The Theory of Anything
Bruce Nielson and Peter Johansen
A podcast that explores the unseen and surprising connections between nearly everything, with special emphasis on intelligence and the search for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) through the lens of Karl Popper's Theory of Knowledge. David Deutsch argued that Quantum Mechanics, Darwinian Evolution, Karl Popper's Theory of Knowledge, and Computational Theory (aka "The Four Strands") represent an early 'theory of everything' be it science, philosophy, computation, religion, politics, or art....
Episodes (30)
Episode 136: Michael Golding on Mental Illness and Universal Explainers
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Episode 135: Coercion and Critical Rationalism
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Episode 134: The Deutsch Slot Machine
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Episode 133: The Constitution of Knowledge
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Episode 132: Roughly Testable Theories (and Ancaps)
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Episode 131: Knowledge as a Concept
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Episode 130: The "Pseudo Deutsch Theory of Knowledge"
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Episode 129: Is Probability Real?
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Episode 128: Induction’s Immunizing Strategy
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Episode 127: Hofstadter vs Popper on Concepts
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Episode 126: The Concept of Concepts
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Episode 125: Our Lovecraftian Universe?
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Episode 124: Popper's Evolutionary Theory of Knowledge
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Episode 123: Campbell vs Deutsch: Incremental vs Cosmic Significance
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Episode 122: The Case Against Logical Fallacies
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Episode 121: Beliefs
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Episode 120: Popper on Trial
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Episode 119: New Right vs Libertarianism w/Logan Chipkin
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Episode 118: Christian Transhumanism (with Micah Redding)
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Episode 117: Jonathan Rauch
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Episode 116: The Knowledge Machine
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Episode 115: Is Falsification Falsifiable?
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Episode 114: Campbell's Evolutionary Epistemology
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Episode 113: Evolution, Collective Minds, and Static Societies
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Episode 112: Words vs Concepts: Does 'Randomness' Exist?
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Episode 111: Static vs Dynamic Societies
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Episode 110: Brave New World vs. 1984 (round table discussion)
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Episode 109: Genes, Emergence, and Platonism (round table with Sadia and Ivan)
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Episode 108: AI and Obedience (with Dan Gish)
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Episode 107: Was Popper a Fideist?
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