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EdgeCast — 77 episodes

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Title
1

Daniel Kahneman - Adversarial Collaboration

2

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - Flow: Positive Human Behavior

3

Larry Brilliant - A Very Bumpy Ride

4

David Kaiser - The Shifting Terrain of Scientific Inquiry

5

Ainissa Ramirez - Interrogating and Shaping the World Through Science

6

Stephen Wolfram - Computation All the Way Down

7

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

8

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

9

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

10

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

11

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

12

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

13

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

14

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

15

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

16

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

17

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

18

Joshua Greene - Deep Pragmatism

19

Donald Hoffman - Realism Is False

20

Lee Smolin - The Causal Theory of Views

21

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

22

Seth Lloyd - Communal Intelligence [10.28.19]

23

Patricia Churchland - The Nature of Moral Motivation [10.16.19]

24

Robert Pollack - Rethinking Our Vision of Success [10.10.19]

25

Philip Goff - A Post-Galilean Paradigm [9.24.19]

26

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

27

Danny Hillis - Emergences [9.4.19]

28

Peter Galison - Epistemic Virtues [8.21.19]

29

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

30

David Chalmers - The Language of Mind [8.8.19]

31

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

32

Frank Wilczek - Ecology of Intelligence [7.23.19]

33

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

34

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

35

Alison Gopnik - A Separate Kind of Intelligence [7.10.19]

36

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

37

Barbara Tversky - The Geometry of Thought [6.25.19]

38

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

39

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

40

Andy Clark

41

Stephen Wolfram - Mining The Computational Universe [5.30.19]

42

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

43

Alexander Rose

44

Ian McEwan - Machines Like Me [4.16.2019]

45

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

46

Michele Gelfand - Cultural Intelligence

47

Freeman Dyson - Biological and Cultural Evolution

48

Lisa Mosconi - Alzheimer's Prevention [2.11.19]

49

Tom Griffiths - Aerodynamics For Cognition [8.21.17]

50

Sandy Pentland - The Human Strategy [10.30.17]

51

George Church - Church Speaks [2.14.18]

52

#495: Rory Sutherland - Things to Hang on Your Mental Mug Tree

53

Susan Schneider - The Future of the Mind [1.28.19]

54

Jonathan Rodden - The Urban-Rural Divide: Why Geography Matters [1.16.19]

55

Elaine Pagels - The Social History of Religion [12.12.18]

56

Peter Galison - How Technology Changes Our Concept of the Self [11.20.18]

57

Karl Sigmund - When the Rule of Law Is Not Working [10.11.18]

58

Doyne Farmer - Collective Awareness [10.3.18]

59

Brian Hare - Absolute Brain Size Matters [6.28.18]

60

Andrew Barron - The Connectomic Revolution [6.12.18]

61

Nicolas Berggruen - Bonding with Your Algorithm [6.5.18]

62

Martie Haselton - Sexual Double Standards [5.24.18]

63

Murray Shanahan - The Space of Possible Minds [5.18.18]

64

Mary Catherine Bateson - How To Be a Systems Thinker [4.17.18]

65

Kai-Fu Lee - We Are Here To Create [3.26.18]

66

Caroline A. Jones - A Common Sense [3.15.18]

67

John Naughton - The State of Informed Bewilderment [1.3.18]

68

Daniel C. Dennett - "A Difference That Makes a Difference" [11.22.17]

69

Tim O'Reilly - Reality is an Activity of the Most August Imagination [10.2.17]

70

Brian Keating - Shut Up and Measure [10.20.17]

71

Tania Lombrozo - Learning By Thinking [7.28.17]

72

Daniel Goleman - Compassionate Systems [6.22.17]

73

Martin Rees - Curtains For Us All? [5.31.17]

74

Venki Ramakrishnan - Soul of a Molecular Machine [5.1.17]

75

Ross Anderson - The Threat [5.8.17]

76

Adam Alter - Disfluency

77

Lee Smolin - Think About Nature