Join Mayla Boguslav as she interviews this episode’s guest Larry Hunter who is asking about our desires including where do they come from? What are desires? Who or what can desire? Listen to learn about the fundamental nature of these questions and the many different fields that touch on these questions.
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People, research, & citations mentioned in this episode:
Citations:
Artemy Kolchinsky and David H. Wolpert “Semantic information, autonomous agency and non-equilibrium statistical physics.” Interface FocusVolume 8, Issue 6. 19 October 2018 https://doi.org/10.1098/rsfs.2018.0041
Barrett, Lisa Feldman. “How emotions are made: The secret life of the brain.” Pan Macmillan, 2017.
Ram, Ashwin, and Lawrence Hunter. "The use of explicit goals for knowledge to guide inference and learning." Applied Intelligence 2 (1992): 47-73.
David Silver, Satinder Singh, Doina Precup, Richard S. Sutton, “Reward is enough,” Artificial Intelligence,
Volume 299, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2021.103535.
Prat, Chantel. “The neuroscience of you: how every brain is different and how to understand yours”. Penguin, 2022.
People:
Artemy Kolchinsky
David Wolpert
Lisa Feldman Barrett
Ashwin Ram
Larry’s Mother
Larry’s Partner
Unnamed philosopher
Transcript:
Producer & editor:
Joshua Mendel
Bluesky: @jbmendel.bsky.social
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Music:
Curious by Ron Gelinas Chill Beats | https://open.spotify.com/artist/03JYfsI9Ke7JFuxHD239m2
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