Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal
Noam Chomsky talks about group selection, his own death, the Piraha language, and more, it his widest varied interview yet.
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00:00:00 Introduction
00:02:17 Iain McGilchrist: Language without thought?
00:06:54 Stuart Hameroff: X bar structure in microtubules
00:11:16 Roger Penrose’s Emperor’s New Mind
00:11:59 Veno Volenec: Derivational Theory of Complexity and Generative Grammar
00:20:02 Existentialism and Kierkegaard [John Clever]
00:21:00 Sam Harris and Islam [Naman Jain]
00:21:54 Terrance McKenna and Stoned Ape Theory (psychedelics aiding language development / evolution)
00:22:58 Group Selection [Slaventhefourth]
00:23:32 Cryptocurrencies and decentralizing money [ThrowingSn0w]
00:31:35 Elon Musk’s Neuralink [Tarek]
00:31:56 Douglas Hofstadter strange loop and generative grammar [Ryan]
00:34:25 Peter Singer’s “Drowning Child” Thought Experiment [The_platypus_king]
00:42:31 Steven Pinker
00:43:48 Yuval Harari’s Sapiens and the origin of language as introspective [Brez]
00:49:50 Piraha language and Daniel Everett [Mahendra Varma]
00:54:40 Karl Friston’s free energy principle [MediocreBat2]
00:55:03 What does Chomsky get awestruck by? [Mai April]
01:03:58 Žižek / Hegel / Heidegger [Zowhat]
01:06:23 What mysteries would Chomsky want solved? [Mai April]
01:11:44 Open AI and GPT-3
01:12:22 Do you fear death? [Wil-Waal]
01:12:40 How to be more like Chomsky? [Overboi1]
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