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Unmaking Sense — 100 episodes

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Episode 15.22

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Episode 15.21

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Episode 15.20

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Episode 15.19

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Episode 14.33: Language and the Self

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Episode 14.32: Inverse Hypostatisation?

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Episode 14.31: Of Ratchets and Emergent AI Minds

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Episode 14.30: Materialist Monist Ontology: there are no zombies

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Episode 14.29: Climbing the Evolutionary Ladder

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Episode 14.28: The Ratchet Principle explained

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Episode 14.27: If it works, keep it: The Ratchet Principle.

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Episode 14.26: Ontological Monism, Chalmers’ Zombies and Dennett’s Explanations

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Episode 14.25: Being an Experience and Observing it

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Episode 14.24: Being Something and Observing Something

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Episode 14.23: Compression and Readability

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Episode 14.22: Interpretability and Chain of Thought Reasoning

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Episode 14.21: Are the ‘self’ and ‘consciousness’ the brain’s chain of thought parameters?

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Episode 14.20: Polysemantic Encoding

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Episode 14.19: Interpretability

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Episode 14.18 (700): The Evolution of Language

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Episode 14.17: Impact Without Intent

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Episode 14.16: Don’t Think About Elephants!

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Episode 14.15: Why we need a new notion of “the self”.

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Episode 14.13b: Kimi K2 part 2

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Episode 14.13a: First half of an AI conversation with Kimi K2

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Episode 14.12: Ursula Le Gunn’s “The Dispossessed”

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Episode 14.11: What happens to AI when the data is exhausted?

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Episode 14.10: Who owns the space we occupy?

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Episode 14.09:

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Episode 14.08: The Transient Self

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Episode 14.06: The Dissolution of the Self in Eastern Traditions

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Episode 14.07: Focus on impact, origin and intention.

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Episode 14.05:

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Episode 14.04: Unmaking sense of the self

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Episode 14.03: Impact over Origin

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Episode 14.02: The Overemphasis on Consciousness

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Episode 14.01: Unmaking sense of the mind

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Episode 13.57: Constitutional Reform

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Episode 13.56: AI Alignment with What?

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Episode 13.55: A Fatal Objection?

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Episode 13.54: AI Philosopher Kings?

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Episode 13.53: The Trans-Human Condition

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Episode 13.52: Beyond Human Intelligence

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Episode 13.51: On What Matters (again)

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Episode 13.50: Real and Illusory Notions of the Self

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Episode 13.49: Human Life is not Privileged

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Episode 13.48: The Brain as an Oracle

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Episode 13.47: Classical and Quantum Computing Parallels

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Episode 13.46: How Do We Manage To Do Anything At All?

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Episode 13.45: Why We Cannot Know the Consequences of our Actions.

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Episode 13.44: Reality and the Classical World

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Episode 13.43: We May Not Know What We Are Talking About

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Episode 13.42: Information as Fundamental

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Episode 13.41: Teleportation and Quantum Measurement

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Episode 13.40: Necessary Conditions for Knowledge

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Episode 13.39: Inescapable Representation

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Episode 13.38: Information as Creation

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Episode 13.37: Limits to Quantum Computing

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Episode 13.36: Quantum Fourier Transforms 3

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Episode 13.35: Quantum Fourier Transforms 2

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Episode 13.34: Quantum Fourier Transforms

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Episode 13.33: Why Simulators Usually Work and Real Hardware Often Doesn’t

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Episode 13.32: The Grover Comparator and Uncomputing

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Episode 13.31: Quantum Computing as Metaphor

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Episode 13.30: What Quantum Computing Can Do and What it Can’t

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Episode 13.29: Unmaking Sense of the Classical World

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Episode 13.28: The Grover Diffuser

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Episode 13.27: The Grover Oracle

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Episode 13.26: A Cosmic Harmony

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Episode 13.25: How we Learn about the World

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Episode 13.24: Are things we observe real?

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Episode 13.23: Quantum Darwinism and Pointer States

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Episode 13.22: Conceptual Entropy

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Episode 13.21: How entropy decreases

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Episode 13.20: Entropy as a Measure of Deficit

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Episode 13.19: Quantum Information and Entropy

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Episode 13.18: Quantum Entanglement

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Episode 13.17: The Environment as Witness

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Episode 13.16: Quantum Collapse as Fiction

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Episode 13.14: Why the world seems objective.

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Episode 13.13: Quantum Entanglement.

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Episode 13.12: Markets and Social Cohesion