The Dissenter

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  • Terrence Deacon Part 2: Consciousness, Semiotics, Symbolism and Language

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    This is Part 2 of the conversation with Dr. Terrence Deacon: Consciousness, Semiotics, Symbolism and Language.

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    00:00 Consciousness, and unconscious mental processes

    06:52 Semiotics, and studying how we deal with symbols 

    16:51 The biological bases of language 

    28:30 Cultural sources to understand the evolution of language 

    40:39 Follow Dr. Deacon’s work! 

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    44 min
  • #205 Laura Cabrera: The Philosophy of Human Enhancement

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    Dr. Laura Cabrera is Assistant Professor in the Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences and the Department of Translational Science & Molecular Medicine at Michigan State University. Dr. Cabrera's interests focus on the ethical and societal implications of neurotechnology and neuroscientific advances. She has been working on projects that explore the media coverage and the attitudes of the general public toward pharmacological and novel neurosurgical interventions for the treatment of psychiatric disorders. She has also worked on the public perceptions towards the use of different modalities of neuromodifiers for enhancement purposes, as well as their normative implications. Her current work focuses on the ethical and social implications of environmental changes for brain and mental health. She’s also the author of the book Rethinking Human Enhancement: Social Enhancement and Emergent Technologies.

    In this episode, we discuss human enhancement from a philosophical perspective. We talk about the difficulty in defining “enhancement”, and also about the three paradigms of human enhancement, as defined by Dr. Cabrera in her book, Rethinking Human Enhancement: the biomedical, the transhumanist, and the social.

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    38 min
  • Terrence Deacon Part 1: Absence and Constraints, from Physics to Mental Phenomena

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    This is Part 1 of the conversation with Dr. Terrence Deacon: Absence and Constraints, from Physics to Mental Phenomena.

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    01:32 Dr. Deacon’s interdisciplinary approach

    06:04 Life and the second law of thermodynamics 

    09:38 The concept of absence and constraints   

    17:02 Homeodynamics, morphodynamics, and teleodynamics 

    26:22 Information from a Physics perspective 

    37:04 Emergence and how to get to mental phenomena 

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    I also leave you with the link to a recent montage video I did with the interviews I have released until the end of June 2018:

    https://youtu.be/efdb18WdZUo

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    50 min
  • #204 Carlos Fiolhais: A Ciência, o Método Científico e a Pseudociência

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    O Dr. Carlos Fiolhais é Professor Catedrático de Física na Universidade de Coimbra. Foi professor convidado em universidades de Portugal, Brasil e Estados Unidos. É autor de mais de 30 livros de divulgação científica. Participou em inúmeros encontros, conferências e ações promovendo a ciência e a cultura científica. Criou o portal de ciência www.mocho.pt. Ganhou em 1994 o Prémio União Latina/JNICT de tradução científica. Ganhou o Globo de Ouro de Mérito e Excelência em Ciência de 2004 atribuído pela televisão SIC e pela revista Caras em 2005. Em 2017, ganhou o Grande Prémio Ciência Viva Montepio. Investiga Física da Matéria Condensada e Ensino e História das Ciências. 

    Neste episódio, fazemos um longo percurso desde os precursores e origens da revolução científica na Europa, nos séculos XVI e XVII, até aos grandes desenvolvimentos ao nível da Astronomia, da Física, da Química e da Biologia nos seus primórdios. Abordamos também a relação íntima entre filosofia e ciência, e como a filosofia está historicamente na base da ciência. Falamos também sobre vários dos critérios do método científico, incluindo a observação e recolha sistemática de dados, a formulação de hipóteses, a falsiabilidade dessas mesmas hipóteses e a revisão por pares. Finalmente, fazemos também referência à importância de distinguir ciência de pseudociência, e como essa distinção é uma marca de uma sociedade moderna, e quem não a faz pode criar muitos problemas, e aludimos ao facto de a ciência ser uma atividade humana comunitária que não se consegue construir individualmente.

