Simon Conway Morris is a paleontologist and evolutionary biologist who’s new book is From Extraterrestrials to Animal Minds: Six Myths of Evolution. But as much as people know about evolution, we also find the growth of corresponding myths. He is currently an associate professor of philosophy at Oxford, as well as a research fellow at the Global Priorities Institute, director of the Forefront Foundation for Global Priorities Research, President of the Centre for Effective Altruism, and co-founder of 80,000 hours and Giving What We Can.Web sitePhilPeople profileGoogle Scholar publicationsWikipediaTwitterĮvolution by natural selection is one of the rare scientific theories that resonates within the wider culture as much as it does within science. in philosophy from the University of Oxford. William (Will) MacAskill received his D.Phil.
Just click here and use code MINDSCAPE50 at checkout. Mindscape listeners can get 50% off What We Owe the Future, thanks to a partnership between the Forethought Foundation and. We talk about the pros and cons of that view, including the underlying philosophical presuppositions. In this new book he makes the case for longtermism: the idea that we should put substantial effort into positively influencing the long-term future. How do our actions as a society affect all the potential generations to come? William MacAskill is best known as a founder of the Effective Altruism movement, and is now the author of What We Owe the Future. Now take that humble feeling and promote it to all of humanity, and arbitrarily far in time. It’s always a little humbling to think about what affects your words and actions might have on other people, not only right now but potentially well into the future. Hören Erneut hören Fortsetzen Abspielen.See Privacy Policy at and California Privacy Notice at. Her new book is The Science of Can and Can’t: A Physicist’s Journey Through the Land of Counterfactuals.Web siteOxford web pageGoogle Scholar publicationsWikipedia“How to Rewrite the Laws of Physics in the Language of Impossibility,” Quanta She is currently a research fellow at Wolfson College, University of Oxford. It might shed new light on quantum gravity and fundamental physics, as well as having applications to higher-level processes of thermodynamics and biology.Ĭhiara Marletto received her DPhil in physics from the University of Oxford. Originally proposed by David Deutsch, constructor theory has been developed by today’s guest, Chiara Marletto, and others. Traditional physics works within the “Laplacian paradigm”: you give me the state of the universe (or some closed system), some equations of motion, then I use those equations to evolve the system through time. Constructor theory proposes an alternative paradigm: to think of physical systems in terms of counterfactuals - the set of rules governing what can and cannot happen.