Tag: Roger Penrose
Biologist Michael Levin: A Farewell to Physicalism
Levin proposes a “radical Platonist view in which some of the causal input into mind and life originates outside the physical world.”
Dawkins and Picard Win This Year’s Trotter Prize
A reflection on the 2025 Trotter Prize Lecture delivered by Oxford’s Richard Dawkins and MIT’s Rosalind Picard.
The Multiverse Has a Measure Problem
In terms of science, the central problem with the naïve multiverse is that it could explain any observation, so it really explains nothing.
Getting Stoned: Did It Shape Human Origins?
For a really wild excursion, nothing beats efforts to explain the evolution of the human mind.
Listen: Justin Brierley and a “Mind Behind Matter”
Brierley talks with thinkers whom you don’t regularly see in direct dialogue, from Stephen Meyer to Denis Noble to Roger Penrose to Paul Davies.