“Anthropic Reasoning in the Great Filter: We apply three popular principles for reasoning about indexical information to the Great Filter model of the development of life. The aim is to […]

http://www.lapl.org/sites/default/files/podcasts/aloud/audio/aloudleovy.mp3 http://homicide.latimes.com/

“As 2014 rushes past us, a venture capital firm appoints a computer algorithm to its board of directors, robots report news events such as earthquakes before any human can, fully […]

the nature of political life

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http://media.blubrry.com/thisishell/p/files.thisishell.net/mp3/20150214.mp3 Guests: Jesús Castillo of the Podemos party lays out an alternate future for Spanish democracy. Keller Easterling explores the new dimension of political power beyond the state’s reach. Correspondents: […]

http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1909510/1909518.mp3 “Where our conceptual categories no longer work” talk for Cambridge Law

“Psychobiologist Roger Sperry proposed that, “mind and consciousness are dynamic emergent properties of the living brain in action.” This seemingly simple observation raises a host of questions. How do novel […]

“Self-presentation is a term that indicates conscious and unconscious strategies for controlling or managing how one is perceived by others in terms of both appearance and comportment. Self-presentation is an […]

“If fundamental freedoms, including the right to communicate privately and to speak anonymously, are not absolutely protected by those who claim are fighting the criminals willing to destroy our societies, […]

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loved that magazine http://expandingmind.podbean.com/e/expanding-mind-transhumanism-today-020515/

http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/archive/audio/2015_02_12/2015_02_12_Etienne_Balibar_talk.mp3 talk on Logics, Cosmology, Politics Q&A @ http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2015/02/etienne-balibar-the-idea-of-a-multiversum-logics-cosmology-politics/

“Our fathers told us that for future generations not to suffer, we needed to struggle for our territory and our liberty. So we wouldn’t be slaves of the new kind […]