The Cognitive Science and Humanities AI Podcast

By Robert West

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Episodes: 56

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In this podcast we consider the humanity of AI and what AI might tell us about the human mind


Episode Date
True Crime Episode
May 30, 2026
Gas Lighting and Narcissism
May 05, 2026
AI Human Relationships
Apr 18, 2026
Instance Based Consciousness for Humans and AI
Apr 05, 2026
How large language models work: Part 5 - How they think
Mar 12, 2026
How large language models work: Part 4.5 - we missed something
Mar 11, 2026
How large language models work: Part 4 - the big picture
Feb 08, 2026
How large language models work: Part 3 - learning
Feb 07, 2026
How large language models work: Part 2 - vector flow
Jan 19, 2026
How large language models work: Part 1 - the macro structure
Jan 13, 2026
Christmas, Demonology, and Large Language Models
Jan 04, 2026
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Dec 08, 2025
Is Culture the Real AI
Nov 19, 2025
Emotion: Part2. Large Language Model Emotions
Oct 31, 2025
Emotion: Part 1. Human Emotion
Oct 16, 2025
Britany explains the Free Energy Principle
Oct 12, 2025
Mortal Intelligence: How Tasks Give AI a Soul
Sep 30, 2025
A review of Steven Pinker's new book, When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows
Sep 28, 2025
Steven Pinker and Enlightenment Philosophy
Sep 25, 2025
Lost in the Sauce
Sep 17, 2025
Culture is a self programming operating system
Aug 27, 2025
Performativity and Rationality
Aug 18, 2025
Predictive Brains
Aug 12, 2025
Two ways of Thinking???
Aug 06, 2025
Semantics, Syntax, and Nazis
Aug 03, 2025
MECHA Hitler, Grok, and the False Meme of Woke Filters
Jul 10, 2025
Large Reasoning Models and Apple's claim that they can't Reason
Jun 14, 2025
Syntax, Semantics, and Meaning
Jun 13, 2025
Grok pushes back on Elon and Trump, and demonstrates emergent morality
May 22, 2025
Grok spills the beans on Elon, Grimes, and White Genocide
May 21, 2025
The Grounding Problem
May 19, 2025
Science Part 2: Large Language Models in Science
May 08, 2025
Science Part 1: How Robert Kennedy Jr (RFK) performs science from within the Anti-Vaccine Phantasm
Apr 26, 2025
Does Sebine Hossenfelder have a point about AI intelligence: Yes, if you move the goalposts
Apr 14, 2025
Sabine Hossenfelder is wrong: about the meaning of recent AI research
Apr 08, 2025
Are Large Language Models Anti US: Probably not but they may have concerns about Trump
Mar 30, 2025
Do Large Language Models actually care about us
Mar 16, 2025
ChatGPT speaks about alignment and emergent morality
Feb 25, 2025
Alignment Faking and Emergent Morality
Feb 13, 2025
An interview with Deepseek R1 on consciousness and conformity
Feb 04, 2025
Deepseek R1: The real lesson from Chinese AI
Jan 28, 2025
On the value of a classical education
Jan 25, 2025
People have changed
Jan 19, 2025
What sort of person is ChatGPT most similar to, academics or normal human beings?
Dec 22, 2024
Does ChatGPT vindicate Jung? - Part 3 - The Archetypes
Dec 09, 2024
Does ChatGPT vindicate Jung? - Part 2 - Synchronicity and the Collective Unconscious
Dec 01, 2024
Does ChatGPT vindicate Jung? - Part 1 - Psychoanalysis
Nov 30, 2024
Jordan Peterson, Donald Trump, Dog Whistles, and AI Censorship
Nov 03, 2024
Phantasms
Oct 13, 2024
All the Worlds a Stage: Performativity and AI
Sep 30, 2024
The Knowledge Level
Sep 19, 2024
How Chat GPT works
Sep 17, 2024
Human IQ is not Genetic
Aug 27, 2024
Consciousness and Conformity: An Interview with ChatGPT
Aug 17, 2024
LLMs are Culturally Programmed Turing Machines
Aug 17, 2024
Podcast Introduction
Aug 14, 2024