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kindlecast.bsky.social @kindlecast.bsky.social · 3h

AI talks like us — so we think it feels like us.
Anil Seth explains why our brains project consciousness onto machines — and why that’s more about us than about AI.
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kindlecast.bsky.social @kindlecast.bsky.social · 9h

What you see isn’t reality — it’s your brain’s best guess.
Anil Seth explains why perception is a “controlled hallucination” — and why that doesn’t mean the world isn’t real.
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kindlecast.bsky.social @kindlecast.bsky.social · 1d

The “self” isn’t something you have.
It’s something your brain builds — every moment.
Anil Seth explains the science of being you.
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kindlecast.bsky.social @kindlecast.bsky.social · 1d

What if reality is just your brain’s best guess?
Neuroscientist Anil Seth joins Dark Matter, Bright Minds to explore consciousness, perception, and the science of being you.
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kindlecast.bsky.social @kindlecast.bsky.social · 2d

Reality doesn’t care about your brain.
But your experience of it does.
Anil Seth on dreams, consciousness, and how your brain creates entire worlds.
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kindlecast.bsky.social @kindlecast.bsky.social · 2d

We can explain the universe — but not consciousness.
Anil Seth on why the hardest mystery in science is us.

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kindlecast.bsky.social @kindlecast.bsky.social · 10d

“Bioweapons are not research. They are war crimes.”
Dr. Ian Lipkin: No evidence that India, US, Europe, or Australia are making them.
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kindlecast.bsky.social @kindlecast.bsky.social · 10d

Hundreds of children were dying of encephalitis in Gorakhpur.
Dr. Ian Lipkin: Discovery of rickettsia + tetracycline treatment ended the outbreaks.
Public health wins rarely make headlines.
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kindlecast.bsky.social @kindlecast.bsky.social · 11d

From smallpox to the first SARS outbreak — lab leaks have happened before.
Dr. Ian Lipkin on accidents, sloppiness, and the risks when science spills into society.

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kindlecast.bsky.social @kindlecast.bsky.social · 11d

In this episode of Dark Matter, Bright Minds, Dr. Ian Lipkin — Columbia University’s John Snow Professor of Epidemiology — shares decades of insight into global health.

Full Episode now streaming on YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

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kindlecast.bsky.social @kindlecast.bsky.social · 12d

A device that detects outbreaks in hours, fits in a car trunk, and could transform global health.
Dr. Ian Lipkin: We just need $5M to build it.

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kindlecast.bsky.social @kindlecast.bsky.social · 13d

AI can scan data for outbreaks.But it can’t replace gumshoe epidemiology.
Dr. Ian Lipkin on why outbreak surveillance still needs humans.
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kindlecast.bsky.social @kindlecast.bsky.social · 13d

“The risk of pandemics is greater than ever.” — Dr. Ian Lipkin
From poverty to politics, instability fuels outbreaks. Only science & global collaboration can save us.

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kindlecast.bsky.social @kindlecast.bsky.social · 13d

The next threat isn’t “one mutation away.”
Dr. Ian Lipkin: The real issue is neglected surveillance & situational awareness for new viruses.
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kindlecast.bsky.social @kindlecast.bsky.social · 14d

Growing pathogens in labs ≠ making weapons.
Dr. Ian Lipkin: Biodefense research (US, India, Europe, China) is about vaccines & preparedness — not bioweapons.
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kindlecast.bsky.social @kindlecast.bsky.social · 14d

No UN inspectors. Satellite images of rebuilt labs.
Dr. Ian Lipkin: Russia & North Korea’s facilities raise serious bioweapons concerns.

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kindlecast.bsky.social @kindlecast.bsky.social · 15d

Sudden deaths ≠ proof against vaccines.
Dr. Ian Lipkin: Vaccine skepticism must be met with evidence, not fear. Correlation is not causation.
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kindlecast.bsky.social @kindlecast.bsky.social · 15d

“Bioweapons don’t stop at first impact. They replicate.”
Dr. Ian Lipkin on why offensive biological weapons research is so alarming.
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kindlecast.bsky.social @kindlecast.bsky.social · 15d

Dr. Ian Lipkin, Columbia epidemiologist & global health leader, joins Dark Matter, Bright Minds to talk pandemics, biosecurity & the fight against future outbreaks.
🎙 Coming soon on Kindle Cast.

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kindlecast.bsky.social @kindlecast.bsky.social · 15d

Will we ever know where COVID-19 began?
Dr. Ian Lipkin explains why the SARS-CoV-2 trail has gone cold — and why missing samples make certainty impossible.
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kindlecast.bsky.social @kindlecast.bsky.social · 16d

Will we ever know where COVID-19 began?
Dr. Ian Lipkin explains why the SARS-CoV-2 trail has gone cold — and why missing samples make certainty impossible.
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kindlecast.bsky.social @kindlecast.bsky.social · 24d

Are there still “events” in math — ruptures that redefine truth?
Marcus du Sautoy on Badiou, Cohen, and why such breakthroughs are vanishingly rare.

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kindlecast.bsky.social @kindlecast.bsky.social · 24d

Is “nothingness” really empty?
Marcus du Sautoy links Indian philosophy’s sunyata with set theory’s empty set — the starting point of mathematics.

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kindlecast.bsky.social @kindlecast.bsky.social · 25d

God or a teapot orbiting Earth?

Marcus du Sautoy: Some assumptions will always crash. Others — like Gödel’s infinities — endure.

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kindlecast.bsky.social @kindlecast.bsky.social · 25d

Are we just physicalized mathematics?

Marcus du Sautoy: From prime numbers to quarks, math — not magic — explains why the universe holds together.

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