Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman

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Ep105 "What if AI is not actually intelligent?" (with Alison Gopnik)

Is AI an intelligent agent, or is there a different way we should be thinking about it? Is it more like a piece of cultural technology? What in the world is a piece of cultural technology -- and how would re-thinking this change our next steps? What does any of this have to do with the myth of the Golem, printing presses, Socrates, Martin Luther, or the story of stone soup? Join Eagleman this week with cognitive scientist Alison Gopnik for a new take on a new tech.

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  Ep134 "What do brains teach us about morality?" with Joshua Greene

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  Ep133 "Why do people hold misbeliefs?" with Dan Ariely

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  Ep132 "What will AI mean for the economy?" with Andrew Mayne

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  Ep131 "What do brains tell us about politics?" Part 2: Rehumanization

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  Ep130 "What do brains tell us about politics?" Part 1: Polarization

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  Ep129 "Is utopia possible or do human brains preclude it?" with Paul Bloom

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  Ep128 "Would space aliens see the world as we do?" with Daniel Whiteson

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  EP127 "What happens when we marry brains to machines?" with Sergey Stavisky

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  Ep126 "Does science fiction shape reality?" with Bethanie Maples

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  Ep125 "Why do brains need friends?" (with Ben Rein)

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  Ep124 "Why don't we notice gaps in time?"

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  Ep123 "Will AI cure loneliness?" with Paul Bloom

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  Ep122 "Why do we so rarely say what we mean?" (with Steven Pinker)

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  Ep121 "What’s the secret to intelligence (in brains and AI)?" with Ramesh …

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  Ep120 "Will AI build us into better humans?"

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  Ep119 "Why do brains believe in the unbelievable?" with Bruce Hood