Mind Matters

By Discovery Institute Center on Natural and Artificial Intelligence

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On the Mind Matters podcast, Discovery Institute’s Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence considers the implications and misconceptions, the opportunities and limitations, and the applications and challenges presented by intelligent agents and their algorithms. Episode notes and archives available at mindmatters.ai/podcast.

Episode Date
Mind Over Matter: Dualism vs. Idealism
May 16, 2024
Mind Over Matter: The Case for Idealism
May 09, 2024
From Math to Mind: Uncovering the Immaterial Nature of Reality
May 02, 2024
Talk More, Tech Less: Digital Wellness Tips From Dawn Wible
Apr 25, 2024
The Non-Physical Nature of Being: More with Dr. Selmer Bringsjord
Apr 18, 2024
Exploring the Immaterial: A Conversation with Dr. Selmer Bringsjord
Apr 11, 2024
Is Methodological Naturalism Necessary for Scientific Progress?
Apr 04, 2024
The State of Innovation and the Impact of AI
Mar 28, 2024
Consciousness and Agency: A Critique of Methodological Naturalism
Mar 21, 2024
Methodological Naturalism: Neutral Principle or Self-Refuting Philosophy?
Mar 14, 2024
Debunking the Hype of Artificial General Intelligence
Mar 07, 2024
Can AI Ever Be Sentient? A Conversation with Blake Lemoine
Feb 29, 2024
The Primacy of Information Over Matter
Feb 22, 2024
William Dembski on Information and the Mind-Body Relationship
Feb 15, 2024
Beyond the Physical: Embracing an Idealistic Worldview
Feb 08, 2024
From Material to Mind: Understanding Idealism
Feb 01, 2024
Healing the Brain: Insights from a Neurologist
Jan 25, 2024
Unpacking Idealism: Animals and Consciousness
Jan 18, 2024
A Commonsense Defense of Idealism
Jan 11, 2024
Science of The Soul: Evaluating Dualism and Naturalism
Jan 04, 2024
Can Artificial Intelligence Hold Copyright or Patents?
Dec 28, 2023
The Self and the Body: Substance Dualism Explored
Dec 21, 2023
A Brief History of the Soul
Dec 14, 2023
Gary Habermas on the Scientific Evidence for Near-Death Experiences
Dec 07, 2023
Hope & Energy: Empowering Haiti Through Appropriate Technology
Nov 30, 2023
Evaluating Popular Theories of the Mind-Brain Relationship
Nov 23, 2023
From Physicalism to Idealism: Challenging Assumptions about Reality
Nov 16, 2023
Exploring the Mind-Brain Relationship and Challenging Materialism
Nov 09, 2023
Philosophies of Mind: Jim Madden on Hylomorphism and Neuroscience
Nov 02, 2023
After You Die: Near-Death Experiences With Glimpses of Heaven and Hell
Oct 26, 2023
Body & Soul: Joshua Farris and The Creation of Self
Oct 19, 2023
Minding the Brain: Unraveling the Mystery of Consciousness
Oct 12, 2023
Minding the Brain: Why Science and Philosophy Need Each Other
Oct 05, 2023
Minding the Brain: Discussing the Groundbreaking New Book on the Mind-Brain Problem
Sep 28, 2023
What Makes Humans Unique? 
Sep 21, 2023
The Person as “Immaterial Substance”
Sep 14, 2023
When the Government Controls the Spectrum
Sep 07, 2023
Why You Are Non-Computable
Aug 31, 2023
Can the Radio Spectrum Ever “Fill Up”? 
Aug 24, 2023
Defining and Discussing the Radio Spectrum
Aug 17, 2023
Can AI Mimic Spontaneous Jazz and the Blues?
