Episodes (Page 13)
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C. Thi Nguyen explores the philosophy behind why we play games.
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October 2021 AMA episode featuring questions from Patreon supporters.
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Anil Seth discusses emergence, information, and the neuroscience of consciousness.
Anil Seth on Emergence
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Chiara Marletto introduces Constructor Theory as an alternative to traditional physics.
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Betül Kaçar on paleogenomics and reconstructing ancient life.
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Kathryn Paige Harden discusses genetics, luck, and fairness in human development.
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September 2021 AMA episode with questions from Patreon supporters.
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Herbert Gintis on game theory, evolution, and social rationality.
Social Rationality
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Nigel Goldenfeld on phase transitions, criticality, and complex systems in biology.
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Humans resist subtractive change, preferring to add elements to solve problems.
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Modern economies are complex systems, defying simple quantitative analysis.
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Confucianism and Daoism emerged alongside Western philosophy.
Edward Slingerland on Confucianism
Wu Wei
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August 2021 AMA episode funded by Patreon supporters.
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Psychoanalysis offers insights beyond neuroscience for emotions and meaning.
Mari Ruti on Lack
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The arrow of time connects everyday phenomena to physics.
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Humans are exploring synthetic biology to design organisms.
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Data can inherit bias from collection and analysis processes.
Catherine D'Ignazio on Data
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Stephen Wolfram explores fundamental physics using hypergraphs.
Fundamental Physics
Stephen Wolfram on Computation
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July 2021 AMA episode features Patreon supporter questions.
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Reza Aslan discusses religion as a human-constructed vocabulary.
Reza Aslan on Religion