Joscha Bach is a German artificial intelligence researcher and cognitive scientist who works on on cognitive architectures, mental representation, emotion, social modeling, and multi-agent systems. We got connected over the hard problem of consciousness - namely, why do people seem to think it’s so hard? During our conversation we deal with the foundational questions of the technological future being built in Silicon Valley, the fever dream of machine intelligence, and try to understand why people seem to think that there’s even such a thing as the hard problem of consciousness in the first place. (00:00:00) Go! (00:04:09) Career Advice (00:11:31) Beauty, Grace, & Hotness (00:13:48) Putting on Airs (00:22:32) Patreon Ask (00:22:33) Winning for the sake of winning (00:29:35) Transformative experiences (00:36:25) Speciation event, or crap again? (00:42:17) Who is Joscha Bach (00:52:39) Physics & Causality (01:00:52) Physics vs Biology (01:12:16) Life vs Cells (01:20:14) Biosynthetic AGI (01:28:15) Creativity & Novelty (01:38:52) Wetware & Neuromorphic computing (01:50:46) The Limits of Hardware (02:05:07) The value of Agency (02:15:47) Layers of Society (02:35:03) Chimp Empire (02:52:31) Collapse (03:05:13) The Hard Problem (03:43:28) Computer Imagination (04:02:52) How reasoning works (04:14:28) Reward Functions (04:20:01) Consciousness dreams (04:25:35) The heart of the disagreement (04:30:15) Consensus Support the scientific revolution by joining our Patreon: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB Tell us what you think in the comments or on our Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub #AGI #consciousness #machinelearning Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Dr. Martin Sweatman is a chemical engineer at the University of Edinburgh working in both statistical mechanics and archaeoastronomical studies of symbolism at Göbekli Tepe. Our conversation with Dr. Sweatman circles around the missing pieces in our modern narrative of the emergence of civilization after the last glaciation. Might Göbekli Tepe have not been the first city but merely the oldest remaining after an extraordinary cataclysm like the Younger Dryas impact? (00:00:00) Go! (00:07:22) Missing societies (00:13:42) Open questions about Gobekli Tepe (00:19:16) The Handbag (00:21:07) Continuity of Symbols in Pre Dynastic History (00:25:40) Emergence of Civilization from Nothing (00:30:49) Younger Dryas Start of Civilization (00:37:06) Why then? (00:41:47) Impact Symbolism (00:50:53) Catastrophic timelines (00:56:39) Controversy of the Younger Dryas (01:05:04) A Global Effect? (01:07:45) Where are the craters? (01:14:32) A continuous thread of human history (01:21:42) Path to Archaeology (01:27:23) An Animal Pastoralism (01:32:52) Cart Ruts (01:45:27) Supernatural Value of the Stars (01:56:07) Step function of progress (02:01:08) Nothing more than a crossroads? (02:02:58) Future Directions Support the scientific revolution by joining our Patreon: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB OR picking up Dr. Sweatman's book: https://amzn.to/3oEpokr More from Dr. Sweatman: https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/martinsweatman/ Tell us what you think in the comments or on our Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub (00:00:00) Go! (00:07:22) Missing societies (00:13:42) Open questions about Gobekli Tepe (00:19:16) The Handbag (00:21:07) Continuity of Symbols in Pre Dynastic History (00:25:40) Emergence of Civilization from Nothing (00:30:49) Younger Dryas Start of Civilization (00:37:06) Why then? (00:41:47) Impact Symbolism (00:50:53) Catastrophic timelines (00:56:39) Controversy of the Younger Dryas (01:05:04) A Global Effect? (01:07:45) Where are the craters? (01:14:32) A continuous thread of human history (01:21:42) Path to Archaeology (01:27:23) An Animal Pastoralism (01:32:52) Cart Ruts (01:45:27) Supernatural Value of the Stars (01:56:07) Step function of progress (02:01:08) Nothing more than a crossroads? (02:02:58) Future Directions #youngerdryas #ancienthistory #göbeklitepe Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Dr. Dallas Abbott is a research scientist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. Her studies of Marine Geology, Geophysics, Precambrian Geology, and Impact Geology revealed that early history and pre-history are necessarily shaped by mega-tsunamis that result from regular astrophysical impacts. Support the scientific revolution by joining our Patreon: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB Tell us what you think in the comments or on our Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub Check out Dr. Abbott@ http://tsun.sscc.ru/hiwg/hiwg.htm #tsunami #youngerdryas #ancient Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

