Space Time Mind Podcast
1) Episode 40: Crungus Among Us (with Alex Kiefer)
Pete Mandik is joined by philosopher and AI researcher Alex Kiefer (Monash University) to discuss some newsworthy Artificial Intelligence projects, especially Language Models such as LaMDA, DALL-E, an...Show More
2) Episode 39: Complicated Moist Robots (with Tarik LaCour)
The first half of the episode is dedicated to illusionism. In the second half, we talk about Christianity in general and Mormonism in particular, with an eye toward how such religious traditions squar...Show More
3) Episode 38: The Spirit of the Senses Session
Topics covered include the brain’s role in conscious experience, competing definitions of “consciousness”, hypnosis, near-death experiences, psychedelic drugs, cognitive behavioral therapy, the “self”...Show More
4) Episode 37: Rainbow in the Dark (with Jacob Berger)
Get ready to interrogate some mind colors! Can the so-called qualitative aspects of consciousness be explained in holistic and functionalist terms that undermine anti-physicalist critiques? Can the co...Show More
5) Merch!
Merch! It exists; it is available; I’m here to tell you about it. There are THREE flavors of SpaceTimeMind merch, and they’re all available in my RedBubble shop linked here: LINK. ...Show More
6) Episode 36: NeuroYogacara (with Bryce Huebner)
Behold!: The first new episode of SpaceTimeMind after a seven-year hiatus. Buddhist philosophy meets neuroscience when host Pete Mandik talks with Bryce Huebner (Georgetown U.) about his NeuroYogacara...Show More
7) Episode 35: Consciousness and Funky Content
In order to account for consciousness in terms of representational content, how FUNKY does the content need to be? Along the way we discuss the representation of inexistents and whether mathematical s...Show More
8) Episode 34: Awareness, Attention, and Globally Accessible Information
ATTENTION! Richard Brown and Pete Mandik shine their spotlights on the philosophy of mind of attention and awareness. Many philosophers of mind endorse the Transitivity Principle, the view that if you...Show More
9) Episode 33: The Philosophy of Mind of Pain (with David Pereplyotchik)
Prof. David Pereplyotchik once again joins Pete Mandik to tackle pain in the philosophy of mind. Can there be a scientific reductive explanation of pain. Can robots feel pain? Will this hurt? We here ...Show More
10) Episode 32: Technological Immortality and Secular Hell
Richard Brown and Pete Mandik debate the following proposal: The worst thing you can imagine happening to you is an event that has a non-zero probability of occurring at any given moment, and the long...Show More