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Lex 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.
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.
1:27:29ENLex Fridman· Jun 20, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersResistance Is How You Know the Work MattersGuest Steven Pressfield · Host Lex FridmanSteven Pressfield tells Lex Fridman why he writes about Spartans and Alexander — and why the battle that counts is the one against his own ego.
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.
3:11:09ENLex Fridman· Apr 18, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersIn the computational universe, the animals are always smarter than youGuest Stephen Wolfram · Host Lex FridmanStephen Wolfram talks with Lex Fridman about Rule 30, computational irreducibility, a hypergraph model of physics, and why Wolfram Language is a notation for talking about the world.
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.
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.
1:38:49ENLex 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.
58:33ENLex Fridman· Dec 17, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersScience cannot prove that the Earth is not flatGuest Michael Stevens · Host Lex FridmanVsauce creator Michael Stevens tells Lex Fridman why unfalsifiable ghosts, time-capsule states, and a YouTube recommendation mirror all belong in the same argument about curiosity.
1:29:58ENLex Fridman· Nov 1, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersBelieve the Schrödinger Equation. The Cost Is Extra WorldsGuest Sean Carroll · Host Lex FridmanSean Carroll talks with Lex Fridman about why many-worlds is the barest form of quantum mechanics, why spacetime may only be an approximation, and why measurement should not be a primitive in the laws of physics.
57:30ENLex Fridman· Sep 26, 2019Podcast · 2 speakers400 Spins in a Pocket, and a Universe Too Small to Store ThemGuest Leonard Susskind · Host Lex FridmanLeonard Susskind tells Lex Fridman why quantum computers are not faster laptops, why string theory is a tool rather than a citizenship, and why nobody should claim to have found the bottom of the well.
34:50ENLex Fridman· Jul 10, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersA cheap simulation would render only you, and the wall would have nothing behind itGuest Sean Carroll · Host Lex FridmanSean Carroll walks Lex Fridman from ice-cream emergence and quantum-circuit cosmology to Fermi's paradox, the origin of life, and why academia punishes the conversations that actually change fields.
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.
25:06ENLex FridmanPodcastLiving Inside the Brain's Story: Joscha Bach on Simulation, Self and ConsciousnessHost Lex FridmanIn a clip from his conversation with Lex Fridman, Joscha Bach argues that consciousness, identity and even God are software-like patterns, and that we exist inside a narrative our brain generates.
22:59ENLex FridmanPodcastPenrose on Why Consciousness Can't Be a ComputationHost Lex FridmanRoger Penrose explains how a dissatisfaction with AI optimism, a tip about microtubules and a rethink of quantum mechanics led him to Orch OR.
2:53:45ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersJoscha Bach on Seven Stages of Lucidity, Brutalist LLMs, and Why Life on Earth Isn't Only About HumansGuest Joscha Bach · Host Lex FridmanA wide-ranging conversation on how minds are built, what language models are missing, and how an AI-saturated world might change consciousness, identity and risk.
11:26ENLex FridmanPodcastThe Cookie Your Brain Bakes: Joscha Bach on Happiness, Cells and the Meaning of GodHost Lex FridmanIn a short clip, Joscha Bach moves from why happiness is not the point to the cell as a cosmic probe and a naturalistic reading of God as civilization.