Luisa Rodriguez: Podcast Interviews

Luisa Rodriguez

luisa.rodriguez

Interview host, Anthropologist, Social Scientist, Economist

2 Interviews

Luisa Rodriguez's Interviews

Luisa Rodriguez & Anil Seth • 01 Nov 2024 • EN

#206 – Anil Seth on the predictive brain and how to study consciousness

"In that famous example of the dress, half of the people in the world saw [blue and black], half saw [white and gold]. It turns out there’s individual differences in how brains take into account ambient light. Colour is one example where it’s pretty clear that what we experience is a kind of inference: it’s the brain’s

Rob Wiblin & Luisa Rodriguez • 19 Nov 2021 • EN

#116 – Luisa Rodriguez on why global catastrophes seem unlikely to kill us all

If modern human civilisation collapsed — as a result of nuclear war, severe climate change, or a much worse pandemic than COVID-19 — billions of people might die. That's terrible enough to contemplate. But what’s the probability that rather than recover, the survivors would falter and humanity would actually disappear