Jack Roycroft-Sherry

Michael Levin is a cognitive scientist and biologist at Tufts University. Conventional biology posits that most of biology's competence and intelligence are encoded in DNA. But what if there is much more to biology? In this podcast, learn about how the DNA-only view of biology is crumbling, the means of information encoding beyond DNA, the reinterpretive nature of memory, the inherent goal-directedness of biology, and how biology leverages innate intelligent capacities across all scales. TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 - What is Wrong With DNA-Centric Biology 04:25 - Re-Understanding Cancer and New Approaches to Biology 10:44 - How Biological Collectives Remain Together and Innate Problem-Solving 12:48 - Memory and Platonic Spaces: Why Are Biological Patterns Stored? 17:28 - Butterfly-Caterpillar Memory Transmutation 23:03 - Evolvability and Goal-Directedness Across Different Levels of Evolution 27:22 - Emergent Goal-Directedness and Surprising System Properties Find Michael and His Lab's Work: -X: @drmichaellevin  -Youtube:  @drmichaellevin  Levin Lab Podcasts: -Hananel Hazan: Computation in Biology: https://youtu.be/4iR6lVxioHs -Randy Ellis: Intelligence, Causality, Metascience: https://youtu.be/hJaMtYcJQIM -Juanita Mathews: Cancer and Collective Intelligence: https://youtu.be/Dh89CfYUmgM

Nicholas Van Dam is a neuroscientist and the inaugural Director of the Contemplative Studies Centre. Meditative practices have been around for millennia. However, it is only recently that have we studied them scientifically. What does science say about them? Moreover, what does the study of them reveal about science itself? In this podcast, we discuss the recent scientific study of meditation, the problems encountered, how meditation can benefit people but also what the dangers are, neuroscience and our current understanding of the mind, and more... Find Nicholas -The Contemplative Studies Centre: https://psychologicalsciences.unimelb.edu.au/CSC -Nicholas' Website: https://www.nicholastvandam.com/ Timestamps: 00:00 - Interesting History of Science and Meditation 06:36 - Challenges Studying Meditation 11:16 - Placebo in Meditation 17:34 - Problems in How We Practice Medicine 21:22 - Meditation Benefits and Challenges 24:33 - Challenges of Studying the Brain 32:00 - Bringing Together Different Disciplines

Jean-Philippe is a writer and philosopher helping to resolve the "Meaning Crisis". Modern science increasingly suggests that materialism may not fully explain reality, yet it remains deeply entrenched in our culture. What's wrong with materialism and what can replace it? We discuss the issues with materialism, the opposite of materialism (idealism), ancient metaphysical views of reality, the nature of God, miracles, and more... 00:00 - Problems of Materialism 12:00 - Why We're Materialists 16:50 - How to Think Non-Materialistically 25:08 - Form vs Potential & Christian Metaphysics 35:35 - God 39:50 - Miracles and Causality 46:00 - Could Adam and Eve Have Not Sinned? Determinism and Agency 50:50 - The Incarnation and Making Sense of Reality JEAN-PHILIPPE MARCEAU Read his work: https://thesymbolicworld.com/team/jean-philippe-marceau His Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@j.p.marceau5146

Paul X. McCarthy is an economist and social scientist. Big data and machine learning is changing the world. How are they changing real-world economies and the social sciences? This podcast explores: How economics has changed in the digital age, how science is evolving with access to new data and computational power, studies on personality types using big data, how new forms of data will change science, and more... TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Economics is Changing Due To The Internet 07:00 New Kinds of Competition Online 16:05 New Questions Economists Can Answer 22:04 Analysing Personality Using Big Data 28:00 Big 5 and Personality 35:00 How Different Personality Types Complement Each Other 42:00 Learning Your Own Personality for Benefit 45:24 Future of Big Data in Economics Paul X. McCarthy: Website: https://www.onlinegravity.com/ Research: https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/adjunct-professor-paul-x-mccarthy X: https://twitter.com/paulxmccarthy

Darius Parvizi-Wayne is a philosopher of cognitive science and host of the Active Inference Insights podcast. What are the best theories in cognitive science and how are they helping us understand the mind, the self, psychopathology and well-being? Find out in this podcast. Expect to learn about the free energy principle and active inference, the relevance realization theory of consciousness, why the self exists, what mental illness really is, and more... 00:00 - Why An Active Inference Podcast 06:03 - Relevance Realization Vs Active Inference 08:19 - How Active Inference Actually Works 14:12 - Well Being and Psychopathology 24:35 - Why Are Video Games are so Addictive? 30:20 - Turrets Syndrome 46:23 - Future of Active Inference and Darius' Work 50:53 - Why Does The Self Exist? 58:59 - Jack's Journey To Podcasting

