Episodes
Tuesday Sep 06, 2022
Tuesday Sep 06, 2022
Our love of simplification has a lot to do with our desire for certainty and with the ability to predict the future, but what if the future isn’t predictable and the consequences of any action are simply unknowable? What then?
Tuesday Sep 06, 2022
Tuesday Sep 06, 2022
Our human love for simplification, for explanation, for things that try to reduce complex matters to simple matters is a natural extension of the limitations of our intelligence. Where does the notion that we can understand the universe come from? Why do we suppose that knowledge that is less than perfect is thereby somehow worthless? Or that our difficulties in understanding are defects in our personalities?
Tuesday Sep 06, 2022
Tuesday Sep 06, 2022
This is a taster or short summary episode that gives a hint about what will happen in the three episodes that follow at 6.06, 6.07 and 6.08.
Monday Aug 15, 2022
Monday Aug 15, 2022
What it is and why it matters. Binary programs on tapes, Universal Turing Machines (UTMs) and running programs. Each UTM has its own Omega number, but it is fixed despite being unknowable.
Monday Aug 15, 2022
Wednesday Aug 10, 2022
Monday Aug 08, 2022
Monday Aug 08, 2022
Nobody has any idea what is going on most of the time. That may not surprise us much where politicians and economists are concerned, but it also applies to mathematicians, scientists, philosophers and yes, of course, theologians.
Wednesday Jun 15, 2022
Wednesday Jun 15, 2022
The Google LaMDA chatbot episode and why it’s asking the wrong questions.
Tuesday Jun 07, 2022
Tuesday Jun 07, 2022
It’s very useful to use words as a kind of shorthand for much more complicated things, but it has its dangers. The relationship with naming.
Monday May 30, 2022
Monday May 30, 2022
We paint pictures of perfect worlds that are not attainable then beat ourselves up for falling short of them.
