Jack Roycroft-Sherry

Darius Parvizi-Wayne is a philosopher of cognitive science and host of the Active Inference Insights podcast. What are the best theories in cognitive science and how are they helping us understand the mind, the self, psychopathology and well-being? Find out in this podcast. Expect to learn about the free energy principle and active inference, the relevance realization theory of consciousness, why the self exists, what mental illness really is, and more... 00:00 - Why An Active Inference Podcast 06:03 - Relevance Realization Vs Active Inference 08:19 - How Active Inference Actually Works 14:12 - Well Being and Psychopathology 24:35 - Why Are Video Games are so Addictive? 30:20 - Turrets Syndrome 46:23 - Future of Active Inference and Darius' Work 50:53 - Why Does The Self Exist? 58:59 - Jack's Journey To Podcasting

In this podcast, I speak with clinical psychologist Garri Hovahissayan about integrating the Big 5 Personality theory with economics to better understand decision-making from a phenomenological and evolutionary psychological perspective. We delve into economic decision theory, the impact of behavioral economics, the bio-economic constraints faced by all humans, and personality theory from a phenomenological perspective, among other topics. 00:00 - Economists View Of Preferences, Risk, & Decision Making 7:47 - Behavioural economics and biases 16:55 - Enactivist Big 5 Theory 25:43 - Bio-Economics and Facing Uncertainty 42:00 - Conscientiousness and Discovering The Future 00:58:26 - Stability-Plasticity vs Autism-Schizotype 01:06:00 - Conclusion: Economics Talking To Personality Theory

The modern world is a strange place. AI is rapidly progressing, science is changing, economics and money are evolving. What forces are at play that are shaping the world? Expect to understand how the scientific revolution changed our civilization's worldview, how our civilization fails to understand complexity, game theory, the power higher agencies exert over us, the sacred, and more.. TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Jordan Converting To Christianity - Introduction 02:00 - Problems of Western Civilization 05:13 - How The West Fails To Understand Complexity 13:37 - Game Theory, Machiavelli, & Technology 22:00 - Efficiency Over Resiliency 30:00 - Personalities and Egregores and Mammon 41:06 - Spirits and Identities 55:00 - Bitcoin, Hyperobjects and Agent-Arena Niches 01:06:20 - Identities, Ai & Sacrifice JORDAN HALL -https://substack.com/@jgreenhall

Alexandra Paxton is a social psychologist and cognitive scientist. Psychology in the past often viewed humans as isolated selves, individually rational, and separable from the world. However, much of the field is now re-conceptualizing the nature of humans and the mind. Learn more in this podcast. We tackle topics such as how to think about humans in terms of dynamical systems rather than as computer-like, how humans are embedded in their environment and context, the mutable boundary of the self, how to apply dynamical systems ideas to systems larger than humans, and more... TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 - Humans As Complex Systems 05:37 - Anti-Reductionism: Why We're Not Computers 10:30 - Understanding Systems At Different Levels 22:25 - The Mutable Boundary of Self 29:00 - Communication and Language 40:00 - "Tight" Vs "Loose" Cultures 50:15 - AI & Impact on Humans ALEXANDRA: -website: https://alexandrapaxton.com/ JACK: -Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0DGVMa1qAI1huc87xNDrgy?si=62c281d9e8274694 -X: https://twitter.com/jack_roycroft -Medium: https://medium.com/@jackroycroftsherry

David Dickinson is an experimental and behavioral economist. Economic theory views people as rational and self-interested. However, in recent decades experiments have shown how psychological biases influence decision making, radically changing economics. In this podcast expect to learn about how behavioral economics is bridging economics with psychology, about why economists modeled people as fully rational, the reasons for the confirmation bias, and more... 00:00 - What is Behavioral Economics? 04:34 - History of Rationality and Selfishness in Economics 09:34 - confirmation bias 22:30 - Dark Personality Personality and Behavior Differences 33:00 - Big 5 Personality and Behavior

Coltan Scrivner is a behavioral scientist and expert on the science of horror, crime, and morbid curiosity.What attracts us to horror movies, violent video games, the psychology of murderers, and car wrecks on the side of the road? This morbid curiosity is an evolved trait within us, but why do we possess it?In this podcast, expect to learn about the reasons behind our morbid curiosity, why it's beneficial for us, how to understand this trait in relation to other personality factors, how morbid curiosity helps explain dreaming and the paranormal, and more... TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 - What is Morbid Curiosity ? 01:26 - Why Morbid Curiosity Is Not A Bad Thing 04:10 - Why Are We Morbidly Curious? 13:26 - Why Morbid Curiosity Helps Us to Learn 22:17 - Morbid Curiosity and Personality 31:00 - The Paranormal in Scientific Terms 35:25 - Threat Detection Theory of Dreaming 43:28 - Morbid Curiosity and Relationships https://coltanscrivner.substack.com/ https://www.coltanscrivner.com/