In this podcast, I speak with clinical psychologist Garri Hovahissayan about integrating the Big 5 Personality theory with economics to better understand decision-making from a phenomenological and evolutionary psychological perspective. We delve into economic decision theory, the impact of behavioral economics, the bio-economic constraints faced by all humans, and personality theory from a phenomenological perspective, among other topics. 00:00 - Economists View Of Preferences, Risk, & Decision Making 7:47 - Behavioural economics and biases 16:55 - Enactivist Big 5 Theory 25:43 - Bio-Economics and Facing Uncertainty 42:00 - Conscientiousness and Discovering The Future 00:58:26 - Stability-Plasticity vs Autism-Schizotype 01:06:00 - Conclusion: Economics Talking To Personality Theory

The modern world is a strange place. AI is rapidly progressing, science is changing, economics and money are evolving. What forces are at play that are shaping the world? Expect to understand how the scientific revolution changed our civilization's worldview, how our civilization fails to understand complexity, game theory, the power higher agencies exert over us, the sacred, and more.. TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Jordan Converting To Christianity - Introduction 02:00 - Problems of Western Civilization 05:13 - How The West Fails To Understand Complexity 13:37 - Game Theory, Machiavelli, & Technology 22:00 - Efficiency Over Resiliency 30:00 - Personalities and Egregores and Mammon 41:06 - Spirits and Identities 55:00 - Bitcoin, Hyperobjects and Agent-Arena Niches 01:06:20 - Identities, Ai & Sacrifice JORDAN HALL -https://substack.com/@jgreenhall

Alexandra Paxton is a social psychologist and cognitive scientist. Psychology in the past often viewed humans as isolated selves, individually rational, and separable from the world. However, much of the field is now re-conceptualizing the nature of humans and the mind. Learn more in this podcast. We tackle topics such as how to think about humans in terms of dynamical systems rather than as computer-like, how humans are embedded in their environment and context, the mutable boundary of the self, how to apply dynamical systems ideas to systems larger than humans, and more... TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 - Humans As Complex Systems 05:37 - Anti-Reductionism: Why We're Not Computers 10:30 - Understanding Systems At Different Levels 22:25 - The Mutable Boundary of Self 29:00 - Communication and Language 40:00 - "Tight" Vs "Loose" Cultures 50:15 - AI & Impact on Humans ALEXANDRA: -website: https://alexandrapaxton.com/ JACK: -Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0DGVMa1qAI1huc87xNDrgy?si=62c281d9e8274694 -X: https://twitter.com/jack_roycroft -Medium: https://medium.com/@jackroycroftsherry

David Dickinson is an experimental and behavioral economist. Economic theory views people as rational and self-interested. However, in recent decades experiments have shown how psychological biases influence decision making, radically changing economics. In this podcast expect to learn about how behavioral economics is bridging economics with psychology, about why economists modeled people as fully rational, the reasons for the confirmation bias, and more... 00:00 - What is Behavioral Economics? 04:34 - History of Rationality and Selfishness in Economics 09:34 - confirmation bias 22:30 - Dark Personality Personality and Behavior Differences 33:00 - Big 5 Personality and Behavior

Coltan Scrivner is a behavioral scientist and expert on the science of horror, crime, and morbid curiosity.What attracts us to horror movies, violent video games, the psychology of murderers, and car wrecks on the side of the road? This morbid curiosity is an evolved trait within us, but why do we possess it?In this podcast, expect to learn about the reasons behind our morbid curiosity, why it's beneficial for us, how to understand this trait in relation to other personality factors, how morbid curiosity helps explain dreaming and the paranormal, and more... TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 - What is Morbid Curiosity ? 01:26 - Why Morbid Curiosity Is Not A Bad Thing 04:10 - Why Are We Morbidly Curious? 13:26 - Why Morbid Curiosity Helps Us to Learn 22:17 - Morbid Curiosity and Personality 31:00 - The Paranormal in Scientific Terms 35:25 - Threat Detection Theory of Dreaming 43:28 - Morbid Curiosity and Relationships https://coltanscrivner.substack.com/ https://www.coltanscrivner.com/