169 | C. Thi Nguyen on Games, Art, Values, and Agency
Games are everywhere, but why exactly do we play them? It seems counterintuitive, to artificially invent goals and obstacles just so we can struggle to achieve them. (And in some games, like Twister, ...
18 Okt 20211h 24min
AMA | October 2021
Welcome to the October 2021 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). I take the large number of que...
14 Okt 20212h 59min
168 | Anil Seth on Emergence, Information, and Consciousness
Those of us who think that that the laws of physics underlying everyday life are completely known tend to also think that consciousness is an emergent phenomenon that must be compatible with those law...
11 Okt 20211h 25min
167 | Chiara Marletto on Constructor Theory, Physics, and Possibility
Traditional physics works within the "Laplacian paradigm": you give me the state of the universe (or some closed system), some equations of motion, then I use those equations to evolve the system thro...
4 Okt 20211h 35min
166 | Betül Kaçar on Paleogenomics and Ancient Life
In the question to understand the biology of life, we are (so far) limited to what happened here on Earth. That includes the diversity of biological organisms today, but also its entire past history. ...
27 Sep 20211h 14min
165 | Kathryn Paige Harden on Genetics, Luck, and Fairness
It's pretty clear that our genes affect, though they don't completely determine, who we grow up to be; children's physical and mental characteristics are not completely unrelated to those of their par...
20 Sep 20211h 25min
AMA | September 2021
Welcome to the September 2021 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). I take the large number of q...
16 Sep 20213h 38min
164 | Herbert Gintis on Game Theory, Evolution, and Social Rationality
How human beings behave is, for fairly evident reasons, a topic of intense interest to human beings. And yet, not only is there much we don't understand about human behavior, different academic discip...
13 Sep 20211h 29min