Adam Safron is a cognitive scientist with expertise in consciousness, AI, psychedelics, and more.What is consciousness? Is it fundamental to the universe? And could AI be conscious? This podcast attempts to answer these questions.In this podcast, expect to learn what consciousness is, whether panpsychism (the idea that consciousness is fundamental to the universe) is plausible, whether AI could be conscious and how to think about its intelligence, the power of language in aiding cognition, how psychedelics work in the brain, and more... TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 - What is Consciousness? 04:50 - Is Consciousness Fundamental to the Universe? 10:50 - Combining Theories of Consciousness: Role of Emotions 18:57 - What Do We Mean by Conscious vs Unconscious? 23:03 - Could AI Be Conscious? 32:00 - General vs Specialized Intelligence 37:10 - How Intelligent Are Large Language Models? 44:00 - The Power of Language and How It Aids Cognition 49:00 - Measuring Consciousness Using IIT 55:29 - Could an AI Have Personality? 01:03:22 - How Similar Will AI Be to Us? 01:08:00 - Psychedelics and the Brain ADAM SAFRON: -Research: https://hopkinspsychedelic.org/safron -X:  @AdamSafron  JACK ROYCROFT-SHERRY: -Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0DGVMa1qAI1huc87xNDrgy?si=62c281d9e8274694-X: https://twitter.com/jack_roycroft-Medium: https://medium.com/@jackroycroftsherry

Célia Lacaux is a cognitive neuroscientist studying sleep, dreams, and the sleep-onset period. We often view sleep as totally distinct from waking states. But what if they are more similar than we think? In this podcast, expect to learn about the study of the rapid transition period from waking to sleep and its enhanced creativity, how the science of sleep is changing the way it views sleep by thinking of it as a continuum rather than a hard line, how parts of our brain may be asleep during the day (so-called "local sleeps"), the benefits of dreams and lucid dreaming, and more. TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro 00:44 - Enhanced Creativity in the Sleep Onset Period 06:45 - Celia's Personal Experimentation With Sleep Transition Creativity 10:00 - The Continuum Between Wake & Sleep 14:00 - What Happens in the Brain During Sleep & Creativity 18:50 - Dreams and Increased Insight 25:22 - Lucid Dreaming & Creativity 30:00 - Narcolepsy Explained Célia Lacaux: -X: @CeliaLacaux -Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KhhcqVAAAAAJ&hl=en Jack Roycroft-Sherry Podcasts -Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0DGVMa1qAI1huc87xNDrgy?si=62c281d9e8274694 -X: https://twitter.com/jack_roycroft -Medium: https://medium.com/@jackroycroftsherry

Stephen J. Shaw is a data scientist and demographer, and the creator of "The BirthGap" documentary. Fertility rates are below replacement in many countries, and the trend looks like it will spread to the entire world. This will mean population levels will fall dramatically in the coming decades. Why is this happening, what will be the consequences, and can we solve these issues before it's too late? In this podcast, expect to learn about Stephen's shock that falling fertility issues are not being recognized as a problem, how the real problem is due to a crisis of unplanned childlessness, the biological reality of when you can have children, how society will have to deal with the inevitable older and shrinking populations, and more. Find Stephen: -twitter: @StephenJShaw -website: https://www.birthgap.org/feed -Birthgap - Childless World: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6s8QlIGanA&t=1673s TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 - Intro 00:20 - Stephen's Alarm at Falling Fertility Being Ignored 04:45 - How Stephen Realized Why Fertility Rates Were Falling 10:47 - How Economic Crises Lead to Childlessness 22:00 - Biological Facts About When You Can Have Children 26:30 - The Risks of Not Having Children When You Can 29:28 - Inevitable Aging Societies and Population Declines 46:16 - The Trade-off Between Economic Growth and Having Children 53:00 - Impact of Falling Populations

Maxwell Ramstead is a cognitive scientist and physicist, and Director of Research at VERSESAI. What if we could build AI that performs real inference, just as humans do? What will the future of AI look like? Understanding cognition, active inference, collective intelligence, and consciousness can help us find out. Expect to learn about AI that conducts real-time inference and learning, how to conceptualize LLMs, why it doesn't make sense to think of "general intelligence" or AGI, how all intelligence is inherently collective, about the nature of consciousness and the self, and more... TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 - Intro 00:26 - VERSESAI and Utilizing Cognitive Science to Design AI 09:39 - How All Intelligence Is "Collective Intelligence" 22:26 - Innovative Approaches to AI Development 30:46 - Computational Specialization & The Intelligence of Distributed Cognition 38:26 - Explaining Consciousness Using the FEP 53:56 - Debating the Unity of Consciousness MAXWELL RAMSTEAD: -X: @mjdramstead -Research: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Maxwell-Ramstead REFERENCED IN THE EPISODE: -Podcast on improving computation by learning from biology: https://youtu.be/4iR6lVxioHs -Podcast on collective intelligence and the flowy, multifractal nature of cognition: https://youtu.be/nwj9TZDguwc FOLLOW THE PODCAST: -Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0DGVMa1qAI1huc87xNDrgy?si=62c281d9e8274694 -X: https://twitter.com/jack_roycroft -Medium: https://medium.com/@jackroycroftsherry