Aug 10, 2023
Discussing the Cartesian Error
Aug 03, 2023
The Sound of Freedom: How Human Trafficking and Porn Compromises National Security
Jul 27, 2023
The Sound of Freedom: Social Media and Human Trafficking
Jul 20, 2023
The Sound of Freedom: Human Trafficking In your Own Back Yard
Jul 13, 2023
Neuroscience, the Mind, and Theism
Jul 06, 2023
What is the Future of the Internet? 
Jun 29, 2023
Can Lawyer Robots Solve Complex Legal Cases?
Jun 22, 2023
AI Libel and Responsibility 
Jun 15, 2023
AI and Intellectual Property 
Jun 08, 2023
Alzheimer’s, Medical Ethics, and Choosing Life
Jun 01, 2023
AI: Is it Good or Bad for Society?
May 25, 2023
Caring for the Deeply Forgetful
May 18, 2023
An Antidote for Digital Addiction
May 11, 2023
Medicine for Digitally Addicted Boys 
May 04, 2023
Oxford Mathematician John Lennox on AI
Apr 27, 2023
Working Towards Digital Flourishing
Apr 20, 2023
Talk More, Tech Less
Apr 13, 2023
The Value and Drawbacks of ChatGPT
Apr 06, 2023
Navigating the Technological Age
Mar 30, 2023
Where Does Innovation Come From? 
Mar 23, 2023
Jeffrey Funk on AI, Startups, and Big Tech
Mar 16, 2023
Blake Lemoine and the LaMDA Question
Mar 09, 2023
A Chat with Blake Lemoine on Google and AI Sentience
Mar 02, 2023
Winning and Losing Strategies for Casino Gambling
Feb 23, 2023
More Porn = More Trafficking
Feb 16, 2023
Social Media’s Role in Human Trafficking
Feb 09, 2023
Human Trafficking In Your Own Backyard
Feb 02, 2023
Is the Human Brain Just GPT-3 Made of Meat?
Jan 26, 2023
Is The Mind an Illusion?
Jan 19, 2023
Ways the Brain Can Heal
Jan 12, 2023
Ways the Brain Can Break
Jan 05, 2023
The Practice of Medicine and Ongoing Issues with Opioid Addiction
Dec 29, 2022
What AI Machines Won’t Be Able to Achieve
Dec 22, 2022
Defining the Role of AI in Patents
Dec 15, 2022
Can AI Be Issued Patents?
Dec 08, 2022
Patents and the Creativity Requirement
Dec 01, 2022
Getting Intentional About Your Screens
Nov 24, 2022
Patents: A License To Sue
Nov 17, 2022
Can a Computer Be a Person?
Nov 10, 2022
An Excerpt from Chapter Two of Non-Computable You
Nov 03, 2022
Hinduism, Philosophy, and the Mind
Oct 27, 2022
Appropriate Technology: Solar Powering Hospitals, Orphanages & Schools
Oct 20, 2022
Appropriate Technology: The Haitian Energy Problem
Oct 13, 2022
Get a Sneak Peek of the New Non-Computable You Audiobook
Oct 06, 2022
The Nature of Mind, Body, and Soul
Sep 29, 2022
School Shooters, the AI Church, and Patents
Sep 22, 2022
Top Gun, HAL 9000 and Jobs of the Future
Sep 15, 2022
Staking and Liquidity on Web3
Sep 08, 2022
What Is Decentralized Finance?
Sep 01, 2022
Animal Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence
Aug 25, 2022
The NFT Anti-Bubble
Aug 18, 2022
What Are NFTs?
Aug 11, 2022
Web3: The Next Generation of the Internet
Aug 04, 2022
Mysteries of the Mind
Jul 28, 2022
Who Controls the Tech?
Jul 21, 2022
Weaving the Technology of Our Lives
Jul 14, 2022
Why Computers Will Never Understand What They are Doing
Jul 07, 2022
AI: The Potential and the Problems
Jun 30, 2022
Card Counting Strategies and Dangers
Jun 23, 2022
Can A Good Hustler Count Cards Like A Computer?
