Ghosts in the Machine
René Descartes split mind from body—the “ghost in the machine”—and we’re here to pick up the pieces. Ghosts in the Machine dives into consciousness, existentialism, technology, art, music, and more with the world’s most fascinating philosophers and scientists. Hosted by Yash Mishra, Mark Pock, and Alex Young. Edited by Aanya Mishra. This is an independent podcast. The views and opinions expressed are those of the hosts and guests, and do not necessarily reflect the official policies or positions of any organizations. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@YashMishra2003
Episodes
Christof Koch is one of the world’s leading experts in the study of consciousness. He was the Chief Scientist at the Allen Institute for Brain Science, now Meritorious Investigator. He is also the Chief Scientist of the Tiny Blue Dot Foundation in Santa Monica. Christof has over 350 scientific papers and has written six books including Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist, The Feeling of Life Itself, and Then I am ...
Philosopher Colin Marshall joins Alex and Mark to discuss Arthur Schopenhauer's views on how to live life in spite of suffering, why the Stoics were wrong, moral responsibility and free will, how to truly connect with other human beings, art, music, and the ethics of persuasion.
The philosopher Ian Schnee joins Yash and Alex to discuss why a complete science of the mind will not replace the role of existentialism, how studying and teaching existentialism has shaped his personal life, what conspiracy theories reveal about the human mind, existential and social concerns about AI relationships, why AI could be conscious and suffer without us knowing, and how it could be possible for big tech companies to list...
Oren Etzioni, founding CEO of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence and co-founder of Vercept, joins Yash to discuss his meeting with President Joe Biden, the path to artificial general intelligence, how to know if AI is about to destroy civilization, simulated vs genuine empathy, and how our conceptualizations of free will, the self, and consciousness inform our views on if AI progress really is creating human intelligen...
The philosopher Stone Addington joins Yash and Mark to discuss the hard problem of consciousness, sleepwalking, the ability for AI to have genuine understanding, framing of technology, saving the humanities, and how cognitive science can inform our approach to academic philosophy.
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