Michael Wooldridge on the history and future of AI
AI research endured years of failure and frustration before new techniques in deep learning unleashed the swift, astonishing progress of the last deca...
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NOUS tackles the deepest questions about the mind, through conversations with leading thinkers working in philosophy, neuroscience, psychiatry and beyond. Each episode features an in-depth conversation focussing on one big idea. How does the brain produce consciousness? Are mental illnesses just biological? Are there limits to the power of neuroscience - or will it eventually unravel the mysteries of free will and morality? Hosted by Ilan Goodman
Iris Berent on Innate Knowledge and Why We Are Blind to Ourselves
The idea we have ‘innate knowledge’ seems quite wrong to most of us. But we do! And the intuitions leading us astray here also blind us to other aspec...
Ann-Sophie Barwich on the Surprising Neuroscience of Smell
Vision is the best understood sensory domain. But smell is turning out to be wonderfully strange and even more complex than sight. Dr Ann-Sophie Barwi...
Matthew Cobb - Why Neuroscience Still Can’t Explain Much
Despite multi-million dollar research programmes and impressive technical progress, neuroscience still can’t explain basic systems - like a maggot’s t...
Edward Bullmore on the ‘inflamed mind’ theory of depression
Could depression be caused by inflammation? Cambridge psychiatrist Ed Bullmore makes the case for his radical new theory, from his bestselling book T...
Keith Frankish Exposes the Illusion of Consciousness
‘Qualia’, the subjective qualities of experience, are the bedrock of some theories of consciousness - but they are a fiction according to my guest in ...
Joseph LeDoux on the 4 Billion Year Journey to Our Conscious Selves
Joseph LeDoux is a celebrated neuroscientist whose latest book is a work of quite staggering ambition - it traces the ‘Four Billion Year Story of How ...
Patricia Churchland on How We Evolved A Conscience
Patricia Churchland is the queen of neurophilosophy. She’s on fine form in this interview - charming, funny and occasionally savage as we range over h...
Gina Rippon on the Myth of the Gendered Brain
Do men and women have different brains? Jordan Peterson and the Google memo guy are pretty sure they do. Different chromosomes, different hormones = d...
Jules Montague on Dementia, Memory and Identity
This episode features a neurologist with some striking tales to tell about who we become when our brains start to break. What happens when memories ar...