Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7
Sean Carroll is Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns
Hopkins University and fractal faculty at the Santa Fe Institute.
He is also host of Sean Carroll’s Mindscape, a terrific show
(that influenced the birth of Robinson’s Podcast) about science,
society, philosophy, culture, arts, and ideas. Daniel Dennett is
Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Tufts University, where he
was co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies and the
Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy. He is one of the most
recognized philosophers today, and has made major contributions
to the philosophy of mind and biology, among other areas, and is
known as one of the Four Horsemen of Atheism. Steven Pinker is
Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University.
He is an experimental cognitive psychologist, prominent public
intellectual, and best-selling author who writes on language,
mind, and human nature. This is Sean’s third appearance on the
show. He was one of the guests—along with David Albert of
Columbia University—on episode 106, which covers the Many-Worlds
theory of quantum mechanics, entropy and Boltzmann Brains, and
the fine-tuned universe. He was also on episode 118 with Slavoj
Žižek on quantum physics, the multiverse, time travel, and a
whole lot more. This is Dan’s second appearance on the show, as
on episode 194 he and Robinson spoke about consciousness, free
will, and the evolution of minds. Finally, Steve is returning for
another centennial episode, as he and Robinson discussed
rationality, enlightenment, and free speech on episode 100. But
in this episode of Robinson’s Podcast (the two hundredth!), Sean,
Dan, Steve, and Robinson discuss artificial intelligence, large
language models, and whether or not they threaten democracy or
even civilization itself, parapsychology and the laws of physics,
panpsychism and consciousness, some of the philosophical lessons
of Darwinian thought, and the relationship between science and
philosophy. Dan’s latest book is I’ve Been Thinking (W. W.
Norton, 2023), Steve’s latest book is Rationality: What It Is,
Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters (Penguin, 2022), and Sean’s
next book, Quanta and Fields: The Biggest Ideas in the Universe
(Penguin, 2024), will be coming out on May 14, 2024.
Sean’s Website: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com
Sean’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/seanmcarroll
Quanta and Fields (The Biggest Ideas in the Universe):
https://a.co/d/gfMDLQo
Sean’s Paper on QFT and Supervenience:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2101.07884.pdf
I’ve Been Thinking: https://a.co/d/ahMEC0G
Steven’s Website: https://stevenpinker.com
Steven’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/sapinker
Rationality: https://a.co/d/9N2uFyr
Robinson’s Podcast #106 - David Albert & Sean Carroll:
Quantum Theory, Boltzmann Brains, & The Fine-Tuned Universe:
https://youtu.be/U6ZtmGIhIhU
Robinson’s Podcast #118 - Slavoj Žižek & Sean Carroll:
Quantum Physics, the Multiverse, and Time Travel
Robinson’s Podcast #194 - Daniel Dennett: Consciousness, Free
Will, and the Evolution of Minds: https://youtu.be/9bZcBh0qtKo
OUTLINE
00:00 In This Episode…
00:59 Introduction
6:11 Will Large Language Models End Civilization?
13:42 Are Large Language Models a Threat to Democracy?
22:53 Could AI Destroy the Job Market?
28:14 On Parapsychology and the Violation of Physics
40:23 The Parable of the Bathtub
01:03:45 Physical Causation and the Law of Sufficient Reason
01:09:23 On Emergence and Real Patterns
01:14:48 Is Consciousness an Illusion?
01:27:13 The Darwinian Lesson
01:31:50 Does Physics Show that the Universe is Conscious?
1:44:36 What is Philosophy?
Robinson’s Website: http://robinsonerhardt.com
Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of
mathematics at Stanford University. Join him in conversations
with philosophers, scientists, weightlifters, artists, and
everyone in-between.
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