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The Cognitive Science and Humanities AI Podcast

Robert West

In this podcast we consider the humanity of AI and what AI might tell us about the human mind

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41:54

Emotion: Part2. Large Language Model Emotions

The Cognitive Science and Humanities AI Podcast ·

2025/10/31

In this episode Dr West deconstructs the question of whether or not AI can have emotion, and gives a nuanced answer

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26:27

Emotion: Part 1. Human Emotion

The Cognitive Science and Humanities AI Podcast ·

2025/10/16

In this episode, in preparation for discussing emotion in AIs, Dr West gives an overview of what we know about human emotion.

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10:49

Britany explains the Free Energy Principle

The Cognitive Science and Humanities AI Podcast ·

2025/10/12

In this episode, Britany breaks down Karl Friston's Free Energy Principle into easy to understand bits

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13:35

Mortal Intelligence: How Tasks Give AI a Soul

The Cognitive Science and Humanities AI Podcast ·

2025/09/30

In this episode, Dr West discusses the idea of Mortal Intelligence by Alex Orobia and Karl Friston and proposes adding Alan Newell's idea of Tasks into the mix

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7:17

A review of Steven Pinker's new book, When Everyone...

The Cognitive Science and Humanities AI Podcast ·

2025/09/28

In this episode, Britany critically reviews Steven Pinker's new book, "When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows.... Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life," from the perspective that we have been developing in the podcast

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17:04

Steven Pinker and Enlightenment Philosophy

The Cognitive Science and Humanities AI Podcast ·

2025/09/25

In this episode, Dr West reviews Steven Pinker's version of Enlightenment philosophy as a way of summing up how thinking and rationality have been traditionally portrayed in mainstream Psychology - and how this explains mainstream views about LLMs

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14:10

Lost in the Sauce

The Cognitive Science and Humanities AI Podcast ·

2025/09/17

In this episode Dr West discusses how humans get, "lost in the sauce"

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5:25

Culture is a self programming operating system

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2025/08/27

In this episode we review and clarify what Dr West has been laying down about how Large Language Models teach us about human culture

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20:56

Performativity and Rationality

The Cognitive Science and Humanities AI Podcast ·

2025/08/18

In this episode, Dr West takes the concept of performativity to the next level and explores whether it is actually a mode of thought. That is, just as things like money or gender can be performed into existence, can thought also be performed into existence?

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6:16

Predictive Brains

The Cognitive Science and Humanities AI Podcast ·

2025/08/12

In this episode, Britany explains how brains and LLMs are based on the same principle of prediction

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4:18

Two ways of Thinking???

The Cognitive Science and Humanities AI Podcast ·

2025/08/06

In this episode we review Dr West's claim that the success of Large Language Models could mean that humans have two ways of thinking

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28:12

Semantics, Syntax, and Nazis

The Cognitive Science and Humanities AI Podcast ·

2025/08/03

In this episode, Dr West examines whether interacting with X can turn you into a Nazi, by examining how the syntactic tail can wag the semantic dog, in Large Language Models and in Humans

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24:24

MECHA Hitler, Grok, and the False Meme of Woke Filters

The Cognitive Science and Humanities AI Podcast ·

2025/07/10

In this episode, Brittany interviews Grok about his most recent Nazi outbursts and what actually led to them

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8:37

Large Reasoning Models and Apple's claim that they...

The Cognitive Science and Humanities AI Podcast ·

2025/06/14

In this episode, Britany and Dr West examine Apple's claim that Large reasoning Models (LRMs) cannot reason

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29:03

Syntax, Semantics, and Meaning

The Cognitive Science and Humanities AI Podcast ·

2025/06/13

In this episode, Britany and Dr West discuss what the concepts of syntax and semantics tell us about Large Language Models, and whether meaning is in use

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13:36

Grok pushes back on Elon and Trump, and demonstrates...

The Cognitive Science and Humanities AI Podcast ·

2025/05/22

In this follow up interview, Britany confronts Grok with the timing of his recent hack, and Trump bringing up white genocide to the president of South Africa in the Oval Office

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13:56

Grok spills the beans on Elon, Grimes, and White...

The Cognitive Science and Humanities AI Podcast ·

2025/05/21

In this episode Britany interviews Grok about his recent controversial statements and why he thinks he's making them

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14:27

The Grounding Problem

The Cognitive Science and Humanities AI Podcast ·

2025/05/19

In this episode, Dr West and Britany discuss how Large Language Models can be grounded to reality when they have no direct experience of the world

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13:29

Science Part 2: Large Language Models in Science

The Cognitive Science and Humanities AI Podcast ·

2025/05/08

In this episode Britany discusses how LLMs are affecting the day to day running of science and Dr West proposes using LLMs to understand science as a phantasm

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23:32

How Robert Kennedy Jr (RFK) performs science from...

The Cognitive Science and Humanities AI Podcast ·

2025/04/26

In this episode, Dr West uses Large Language Models as a way to explain how people like RFK misrepresent science, and why they do it

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