239 | Brian Lowery on the Social Self
There is an image, especially in Western cultures, of the rugged, authentic, self-made individual choosing how to navigate the intricacies of the social world. But there is no mystical soul within us,...
12 Jun 20231h 10min
AMA | June 2023
Welcome to the June 2023 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). We take questions asked by Patreo...
5 Jun 20232h 58min
238 | Scott Shapiro on the Technology and Philosophy of Hacking
Modern computers are somewhat more secure against being hacked - either by an inanimate virus or a human interloper - than they used to be. But as our lives are increasingly intertwined with computers...
29 Mai 20231h 27min
237 | Brooke Harrington on Offshore Wealth as a Complex System
The modern world is large and interconnected, and there are a lot of systems that might be important to how it functions but about which most people are barely aware. One of these is the offshore weal...
22 Mai 20231h 18min
236 | Thomas Hertog on Quantum Cosmology and Hawking's Final Theory
Is there a multiverse, and if so, how should we think of ourselves within it? In many modern cosmological models, the universe includes more than one realm, with possibly different laws of physics, an...
15 Mai 20231h 8min
AMA | May 2023
Welcome to the May 2023 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). We take questions asked by Patreon...
8 Mai 20233h 8min
235 | Andy Clark on the Extended and Predictive Mind
What is the mind, and what does it try to do? An overly simplified materialist view might be that the mind emerges from physical processes in the brain. But you can be a materialist and still recogniz...
1 Mai 20231h 21min
234 | Tobias Warnecke on Cellular Structure and Evolution
Eukaryotic cells manage to pull off a number of remarkable feats. One is packing quite a long DNA molecule, with potentially billions of base pairs, into a tiny central nucleus. A key role is played b...
24 Apr 20231h 6min
