This week we discuss a short interview with Karl Popper from 1969 where he discusses God and religion. Specifically, he makes a case for agnosticism,…
1 year ago
Episode 105: Michael Levin's Unseen World of Cell Cognition
Season 1 Episode 105
This week Bruce speaks about the work or Michael Levin, who is a biologist know for his work on cell cognition and collective intelligence or the ide…
1 year, 1 month ago
Episode 104: 3rd Way Evolution vs the Critics
Season 1 Episode 104
How well do the collection of assertions called “3rd way evolution” stand up to criticism? Here, in our second of at least 3 episodes on this topic, …
1 year, 1 month ago
Episode 103: Neo-Darwinism vs Post-Darwinism
Season 1 Episode 103
This week we discuss neo-Darwinism vs post-Darwinism. Neo-Darwinism meaning a gene centric view of evolution, which is also called the great synthesi…
1 year, 2 months ago
Episode 102: Is IQ a Bit Scientifically Valid?
Season 1 Episode 102
This time we discuss Nassim Nicholas Taleb's article "IQ is Largely a Pseudoscientific Swindle" -- a title whose compliment is that he's claiming IQ …
1 year, 3 months ago
Episode 101: Wolfram, Rucker, and the Computational Nature of Reality
Season 1 Episode 101
Bruce takes a deep dive into Stephen Wolfram’s ideas regarding computational universality, which may go further than the Church-Turing-Deutsch thesis…
1 year, 3 months ago
Episode 100: Interview with David Deutsch
Season 1 Episode 100
Our Christmas gift to you this year is episode 100: an interview with The Man (TM) himself!
Bruce stumbles over himself fan-boying as he asks all his…
1 year, 4 months ago