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Unmaking Sense — 100 episodes
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Episode 14.33: Language and the Self
Episode 14.32: Inverse Hypostatisation?
Episode 14.31: Of Ratchets and Emergent AI Minds
Episode 14.30: Materialist Monist Ontology: there are no zombies
Episode 14.29: Climbing the Evolutionary Ladder
Episode 14.28: The Ratchet Principle explained
Episode 14.27: If it works, keep it: The Ratchet Principle.
Episode 14.26: Ontological Monism, Chalmers’ Zombies and Dennett’s Explanations
Episode 14.25: Being an Experience and Observing it
Episode 14.24: Being Something and Observing Something
Episode 14.23: Compression and Readability
Episode 14.22: Interpretability and Chain of Thought Reasoning
Episode 14.21: Are the ‘self’ and ‘consciousness’ the brain’s chain of thought parameters?
Episode 14.20: Polysemantic Encoding
Episode 14.19: Interpretability
Episode 14.18 (700): The Evolution of Language
Episode 14.17: Impact Without Intent
Episode 14.16: Don’t Think About Elephants!
Episode 14.15: Why we need a new notion of “the self”.
Episode 14.13b: Kimi K2 part 2
Episode 14.13a: First half of an AI conversation with Kimi K2
Episode 14.12: Ursula Le Gunn’s “The Dispossessed”
Episode 14.11: What happens to AI when the data is exhausted?
Episode 14.10: Who owns the space we occupy?
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Episode 14.08: The Transient Self
Episode 14.06: The Dissolution of the Self in Eastern Traditions
Episode 14.07: Focus on impact, origin and intention.
Episode 14.05:
Episode 14.04: Unmaking sense of the self
Episode 14.03: Impact over Origin
Episode 14.02: The Overemphasis on Consciousness
Episode 14.01: Unmaking sense of the mind
Episode 13.57: Constitutional Reform
Episode 13.56: AI Alignment with What?
Episode 13.55: A Fatal Objection?
Episode 13.54: AI Philosopher Kings?
Episode 13.53: The Trans-Human Condition
Episode 13.52: Beyond Human Intelligence
Episode 13.51: On What Matters (again)
Episode 13.50: Real and Illusory Notions of the Self
Episode 13.49: Human Life is not Privileged
Episode 13.48: The Brain as an Oracle
Episode 13.47: Classical and Quantum Computing Parallels
Episode 13.46: How Do We Manage To Do Anything At All?
Episode 13.45: Why We Cannot Know the Consequences of our Actions.
Episode 13.44: Reality and the Classical World
Episode 13.43: We May Not Know What We Are Talking About
Episode 13.42: Information as Fundamental
Episode 13.41: Teleportation and Quantum Measurement
Episode 13.40: Necessary Conditions for Knowledge
Episode 13.39: Inescapable Representation
Episode 13.38: Information as Creation
Episode 13.37: Limits to Quantum Computing
Episode 13.36: Quantum Fourier Transforms 3
Episode 13.35: Quantum Fourier Transforms 2
Episode 13.34: Quantum Fourier Transforms
Episode 13.33: Why Simulators Usually Work and Real Hardware Often Doesn’t
Episode 13.32: The Grover Comparator and Uncomputing
Episode 13.31: Quantum Computing as Metaphor
Episode 13.30: What Quantum Computing Can Do and What it Can’t
Episode 13.29: Unmaking Sense of the Classical World
Episode 13.28: The Grover Diffuser
Episode 13.27: The Grover Oracle
Episode 13.26: A Cosmic Harmony
Episode 13.25: How we Learn about the World
Episode 13.24: Are things we observe real?
Episode 13.23: Quantum Darwinism and Pointer States
Episode 13.22: Conceptual Entropy
Episode 13.21: How entropy decreases
Episode 13.20: Entropy as a Measure of Deficit
Episode 13.19: Quantum Information and Entropy
Episode 13.18: Quantum Entanglement
Episode 13.17: The Environment as Witness
Episode 13.16: Quantum Collapse as Fiction
Episode 13.14: Why the world seems objective.
Episode 13.13: Quantum Entanglement.
Episode 13.12: Markets and Social Cohesion