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David Wolpert: What Can We Really Know About That Which We Cannot Even Imagine? No Free Lunch

David Wolpert is a Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, external professor at the Complexity Science Hub in Vienna, adjunct professor at ASU, and research associate at the ICTP in Trieste. He is the author of three books (and co-editor of several more), over 200 papers, has three patents, is an ass…

Free Will Explained by the World's Top Intellectuals

Michael Levin and Noam Chomsky on free will in a deterministic universe — across scientific, philosophical, and metaphysical perspectives.0:00 Introduction2:58 Michael Levin8:51 David Wolpert Part 113:48 Donald Hoffman, Joscha Bach33:10 Stuart Hameroff38:47 Claudia Passos40:27 Wolfgang Smith42:50 B…

56. The Thermodynamics of Meaning (w/ David Wolpert)

Complexity scientist David Wolpert joins me to consider the idea of meaning at its most fundamental level. Historically, information theory has helped us quantify information (e.g., bits), but says nothing about the ways information might be useful, significant, relevant, or meaningful. Recently, h…

#1073 David Wolpert: History as a Stochastic Process

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Where do our desires come from? The Ignorance Podcast Episode 2 with Larry Hunter

Join Mayla Boguslav as she interviews this episode’s guest Larry Hunter who is asking about our desires including where do they come from? What are desires? Who or what can desire? Listen to learn about the fundamental nature of these questions and the many different fields that touch on these que…

David Wolpert: The Thermodynamics of Meaning

In this episode, we welcome David Wolpert, a Professor at the Santa Fe Institute renowned for his groundbreaking work across multiple disciplines—from physics and computer science to game theory and complexity. * Note: If you enjoy our podcast conversations, please join us for the Artificiality Su…

#83 The limitations of knowledge - David Wolpert

Professor at the Santa Fe Institute renowned for his groundbreaking work across multiple disciplines—from physics and computer science to game theory and complexity.  David Wolpert is one of the modern era's true polymaths. He received his PhD in physics from UC Santa Barbara but has made seminal …

21. Simulation Theory: Why Some of the World's Top Scientists Think We're Living in a Computer

What if everything you see, feel, and experience is generated by a computer? Mitch and Russell dig into simulation theory — tracing it from Plato's cave through Descartes' evil demon to Nick Bostrom's landmark 2003 paper and Elon Musk's one-in-a-billion odds. They cover the full case for and agains…

35. From Stardust To Sentience: Astrobiology & Life in the Cosmos – with Adam Frank

What is life, and are we alone in the universe? In this episode I sit down with Adam Frank, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Rochester, prolific science communicator, and author of five books including The Blind Spot and The Little Book of Aliens. Adam is one of the most compelling vo…