Episode 20: Paradoxes of Physical Information
Space Time Mind
English - January 01, 2015 16:40 - 1 hour - 80.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsSociety & Culture Philosophy Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Philosophers of mind and science Richard Brown and Pete Mandik burn the book of the world while orbiting a decaying black hole with Maxwell’s demon, a reversible cellular automaton, and can of whoop-ass worms. Will they survive? Will one of them successfully execute the argumentative equivalent of the Five-Point-Palm Exploding-Heart-Technique against the other? And how would you even know?
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Philosophers of mind and science Richard Brown and Pete Mandik burn the book of the world while orbiting a decaying black hole with Maxwell’s demon, a reversible cellular automaton, and can of whoop-ass worms. Will they survive? Will one of them successfully execute the argumentative equivalent of the Five-Point-Palm Exploding-Heart-Technique against the other? And how would you even know?
(Audio for this episode is drawn from the video chat viewable here: @YouTube.)
Sturgeon’s law Black Hole Information Paradox Reversible cellular automaton Maxwell’s demon Physical Information Dogmatism Paradox The Value of Knowledge