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    Sigam o trabalho do Dr. Carlos Fiolhais:

    Página da Universidade de Coimbra: https://bit.ly/2QeKq38

    Livros (Wook): https://bit.ly/2wabbg8

    Perfil no Researchgate: https://bit.ly/2Jwyx8q

    A Ciência e os Seus Inimigos: https://bit.ly/2VH0E6A

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    A SPECIAL THANKS TO MY PRODUCERS, YZAR WEHBE and ROSEY!

    1 hr 31 min
  • #119 Terrence Deacon: Incomplete Nature, from Physics to Mind

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    Dr. Terrence Deacon is currently Professor of Anthropology and member of the Cognitive Science faculty at the University of California, Berkeley. His theoretical interests include the study of evolution-like processes at multiple levels, including their role in embryonic development, neural signal processing, language change, social processes, and focusing especially on how these different processes interact and depend on each other. Professor Deacon's research has combined human evolutionary biology and neuroscience, with the aim of investigating the evolution of human cognition. He’s the author of The Symbolic Species: The Coevolution of Language and the Brain, and his most recent book, Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter, explores the relationship between thermodynamic, self-organizing, evolutionary and semiotic processes and provides a new technical conception of information that explains both its representational and normative properties.

    In this episode, we cover some of the major topics of Incomplete Nature, including: the second law of thermodynamics; absence and constraints; homeodynamics, morphodynamics, and teleodynamics; information; emergence; how we get from Physics to mental phenomena. We also talk about language and semiotics, including the biological bases of language, and how to study its evolution.

    Time Links:

    01:17 What is theory of mind, and how did it evolve?

             

    09:38 The concept of absence and constraints         

    17:02 Homeodynamics, morphodynamics, and teleodynamics      

    26:22 Information from a Physics perspective      

    37:04 Emergence and how to get to mental phenomena  

    49:13 Consciousness, and unconscious mental processes

    56:05 Semiotics, and studying how we deal with symbols 

    1:06:04 The biological bases of language 

    1:17:43 Cultural sources to understand the evolution of language  

    1:29:52 Follow Dr. Deacon’s work!  

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    Faculty page: https://tinyurl.com/y83a3cov

    The Symbolic Species: https://tinyurl.com/yc3tv5du

    Incomplete Nature: https://tinyurl.com/y9mkubr4

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    I also leave you with the link to a recent montage video I did with the interviews I have released until the end of June 2018:

    https://youtu.be/efdb18WdZUo

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    PHILOSOPHY: https://tinyurl.com/yb6a7d3p

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    1 hr 33 min
  • #118 Lee Ross: Fundamental Attribution Error, Naïve Realism, and Politics

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    Dr. Lee Ross is a Professor of Psychology at Stanford University and co-founder of the Stanford Center on Conflict and Negotiation. He’s been the recipient of several awards. The author of three influential books, Human Inference and the Person and the Situation (both with Richard Nisbett) and, more recently, The Wisest One in the Room (with Thomas Gilovich), and many highly cited papers. His research on attributional biases and shortcomings in human inference has exerted a major impact in social psychology and the field of human inference, judgment and decision-making. Among the phenomena he identified and has explored are the fundamental attribution error, the false consensus effect, reactive devaluation, the hostile media phenomenon, and the convictions of naïve realism. 

    In this episode, we cover the psychological phenomena that were the main targets of Dr. Ross’ academic research. These include: the fundamental attribution error; the just world phenomenon; cultural differences in how people apply the fundamental attribution error; naïve realism, the false consensus effect, and objectivity in the eye of the beholder; reactive devaluation in the case of trying to solve a problem between opposing human groups or political parties; and the possible ways to get around these human cognitive inclinations.

    Time Links:

    01:14 The fundamental attribution error

    05:49 The just world phenomenon           

    13:53 Cultural differences         

    15:25 Naïve realism      

    25:05 Reactive devaluation      

    28:17 How to establish bridges between opposing political parties and other human groups  

    35:13 Trying to find common ground

    39:05 Follow Dr. Ross’ work!  

