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Wandering Thoughts — 59 episodes

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1

Buddhism, Emptiness & the Illusion of Self | Prof. Jay Garfield

2

OCD, Intrusive Thoughts & Living With Uncertainty | Prof. Jon Abramowitz

3

Stoicism, CBT & the Good Life | Tim LeBon

4

How to Feel Loved | Prof. Harry Reis

5

How to Think Better in an Unreasonable World | Prof. William B. Irvine

6

Computational Psychiatry, The Self & Brain Imaging | Prof. Karl Friston

7

Bioelectricity, Collective Intelligence & Regeneration | Prof. Michael Levin

8

Psychoanalysis, Personality & the Unconscious Mind | Prof. Nancy McWilliams

9

Why Science Depends on Ignorance, Failure & Uncertainty | Prof. Stuart Firestein

10

Overcoming OCD: Intrusive Thoughts, Compulsions & Exposure Therapy | Prof. David Veale

11

Humanity’s Future: Existential Risk, AI & Life Beyond Earth | Lord Martin Rees

12

Stoicism, the Ethics of War & Moral Injury | Prof. Nancy Sherman

13

Stoicism: Virtue, Emotions & Human Excellence | Gregory Lopez

14

Life Lessons from Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu | Yousuf Nabi

15

Paradoxes, Logic & Buddhist Philosophy | Prof. Graham Priest

16

Çatalhöyük: Living Without Hierarchy | Prof. Ian Hodder

17

What is Anarchism? | Prof. Ruth Kinna

18

Sex Differences, the Evolution of Mind & Mathematical Cognition | Prof. David Geary

19

Complexity, Scaling Laws & the Future of Humanity | Prof. Geoffrey West

20

Anarchism, Democracy & Power | Dr. Sophie Scott-Brown

21

Animal Minds, Sentience & Our Relationship with Nature | Dr. Carl Safina

22

God: Arguments For and Against | Prof. Graham Oppy

23

Punished by Rewards | Alfie Kohn

24

Learning Without A Teacher | Prof. Sugata Mitra

25

Dementia: Risk Reduction & Management | Prof. Gill Livingston

26

Empire, Colonialism, the EU & Russia | Prof. Anthony Pagden

27

The Free Energy Principle: Consciousness, AI & Why We Predict | Karl Friston

28

Spinoza: God, Nature, Free Will & The Good Life | Prof. Steven Nadler

29

How the Brain Predicts the Future | Prof. Reza Shadmehr

30

How Does The Brain Process Language? | Prof. David Poeppel

31

How Do You Transcend Nihilism? | Dr Nolen Gertz

32

Evidence-based Medicine | Dr Gordon Guyatt

33

When Will We Go Beyond Morphine? | Prof. Allan Basbaum

34

Beyond Procedure: A Model For Effective Learning | Michael Eleftheriou

35

Postmodernism VS Objective Truth | Dr Stephen Hicks

36

Is Consciousness An Illusion? | Prof. Keith Frankish

37

Cosmopolitanism, Identity & Semantics | Prof. Kwame A. Appiah

38

"The End Of Consciousness" | Prof. Hakwan Lau

39

The Great Rift In Physics | Prof. Tim Maudlin

40

The World’s Most Curious Person | Louka Nikos

41

Rethinking Consciousness | Prof. Michael Graziano

42

Systems Science, Direct Democracy & the Future of Education | Dr. Yiannis Laouris

43

How Your Brain Learns To Be Conscious | Prof. Axel Cleeremans

44

Direct Democracy: A Bottom-Up Form Of Governance | Ioannis Damianou

45

The Mentaculus, Laws Of Nature & Probabilities | Prof. Barry Loewer

46

Gödel’s Theorem, Kant & the Limits of Knowledge | Prof. Adrian Moore

47

The Ethics of Doubt - Prof. Genia Schönbaumsfeld

48

A Spirituality Built on Science: Eternalism & Integrated Information Theory ~ Dr Adam Barrett

49

The Primacy of Doubt: Prof. Tim Palmer on Chaos & Complexity

50

Do Quantum Androids Dream of Electric Cats? ~ Prof. Gerard Milburn

51

Ask Questions To Thrive in the AI Age: Chaos Theory Pioneer Jim Yorke

52

How to Change the World through Systems Thinking

53

Dr Matthews on Virtue Epistemology, Skepticism & Conspiracy Theories

54

Is life worth living without inherent meaning? Wandering thoughts on the Myth of Sisyphus

55

Wandering Thoughts on Artificial Intelligence 2/2

56

Wandering thoughts on Artificial Intelligence 1/2

57

Wandering Thoughts On Consciousness

58

Wandering Thoughts on Attachment Theory

59

Wandering Thoughts on: Nothing By Frank Close