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EdgeCast

by Edge Foundation Inc.

To arrive at the edge of the world's knowledge, seek out the most complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room together, and have them ask each other the questions they are asking themselves.

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  1. Daniel Kahneman - Adversarial Collaboration

    Daniel Kahneman - Adversarial Collaboration by

  2. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - Flow: Positive Human Behavior

    Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - Flow: Positive Human Behavior by

  3. Larry Brilliant - A Very Bumpy Ride

    Larry Brilliant - A Very Bumpy Ride by

  4. David Kaiser - The Shifting Terrain of Scientific Inquiry

    David Kaiser - The Shifting Terrain of Scientific Inquiry by

  5. Ainissa Ramirez - Interrogating and Shaping the World Through Science

    Ainissa Ramirez - Interrogating and Shaping the World Through Science by

  6. Stephen Wolfram - Computation All the Way Down

    Stephen Wolfram - Computation All the Way Down by

  7. Laurence C. Smith - How Humans Make the Earth Their Home

    Laurence C. Smith - How Humans Make the Earth Their Home by

  8. Toby Ord - We Have the Power to Destroy Ourselves Without the Wisdom to Ensure that We Don't

    Toby Ord - We Have the Power to Destroy Ourselves Without the Wisdom to Ensure that We Don't by

  9. HeadCon '13 Part VIII - Josh Knobe Experimental Philosophy And The Notion Of The Self

    HeadCon '13 Part VIII - Josh Knobe Experimental Philosophy And The Notion Of The Self by

  10. HeadCon '13 Part X - Daniel C. Dennett - The De-Darwinizing of Cultural Change

    HeadCon '13 Part X - Daniel C. Dennett - The De-Darwinizing of Cultural Change by

  11. HeadCon '13 Part IX - David Pizarro - The Failure of Social and Moral Intuitions

    HeadCon '13 Part IX - David Pizarro - The Failure of Social and Moral Intuitions by

  12. HeadCon '13 Part I - Sendhil Mullainathan What Big Data Means For Social Science

    HeadCon '13 Part I - Sendhil Mullainathan What Big Data Means For Social Science by

  13. HeadCon '13 Part II - June Gruber The Scientific Study Of Positive Emotion

    HeadCon '13 Part II - June Gruber The Scientific Study Of Positive Emotion by

  14. HeadCon '13 Part III - Fiery Cushman The Paradox Of Automatic Planning

    HeadCon '13 Part III - Fiery Cushman The Paradox Of Automatic Planning by

  15. HeadCon '13 Part V - Nicholas Christakis The Science Of Social Connections

    HeadCon '13 Part V - Nicholas Christakis The Science Of Social Connections by

  16. HeadCon '13 Part VI - Joshua Greene The Role Of Brain Imaging In Social Science

    HeadCon '13 Part VI - Joshua Greene The Role Of Brain Imaging In Social Science by

