Most of our original show notes were lost in the great “Derek didn’t pay the website” fire of 2016. This page will be a continuously updated repository of references from the shows and other cool links.
GENERAL COOLNESS
Tim and Brad’s zombie book: “Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep?: A Neuroscientific View of the Zombie Brain”
Tim and Brad’s TED ED Zombie Cartoon: “Diagnosing a Zombie: Brain and Body”
SHOW NOTES FOR SEASON 1:
Episode 1: Consciousness:
Episode 3: Is “The Matrix” Possible?
- “Meditations on First Philosophy” by Rene Descartes
- “Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?” by Nick Bostrom
- “Is Consciousness Embodied?” by Jesse Prinz
Episode 4: Brain Imaging and its Critics
- “Seduced by the Flickering Lights of the Brain” by Paul Bloom
- “Beyond the Brain” by David Brooks
- “Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience” by Satel and Lilienfield
Episode 5: Ethics and the Brain
Episode 6: Evolutionary Psychology (w/David Rakison)
Episode 7: Is Psychology a Science?
Episode 8: Moral Tribes (w/Joshua Greene)
Episode 9: The Lost Episode
SEASON 2
Episode 10: Information and Viruses (w/Brad Voytek)
Episode 11: Mind-Blowing Philosophical Ideas!
Episode 12: Mind-Blowing Psychological Ideas!
Episode 13: Risk and Bias
Episode 14: Psychopaths and the Brain (w/James Fallon)
Episode 15: Embodied Cognition
Episode 16: Love (w/David Rakison)
Episode 17: Causal Reasoning (w/David Danks)
Episode 18: Meditation and the Brain (w/David Creswell)
Episode 19: Innateness v Learning, part 1
Episode 20: Innateness v Learning, part 2 (w/David Rakison)
Episode 21: Artificial Intelligence (w/Jerry Vinokurov)
Episode 22: Conspiracy Theories and Irrational Beliefs (w/Jerry Vinokurov)
Episode 23: The Most Interesting People in the History of Science and Philosophy
Episode 24: The Value of Philosophy and Psychology
SEASON 3 (false start)
Episode 25: Concepts (w/Edouard Machery)
Episode 26: Mind Uploading and Identity
SEASON 3 (“The Future”)
Episode 27: TED, Trump, and Getting Rich
- Plato on Donald Trump: “Democracies end when they are too democratic” by Andrew Sullivan in NY Magazine
- Onion’s parody of TED Talks
- Russ Poldrack’s lab page
- Brian Knutson’s page
Episode 28: Sports and Human Enhancement
- Mina Cikara’s “Snakes and Rattlers” experiment
- Scientific American article on Trump as a Psychopath
- “Fastball” documentary (starring Tim!)
- Neuroscouting: neuroscience meets baseball!
Episode 29: Democracy vs. Irrationality