CogsCast: Recent Episodes
Cogs Cast
A podcast exploring the themes of consciousness, cognition, AI, and other elements related to the Cognitive Systems programme at the University of British Columbia.
Created by: Omran K. Safi & Adam W. Herr
Co-host Adam talks about how he got into COGS, Dungeons & Dragons, and is grilled about ontological questions. Think Adam is a cool guy? Why not follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/adamwesth?s=09.
Now that you have listened to us talk to some other people time to listen to us talk to each other! In this first part of a two part series, Adam speaks to Omran about his journey to Cogs and his interests. We talk about Cognitive Systems, humans not being special, Philosophy, Science Denialism, Social Media, and more. Think Omran is a cool guy? Why not follow him on twitter through his handle @Sir_Omran_Safi or using the following link, https://twitter.com/Sir_Omran_Safi.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/07/artificial-intelligence-religion-atheism/565076/
Discussion around the attention economy, how users are digitally exploited and alternative models to social organization.
Discussion around psychological lab work at the University of British Columbia, the state of the Cognitive Systems Program, and student compensation for labor.
A conversation about blockchain technologies. In this episode we speak to Matthew Siu about blockchain today and blockchain in the future.