  17. HeadCon '13 Part VII - Laurie Santos What Makes Humans Unique

    HeadCon '13 Part VII - Laurie Santos What Makes Humans Unique by

  18. Joshua Greene - Deep Pragmatism

    Joshua Greene - Deep Pragmatism by

  19. Donald Hoffman - Realism Is False

    Donald Hoffman - Realism Is False by

  20. Lee Smolin - The Causal Theory of Views

    Lee Smolin - The Causal Theory of Views by

  21. Markus Gabriel - The Paradox of Self-Consciousness [11.11.19]

    Markus Gabriel - The Paradox of Self-Consciousness [11.11.19] by

  22. Seth Lloyd - Communal Intelligence [10.28.19]

    Seth Lloyd - Communal Intelligence [10.28.19] by

  23. Patricia Churchland - The Nature of Moral Motivation [10.16.19]

    Patricia Churchland - The Nature of Moral Motivation [10.16.19] by

  24. Robert Pollack - Rethinking Our Vision of Success [10.10.19]

    Robert Pollack - Rethinking Our Vision of Success [10.10.19] by

  25. Philip Goff - A Post-Galilean Paradigm [9.24.19]

    Philip Goff - A Post-Galilean Paradigm [9.24.19] by

  26. Julian Barbour - The Universe Is Not in a Box [9.11.19]

    Julian Barbour - The Universe Is Not in a Box [9.11.19] by

  27. Danny Hillis - Emergences [9.4.19]

    Danny Hillis - Emergences [9.4.19] by

  28. Peter Galison - Epistemic Virtues [8.21.19]

    Peter Galison - Epistemic Virtues [8.21.19] by

  29. George Dyson - AI That Evolves in the Wild [8.14.19]

    George Dyson - AI That Evolves in the Wild [8.14.19] by

  30. David Chalmers - The Language of Mind [8.8.19]

    David Chalmers - The Language of Mind [8.8.19] by

  31. Neil Gershenfeld - Morphogenesis for the Design of Design [7.31.19]

    Neil Gershenfeld - Morphogenesis for the Design of Design [7.31.19] by

  32. Frank Wilczek - Ecology of Intelligence [7.23.19]

    Frank Wilczek - Ecology of Intelligence [7.23.19] by

  33. Tom Griffiths - Humans: Doing More With Less [7.16.19]

    Tom Griffiths - Humans: Doing More With Less [7.16.19] by

  34. Timothy Taylor - Polythetics and the Boeing 737 MAX [7.16.19]

    Timothy Taylor - Polythetics and the Boeing 737 MAX [7.16.19] by

  35. Alison Gopnik - A Separate Kind of Intelligence [7.10.19]

    Alison Gopnik - A Separate Kind of Intelligence [7.10.19] by

  36. Robert Axelrod - Collaboration and the Evolution of Disciplines [7.1.19]

    Robert Axelrod - Collaboration and the Evolution of Disciplines [7.1.19] by

  37. Barbara Tversky - The Geometry of Thought [6.25.19]

    Barbara Tversky - The Geometry of Thought [6.25.19] by

  38. Caroline A. Jones - Questioning the Cranial Paradigm [6.19.19]

    Caroline A. Jones - Questioning the Cranial Paradigm [6.19.19] by

  39. Freeman Dyson - The Brain Is Full of Maps [6.11.19]

    Freeman Dyson - The Brain Is Full of Maps [6.11.19] by

  40. Andy Clark

    Andy Clark by

  41. Stephen Wolfram - Mining The Computational Universe [5.30.19]

    Stephen Wolfram - Mining The Computational Universe [5.30.19] by

  42. Rod Brooks - The Cul-de-Sac of the Computational Metaphor [5.13.19]

    Rod Brooks - The Cul-de-Sac of the Computational Metaphor [5.13.19] by

  43. Alexander Rose

    Alexander Rose by

  44. Ian McEwan - Machines Like Me [4.16.2019]

    Ian McEwan - Machines Like Me [4.16.2019] by

  45. David Chalmers, Daniel C. Dennett - Is Superintelligence Impossible?

    David Chalmers, Daniel C. Dennett - Is Superintelligence Impossible? by

  46. Michele Gelfand - Cultural Intelligence

    Michele Gelfand - Cultural Intelligence by

  47. Freeman Dyson - Biological and Cultural Evolution

    Freeman Dyson - Biological and Cultural Evolution by

  48. Lisa Mosconi - Alzheimer's Prevention [2.11.19]

    LISA MOSCONI is the director of the Women's Brain Initiative and the associate director of the Alzheimer's Prevention Clinic at Weill Cornell Medical College. She is the author of Brain Food: The Surprising Science of Eating for Cognitive Power. The Conversation:...

  49. Tom Griffiths - Aerodynamics For Cognition [8.21.17]

    TOM GRIFFITHS is a professor of psychology and cognitive science and director of the Computational Cognitive Science Lab and the Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He is co-author (with Brian Christian) of Algorithms to Live By. The Conversation:...

  50. Sandy Pentland - The Human Strategy [10.30.17]

    ALEX "SANDY" PENTLAND is a professor at MIT, and director of the MIT Connection Science and Human Dynamics labs. He is a founding member of advisory boards for Google, AT&T, Nissan, and the UN Secretary General. He is the author of Social Physics, and Honest Signal. The Conversation:...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

To arrive at the edge of the world's knowledge, seek out the most complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room together, and have them ask each other the questions they are asking themselves.

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Edge Foundation Inc.

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