PhD candidate in cognitive computing, Mahault Albarracin, and the host explore epistemic communities, social scripts, and AI. They discuss the formation of echo chambers, confirmation bias, epistemic humility, and changing beliefs. They also explore the concept of social scripts and their relationship with active inference. Additionally, they delve into the limitations of human cognition, the concept of possibility spaces, and the relationship between subjectivity, matter, ontology, and epistemology. They also touch on embodiment and consciousness in AI.

In this episode, Mahault Albarracin, Director of product for R&D at VERSES and a PhD student in cognitive computing, discusses consciousness, cognition, and machine learning. They touch on philosophical concepts like panpsychism and computationalism, and delve into the 'hard problem' of consciousness. Albarracin reflects on scientific criticism, the criteria for legitimate science, and the role of evidence. They also explore topics such as intelligence in multi-agent systems, black swan events, self-attention and self-modeling, resilience in collective intelligence, and the concepts of redundancy and degeneracy in cognitive systems.