Guest: Dr. Daniel Dennett
How do intelligent systems determine which facts remain relevant when situations change? Does the frame problem reveal fundamental limits to symbolic AI or just engineering challenges?
Guest: Dr. Gregory Chaitin
Can we define the information content of an object as the length of the shortest program that produces it? What do incompressible strings reveal about randomness, and what are the limits of mathematical proof?
Guest: Dr. Karl Friston
Can all adaptive systems be understood as minimizing variational free energy? Does the free energy principle unify perception, action, and learning under a single mathematical framework, or does it merely redescribe biological processes?
Guest: Dr. Michael Friedman
Can all scientific knowledge be unified through formal logical structure and observational reduction? What happened to the Vienna Circle's program, and what lessons remain for contemporary philosophy of science?
Guest: Dr. Graham Priest
How should logic handle self-referential statements like the Liar Paradox? Do dialetheic logics that permit true contradictions reveal deep features of reality, or do they simply abandon rational constraints on thought?
Guest: Dr. Judea Pearl
Can causation be formalized through intervention and counterfactuals? What distinguishes genuine causal relationships from mere correlation, and how can we infer causation from observational data?