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Podcast Profile: MULTIVERSES

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37 episodes
2023 to 2025
Median: 89 minutes
Collection: SciPhi-Adjacent


Description (podcaster-provided):

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.


Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):

➤ Philosophy • Quantum mechanics • AI and ethics • Language evolution • Scientific and poetic intersections • Genomics and ethics • Environmental science • Thought experiments • Mind and consciousness

This podcast, titled "MULTIVERSES," delves into an array of foundational issues at the intersection of science, philosophy, technology, and human cognition. With James Robinson as the host, the series engages in thought-provoking conversations with experts from diverse fields, exploring the outer limits of knowledge and technology. The show's description highlights key themes such as the philosophy of quantum mechanics, the implications of artificial intelligence on human capability, and the nature of time and consciousness.

The episodes featured in this podcast tackle a wide range of topics and ideas. Discussions frequently examine scientific and philosophical questions, such as the implications of mind-wandering for creativity and cognition, the historiography and mythologization of scientific discoveries, and the concept of hypercomputation as it relates to the limits of artificial intelligence. The topics are expansive, also covering empirical aesthetics in music, the evolution of language and structure, and the ethical implications of emerging technologies like AI.

Moreover, the podcast often considers the intersection of science and society, addressing issues such as the risk and responsibility associated with AI, the climate challenge addressed via carbon sequestration and natural hydrogen reserves, and the philosophical underpinnings of scientific realism versus instrumentalism. A recurrent theme is the exploration of what constitutes mind and consciousness, both in humans and potentially in animals and machines. Overall, the podcast offers a platform for critical engagement with complex and often contentious issues, bringing scientific inquiry and philosophical thought together in a manner that encourages deep reflection and exploration of the unknown territories of human knowledge.


Episodes:
Episode Image 37| Mind-Wandering — Kalina Christoff Hadjiilieva on the Science of Spontaneous Thought
2025-Jan-31
98 minutes
Episode Image 36| History of Science: Mythmaking & Contingency — Patricia Fara
2024-Dec-23
89 minutes
Episode Image 35| Hypercomputation: Why Machines May never Think Like Humans — Selmer Bringsjord
2024-Nov-08
99 minutes
Episode Image 34| Animal Minds — Kristin Andrews on why assuming consciousness would aid science
2024-Aug-27
74 minutes
Episode Image 33| Taking Chance Seriously — Alastair Wilson on Quantum Modal Realism
2024-Jul-19
85 minutes
Episode Image AI Moonshot — Nell Watson on the Near & Not So Near Future of Intelligence
2024-Jun-21
71 minutes
Episode Image Do Electrons Exist? — Céline Henne: Physicist's Views on Scientific Realism & Instrumentalism
2024-Jun-04
98 minutes
Episode Image 30| Thinking Beyond Language — Anna Ivanova on what LLMs can learn from the brain
2024-May-15
99 minutes
Episode Image 29 | What are words good for? — Nikhil Krishnan on Ordinary Language Philosophy
2024-Apr-12
97 minutes
Episode Image 28| Music Evolution & Empirical Aesthetics — Manuel Anglada Tort
2024-Mar-28
96 minutes
Episode Image 27| Why Knowledge is Not Enough — Jessie Munton
2024-Mar-14
84 minutes
Episode Image 26| Networks, Heartbeats & the Pace of Cities — Geoffrey West
2024-Feb-29
114 minutes
Episode Image 25| Peter Nixey — AI: Disruption Ahead
2024-Feb-15
77 minutes
Episode Image 24| How Philosophy Serves Science — David Papineau
2024-Feb-01
76 minutes
Episode Image 23| Paulina Sliwa — Moral philosophy as puzzles of daily life
2024-Jan-18
71 minutes
Episode Image 22| Sean McMahon — Astrobiology: what is life & how to know it when we see it?
2024-Jan-04
80 minutes
Episode Image 21| How and why do animals play? — Gordon Burghardt
2023-Dec-21
72 minutes
Episode Image 20| Simon Kirby — Language Evolution & Emergence of Structure
2023-Dec-07
93 minutes
Episode Image 19| The Meaning of Net Zero — Myles Allen
2023-Nov-16
54 minutes
Episode Image 18| Feeling Right: Emotions & Ethics — James Hutton
2023-Nov-02
108 minutes
Episode Image 17| Santiago Bilinkis — Artificial Intelligence: Risks & Rewards
2023-Oct-19
93 minutes
Episode Image 16| Gábor Domokos — The Gömböc, a shape at the limit of possibility
2023-Oct-05
85 minutes
Episode Image 15 | Simon Critchley — Philosophical itches & how to scratch
2023-Sep-21
89 minutes
Episode Image 14| ChatGPT as a Glider — James Intriligator
2023-Sep-07
97 minutes
Episode Image 13| Phylogeny & The Canterbury Tales — Peter Robinson
2023-Aug-24
68 minutes
Episode Image 12 | The Long Now — Peter Schwartz
2023-Aug-10
87 minutes
Episode Image 11| AI, Risk, Fairness & Responsibility — John Zerilli
2023-Jul-20
100 minutes
Episode Image 10| Plants, Roots, Spirals and Palaeobotany — Sandy Hetherington
2023-Jul-13
82 minutes
Episode Image 9| The Hunt for Hydrogen — Rūta Karolytė
2023-Jul-06
112 minutes
Episode Image 8 | Harald Wiltsche — Thought Experiments, Mach, Galileo & Phenomenology
2023-Jun-29
99 minutes
Episode Image 7| Anna Lewis — Genomics, polygenic risk scores, genetic ancestry, race & ethics
2023-Jun-22
107 minutes
Episode Image 6| Christian Bök — Poetry, Constraints, DNA & The Xenotext
2023-Jun-15
111 minutes
Episode Image 5| QBism: The World is Unfinished — Ruediger Schack
2023-Jun-08
93 minutes
Episode Image 4| Science & Poetry — Sam Illingworth
2023-Jun-01
77 minutes
Episode Image 3| Julian Barbour — Relational Space and Time
2023-May-25
75 minutes
Episode Image 2 | David Wallace — The Emergent Multiverse
2023-May-18
87 minutes
Episode Image 1 | Casey Handmer — Mining the Air
2023-May-11
91 minutes