Aaron Sloman is Emeritus/Honorary Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science at University of Birmingham, UK. He is a Fellow of Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour and European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence. In 2018, he became a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute. Sussex University awarded him an honorary Doctorate of Science in July 2006. The Sloman Lounge in the School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham is named in his honour. In 2020 the American Philosophical Association (APA) awarded him the K. Jon Barwise Prize "for significant and sustained contributions to areas relevant to philosophy and computing". He has published widely on philosophy of mathematics, epistemology, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence.

TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - Introduction
0:15 - Rethinking the term "Information"
8:50 - What is Life?
11:32 - Limits of Fundamental Physics (ft Anthony Leggett)
18:13 - Role of Philosophy in Science
21:50 - Aaron's diverse body of knowledge
25:40 - Information without Bits
28:20 - Cognition Before Language
32:52 - Intelligent Systems vs Consciousness
35:00 - Machines vs Biological Complexity
40:50 - Toward a Unified Theory of Life & Mind
44:25 - Exploring Science with a Novel Body of Knowledge
50:00 - The Mind-Body Problem
53:00 - Human Augmentation & Telos
56:44 - Aaron's Legacy
1:00:00 - What is Life by Erwin Schrödinger
1:02:15 - Building Upon the Shoulders of Giants
1:06:00 - Final Thoughts
1:08:14 - Conclusion

EPISODE LINKS:
- Aaron's Website 1: https://cogaffarchive.org/misc/whatlife.html
- Aaron's Website 2: https://cogaffarchive.org/evol-devol.html
- Aaron's Publications: https://tinyurl.com/43nb4xx2
- Aaron's Books: https://tinyurl.com/45wynvrz

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