138 | Daryl Morey on Analytics, Psychology, and Basketball
You might think that human beings, exhausted by competing for resources and rewards in the real world, would take it easy and stick to cooperation in their spare time. But no; we are fascinated by com...
15 Mar 20211h 16min
AMA | March 2021
Welcome to the March 2021 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). With an expanding number of questions, it's become ...
10 Mar 20213h 11min
137 | Justin Clarke-Doane on Mathematics, Morality, Objectivity, and Reality
On a spectrum of philosophical topics, one might be tempted to put mathematics and morality on opposite ends. Math is one of the most pristine and rigorously-developed areas of human thought, while mo...
8 Mar 20211h 32min
136 | Roderick Graham on Cyberspace, Race, and Cultural Conservatism
The internet has made it so much easier for people to talk to each other, in a literal sense. But it hasn't necessarily made it easier to have rewarding, productive, good-faith conversations. Here I t...
1 Mar 20211h 23min
135 | Shadi Bartsch on Plato, Vergil, Confucius, and Modernity
In our postmodern world, studying the classics of ancient Greece and Rome can seem quaint at best, downright repressive at worst. (We are talking about works by dead white men, after all.) Do we still...
22 Feb 20211h 20min
AMA | February 2021
Welcome to the February 2021 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). This month is in what has been the conventional ...
17 Feb 20212h 53min
134 | Robert Sapolsky on Why We Behave the Way We Do
A common argument against free will is that human behavior is not freely chosen, but rather determined by a number of factors. So what are those factors, anyway? There's no one better equipped to answ...
15 Feb 20211h 28min
133 | Ziya Tong on Realities We Don't See
It's a truism that what we see about the world is a small fraction of all that exists. At the simplest level of physics and biology, our senses are drastically limited; we only see a narrow spectrum o...
8 Feb 20211h 37min
