Twitter: @spacetimemind99 • @onemorebrown • @petemandik
Site: www.spacetimemind.com
39 episodes
2014 to 2022
Average episode: 81 minutes
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Categories: Interview-Style • Science and Technology • Two Hosts
Podcaster's summary: Philosophy professor Pete Mandik tackles topics ranging from the neuroscience of consciousness to the philosophical foundations of physics.
Episodes |
2022-Jul-15 Episode 40: Crungus Among Us (with Alex Kiefer) Are language models such as LaMDA and DALL-E the arrival of the AI apocalypse? |
2022-Jun-28 Episode 39: Complicated Moist Robots (with Tarik LaCour) Religion resurfaces on SpaceTimeMind as Pete chats with Tarik LaCour (philosophy PhD student at Texas A&M) about how a Mormon can also be an illusionist about consciousness. |
2022-Jun-15 Episode 38: The Spirit of the Senses Session Host Pete Mandik switches roles and becomes Guest Pete Mandik in order to answer questions from members of the Spirit of the Senses Salon in Phoenix, Arizona. |
2022-May-24 Episode 37: Rainbow in the Dark (with Jacob Berger) Pete Mandik talks to Jacob Berger (Lycoming College) about Jake’s work on consciousness within the Higher-Order Thought approach. Pete and Jake also get into the closely related quality-space view of sensory qualities that Jake defends. |
2022-May-11 Episode 36: NeuroYogacara (with Bryce Huebner) Buddhist philosophy meets neuroscience. |
2015-Oct-31 • 56 minutes Episode 35: Consciousness and Funky Content explaining consciousness |
2015-Oct-16 • 57 minutes Episode 34: Awareness, Attention, and Globally Accessible Information Consciousness and Informational Availability |
2015-Sep-15 • 108 minutes Episode 33: The Philosophy of Mind of Pain (with David Pereplyotchik) Can a robot feel pain? Can conscious pains be scientifically understood? |
2015-Sep-01 • 73 minutes Episode 32: Technological Immortality and Secular Hell Is Immortality Inevitably Infernal? |
2015-Aug-15 • 61 minutes Episode 31: Future Philosophy The future of philosophy and the philosophy of the future. |
2015-Jul-31 • 69 minutes Episode 30: Singularity Cinema: Ex Machina and Advantageous recent movies about mind uploading and AI |
2015-Jul-15 • 73 minutes Episode 29: The Rise and Fall of Phizzy Callizm and the Spiders From Mars Are minds ultimately physical? |
2015-Jul-01 • 61 minutes Episode 28: Psychedelic Artificial Neural Networks Can metal minds have electric dreams? |
2015-Jun-15 • 102 minutes Episode 27: Pains and Brains (with David Pereplyotchik) The philosophy of pain consciousness. |
2015-Apr-15 • 101 minutes Episode 26: Your Digital Afterlives (with Eric Steinhart) Computational theories of life after death. |
2015-Mar-18 • 109 minutes Episode 25: Leaning Into the Linguistic Turn (with David Pereplyotchik) Language, Truth, and Meaning |
2015-Mar-01 • 97 minutes Episode 24: Fading Qualia Where go your qualia if your mind slips from meat to metal? |
2015-Feb-15 • 81 minutes Episode 23: Transhumanist Hot Tub (w Ken Williford) just add water |
2015-Feb-01 • 86 minutes Episode 22: Time Shuffling, Finger Sausages, and a Brain Made out of Paper. Temporal counterparts, transparency of consciousness, and the extended mind. |
2015-Jan-16 • 99 minutes Episode 21: Three Men and a Baby Universe (with Sean Carroll) A physicist and two philosophers talk about the entirety of existence. And then some. |
2015-Jan-01 • 88 minutes Episode 20: Paradoxes of Physical Information Philosophy of physics, metaphilosophy, and miscellany. |
2014-Dec-14 • 93 minutes Episode 19: Fun, Pain, and Ontology (with Eric Kaplan) Does all of reality exceed what we believe about it? Even the reality of fun? How about the reality of pain? |
2014-Nov-30 • 52 minutes Episode 18: Truth and Naturalism Can evolution by natural selection ground our ability to represent truths that transcend usefulness? |
2014-Nov-15 • 90 minutes Episode 17: Memory, Emotion, and Consciousness (with Joe LeDoux) Neuroscience and philosophy meet to tackle memory and emotion. |
2014-Nov-01 • 93 minutes Episode 16: Singularity and Sociopathy (with Roger Williams) The technological singularity and Hannibal Lecter walk into a bar... |
2014-Oct-15 • 69 minutes Episode 15: Supernature (with Roger Williams and Gregg Caruso) supernature, a hypothetical realm that is, in some sense, above and beyond the world accessible to the natural sciences |
2014-Oct-01 • 87 minutes Episode 14: Eternalism Versus Presentism (with Brit Brogaard) A Brogaard/Brown presentist team-up gives Pete “Erstwhile Eternalist” Mandik a run for his money…forever. |
2014-Sep-15 • 56 minutes Episode 13: Neurophilosophy and Consciousness (with Brit Brogaard) What makes some states of the mind or brain conscious and others unconscious? |
2014-Sep-01 • 60 minutes Episode 12: The Fourth Dimension Consider the view that time constitutes a fourth dimension analogous to the three spatial dimensions of height, width, and depth. |
2014-Aug-14 • 100 minutes Episode 11: Scientism Is it true that anything worth knowing is worth knowing scientifically? |
2014-Aug-01 • 100 minutes Episode 10: All Up In the Global Workspace of Consciousness (with Bernard Baars) Neuroscience and philosophy meet in the arena of consciousness when neuroscientist guest Bernard Baars joins philosopher hosts Richard Brown and Pete Mandik on the SpaceTimeMind podcast. |
2014-Jul-15 • 67 minutes Episode 9: A Journey to the Edge of Hypertime What is time? Is there a real distinction between now and other moments, or are all times equally real? |
2014-Jun-28 • 74 minutes Episode 8: Alien and Machine Minds (with Eric Schwitzgebel) Could a robot or an alien have a mind even though its physical structure may contain nothing similar to a human brain? |
2014-Jun-13 • 92 minutes Episode 7: The Illusion of Free Will (with Gregg Caruso) Does our best science tell us that there is no such thing as free will? And if it does, should we listen? |
2014-May-29 • 97 minutes Episode 6: The Extended Mind (with Lara Beaty) Is the mind bigger than the brain? Is it necessarily social? |
2014-May-15 • 94 minutes Episode 5: Transhumanism and Existentialism Will the post-human future will be populated by Kantian superheroes or Sartrean sociopaths? |
2014-Apr-28 • 97 minutes Episode 4: Death and Logic (with Eric Schwitzgebel) Philosopher Eric Schwitzgebel joins Richard & Pete to discuss death, logic, time, and (meta)physics. |
2014-Apr-14 • 51 minutes Episode 3: Consciousness explained (?) part 2: The nature of explanation What counts as a good explanation in physics? And in metaphysics? |
2014-Apr-06 • 49 minutes Episode 2: Consciousness explained (?) part 1: Computational Pythagoreanism Philosophical flirtations with the idea that everything is ultimately mathematical or computational. |