Mind Matters

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Mind Matters episodes

August 15, 2019 Edward Feser on Neurobabble and Remembering the Right Questions
Michael Egnor hosts a captivating conversation with Edward Feser, Aristotelian, prolific blogger, and philosopher of mind. Neurobabble and pop science dismissals of the mind, final causes, abstract thought, and free will each face Feser’s piercing critique. Show Notes 00:41 | Introducing Edward Feser 01:00 | Roger Scruton on answers without questions in neuroscience 02:20 | A problem with pop neuroscience:…
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21 min
August 08, 2019 The Holy Grail of Artificial Intelligence
Gary N. Smith and Robert J. Marks continue their discussion of IBM’s Watson and its grim future in health and medicine. The problem, they say, is that Watson amounts to a real world instance of John Searle’s “Chinese Room”. Computers don’t understand Chinese, English, or numbers for that matter. With reference to many of the leading thinkers in AI research,…
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13 min
August 01, 2019 Time Passes, Love Fades, But What Does “It” All Mean?
Gary N. Smith and Robert J. Marks discuss the inability of AI to understand puns, lyrics, context, or anything at all. From trading futures, predicting political outcomes, and parsing lyrics, the fundamental incomprehension of artificial intelligence is a key to understanding its limitations. Show Notes 02:30 | The AI Delusion by Oxford University Press 03:00 | The importance of knowing…
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20 min
July 25, 2019 Bingecast: Daniel Ogden on Technology and National Security
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44 min

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On the Mind Matters podcast, Discovery Institute’s Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence considers the implications and misconceptions, the opportunities and limitations, and…