I, scientist with Balazs Kegl Podcast
1) Michael Levin part 2
My second conversation with Mike Levin, the developmental biologist from Tufts University, where we explore his ontology, the structure of the world. Are we biological interfaces to Platonic minds, or...Show More
2) Mark Solms
Another mind-blowing conversation, this time with Mark Solms, the neuropsychoanalist from the University of Cape Town, about his feeling-based theory of consciousness, how competing homeostatic needs ...Show More
3) Alexander Bard part 4
My fourth conversation with the philosopher Alexander Bard, on his new book project on mysticism, bliss, the importance of phenomenology, the philosophy of time, transcendence, and transformation.Rela...Show More
4) Kevin Mithcell
My conversation with Kevin Mitchell, neuroscientist and geneticist at Trinity College Dublin, on free agency and randomness, nested selves, mental causation and the tension between free choice and con...Show More
5) Michael Levin part 1
My first conversation with Michael Levin, a developmental biologist revolutionizing how we think about cellular collective, agency, and life in general. One of those conversations where I feel we dive...Show More
6) Embodied AI with Giuseppe Paolo and Jonas Gonzalez
Meet my two wonderful colleagues with whom we wrote a position paper last year "A Call for Embodied AI". We talk about the limits of the current "internet AI" paradigm. We agree that singularity, if e...Show More
7) Alexander Bard part 3
This is the brainiest of my three episodes with Alexander Bard.The deepest analysis I know of the US election, from a centrist/neutral point of view, from the psychoanalytical to the anthropological.A...Show More
8) Alexander Ororbia
We get deep into identity and death. If you are fascinated by Michael Levin and Jonathan Pageau, this conversation is for you.Fascinating discussion where we go beyond the Free Energy Principle, and e...Show More
9) Alexander Bard part 2
This is my second conversation with the philosopher Alexander Bard. Yoga and alignment, downwards in the body and upwards in the sociont. Archetypology and rituals. Tantric sex and the sex/religion/sp...Show More
10) Alexander Bard part 1
This is my first and definitely not the last encounter with the philosopher Alexander Bard. We discuss his grand oeuvre of metaphysics: Process and Event.Why should you only trust a philosopher with a...Show More