Jun 16, 2022
When The House Can’t Win The Game, It Will Change The Rules
Jun 09, 2022
The House Always Wins In The Long Run
Jun 02, 2022
It’s a Wonderful, Complex, and Finely-Tuned Universe
May 26, 2022
Good and Bad Algorithms in the Practice of Medicine
May 19, 2022
A First-Hand Account of Kicking Fentanyl Addiction: Reversing Hebb’s Law
May 12, 2022
Exercising Free Won’t in Fentanyl Addiction: Unless You Die First
May 04, 2022
The National Science Foundation and Advancement in Artificial Intelligence
Apr 28, 2022
How to Sever Big Tech’s Strings
Apr 21, 2022
The Secret Scheme of Screens
Apr 14, 2022
Hinduism and Social Ethics
Apr 07, 2022
EMPS, Swarms and Other Types of Terrifying Technology
Mar 31, 2022
Hinduism and the Beginning of the Universe
Mar 24, 2022
Hinduism, Metaphysics, and Free Will
Mar 17, 2022
Hinduism, Reincarnation, and the Mind-Body Problem
Mar 10, 2022
What Does It Mean to Be Human in an Age of Artificial Intelligence?
Mar 03, 2022
Discussing Consciousness and the Mind-Body Problem
Feb 24, 2022
Don’t Blame Me; I’m a Meat Robot.
Feb 17, 2022
The Body and the Soul
Feb 10, 2022
Why Cartesian Dualism?
Feb 03, 2022
Neuroscience, Quantum Physics, and the Nature of Reality
Jan 27, 2022
Design versus Naturalist Origin Theories of Animal Algorithms
Jan 20, 2022
Jaw Dropping Algorithms That Allow Social Behavior to Thrive
Jan 13, 2022
The Astonishing Algorithms That Allow Animals to Navigate & Migrate
Jan 06, 2022
Randomness, Information Theory, and the Unknowable
Dec 30, 2021
Phenomena of the Mind
Dec 23, 2021
Finding God in the Brain
Dec 16, 2021
Neurotheology: Spirituality and the Brain
Dec 09, 2021
Hyping Artificial Intelligence Hinders Innovation
Dec 02, 2021
Walter Bradley: For a Greater Purpose
Nov 25, 2021
Bad News for Artificial General Intelligence
Nov 18, 2021
When AI Goes Wrong
Nov 11, 2021
Artificial General Intelligence: The Modern Homunculus
Nov 04, 2021
Define Information Before You Talk About It: Egnor Interviews Marks
Oct 28, 2021
The 2020 AI Smash Hits: Countdown by Bradley Center Brain Trust
Oct 21, 2021
COSM Speaker Peter Thiel: The Failures and “Self-Hatred” of Big Tech
Oct 14, 2021
The 2020 AI Dirty Dozen Hyped Stories: Countdown by Bradley Center Brain Trust Members
Oct 07, 2021
George Gilder: An Economic Genius Talks About Gaming AI
Sep 30, 2021
Why is There Fine-Tuning Everywhere?
Sep 23, 2021
The Universe is So Fine-Tuned!
Sep 16, 2021
Life is Fine-Tuned in a Fearful and Wonderful Way
Sep 09, 2021
Run the Gambit of Complexity
Sep 02, 2021
“If Nobody Looks at the Moon, Does It Exist?” and Other Metaphysical Questions
Aug 26, 2021
Using EMPs in Warfare
Aug 19, 2021
EMPs. Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid.
Aug 12, 2021
Sarah Seguin on EMPs and How to Protect Your Data
Aug 05, 2021
Samuel Bendett on AI Development in Russia
Jul 29, 2021
Robert J. Marks: There’s One Thing Only Humans Can Do
Jul 22, 2021
George Gilder: Google Does Not Believe in Life After Google
Jul 15, 2021
Jay Richards: Creative Freedom, Not Robots, Is The Future Of Work
Jul 08, 2021
Paul Werbos: Quantum Turing Machines
Jul 01, 2021
Geoffrey Simmons: Human Design and Robots (Bingecast)
Jun 24, 2021
Paul Werbos: Can the NSF Return to Its Former Glory?
Jun 17, 2021
Paul Werbos: The National Science Foundation and AI
Jun 10, 2021
Paul Werbos: The Evolution of Artificial Neural Networks
Jun 03, 2021
Bingecast: Michael Egnor on the Human Brain
May 27, 2021
Dr. Angus Menuge: Unity of Consciousness (Part III)
May 20, 2021
Dr. Angus Menuge: Models of Consciousness (Part II)
May 13, 2021
Dr. Angus Menuge: The Mind-Body Problem (Part I)
May 06, 2021
Bingecast: Thomas Furness on Virtual Reality
Apr 29, 2021
Bruce Gordon on the Meaning of Neuroscience (Part III)
Apr 22, 2021
Bruce Gordon on Idealism and Quantum Physics (Part II)
Apr 15, 2021
Bruce Gordon On Idealism and the Nature of Reality (Part I)
Apr 08, 2021
The Chaitin Interview V: Chaitin’s Number
Apr 01, 2021
The Chaitin Interview IV: Knowability and Unknowability
Mar 25, 2021
The Chaitin Interview III: The Changing Landscape for Mathematics
Mar 18, 2021
The Chaitin Interview II: Defining Randomness
Mar 11, 2021
The Chaitin Interview I: Chaitin Chats with Kurt Gödel
Mar 04, 2021
Bingecast: John Lennox on Artificial Intelligence and Humanity
Feb 25, 2021
The Life of Walter Bradley with William Dembski (Part II)
Feb 18, 2021
The Life of Walter Bradley with William Dembski (Part I)
Feb 11, 2021
Jonathan Wells on Why a Baby Should Live
Feb 04, 2021
Bingecast: Denise Simon on Russian Misinformation Tactics
Jan 28, 2021
Robert J. Marks On AI Evolutionary Computing (Part III)
Jan 21, 2021
AI Smash Hits 2020 Part II
Jan 14, 2021
AI Smash Hits 2020 Part I
Jan 07, 2021
AI Dirty Dozen 2020 Part III
Dec 31, 2020
AI Dirty Dozen 2020 Part II
Dec 24, 2020
AI Dirty Dozen 2020 Part I
Dec 17, 2020
Robert J. Marks on Specified Complexity and Meaningful Information (Part II)
Dec 10, 2020
Robert J. Marks on Information and AI (Part I)
Dec 03, 2020
Bingecast: Enrique Blair on Quantum Computing
Nov 26, 2020
Robert J. Marks on Killer Robots
Nov 19, 2020
George Gilder on Blockchain and Carbon Computing
Nov 12, 2020
George Gilder on Superintelligent AI
Nov 05, 2020
Artificial Intelligence Gaming the Stock Market
Oct 29, 2020
George Gilder on Gaming AI
Oct 22, 2020
AI Development in Russia — Part 2
Oct 15, 2020
AI Development in Russia — Part 1
Oct 08, 2020
How Can You Talk to Yourself?
Oct 01, 2020
Bingecast: Selmer Bringsjord on the Lovelace Test
Sep 24, 2020
Are We Here to Re-Create Ourselves?
Sep 17, 2020
Can Computers Think?
Sep 10, 2020
The Evolution (or Not) of Consciousness
Sep 03, 2020
Bingecast: Robert J. Marks on the Limitations of Artificial Intelligence
Aug 27, 2020
Bernardo Kastrup on Panpsychism and Cosmopsychism
Aug 20, 2020
Does the Moon Exist if No One is Looking at It?
Aug 13, 2020
Dr. Thomas Furness and Applications of Augmented Reality
Aug 06, 2020
Bingecast: Walter Bradley on Near-Death Experiences
Jul 30, 2020
RATs in the Technology Lab
Jul 23, 2020