Robert Wright & David Wallace
The challenge of interpreting quantum physics … The many-worlds interpretation … At what moments do new worlds appear? … Quantum physics and free will … The multiverse and you … Why you (or one of you)...
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Changing the human genome to combat climate change … Will new technologies stratify society genetically? … Military and civilian uses of memory-changing technology … The army’s plans for deep brain...
View ArticleDaniel Kaufman & Massimo Pigliucci
The underappreciated philosopher Wilfrid Sellars … The “manifest image” vs. the “scientific image" … Why scientism bothers Massimo … Don’t blame me, my brain made me do it! … What Daniel Dennett gets...
View ArticleRobert Wright & Adam Frank
What is matter? … What is the relationship between math and reality? … Your metaphysical bias is showing … You can’t escape the weirdness of quantum physics! … The mystery of consciousness … The...
View ArticleRobert Wright & Wendell Wallach
When technology takes people’s jobs … Asking your iPhone for medical advice … Killer robots! … Letting machines decide whether to push the nuclear button … The growing threat of bioterrorism … How to...
View ArticleRobert Wright & Jay Van Bavel
The partisanship that bolsters Trump … Jay’s favorite experiments on the psychology of tribalism … Is the anti-Trump movement its own worst enemy? … What’s going on in Trump’s brain? … How a sports...
View ArticleDaniel Kaufman & Massimo Pigliucci
“Purpose” in science and morality … What Aristotle thought about purpose in nature … Why asking “what is it for?” makes sense in biology but not other sciences … Does form dictate function? … Is there...
View ArticleJames Hughes & Regina Rini
How to raise a good robot … The moral development of machines … The trouble with robots who can reason … Will AI have feelings? … Is it wrong to hurt a zombie? … How AI could shape human morality …
View ArticleRobert Wright & Ted Chiang
How Ted's Story of Your Life became Arrival … Experiential and theoretical grounds for determinism … If the future is set… Why bother? … The Predictor—an imagined device that will freak you out …...
View ArticleRobert Wright & Brian Greene
Superstring theory: Just crazy enough to be true? … Why Einstein disliked quantum physics … Welcome to the multiverse! … Could an interventionist god in theory exist? … Einstein’s determinism and...
View ArticleRobert Wright & Lisa Feldman Barrett
Lisa’s new book How Emotions are Made … Can we truly feel an emotion before we can name it? … Is it true that the !Kung people feel no fear? … Fear in the body, the brain, and in concept … Do animals...
View ArticleRobert Wright & Phil Torres
Nick Bostrom: there’s a 25% chance of 'existential catastrophe' by 2100 … Reasons to fear superintelligent machines… … …and the growing accessibility of biotechnology … Why space colonization probably...
View ArticleRobert Wright & Paul Davies
Bob and Paul question “matter” as we know it … Is information bound to the physical world? … Finding room for consciousness in quantum physics … Paul on the faith required of scientists … What enforces...
View ArticleRobert Wright & Mark O'Connell
Why transhumanists want to escape their biological prisons … The “singularity” and the culture of Silicon Valley … How biohackers turn technology into performance art … How do you upload an immaterial...
View ArticleRobert Wright & John Horgan
The pervasiveness of sexual harassment … Human nature according to Socrates, the Google memo guy, and Bob … Are gendered behavioral differences innate or learned? … John: Scientists keep trying, and...
View ArticleRobert Wright & Galen Strawson
Why scientific materialism is harder to define than you think … Galen explains panpsychism … What does “mind is all there is to reality” mean? … Is human consciousness epiphenomenal? … Do physical laws...
View ArticleRobert Wright & Massimo Pigliucci
Massimo’s new edited volume, Science Unlimited?: The Challenges of Scientism … What is scientism? … Science and the challenge of studying subjective experience … And about those pesky fundamental...
View ArticleAryeh Cohen-Wade & Michael Benson
Michael's new book Space Odyssey, about the film 2001 … The quest to make the "first good science fiction film" … The remarkable development of the Dawn of Man sequence … The fiction and fact of HAL...
View ArticleRobert Wright & Brian Greene
Why a particle isn't what you think it is … Reasons to doubt the many worlds interpretation … The theory Einstein developed that he didn't believe … Would going back in time violate the laws of...
View ArticleRobert Wright & Adam Frank
Adam's new book, Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth … Adam: Climate change is a civilizational inevitability … How many planets are in our galaxy? Guess again. It’s more than...
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