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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.
Episodes (41)
A Story For Humanity — Minhyong Kim on Why Maths Will Never End
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Feb 9, 20261:12:18pending
Molecules & Mirrors —Vanessa Seifert on the Philosophy of Chemistry
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Dec 5, 20251:09:44pending
Consciousness is not Computation — Christof Koch
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Where Does It End? — Adrian Moore on The Infinite
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Mar 14, 20251:16:10pending
37| Mind-Wandering — Kalina Christoff Hadjiilieva on the Science of Spontaneous...
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Jan 31, 20251:38:13pending
36| History of Science: Mythmaking & Contingency — Patricia Fara
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35| Hypercomputation: Why Machines May never Think Like Humans — Selmer Bringsjo...
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Nov 8, 20241:39:31pending
34| Animal Minds — Kristin Andrews on why assuming consciousness would aid scien...
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Aug 27, 20241:14:57pending
33| Taking Chance Seriously — Alastair Wilson on Quantum Modal Realism
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Jul 19, 20241:25:35pending
AI Moonshot — Nell Watson on the Near & Not So Near Future of Intelligence
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Jun 21, 20241:11:15pending
Do Electrons Exist? — Céline Henne: Physicist's Views on Scientific Realism & In...
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Jun 4, 20241:38:25pending
30| Thinking Beyond Language — Anna Ivanova on what LLMs can learn from the brai...
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May 15, 20241:39:17pending
29 | What are words good for? — Nikhil Krishnan on Ordinary Language Philosophy
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28| Music Evolution & Empirical Aesthetics — Manuel Anglada Tort
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Mar 28, 20241:36:47pending
27| Why Knowledge is Not Enough — Jessie Munton
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26| Networks, Heartbeats & the Pace of Cities — Geoffrey West
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Feb 29, 20241:54:08pending
25| Peter Nixey — AI: Disruption Ahead
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24| How Philosophy Serves Science — David Papineau
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23| Paulina Sliwa — Moral philosophy as puzzles of daily life
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Jan 18, 20241:11:58pending
22| Sean McMahon — Astrobiology: what is life & how to know it when we see it?
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21| How and why do animals play? — Gordon Burghardt
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20| Simon Kirby — Language Evolution & Emergence of Structure
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19| The Meaning of Net Zero — Myles Allen
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18| Feeling Right: Emotions & Ethics — James Hutton
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17| Santiago Bilinkis — Artificial Intelligence: Risks & Rewards
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Oct 19, 20231:33:49pending
16| Gábor Domokos — The Gömböc, a shape at the limit of possibility
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Oct 5, 20231:25:27pending
15 | Simon Critchley — Philosophical itches & how to scratch
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Sep 21, 20231:29:50pending
14| ChatGPT as a Glider — James Intriligator
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13| Phylogeny & The Canterbury Tales — Peter Robinson
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Aug 24, 20231:08:59pending
12 | The Long Now — Peter Schwartz
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Aug 10, 20231:27:31pending
11| AI, Risk, Fairness & Responsibility — John Zerilli
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Jul 20, 20231:40:12pending
10| Plants, Roots, Spirals and Palaeobotany — Sandy Hetherington
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Jul 13, 20231:22:26pending
9| The Hunt for Hydrogen — Rūta Karolytė
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Jul 6, 20231:52:50pending
8 | Harald Wiltsche — Thought Experiments, Mach, Galileo & Phenomenology
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Jun 29, 20231:39:09pending
7| Anna Lewis — Genomics, polygenic risk scores, genetic ancestry, race & ethics
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Jun 22, 20231:47:10pending
6| Christian Bök — Poetry, Constraints, DNA & The Xenotext
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Jun 15, 20231:51:21pending
5| QBism: The World is Unfinished — Ruediger Schack
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Jun 8, 20231:33:25pending
4| Science & Poetry — Sam Illingworth
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Jun 1, 20231:17:24pending
3| Julian Barbour — Relational Space and Time
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May 25, 20231:15:14pending
2 | David Wallace — The Emergent Multiverse
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1 | Casey Handmer — Mining the Air
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