In this episode we take a break from interviewing the coolest scientists we can find and take a moment to introduce ourselves. Who are we? How did we get here? Who do we think we are? This is a short look into what we want for this project, for ourselves, and for the world. Support the scientific revolution by joining our Patreon: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB Tell us what you think in the comments or on our Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub (00:00:00) Go! (00:07:14) The goal of this episode (00:08:03) A moral income (00:11:14) Who are you? (00:15:33) The relief of understanding (00:19:39) science vs engineering (00:24:29) family history (00:29:46) The path to science (00:38:09) Deriving purpose (00:43:09) Imagining Solutions (00:47:16) Goals (00:51:38) An imperfect system (00:56:45) An obligation to the world (01:00:02) Hopes #DemystifySci #MichaelShiloDeLay #AnastasiaBendebury Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Dr Edward Bryant is a Research Fellow in Exoplanets Characterisation at University College London. His research has uncovered the existence of giant planets in orbit around low-mass stars, potentially upsetting our current paradigms of solar system formation. We discuss the detection of planets in strange places, the odd distribution of heavy stuff in our solar system, and the art of piercing the veil of uncertainty that hangs over our understanding of the cosmos Check out Bryant’s exoplanet paper here: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/521/3/3663/7069338 Check out the SciTech Daily article on it here: https://scitechdaily.com/challenging-widely-accepted-theory-of-planetary-formation-small-stars-may-host-bigger-planets-than-thought/ Read more of his work here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/mssl/people/dr-edward-bryant Support the scientific revolution by joining our Patreon: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB Tell us what you think in the comments or on our Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub (00:00:00) Go! (00:02:57) The first exoplanets (00:08:55) Rarity of the solar system (00:12:43) Continuous observation (00:16:31) Difficulty seeing (00:22:27) Rogue Planets? (00:37:49) changing the age of the universe (00:48:29) Radius Valley (00:56:09) Formation & Evolution (01:01:58) Oddly dense planets (01:13:09) There's weird stuff out there (01:21:51) Art of peer review (01:34:50) All models are wrong... (01:51:16) Extraterrestrials (02:01:34) closing thoughts #astronomy #exoplanets #planet Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Dr. Ogi Ogas is a theorist, author, and former visiting scholar at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where he serves as Project Head for the Individual Mastery Project. Ogas boasts to be in possession of the end theory of consciousness, and he makes a rock solid case for it. You be the judge. Our conversation begins with an introduction to the problems of consciousness and walks through a topological framework for the emergence of increased complexity in biological awareness, culminating in rare cases of self-consciousness, perhaps best exemplified by our own species. We then consider the future evolution of consciousness as humans reach outward for the stars. Tell us what you think! Support both the podcast and Ogi when you buy his books here: https://amzn.to/438xf88 Ogi Ogas: https://www.ogiogas.com/ Support the scientific revolution by joining our Patreon: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB Tell us what you think in the comments or on our Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub (00:00:00) Go! (00:04:17) An exploration of consciousness (00:10:06) Who is Ogi Ogas? (00:16:07) Two Kinds of Dynamics (00:19:25) The Theory (00:23:10) Collective Activity (00:25:01) Three Laws of Consciousness (00:36:13) Types of Consciousness (00:42:03) Four Stages of Thinking (00:55:40) The Road to Hyperminds (01:03:08) Point Minds to Superminds (01:10:19) The Birth of Civilization (01:15:45) Representation of External Concepts (01:24:44) Consciousness is not the end game (01:34:27) The Metropolis Principle (01:42:04) Tyranny of the Hypermind (01:54:14) A question bigger than why (01:57:46) Death is the end of Dynamics (02:03:04) Extraterriestrials (02:13:47) A Mind for Time (02:20:04) Tragedy of the Schism #consciousness #science #mind Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Dr. Clarice D. Aiello, a quantum engineer studying how subatomic physics affects biology, discusses topics such as quantum biology, superposition of spin states, defining spin and bonafide superposition, the wave character of spin, the mysticism of quantum, quantum conditional reactions, biophotons, magnetic fields and embryogenesis, birds, electromagnetic treatments in biology, and creating a scientific field in "The DemystifySci Podcast".

Leighton Akio Woodhouse is a journalist, Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker, and co-founder of Public, a Substack focused on cities, energy, and the environment. His recent work has been focused on untangling the urban decay that is sweeping through American cities, with a focus on the downwing incentive structures that have created a self-perpetuating homeless industrial complex whose existence depends on the perpetuation of the homelessness crisis. We talk about the decay of San Francisco, how the road to hell is paved with good intentions, and the chokehold of emotion-first activism. We also discuss the Twitter Files, widespread involvement of former intelligence officials at high levels at tech companies, and the end goal of clamping down on discourse. Check out more @Twitter: https://twitter.com/lwoodhouse @Substack: https://public.substack.com/ Support the scientific revolution by joining our Patreon: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB Tell us what you think in the comments or on our Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub (00:00:00) Go! (00:02:24) Disenchantment with the Left (00:05:28) Chaos in the cities (00:11:31) Techies vs Everyone Else (00:18:20) How the Homelessness Industrial Complex Took Over San Francisco (00:18:56) A Slow Road to Hell (00:34:03) Narratives of Harm Reduction Vs Reality (00:53:42) Monopoly on Violence (01:02:37) Recovery & Decriminalization (01:07:11) The most surprising discovery (01:17:52) Censorship Industrial Complex (01:24:03) The Goal of Censorship (01:30:53) Does Sunlight Really Disinfect? (01:36:07) Covert Intelligence Projects (01:47:19) Disinfo Comes from the Top Down (01:55:47) Dark Money (02:05:58) The Scariest Thing in the World (02:15:37) Closing thoughts #censorship #homelessness #urbandecay Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Michael Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Dr. Mike McCulloch, physicist and author of Quantized Inertia, explains how this theory provides a cosmological explanation for Newton's first law. Topics include Unruh radiation, an interconnected universe, Casimir effects for novel propulsion, and engineering antigravity systems. Exciting discussions on galactic rotation, general relativity, and remembering fireflies.

Dr. Susan Blackmore is a Visiting Professor at the University of Plymouth with an interest in psychology, consciousness, memes, and anomalous experiences. We speak with her about the arc of her research into out of body experiences. We talk with her about her fruitless search for robust evidence of astral phenomena, her transition into psychological research, and how she squares the illusory self uncovered during meditation with the material evidence of consciousness. Support the scientific revolution by joining our Patreon: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB Tell us what you think in the comments or on our Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub (00:00:00) Go! (00:05:57) Consciousness (00:16:47) Dualism of Language (00:25:27) Illusion of Experience (00:39:40) Seeing through the illusion (00:49:23) A sense of self (00:55:45) Implications of Consciousness (01:00:08) What Makes Humans Special #consciousness #meditation #illusionofself Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Michael Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671