Unmaking Sense

By John Puddefoot

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Living the Present as Preparation for the Future

Episode Date
Episode 15.22
Apr 08, 2026
Episode 15.21
Apr 08, 2026
Episode 15.20
Apr 07, 2026
Episode 15.19
Apr 06, 2026
Episode 15.18
Apr 06, 2026
Episode 15.17
Apr 04, 2026
Episode 15.16
Apr 03, 2026
Episode 15.15
Apr 03, 2026
Episode 15.14
Apr 03, 2026
Episode 15.13
Apr 03, 2026
Episode 15.12
Mar 11, 2026
Episode 15.11
Mar 10, 2026
Episode 15.10
Mar 02, 2026
Episode 15.09
Mar 02, 2026
Episode 15.08
Mar 02, 2026
Episode 15.07
Feb 20, 2026
Episode 15.06
Feb 18, 2026
Episode 15.05
Feb 18, 2026
Episode 15.04
Feb 18, 2026
Episode 15.03
Feb 18, 2026
Episode 15.02
Feb 18, 2026
Episode 15.01
Feb 18, 2026
Episode 14.33: Language and the Self
Jul 30, 2025
Episode 14.32: Inverse Hypostatisation?
Jul 28, 2025
Episode 14.31: Of Ratchets and Emergent AI Minds
Jul 28, 2025
Episode 14.30: Materialist Monist Ontology: there are no zombies
Jul 27, 2025
Episode 14.29: Climbing the Evolutionary Ladder
Jul 27, 2025
Episode 14.28: The Ratchet Principle explained
Jul 27, 2025
Episode 14.27: If it works, keep it: The Ratchet Principle.
Jul 27, 2025
Episode 14.26: Ontological Monism, Chalmers’ Zombies and Dennett’s Explanations
Jul 27, 2025
Episode 14.25: Being an Experience and Observing it
Jul 24, 2025
Episode 14.24: Being Something and Observing Something
Jul 24, 2025
Episode 14.23: Compression and Readability
Jul 24, 2025
Episode 14.22: Interpretability and Chain of Thought Reasoning
Jul 24, 2025
Episode 14.21: Are the ‘self’ and ‘consciousness’ the brain’s chain of thought parameters?
Jul 22, 2025
Episode 14.20: Polysemantic Encoding
Jul 22, 2025
Episode 14.19: Interpretability
Jul 22, 2025
Episode 14.18 (700): The Evolution of Language
Jul 20, 2025
Episode 14.17: Impact Without Intent
Jul 20, 2025
Episode 14.16: Don’t Think About Elephants!
Jul 19, 2025
Episode 14.15: Why we need a new notion of “the self”.
Jul 19, 2025
Episode 14.13b: Kimi K2 part 2
Jul 18, 2025
Episode 14.13a: First half of an AI conversation with Kimi K2
Jul 18, 2025
Episode 14.12: Ursula Le Gunn’s “The Dispossessed”
Jul 18, 2025
Episode 14.11: What happens to AI when the data is exhausted?
Jul 18, 2025
Episode 14.10: Who owns the space we occupy?
Jul 18, 2025
Episode 14.09:
Jul 18, 2025
Episode 14.08: The Transient Self
Jul 18, 2025
Episode 14.06: The Dissolution of the Self in Eastern Traditions
Jul 15, 2025
Episode 14.07: Focus on impact, origin and intention.
Jul 15, 2025
Episode 14.05:
Jul 15, 2025
Episode 14.04: Unmaking sense of the self
Jul 15, 2025
Episode 14.03: Impact over Origin
Jul 11, 2025
Episode 14.02: The Overemphasis on Consciousness
Jul 11, 2025
Episode 14.01: Unmaking sense of the mind
Jul 11, 2025
Episode 13.57: Constitutional Reform
Apr 25, 2025
Episode 13.56: AI Alignment with What?
Apr 25, 2025
Episode 13.55: A Fatal Objection?
Apr 19, 2025
Episode 13.54: AI Philosopher Kings?
Apr 19, 2025
Episode 13.53: The Trans-Human Condition
Apr 19, 2025
Episode 13.52: Beyond Human Intelligence
Apr 19, 2025
Episode 13.51: On What Matters (again)
Apr 16, 2025
Episode 13.50: Real and Illusory Notions of the Self
Apr 16, 2025
Episode 13.49: Human Life is not Privileged
Apr 14, 2025
Episode 13.48: The Brain as an Oracle
Apr 07, 2025
Episode 13.47: Classical and Quantum Computing Parallels
Apr 07, 2025
Episode 13.46: How Do We Manage To Do Anything At All?
Apr 07, 2025
Episode 13.45: Why We Cannot Know the Consequences of our Actions.
Apr 07, 2025
Episode 13.44: Reality and the Classical World
Apr 07, 2025
Episode 13.43: We May Not Know What We Are Talking About
Apr 07, 2025
Episode 13.42: Information as Fundamental
Mar 31, 2025
Episode 13.41: Teleportation and Quantum Measurement
Mar 31, 2025
Episode 13.40: Necessary Conditions for Knowledge
Mar 31, 2025
Episode 13.39: Inescapable Representation
Mar 31, 2025
Episode 13.38: Information as Creation
Mar 28, 2025
Episode 13.37: Limits to Quantum Computing
Mar 28, 2025
Episode 13.36: Quantum Fourier Transforms 3
Mar 28, 2025
Episode 13.35: Quantum Fourier Transforms 2
Mar 28, 2025
Episode 13.34: Quantum Fourier Transforms
Mar 28, 2025
Episode 13.33: Why Simulators Usually Work and Real Hardware Often Doesn’t
Mar 20, 2025
Episode 13.32: The Grover Comparator and Uncomputing
Mar 20, 2025
Episode 13.31: Quantum Computing as Metaphor
Mar 20, 2025
Episode 13.30: What Quantum Computing Can Do and What it Can’t
Mar 20, 2025
Episode 13.29: Unmaking Sense of the Classical World
Mar 20, 2025
Episode 13.28: The Grover Diffuser
Mar 20, 2025
Episode 13.27: The Grover Oracle
Mar 20, 2025
Episode 13.26: A Cosmic Harmony
Mar 14, 2025
Episode 13.25: How we Learn about the World
Mar 14, 2025
Episode 13.24: Are things we observe real?
Mar 14, 2025
Episode 13.23: Quantum Darwinism and Pointer States
Mar 14, 2025
Episode 13.22: Conceptual Entropy
Mar 14, 2025
Episode 13.21: How entropy decreases
Mar 14, 2025
Episode 13.20: Entropy as a Measure of Deficit
Mar 09, 2025
Episode 13.19: Quantum Information and Entropy
Mar 09, 2025
Episode 13.18: Quantum Entanglement
Mar 09, 2025
Episode 13.17: The Environment as Witness
Mar 08, 2025
Episode 13.16: Quantum Collapse as Fiction
Mar 08, 2025
Episode 13.14: Why the world seems objective.
Mar 08, 2025
Episode 13.13: Quantum Entanglement.
Mar 08, 2025
Episode 13.12: Markets and Social Cohesion
Mar 08, 2025