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 Maj 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 Maj 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 Maj 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
233 | Hugo Mercier on Reasoning and Skepticism
Here at the Mindscape Podcast, we are firmly pro-reason. But what does that mean, fundamentally and in practice? How did humanity come into the idea of not just doing things, but doing things for reas...
17 Apr 20231h 12min
232 | Amy Finkelstein on Adverse Selection and Hidden Information
If you knew exactly when every person was going to die, or require medical care, you could make a killing buying and selling insurance. Nobody knows these things, of course -- the future is hard to pr...
10 Apr 20231h 13min
Ask Me Anything | April 2023
Welcome to the April 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 Patre...
3 Apr 20234h 4min
231 | Sarah Bakewell on the History of Humanism
Human beings are small compared to the universe, but we're very important to ourselves. Humanism can be thought of as the idea that human beings are themselves the source of meaningfulness and matteri...
27 Mars 20231h 21min
