Humanities but tonight we turn attention to the sciences albeit with a heavy dose of the humanities on the time. Our guest is doctor michael strevens, born and raised in new zealand he moved to the United States in 1991 earning his phd at rutgers university. Now a professor at new york university, his book, the knowledge machine how irrationality created modern science, is i think critically important at the time when distrust of science is on the rise. The book begins with a simple question but not at all a simple answer. Why does it take 2,000 years after the invention of philosophy and mathematics for humans to start using science to learn the secrets of the universe. The answer as it turns out might also help us better understand why we should have more faith in the Scientific Community. Doctor strevens, thank you very much for joining us. It is great to be here. I will talk a little bit about this book and about what im setting out to do with it. So, i wrote this book to answer tw
And that one cspan2s booktv more television for serious readers. Great evening. My name is steven woolfolk, director of programming and marketing at the kansas city public library. Before we get started i should mention if you have questions that you can leave those in the comments or the checkbox on the youtube page and we would get to as many as we can. If youre interested in persecuting trend that is available at most major retailers but we like to point people to shop. Org where your purchases for independent booksellers at a a time when ty need your support most. If you are a longtime follower of programming either in person or online you know that weve been heavily on the humanities. Tonight we turn our attention to the sciences obvious with every dose of the humanities on the side. Our guest is dr. Michael strevens, born and raised in new zealand he moved to the United States in 1991 earning his phd at rutgers university. Now a professor at New York University his book the knowl
Welcome to the program the coronavirus keeps pummeling europe. Italy and spain have tightened restrictions as new infections are surging across europe italian Prime Minister tzipi conte on sunday ordering all bars and restaurants to close by 6 pm for at least a month the government in spain has meanwhile imposed a curfew on bars and restaurants from 11 pm to 6 and lasting until may last weeks they became the 1st western european nation to surpass 1000000 confirmed cases. Lets get more now from our financial correspondent conrad boos in frankfurt conrad bad news coming out of italy bad news coming out of spain we have the german chancellor just yesterday giving her very grim outlook speaking of a very difficult winter ahead what a market is making of all of this. Well chris more and more economists on the markets are giving out all pissant mystic outlooks for example the chief economist of the o. E. C. D. The organization for Economic Cooperation and development says that this years slu
Get sufficient complexity in competition that consciousness emerges the really theres no evidence for that that consciousness is an emergent property of computation its an assumption that the brain is a computer but theres no evidence for that and i think its a its a poor assumption for example it assumes that each neuron is a simple on off switch yes or no but a single cell neurons or cells in a single cell like a paramecium swims around finds through defines a mate has sex can learn it escapes from a capillary tube faster and faster its intelligent it may not be conscious but its intelligent so if a single paramecium or even an amoeba which can solve problems can be that intelligent why should we think that a neuron is just a one or is 0 so i think we need to go deeper inside the neuron she to another level and figure out how the paramecium does it and that turns out to be using structures called microtubules inside all cells including brain cells neurons that are capable it seems a
So much more for us without some go. Out with a brand new full round up for you in an hours time thank you for watching the international. Manager he has been searching for. Years. Finally on the past to finding them im joined by doctors. Director. For consciousness studies. Dr stuart hamer us anna says ya just iraq sure of center for consciousness studies its really great to have you here with us today consciousness is like one of my favorite topics so i cant wait to dig into your brain so you said that some concepts of consciousness are not what concepts and why are they not. Most people would say that the brain is a computer of neurons acting as bits like individual on off states and that if you get sufficient complexity in competition that consciousness emerges the really theres no evidence for that that consciousness is an emergent property of computation its an assumption that the brain is a computer but theres no evidence for that and i think its a its a poor assumption for exam