Stories of Emotional GranularitY

A podcast Exploring the diversity of human experience

Happiness
Jonathan Cook Jonathan Cook

Happiness

Perhaps happiness is a feeling that just happens to happen, whether we deserve it or not.

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Love
Jonathan Cook Jonathan Cook

Love

What is love, if people can feel love for so many different things in so many different ways? How are all of these different kinds of love still love?

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Bonus EpIsode - On Curiosity And Generative AI
Jonathan Cook Jonathan Cook

Bonus EpIsode - On Curiosity And Generative AI

Generative AI models such as ChatGPT are celebrated as superior sentient beings when they produce bad imitations of basic human work. At the same time, complex human consciousness is dismissed as flat. What are the consequences of this lopsided cultural interpretation of technology, and what are the implications for the emotion of curiosity?

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