NOUS tackles the deepest questions about the mind, through conversations with leading thinkers working in philosophy, neuroscience, psychiatry and beyond. Each episode features an in-depth conversation focussing on one big idea.
How does the brain produce consciousness? Are mental illnesses just biological? Are there limits to the power of neuroscience - or will it eventually unravel the mysteries of free will and morality?
Hosted by Ilan Goodman
AI research endured years of failure and frustration before new techniques in deep learning unleashed the swift, astonishing progress of the last decade.
Michael’s recent book A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence explores what we can learn from this history, and examines where we are now...
Published 05/12/21
The idea we have ‘innate knowledge’ seems quite wrong to most of us. But we do! And the intuitions leading us astray here also blind us to other aspects of human nature.
We are all ‘blind storytellers’. Professor Iris Berent reveals what misleads us, and what we are missing.
18:55 Newborns...
Published 01/28/21