The very great Erik Hoel joins me for a conversation on AI, free will, emergence, creativity, neuroscience, consciousness and much more. Hope you enjoy!
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Show Notes:
- Innovative Structures in Fiction
- Gender Dynamics in Publishing
- Erik Hoel's Origin Story
- An Unorthodox Literary Trajectory
- Consciousness and Information Theory
- Science At the Edges
- Is There a Bull Case for Neuroscience?
- AI's Stunning Progress
- AI as an Annoying Toddler
- The Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Perspectives of Consciousness
- Understanding Free Will
Books, Essays & Key People Mentioned:
- When the Map is Better than the Territory by Erik Hoel
- “How I taught my 3-year-old to read like a 9-year-old” by Erik Hoel
- The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
- Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
- The Revelations by Erik Hoel
- Ulysses by James Joyce
- Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman
- The Novels of Italo Calvino
- The World Behind the World by Erik Hoel
- Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare
- Hamlet by Shakespeare
- King Lear by Shakespeare
- The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
- War and Peace by Tolstoy
Researchers & Thinkers
- Søren Kierkegaard
- Francis Crick
- Giulio Tononi
- Karl Friston
- Robert Sapolsky
- Judea Pearl
- Gary Marcus
- Julian Jaynes
- Francis Fukuyama
- Carl Sagan
- Boethius
