Watch the video of this discussion here: https://youtu.be/ASYDMgMfCtkAlex Kiefer’s webpage http://alexbkiefer.netAlex Kiefer’s music (as exileFakir): https://exilefaker.bandcamp.comWaPo story about Google engineer Blake Lemoine and LaMDA: https

SpaceTimeMind Ep. 39: Complicated Moist Robots (with Tarik LaCour)

Jun 28th, 2022

Video discussion from which this episode’s audio is taken: https://youtu.be/HI7OsUfPzHITarik LaCour on twitter: https://twitter.com/realscientisticTarik’s conversation with Emerson Green: https://youtu.be/M3ShG06vJ2AAdditional info and credits:

The Spirit of the Senses Session

Jun 15th, 2022

Video discussion from which this episode’s audio is taken: https://youtu.be/b_oRS7nIujgWebpage for the Spirit of the Senses Salon: http://spiritofthesenses.org/moreaboutus.htmAdditional info and credits:Intro narration: Rachelle Mandik rachelle

Rainbow in the Dark (with Jacob Berger)

May 24th, 2022

Video discussion from which this episode’s audio is taken: https://youtu.be/I1p2MnXnvzcJake’s webpage: https://jfberger.wixsite.com/homeJacob Berger & Richard Brown (2021) Conceptualizing consciousness, Philosophical Psychology, 34:5, 637-659.

SpaceTimeMind Ep. 36: NeuroYogacara (with Bryce Huebner)

May 11th, 2022

Video discussion from which this episode’s audio is taken: https://youtu.be/8e847S4uGWoBryce’s webpage: https://brycehuebner.weebly.comGold, Jonathan C., "Vasubandhu", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: https://plato.stanford.edu/archives

Episode 35: Consciousness and Funky Content

Oct 31st, 2015 56m 2s

In order to account for consciousness in terms of representational content, how FUNKY does the content need to be? Along the way we discuss the representation of inexistents and whether mathematical structuralism can shed light on the conceivab

Episode 34: Awareness, Attention, and Globally Accessible Information

Oct 16th, 2015 56m 48s

ATTENTION! Richard Brown and Pete Mandik shine their spotlights on the philosophy of mind of attention and awareness. Many philosophers of mind endorse the Transitivity Principle, the view that if you have a conscious state, you must be aware o

Episode 33: The Philosophy of Mind of Pain (with David Pereplyotchik)

Sep 15th, 2015 1h 48m

Prof. David Pereplyotchik once again joins Pete Mandik to tackle pain in the philosophy of mind. Can there be a scientific reductive explanation of pain. Can robots feel pain? Will this hurt? We here continue the conversation we started in Spac

Episode 32: Technological Immortality and Secular Hell

Sep 1st, 2015 1h 12m

Richard Brown and Pete Mandik debate the following proposal: The worst thing you can imagine happening to you is an event that has a non-zero probability of occurring at any given moment, and the longer you stay alive, the greater the chances b

Episode 31: Future Philosophy

Aug 15th, 2015 1h 1m

Get in the Delorean, Marty! It’s time for the future of philosophy and the philosophy of the future. Philosophers and chrononauts Richard Brown and Pete Mandik overclock their flux capacitors to see if philosophy has a chance of surviving into

Episode 30: Singularity Cinema: Ex Machina and Advantageous

Jul 31st, 2015 1h 8m

Spoilers galore as philosophers Richard Brown and Pete Mandik wade up to their necks in spoilers to discuss recent cinematic depictions of (spoiler) artificial intelligence and (another spoiler) mind-uploading, especially in the 2015 films Ex M

Episode 29: The Rise and Fall of Phizzy Callizm and the Spiders From Mars

Jul 15th, 2015 1h 12m

Gather up your microphysical constituents and embark on an epic audio odyssey wherein Richard Brown and Pete Mandik rock out about: physicalism, whether the mind is physical, how best to define "physical" and "physicalism," whether the physical

