Holiday Message 2023 | Reflections on Immortality
The final Mindscape podcast of each year is devoted to a short, reflective Holiday Message. This year the theme is […]
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Humanity
255 | Michael Muthukrishna on Developing a Theory of Everyone
A “Theory of Everything” is physicists’ somewhat tongue-in-cheek phrase for a hypothetical model of all the fundamental physical interactions. Of
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228 | Skye Cleary on Existentialism and Authenticity
God is dead, as Nietzsche’s madman memorably reminded us. So what are we going to do about it? If there
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226 | Johanna Hoffman on Speculative Futures of Cities
Cities are incredibly important to modern life, and their importance is only growing. As Geoffrey West points out, the world
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225 | Michael Tomasello on The Social Origins of Cognition and Agency
Human beings have developed wondrous capacities to take in information about the world, mull it over, think about a suite
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203 | N.J. Enfield on Why Language is Good for Lawyers and Not Scientists
We describe the world using language — we can’t help it. And we all know that ordinary language is an
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202 | Andrew Papachristos on the Network Theory of Gun Violence
The United States is suffering from an epidemic of tragic gun violence. While a political debate rages around the topic
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197 | Catherine Brinkley on the Science of Cities
The concept of the city is a crucial one for human civilization: people living in proximity, bringing in resources from
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186 | Sherry Turkle on How Technology Affects Our Humanity
Advances in technology have gradually been extending the human self beyond its biological extent, as we augment who we are
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180 | Camilla Pang on Instructions for Being Human
Being a human is tricky. There are any number of unwritten rules and social cues that we have to learn
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