Ep. 404: Could AI Be Conscious? (Chalmers vs. Dreyfus) (Part One)
On David Chalmers' "Could a Large Language Model Be Conscious?" (2023) and Hubert Dreyfus' What Computers Can't Do: The Limits of Artificial Intelligence (1972), ch. 7-9. How are intelligence and consciousness related, and even if an AI should be considered authentically intellig ...Show more
PEL Presents PMP#234: You Can See Fielder
Everybody's talking about the Nathan Fielder/Lance Oppenheim documentary about Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes You Can See Everything, and so are we! Bigwig pundit John Ganz joins Mark, Lawrence, Sarahlyn and Al to talk about the psychological issues, the ethics and dynamics of ...Show more
Sam Harris speaks with David Pizarro and Tamler Sommers about free speech on campus, the Scott Adams podcast, the failings of the mainstream media, moral persuasion, moral certainty, the ethics of abortion, Buddhism, the illusion of the self, and other topics. If the Making Sense ...Show more
Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson discuss science, religion, archetypes, mythology, and the perennial problem of finding meaning in life. If the Making Sense podcast logo in your player is BLACK, you can SUBSCRIBE to gain access to all full-length episodes at samharris.org/subscribe ...Show more
This week, the fellas are back discussing Alenka Zupančič's Problemi essay, 'Lying on the Couch'. How does the psychoanalytic framework allow us to make sense of culture and lying, what is the asymmetry of a truth and a lie, and what did we think of the new Beatles song? Mike is ...Show more