How do we know what we know—and how much of that “knowledge” is an illusion? In this episode, Josh and Albert zoom out from the Scientific Method to explore the wild world of epistemology: the study of knowledge, belief, and justification.
We’ll shake your confidence with quantum weirdness, psychological experiments, and logic paradoxes, then dive into philosophy, science, and even AI research to show why truth is far slipperier than you think.
🔍 What’s Inside This Episode
- 🔭 Quantum Mysteries: The Double-Slit Experiment and how observation changes reality.
- 🧪 Authority vs. Truth: Milgram’s Obedience Study—why people obeyed orders to deliver lethal shocks.
- 🧩 The Gettier Problem: When you’re right by accident, do you know anything?
- 🔢 Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem: Why math itself has blind spots.
- 🧠 Lenses of Knowledge: Empiricism, Rationalism, Pragmatism, Constructivism.
- 🤖 AI as a Mirror: How machine learning challenges our definition of “understanding.”