The Theory of Anything

A podcast with episodes loosely tied together by Popper-Deutsch Theory of Knowledge. David Deutsch's

Episodes

Total: 112

We once again get together some of the smartest people we know for a discussion that gets into found

In this round table discussion with Ivan Phillips and Sadia Naeem, we begin by discussing differing

This week we are joined by fellow traveler Dan Gish to discuss LLMs and AGI. Does it really, truly m

Here we discuss fidesim and critical rationalism. Fideism has many definitions, but at least how we

This week we discuss a short interview with Karl Popper from 1969 where he discusses God and religio

This week Bruce speaks about the work or Michael Levin, who is a biologist know for his work on cell

How well do the collection of assertions called “3rd wayevolution” stand up to criticism? Here, in o

This week we discuss neo-Darwinism vs post-Darwinism. Neo-Darwinism meaning a gene centric view of e

This time we discuss Nassim Nicholas Taleb's article "IQ is Largely a Pseudoscientific Swindle" -- a

Bruce takes a deep dive into Stephen Wolfram’s ideas regarding computational universality, which may

Our Christmas gift to you this year is episode 100: an interview with The Man (TM) himself! Bruce st

AKA "David Deutsch DESTORYS the Simulation Hypothesis" Bruce take a deep dive into solipsism in the

This week we discuss the chapter “Why are Flowers Beautiful?” from the book Beginning of Infinity by

We take a deep dive into Karl Popper’s philosophical ideas about music that he outlines in four chap

Here we interview AI researcher Kenneth Stanley, who makes the case that in complex systems, pursing

This time we invited some of the coolest and smartest people we know to have a freewheeling discussi

This time we invited some of the coolest and smartest people we know to have a freewheeling discussi

This episode we interview Professor of Philosophy Stephen Hicks. In his excellent books Explaining P

Can philosophical theories be refuted? What is a bad explanation? Can all theories be made more empi

Continuing from episode 91, we continue our deep dive into Popper's Conjectures and Refutations