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Podcast: Stay Human, from the Artificiality Institute
Episode: Blaise Agüera y Arcas: What Is Intelligence?
Description: In this conversation, we explore the nature of intelligence and life itself with Blaise Agüera y Arcas, VP and Fellow at Google and head of the Paradigms of Intelligence Lab. Blaise discusses his ambitious new book "What Is Intelligence?"—a work that bridges evolutionary biology, complexity science, artificial life, and AI to argue that intelligence fundamentally arises from computation, symbiosis, and the recursive modeling of minds.Blaise describes himself as "an inch deep with a few deeper wells" across disciplines, drawing from sources as diverse as Nick Lane's work on energetics, Darwin's evolution, and anarcho-communist Peter Kropotkin's 1910 treatise on...