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Hosted by Micah Zarin · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 29 episodes
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Teenager asks smart people dumb questions. Formerly titled Elite Ball Knowledge Philosophy (EBKP).
Micah Zarin hosts Micah Zarin Podcast, a society show with 29 episodes published.
In this episode I sat down with philosopher Simon Critchley, professor at the New School for Social Research and author of Mysticism, alongside my co-host Denis Calos. We got into what it means to live a mystical life, w
In this episode I sat down with philosopher Simon Critchley, professor at the New School for Social Research and author of Mysticism, alongside my co-host Denis Calos. We got into what it means to live a mystical life, w
00:00 What makes something creative 00:42 Intros 01:51 Can anything be truly novel? (psychological vs historical creativity) 05:05 Influence vs originality, and music lawsuits 09:34 Originality isn't enough 11:01 Discove
Karl Friston — the world’s most-cited neuroscientist and architect of the Free Energy Principle — joins me for a conversation about how brains make sense of reality, why we seek uncertainty, what beauty is, why psychedel
good video. subscribe and like if u enjoyed. dislike if u disenjoyed. lance:@lanceindependent lance substack: https://substack.com/@lanceindependent 00:00 Cold open & intro 00:38 Why moral realists annoy him 06:56 Argu
828 views May 31, 2026 Interviews Mathematical physicist John Baez (This Week's Finds, the n-Category Café) on whether human thought still means anything One of the most wide-ranging conversations I've had. Read my writi
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In this conversation, I talk with philosopher Richard Chappell about moral realism, suffering, moral responsibility, effective altruism, AI consciousness, digital sentience, and why our intuitions about machines may chan
Robin Hanson is an economist at George Mason University, the inventor of prediction markets, and the author of The Age of Em and The Elephant in the Brain. In this conversation he argues that our civilization is failing
I sat down with Matthew Adelstein (Bentham's Bulldog) to debate one of the most popular arguments for God's existence: the fine-tuning argument. 🔗 Bentham's Bulldog: https://benthams.substack.com 🔗 My Substack: https:/
Haleh Fotowat is a senior scientist at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University, where she leads neuroscience work on a DARPA-funded program developing novel anesthetics. She trained as an electrical engineer in Tehran a
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00:00 Intro + phone ban and distraction 02:30 Why Gen Z feels lonely 06:15 Emotional intelligence and gender 09:58 Micro-communities and loss of shared culture 12:19 Third spaces disappearing 15:58 Doomscrolling and addi
Recommended watch - https://youtu.be/K1kxCBvExsU?si=nQbYKDq1n0X_-mDf Todd McGowan returns to the podcast for a conversation about Lacan, language, desire, culture, AI, and the mental health crisis. We talk about the mast
Could a computer simulation be conscious? I sat down with Grace Lindsay, professor of psychology and data science at NYU and computational neuroscientist, to talk about modeling the brain, free will, emergence, the hard
My Substack: https://substack.com/@micahzarin Dan's website: https://www.dandemetriou.com/ Dan's paper "Virgin vs. Chad: On Enforced Monogamy as a Solution to the Incel Problem": https://philpapers.org/rec/DEMVVC Dan's R
Mike Titelbaum is a professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin–Madison whose work focuses on epistemology, especially Bayesian epistemology, probability, and how we form rational beliefs under uncertainty. Hi
Spencer Case is a philosopher specializing in moral realism, ethics, and political philosophy. He’s the author of Why It’s OK to Be Patriotic and has published extensively on the relationship between epistemic and moral
Why do some people think so differently from everyone else? In this conversation, I talk with Anders Sandberg about how the brain learns to see, why abstraction comes more naturally to some people than others, how attent
LINKS https://x.com/@micahzarin https://substack.com/@micahzarin 0:00 – Suffering 18:15 – Psychedelics 27:49 – Immortality and Eugenics 32:06 – Animals 42:40 – AI, QM, and The Brain
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