THE GHOST IN THE MACHINE

We just uploaded a transcript of the Chomsky conversation here: whimsical.com/chomsky-transcript-WgFJLguL7JhzyNhsd… And the original corrupt recording here: share.descript.com/view/N9KNaZTav27

I love how people can get together and just talk and learn from each other it's absolutely beautiful.

Beautifully conducted! Rare is it that Chomsky is asked and pressed on technical questions — the results are pure dynamite 🧨💥 Thank you!!!!

Heroic effort! One of the richest Chomsky interviews around. Thank you so much. :)

In the late 80s I was an undergrad making my spending money sitting on the floor of Dan Dennett's back office sorting through box after box of academic papers, reading them and then classifying them according to a list of subject topics (i.e., Connectionism, Chinese Room, etc) for a future library of cognitive studies. As a grown up manufacturing engineer I'm getting serious nostalgia here. I suggest you do one on the making of Do The Right Thing next just to complete the job lol. Edit: Thank you for treating Noam so respectfully, that was really heartwarming.

I don't know why this podcast popped into my feed, but I'm very glad it did. The amount of effort your team put into this single episode is remarkable and greatly appreciated. It wasn't easy for me to wade through the jargon and concepts of a field unknown to me; even so, it was nearly impossible to quit. Thank you, gentlemen and long live Chomsky!

Sorry about the nightmare with the video yesterday. BBC copyright flagged us because of this Feynman quote -- see share.descript.com/view/H6SqE6F3Zip for the part we removed -- in this version I just quoted it out loud (in Ghost section 01:35:47 start and end of that section). The entire video is available at vimeo.com/340695809 -- the BBC used to make good content before 1980. #defundthebbc

brilliant save! master language splicing! wicked interview and great episode. thanks very much for all the hard work 🙂

Finally some people who actually seem to understand what Chomsky is talking about, as opposed to all the morons who talk about him all the time without any kind of understanding whatsoever. Absolutely amazing video!

As a serious science podcast connoisseur, I gotta say the work you guys have put together here is truly extraordinary. Very impressed and honestly deeply humbled. Thanks and kudos!

What an episode!! Combining one of the worlds great public intellectuals with one of the worlds most insightful podcasts. Well done chaps.

Dude, ths is absolutely incredible. This kind of dedication is singular, and I've not seen quality of this kind on youtube in a long long time. This is beyond stimulating, there's something deeply beautiful about the quality of the work, and I can only say thank you.

Wonderful content! Keep up the great work as you do. I love all of your episodes. It's getting better and better every day.

Your respect for Chomsky and each other and your passion for clarity in this complex subject created something wonderful. This was accessible to me, and my family and we haven't stopped discussing rats in prime number mazes, the cognitive templates perhaps bestowed by survival though the action of genetics, the nature of empiricism finite points of data and useful abstractions and our symbolic approximations of the infinite, so much so that my daughter wants to know how to get onto you discord so that she can read more about all of this - much gratitude!

I like the idea of blind spots in human cognition. Imaging that there are knowledge in the world, that is completely accessible to us, but we cannot comprehend, simply because of structure of our brain, which can never converge in it's learning of the concept. And I'm not meaning extremely complex concepts, but simple ones that's still incomprehensible.

Very excited for this episode!

What an incredible interview. For an outsider who knows nothing about the topic, to get a glimpse of such a beautiful mind distilling fundamental questions was revelatory. Your painstaking struggle to salvage the recording underscored your profound respect not just for Chomsky but for your audience. Thank you for this gift.

Amazing episode! The only thing better than chomskys point of view on things is the joy keiths face whenever chomsky makes a point

Phew, I was scared till the re-release! Massive respect and thanks for keeping these conversations, guests and everything the highest quality possible!

Exceptional work saving the interview! Thank you deeply.