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Lex Fridman· Nov 20, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersThe Most Romantic Gift Lisa Feldman Barrett Ever Got Was a Six-Way PlugGuest Lisa Feldman Barrett · Host Lex FridmanOn her second Lex Fridman Podcast, the neuroscientist traces how she fell in love over a 1992 bulletin board, why brains evolved to hunt rather than to think, and how a body budget can change a mood.
2:35:30ENLex Fridman· Nov 16, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersOn a Perfectly Flat Floor, Heights Still WorkGuest Andrew Huberman · Host Lex FridmanStanford neuroscientist Andrew Huberman talks with Lex Fridman about fear circuits, matching inner arousal to outer demand, and why the first minutes after sleep should not belong to someone else's timeline.
1:56:31ENLex Fridman· Oct 12, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersA Blank Wall Is Not More Conscious Than a PersonGuest Scott Aaronson · Host Lex FridmanScott Aaronson walks Lex Fridman through integrated information theory, Penrose’s uncomputable mind, GPT-3, P versus NP, and why silent support for open discourse has to get louder.
2:23:38ENLex Fridman· Oct 4, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersThe Brain That Never Touches the WorldGuest Lisa Feldman Barrett · Host Lex FridmanNeuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett tells Lex Fridman why your skull is a dark box, why emotions are constructed like money, and why empathy is a metabolic bill.
1:41:24ENLex Fridman· Aug 26, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersA child can lose half a brain. The rest will rewire around the jobGuest David Eagleman · Host Lex FridmanNeuroscientist David Eagleman tells Lex Fridman why the human brain is not hardware running software, but a livewired system that never stops physically reshaping itself.
2:56:24ENLex Fridman· Aug 20, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersIt Is Knowing We Will Die That Makes Us HumanGuest Sheldon Solomon · Host Lex FridmanSheldon Solomon tells Lex Fridman how death anxiety, from an eight-year-old's stamp collection to 28-millisecond lab primes, quietly runs politics, religion, and everyday life.
2:07:32ENLex Fridman· Jul 26, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersRichard Karp: Either All These Problems Are Easy, or None of Them AreGuest Richard Karp · Host Lex FridmanThe Turing Award winner walks Lex Fridman from a geometry proof that stopped him at 13 through NP-completeness, randomized algorithms, and why no program yet outthinks a six-month-old.
1:09:14ENLex Fridman· Jul 8, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersSuffering Is a State You'd Rather Not Be In — Peter Singer on Animals, Robots, and UsGuest Peter Singer · Host Lex FridmanOn Lex Fridman's podcast, the Princeton bioethicist defines suffering, extends it from factory farms to possible machine minds, and still puts extreme poverty first.
45:31ENLex Fridman· Jul 1, 2020PodcastYou Are Your Own Existence Proof: Karl Friston on Free Energy, Life, and Self-AwarenessHost Lex FridmanKarl Friston explains how the free energy principle reframes existence, life, planning, and self-awareness as inference problems.
3:00:18ENLex Fridman· Jun 13, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersOnly a Simulation Can Be ConsciousGuest Joscha Bach · Host Lex FridmanJoscha Bach tells Lex Fridman why a neuron cannot feel anything, why existence is the default, and why this dying world is still the best level of the game.
1:12:36ENLex Fridman· Jun 5, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersKate Darling on Why We Name the Roomba and Mourn the Bomb RobotGuest Kate Darling · Host Lex FridmanAn MIT Media Lab researcher argues that our feelings about machines track the history of animal domestication — and that design can steer that instinct for better or worse.
1:29:02ENLex Fridman· May 28, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersYou Are Your Own Existence ProofGuest Karl Friston · Host Lex FridmanKarl Friston walks Lex Fridman from brain imaging to the free energy principle, arguing that anything which keeps a boundary looks as if it is doing Bayesian inference.
1:07:21ENLex Fridman· Apr 9, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersComplex Things Have to GrowGuest Richard Dawkins · Host Lex FridmanRichard Dawkins talks with Lex Fridman about alien minds, memes, morality, and why even a simulated world would still need Darwin.
1:27:57ENLex Fridman· Mar 31, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersThe Brain's Best Computer Has No Inner LifeGuest Roger Penrose · Host Lex FridmanRoger Penrose tells Lex Fridman why HAL raises a moral problem the field will not name, why the cerebellum wrecks the computational theory of mind, and why gravity, Gödel, and an infinite cosmos all hang on the same kind of understanding.
12:42ENLex Fridman· Mar 28, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersThe Experience Machine: What Our Refusal to Plug In Says About What We ValueGuest Nick Bostrom · Host Lex FridmanNick Bostrom unpacks Robert Nozick's experience machine, the status quo effect behind our answers, and whether a simulation convincing enough to feel real would have to contain real minds.
1:56:38ENLex Fridman· Mar 25, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersBostrom Will Not Pick a Fork: The Simulation Argument Is a Disjunction, Not a BetGuest Nick Bostrom · Host Lex FridmanNick Bostrom walks Lex Fridman through the simulation argument, anthropic reasoning, and why superintelligence talk should be split into near-term and long-term conversations.
1:11:09ENLex Fridman· Mar 3, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersAva smiled when nobody was watchingGuest Alex Garland · Host Lex FridmanAlex Garland talks with Lex Fridman about Ex Machina, Annihilation, Devs, and how you tell whether anything is really in there.
1:12:48ENLex Fridman· Feb 29, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersJohn Hopfield's Physics of Mind: Glitches Become FeaturesGuest John Hopfield · Host Lex FridmanThe Princeton physicist walks Lex Fridman from a wobbly London bridge to Hopfield networks, consciousness-as-story, and why his famous model still does not explain learning.
1:39:56ENLex Fridman· Feb 26, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersWhy Marcus Hutter Treats Compression as Intelligence ItselfGuest Marcus Hutter · Host Lex FridmanThe DeepMind researcher behind AIXI tells Lex Fridman why a Wikipedia compression contest, Solomonoff induction, and an incomputable formula belong in the same conversation.
1:38:49ENLex Fridman· Jan 29, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersEven a simulation would still be realGuest David Chalmers · Host Lex FridmanDavid Chalmers tells Lex Fridman why a simulated world would still count as reality, and why the hard problem of consciousness still will not go away.
35:46ENLex Fridman· Nov 29, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersYou never hear structure: Noam Chomsky on language, cognition, and deep learningGuest Noam Chomsky · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman asks the linguist whether we could talk to aliens, how far language goes in the brain, and whether neural networks tell us anything about the mind.
57:42ENLex Fridman· Aug 12, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersA Brain Organoid Is Not a BrainGuest Paola Arlotta · Host Lex FridmanHarvard developmental biologist Paola Arlotta on how the cerebral cortex is built, why timing and mechanical force are part of the code, and why a dish of stem cells is only a window onto that process.
57:54ENLex Fridman· Sep 1, 2018Podcast · 2 speakersA 2040 Siri That Passes Every Turing Test Still Wouldn't Be ConsciousGuest Christof Koch · Host Lex FridmanNeuroscientist Christof Koch tells Lex Fridman why intelligence is function, consciousness is being, and a perfect brain simulation has no more inner life than a laptop simulating a black hole.
20:07ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersThe Hard Problem and the Case for a Conscious Universe: David Chalmers on ConsciousnessGuest David Chalmers · Host Lex FridmanDavid Chalmers explains what consciousness is, why the hard problem resists physical explanation, and why he takes panpsychism seriously.