Station Identification

Jul 4th, 2015

You are listening to SpaceTimeMind, a podcast by two philosophy professors, Richard Brown, and Pete Mandik, who talk about philosophy, science, and all sorts of other stuff. Please be advised that this podcast contains strong language and abst

DIY Inceptionism

Jul 3rd, 2015

The Google research team has released the code for the inceptionism artificial neural network image processing that we discuss in Episode 28. Download the code packages HERE. If that seems like too much, you can play around with a browser-based

Episode 28: Psychedelic Artificial Neural Networks

Jul 1st, 2015 1h 1m

Cognitive philosophers Richard Brown and Pete Mandik examine recent claims by Google researchers to have implemented dreams, imagery, and hallucinations in artificial neural networks. The images created by these artificial systems are kind of c

Episode 27: Pains and Brains (with David Pereplyotchik)

Jun 15th, 2015 1h 41m

Pete Mandik is once again joined by David Pereplyotchik (see episode 25) and this time they enter into a world of pain. Are pains identical to states of brains? Are pains fully accessible only from the first-person point of view? Is there anyth

Episode 26: Your Digital Afterlives (with Eric Steinhart)

Apr 15th, 2015 1h 41m

Pete Mandik talks to philosopher Eric Steinhart (William Paterson University) about his book, Your Digital Afterlives: Computational Theories of Life after Death. They dig deep into the computational and value-theoretic foundations of all exist

Episode 25: Leaning Into the Linguistic Turn (with David Pereplyotchik)

Mar 18th, 2015 1h 48m

Pete Mandik is joined by David Pereplyotchik (assistant professor of philosophy at Kent State University) to sleep furiously on some colorless green ideas. Also, they talk about language. Grammar, meaning, truth, translation, Google, and the di

Episode 24: Fading Qualia

Mar 1st, 2015 1h 36m

Is it a law of nature that if your neurons are gradually replaced with silicon chips, your qualia won’t thereby gradually fade? Can the armchair methodology of analytic metaphysics deliver knowledge of natural laws? Or can the boundaries of the

Episode 23: Transhumanist Hot Tub (w Ken Williford)

Feb 15th, 2015 1h 21m

Richard Brown takes a one-episode hiatus while Pete Mandik heads down to Texas to talk to philosopher Ken Williford. Pete and Ken discuss whether (1) it’s desirable for humans to transform themselves into something alien, (2) whether we or our

Episode 22: Time Shuffling, Finger Sausages, and a Brain Made out of Paper.

Feb 1st, 2015 1h 26m

After two physics episodes in a row Richard Brown and Pete "Macho Bluff" Mandik dial the way-back machine to the Golden Era of Dinosaur Travel and kick out some old-school philosophy of mind jams. In part 1 ("Time Shuffling") they sort some stu

We successfully uploaded three hours of consciousness to our YouTube channel

Jan 27th, 2015

We just had a very large and satisfying video dump that you should go check out. Not to spoil too many surprises, but do check out Richard's new glasses!Philosophy of mind and philosophy of science by professors Richard Brown and Pete Mandik.

Episode 21: Three Men and a Baby Universe (with Sean Carroll)

Jan 16th, 2015 1h 38m

Physicist Sean Carroll joins philosophers Richard Brown and Pete Mandik on the SpaceTimeMind podcast to discuss, for example: anti-intellectual academics; intelligent design and fine tuning; entropy, decoherence, and the arrow of time, baby Ben

Coming This Winter

Jan 7th, 2015

Check out our latest trailer and find out what's coming up this winter on the SpaceTimeMind podcast.

Episode 20: Paradoxes of Physical Information

Jan 1st, 2015 1h 28m

Philosophers of mind and science Richard Brown and Pete Mandik burn the book of the world while orbiting a decaying black hole with Maxwell’s demon, a reversible cellular automaton, and can of whoop-ass worms. Will they survive? Will one of the