The Theory of Anything
A podcast by Bruce Nielson and Peter Johansen
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101 Episodes
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Episode 80: Knowledge vs. Simul-Knowledge
Published: 3/4/2024 -
Episode 79: Perspiration vs Inspiration
Published: 2/26/2024 -
Episode 78: Are Animal Memes Knowledge In the Genes?
Published: 2/19/2024 -
Episode 77: Counter Examples To Deutsch's Theory of Knowledge?
Published: 2/12/2024 -
Episode 76: The Constructor Theory of Knowledge
Published: 2/5/2024 -
Episode 75: Deutsch's Theory of Knowledge: The Walking Robot
Published: 1/29/2024 -
Episode 74: The Problem of Open-Endedness
Published: 1/15/2024 -
Episode 73: Argue Me Everything
Published: 1/1/2024 -
Episode 72: Moral Progress and Tolerance for Intolerance
Published: 12/18/2023 -
Episode 71: Can Values be Objective?
Published: 12/4/2023 -
Episode 70: Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence?
Published: 11/20/2023 -
Episode 69: Social Science and Critical Rationalism
Published: 11/6/2023 -
Episode 68: Caldwell's "Clarifying Popper"
Published: 10/30/2023 -
Episode 67: Disagreements with Deutsch
Published: 10/16/2023 -
Episode 66: The Alien Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill and the Search For Meaning
Published: 10/2/2023 -
Episode 65: Causality, Time, and Free Will
Published: 9/18/2023 -
Episode 64: What is a "Refutation"?
Published: 9/4/2023 -
Episode 63: Brian Boutwell on Twin Studies and Heritability
Published: 8/14/2023 -
Episode 62: Aliens!?!?
Published: 7/31/2023 -
Episode 61: A Critical Rationalist Defense of Corroboration
Published: 7/17/2023
A podcast that explores intelligence and the search for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) through the lens of the Popper-Deutsch Theory of Knowledge. David Deutsch has argued that Quantum Mechanics, Darwin's Theory of Evolution, Karl Popper's Theory of Knowledge, and Computational Theory (aka "The Four Strands") represent an early 'theory of everything' be it science, philosophy, computation, politics, or art.