NOUS Podcast
1) Michael Wooldridge on the History and Future of AI
AI research endured years of failure and frustration before new techniques in deep learning unleashed the swift, astonishing progress of the last decade. Michael’s recent book A Brief History of Artif...Show More
2) Iris Berent on Innate Knowledge and Why We Are Blind to Ourselves
The idea we have ‘innate knowledge’ seems quite wrong to most of us. But we do! And the intuitions leading us astray here also blind us to other aspects of human nature. We are all ‘blind storyteller...Show More
3) Ann-Sophie Barwich on the Surprising Neuroscience of Smell
Vision is the best understood sensory domain. But smell is turning out to be wonderfully strange and even more complex than sight. Dr Ann-Sophie Barwich joins me to explore ideas from her recent book ...Show More
4) Matthew Cobb - Why Neuroscience Still Can’t Explain Much
Despite multi-million dollar research programmes and impressive technical progress, neuroscience still can’t explain basic systems - like a maggot’s tiny brain or the grinding of a lobster’s stomach. ...Show More
5) Edward Bullmore on the ‘inflamed mind’ theory of depression
Could depression be caused by inflammation? Cambridge psychiatrist Ed Bullmore makes the case for his radical new theory, from his bestselling book The Inflamed Mind. Here's the breakdown... 6:12 The...Show More
6) Keith Frankish Exposes the Illusion of Consciousness
‘Qualia’, the subjective qualities of experience, are the bedrock of some theories of consciousness - but they are a fiction according to my guest in this episode. With great charm and passion, Keith ...Show More
7) Joseph LeDoux on the 4 Billion Year Journey to Our Conscious Selves
Joseph LeDoux is a celebrated neuroscientist whose latest book is a work of quite staggering ambition - it traces the ‘Four Billion Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains’. He reveals the profound ...Show More
8) Patricia Churchland on How We Evolved A Conscience
Patricia Churchland is the queen of neurophilosophy. She’s on fine form in this interview - charming, funny and occasionally savage as we range over her views on the nature of philosophy, the neurosci...Show More
9) Gina Rippon on the Myth of the Gendered Brain
Do men and women have different brains? Jordan Peterson and the Google memo guy are pretty sure they do. Different chromosomes, different hormones = different brains. Right? Professor Gina Rippon disa...Show More
10) Are psychiatric conditions really biological? A psychologist and a neurogeneticist offer conflicting views
Are psychiatric conditions really biological? Or should they be understood as fundamentally psychological problems with social causes? It’s a vexed topic which got very different responses from two of...Show More
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