Naturally Artificial | Bridging the Gap between Minds and Machines

In this podcast episode, I sat down for an in depth conversation with Tim Harford.Tim is an economist, journalist and broadcaster. He is author of “The Next Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy”, “Messy”, and the million-selling “The Undercover Economist”. Tim is a senior columnist at the Financial Times, and the presenter of Radio 4’s “More or Less”, the iTunes-topping series “Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy”, and the new podcast “Cautionary Tales”. Tim has spoken at TED, PopT...

In this podcast episode, I sat down for an in depth conversation with Baland Jalal. Baland is a researcher at Harvard University and a Visiting Researcher at Cambridge University. He obtained his PhD at the Cambridge University School of Clinical Medicine. His research focuses on sleep paralysis and OCD. Along with VS Ramachandran, he has proposed a neuroscientific account for why people see ghosts during sleep paralysis. The Telegraph Described him as "one of the world's leading experts on s...

Jesse Bering is a research psychologist and Director of the Centre for Science Communication at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. An award-winning science writer specializing in human behaviour, his first book, The Belief Instinct (2011), was included on the American Library Association’s Top 25 Books of the Year. This was followed by a collection of his previously published essays, Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That? (2012), and Perv (2013), a taboo-breaking work that received ...

In this podcast episode, I sit down and have a chat with Wendy Wood on habits.Wendy Wood is the Provost Professor of Psychology and Business at University of Southern California, where she has been a faculty member since 2009. Wood completed her bachelor's degree at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and her Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Wood's primary research focuses on the effects of habits on behaviour. She is the author of the popular science book, Good Habit...

David Wilson is Professor Emeritus of Criminology and founding Director of the Centre for Applied Criminology at Birmingham City University . David completed his PhD at Selwyn College Cambridge in 1983. He is the former Editor of the prestigious Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, a Prior to taking up his academic appointment in September 1997, David was Senior Policy Advisor to the Prison Reform Trust, and between October 1983-April 1997 he worked as a Prison Governor. His cu...

In this podcast episode, I sat down for an in depth conversation with Scott Barry Kaufman. Scott is a humanistic psychologist and has taught courses on intelligence, creativity, and well-being at Columbia University, NYU, the University of Pennsylvania. Scott received his M. Phil in Experimental Psychology from the University of Cambridge and later went on to receive his P.H.D. in Cognitive Psychology from Yale University.Scott is the author of Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actuali...

In this podcast episode, I sat down for an in depth conversation with Paul Bloom. Paul is an Canadian American psychologist. He is the Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of psychology and cognitive science at Yale University. His research explores how children and adults understand the physical and social world, with special focus on language, morality, religion, fiction, and art.Paul wrote a book Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion in 2016. The book draws on the distinctions be...

In this podcast episode, I sat down for an in depth conversation with Gina Rippon. Gina is a British neuroscientist. She is a professor emeritus of cognitive neuroimaging at the Aston Brain Centre, Aston University, Birmingham. In 2019, Rippon published her book, Gendered Brain: The New Neuroscience that Shatters the Myth of the Female Brain, which investigates the role of life experiences and biology in brain development.The discussion mainly explores sex brain differences as well as behavio...

In this podcast episode, I sat down for an in depth conversation with Elizabeth Loftus. Elizabeth is a distinguished Professor of Psychological Science, Law, Criminology, Cognitive Science and Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine. She is known for her groundbreaking work on false memories and their application to eyewitness testimonies. She has consulted or testified as an Expert Witness in over 300 cases, including very high profile cases such as Ted Bundy, O.J....

In this podcast episode, I sat down for an in depth conversation with Stuart Ritchie. Stuart is a lecturer at the Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre at King's College London. He obtained his PhD at the University of Edinburgh. He researches human cognitive abilities with a key interest in in the Psychology of Intelligence.The discussion mainly focuses on Intelligence, including its genetic and environmental causes and some moral philosophy sprinkled on the side.Brought to y...