Think like a physicist. Wonder like a human. Into the Impossible is where Cosmic Conversations happen — uniting Nobel Prize winners, iconoclasts, authors, and technologists to explore reality’s deepest questions. From AI to aliens, from biophysics to the brain, from the cosmos to the multiverse, Brian Keating, Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor of Physics at UC San Diego covers it all. If you’ve ever asked What’s out there? or What’s next?, this is where curiosity meets clarity. Learn to think like this. 🎙 Full episodes, notes & more: briankeating.com/podcast
The existence of specified information and complex functional systems in nature suggests the necessity of a pre-existing conscious mind. AI’s "model collapse" phenomenon illustrates this dependency, as large language models progressively lose coherence without fresh, human-generated input, reinforcing the principle tha...
Superintelligent AI systems pose an existential risk because they are fundamentally uncontrollable and unpredictable. As these systems scale, they will eventually surpass human cognitive capacity, rendering human oversight impossible. The core challenge lies in the "control problem," where the mathematical limits of pr...
Consciousness functions as a software-based simulation rather than a physical phenomenon, with the self acting as a representation generated to regulate a biological organism. Intelligence is defined by the capacity to construct models and predict outcomes, suggesting that AGI must transcend current pattern-matching li...
Cognitive science and artificial intelligence share a fundamental goal: defining the mathematical structures that govern thought. While modern AI systems excel at processing vast datasets, they lack the innate inductive biases that allow humans to generalize effectively from limited information. Historical efforts to c...
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