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    Articles on Researchgate: https://tinyurl.com/y8668uej

    Books: https://tinyurl.com/y7abt6sw

    The Wisest One in the Room: https://tinyurl.com/ycfukf2t

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    I also leave you with the link to a recent montage video I did with the interviews I have released until the end of June 2018:

    https://youtu.be/efdb18WdZUo

    And check out my playlists on:

    PSYCHOLOGY: https://tinyurl.com/ybalf8km

    PHILOSOPHY: https://tinyurl.com/yb6a7d3p

    ANTHROPOLOGY: https://tinyurl.com/y8b42r7g

    42 min
  • #117 Wendy Johnson: Genetics and Environment in Personality and Intelligence

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    Dr. Wendy Johnson is Professor of Psychology at the University of Edinburgh. She also holds the Chair in Differential Development in the University of Edinburgh's Department of Psychology and Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology. She is known for her research on human intelligence and personality. In 2004, the International Society for Intelligence Research honored her with its John B. Carroll Award for Research Methodology. In 2011, she received the American Psychological Association's Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology, in recognition of her work on the individual differences of intelligence and personality. Topics of her research include: structure of intelligence and personality, life-span development of intelligence and personality, health and aging, genetic and environmental transactions and their influence on behavior, intelligence, and personality.

    In this episode, we talk mostly about personality traits and IQ. Topics include: the Big Five, and other personality traits inventories; the reliability of personality measures; the many ways genetics and the environment interact to build up our psychology; how our psychological traits are polygenic (influences by several genes); the influences of parents and other aspects of the environment; the effects of IQ and personality in old age, and the long-term benefits of high IQ and certain personality traits, like conscientiousness. 

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    01:22  Big Five and other personality inventories

    06:09 The earliest point in life to measure personality          

    09:27 Are questionnaires and reports reliable?         

    14:31 The interplay between genetics and the environment      

    18:09 Studies with twins and adoptees      

    19:57 The trouble with identifying genes associated with psychological traits  

    22:56 Are genetic effects greater after people leave their parents’ house?

    27:01 Rich vs impoverished environments, and their effects 

    30:51 Old age, mental health, and personality  

    33:33 The long-term benefits of high IQ

    37:14 Intelligence and health

    43:12 But intelligence is not the same as wisdom. We also need other traits.

    47:55 Follow Dr. Johnson’s work!  

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    I also leave you with the link to a recent montage video I did with the interviews I have released until the end of June 2018:

    https://youtu.be/efdb18WdZUo

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    PSYCHOLOGY: https://tinyurl.com/ybalf8km

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    51 min
  • #203 Gordon Ingram: Children's Social Development, And Cyberpsychology

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    Dr. Gordon Ingram is Associate Professor of Psychology at Universidad de los Andes, Colombia.  He teaches undergraduate courses in Developmental Psychology, Cyberpsychology, and Psychology of Language, and a graduate course in Cognition and Culture. He supervises several graduate students researching children’s social and moral development. His research centers on children’s and adolescents’ everyday communication online.

    In this episode, we first talk about children’s social development, with particular focus on how they develop/acquire norms and start caring about norm violation. In the second part, we discuss the emerging field of cyberpsychology, the differences between the virtual and the real worlds, and also cyberbullying.

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    The Evolution Institute profile: https://bit.ly/2VCdgwp

    Articles on Researchgate: https://bit.ly/2vbcyLb

    Academia.edu profile: https://bit.ly/2Vu6rfn

    Twitter handle: @gordoning

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    Children’s Tattling: The Reporting of Everyday Norm Violations in Preschool Settings: https://bit.ly/2Jr1ClH

    Children’s Reporting of Peers’ Behaviour: https://bit.ly/2YwskNd

    Gossip: https://bit.ly/2Js5X8i

    Evolutionary Cyberpsychology 2.0: Revisiting Some Old Predictions and Posting Some New Ones in the Age of Facebook: https://bit.ly/2JtI8Nc

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    59 min
  • #116 Colin Holbrook: Threat Detection, Group Prejudice, Warfare, and Religion

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    Dr. Colin Holbrook is Assistant Professor of Cognitive and Information Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He researches decision-making under contexts of threat, with particular focus on political orientation, group prejudice, and the representation of mental states.

    In this episode, we talk about threat detection; the relationship between threat and fight-or-flight responses; how threat instigates group prejudice; threat in the context of politics and warfare; religion and social cohesion; and the hyperactive agency detection device.

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    00:36 How do people perceive threat?

    04:38  Fight-or-flight responses          

    13:04 Threat at the individual and collective levels         

    17:19 In-group and out-group differences      

    23:00 Threat in the context of politics and warfare      

    33:25 Religion and threat salience   

    45:19 Religion and social cohesion

    48:51 Perceiving agency and threat salience 

    53:27 Follow Dr. Holbrook’s work!  

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    Personal website: http://cholbrook01.bol.ucla.edu/

    Articles on Researchgate: https://tinyurl.com/y6vvu66d

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    I also leave you with the link to a recent montage video I did with the interviews I have released until the end of June 2018:

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    PHILOSOPHY: https://tinyurl.com/yb6a7d3p

    ANTHROPOLOGY: https://tinyurl.com/y8b42r7g

    56 min
  • #115 Alexander Rosenberg: Theory of Mind, History, Mental Illusions, and Nihilism

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    Dr. Alexander Rosenberg is the R. Taylor Cole Professor of Philosophy at Duke University. He has been a visiting professor and fellow at the Center for the Philosophy of Science, at the University of Minnesota, as well as the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Oxford University, and a visiting fellow of the Philosophy Department at the Research School of Social Science, of the Australian National University. In 2016 he was the Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professor at the University of Bristol. He has held fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. In 1993, Dr. Rosenberg received the Lakatos Award in the philosophy of science. In 2006-2007 he held a fellowship at the National Humanities Center. He was also the Phi Beta Kappa-Romanell Lecturer for 2006-2007. He’s the author of both fictional and non-fictional literature, including The Atheist’s Guide to Reality, The Girl from Krakow, and How History Gets Things Wrong.

    In this episode, we focus on Dr. Rosenberg’s most recent book, How History Gets Things Wrong, and also a little bit on some of the topics of The Atheist’s Guide to Reality. We talk about the theory of mind, and how it evolved; the errors with narrative History, and the negative consequences it might produce; mind-brain dualism; what neuroscience tells us about how our brain and cognition operate; social science, biology, and evolution; the role that evolutionary game theory can play in explaining historical events and social phenomena; why beliefs, motivations, desires, and other mental constructs might not exist at all, and the implications for moral philosophy; if AI could develop these same illusions; and nihilism.

    Time Links:

    01:17 What is theory of mind, and how did it evolve?

    06:16 The problem with narrative History           

    08:17 Is theory of mind problematic in modern societies?         

    11:41 The issue with mind-brain dualism       

    13:23 The concept of “aboutness”      

    15:36 Neuroscience, and no content in the brain  

    22.21 What “causes” historical events?

    28:09 Why the social sciences need more biology and evolution 

    37:13 Evolutionary game theory, and understanding social phenomena  

    41:06 The implications for moral philosophy of not having beliefs 

    44:34 About “moral progress”

    47:41 The usefulness of thought experiments in Philosophy

    49:58 The theory of mind will not be going away anytime soon

    51:37 Could AI systems have these same cognitive illusions?

    53:13 A note on nihilism and morality

    57:38 Follow Dr. Rosenberg’s work!  

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    Website: http://www.alexrose46.com/

    Books: https://tinyurl.com/yag2n2fn

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    I also leave you with the link to a recent montage video I did with the interviews I have released unti

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