Noam Chomsky on Terence McKenna, Sam Harris, GPT3, Cryptocurrencies, Kierkegaard, and Hofstadter

Noam Chomsky talks about group selection, his own death, the Piraha language, and more, it his widest varied interview yet.

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00:00:00 Introduction
00:02:17 Iain McGilchrist: Language without thought?
00:06:54 Stuart Hameroff: X bar structure in microtubules
00:11:16 Roger Penrose's Emperor's New Mind
00:11:59 Veno Volenec: Derivational Theory of Complexity and Generative Grammar
00:20:02 Existentialism and Kierkegaard [John Clever]
00:21:00 Sam Harris and Islam [Naman Jain]
00:21:54 Terrance McKenna and Stoned Ape Theory (psychedelics aiding language development / evolution)
00:22:58 Group Selection [Slaventhefourth]
00:23:32 Cryptocurrencies and decentralizing money [ThrowingSn0w]
00:31:35 Elon Musk's Neuralink [Tarek]
00:31:56 Douglas Hofstadter strange loop and generative grammar [Ryan]
00:34:25 Peter Singer’s “Drowning Child” Thought Experiment [The_platypus_king]
00:42:31 Steven Pinker
00:43:48 Yuval Harari's Sapiens and the origin of language as introspective [Brez]
00:49:50 Piraha language and Daniel Everett [Mahendra Varma]
00:54:40 Karl Friston's free energy principle [MediocreBat2]
00:55:03 What does Chomsky get awestruck by? [Mai April]
01:03:58 Žižek / Hegel / Heidegger [Zowhat]
01:06:23 What mysteries would Chomsky want solved? [Mai April]
01:11:44 Open AI and GPT-3
01:12:22 Do you fear death? [Wil-Waal]
01:12:40 How to be more like Chomsky? [Overboi1]

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