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MULTIVERSES

MULTIVERSES


MULTIVERSES

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Length:
29 episodes
Language:
English
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Podcast

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Coffee table conversations with people thinking about foundational issues.  Multiverses explores the limits of knowledge and technology.  Does quantum mechanics tell us that our world is one of many?  Will AI make us intellectually lazy, or expand our cognitive range? Is time a thing in itself or a measure of change? Join James Robinson as he tries to find out.
Language:
English
Format:
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Episodes1 - 10 of 29 episodes

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29 | What are words good for? — Nikhil Krishnan on Ordinary Language Philosophy

Words. (Huh? Yeah!) What are they good for? Absolutely everything.At least this was the...

97 minutes
Apr 12, 2024

28| Music Evolution & Empirical Aesthetics — Manuel Anglada Tort

Music may be magical. But it is also rooted in the material world. As such it can be th...

96 minutes
Mar 28, 2024

27| Why Knowledge is Not Enough — Jessie Munton

If all my beliefs are correct, could I still be prejudiced?Philosophers have spent a lo...

84 minutes
Mar 14, 2024

26| Networks, Heartbeats & the Pace of Cities — Geoffrey West

Why do whales live longer than hummingbirds? What makes megacities more energy efficien...

114 minutes
Feb 29, 2024

25| Peter Nixey — AI: Disruption Ahead

It's easy to recognize the potential of incremental advances — more efficient cars or f...

77 minutes
Feb 15, 2024

24| How Philosophy Serves Science — David Papineau

Are philosophy and science entirely different paradigms for thinking about the world? O...

76 minutes
Feb 01, 2024

23| Paulina Sliwa — Moral philosophy as puzzles of daily life

Why do men do less housework? What happens when an apology is offered? What are we look...

71 minutes
Jan 18, 2024

22| Sean McMahon — Astrobiology: what is life & how to know it when we see it?

Life. What is it? How did it start? Is it unique to Earth, rare or abundantly distribut...

80 minutes
Jan 04, 2024

21| How and why do animals play? — Gordon Burghardt

Many animals play. But why? Play has emerged in species as distinct as rats, turtles, a...

72 minutes
Dec 21, 2023

20| Simon Kirby — Language Evolution & Emergence of Structure

Language is the ultimate Lego. With it, we can take simple elements and construct them ...

93 minutes
Dec 07, 2023