Podcast Episodes

Episode 45: Adapting the The Wheel of Time for Television

Season 1 Episode 45

What responsibility do the creators of a TV series or movie have to be faithful to the original source material? What risks are involved with either adapting the material too closely or not close eno…

Published on 3 years, 6 months ago

Episode 44: Clarifying David Deutsch's Views of "Knowledge"

Season 1 Episode 44

Bruce had a chance to talk to David Deutsch and ask him questions about his views of knowledge to clarify if he disagreed with Popper and Campbell about what is considered knowledge. Bruce took notes…

Published on 3 years, 7 months ago

Episode 43: Deep Reinforcement Learning

Season 1 Episode 43

In this video upload available on Spotify (we'll try this once and see how it's received), we revisit Reinforcement Learning (from way back in episode 28) and this time discuss how to turn it into De…

Published on 3 years, 7 months ago

Episode 42: Popper without Refutation & Resolving the Problems of Refutation (part 2)

Season 1 Episode 42

Over the years Bruce collected a series of 'problems' with the Popperian concept of refutation. Or so he thought. A chance encounter with Popper scholar Danny Frederick led to him re-evaluating Poppe…

Published on 3 years, 8 months ago

Episode 41: The Problems of Refutation & Popper Without Refutation (part 1)

Season 1 Episode 41

Over the years Bruce collected a series of 'problems' with the Popperian concept of refutation. Or so he thought. A chance encounter with Popper scholar Danny Frederick led to him re-evaluating Poppe…

Published on 3 years, 9 months ago

Episode 40: Byrne vs Deutsch on Animal Intelligence

Season 1 Episode 40

In this (mostly) standalone episode, we cover how Deutsch and Byrne each interpret Byrne's theory differently. Deutsch emphasizes the micro-level actions and gestures of great apes and the clear lack…

Published on 3 years, 10 months ago

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 which animals have what he calls 'insight' (the ab…

Published on 3 years, 10 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 advantage of. As part of his theory, Popper pointed ou…

Published on 3 years, 11 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. Richard Byrne (mentioned in Beginning of Infinity) is a…

Published on 4 years 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, so we should want to fail more, not less. 

Published on 4 years ago