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Nick Chater is Professor of Behavioural Science at Warwick Business School, who works on rationality and language using a range of theoretical and experimental approaches. We discuss his books The Mind is Flat, and the Language Game. Please support us on Patreon - - Access the private Discord, networking, and early access to content. MLST Discord: Part 2 on Patreon now: Would you like to sponsor MLST? Please contact mlstreettalk@ Buy The Language Game: Buy The Mind is Flat: Find Nick: TOC: 00:00:00 The mind of Anna Karenina 00:05:38 Our brain is like the Shoggoth 00:09:26 Brain simulations are incoherent 00:12:32 The world is gnarly 00:19:56 Human moral status 00:23:28 Living a hallucination 00:25:37 Colour perception 00:28:12 Universal knowledge? / rationalism 00:31:33 Math realism 00:35:13 Bayesian brain? 00:39:53 Language game Kick off - Charades 00:49:13 Evolution of language 00:53:54 Intelligence in the memesphere 00:58:21 Creativity 01:04:41 Language encoding and overloading 01:09:54 Analogical reasoning 01:13:25 Language is complex 01:14:19 Language evolution/decline 01:17:23 Is language knowledge? 01:19:53 Chomsky 01:23:36 Theories of everything 01:26:29 Prof Bishops comments on book 01:31:09 Singularity Interviewer: Dr. Tim Scarfe Pod version:
