Do Explain with Christofer Lövgren

Christofer and writer Sarah Fitz-Claridge speak about Taking Children Seriously, a non-coercive educational philosophy, in this episode of Do Explain. They discuss creativity and fallibility, why Taking Children Seriously is not passive parenting, psychological coercion, parental authority, Popper's bucket theory of mind, keeping your child safe, problems with school, common objections to Tak...

Christofer and his buddy Charlie Jungheim answer questions from Twitter in this episode of Do Explain. They discuss issues with school and traditional education, explanationless science, human violence, self-driving cars, how physiology interacts with creativity, Covid-19, and other related topics. Charlie Jungheim is a philosophy YouTuber, impressionist, and musician from Laguna Beach, currently...

Christofer and teacher Michael Ashcroft speak about Alexander Technique (AT) and expanded awareness in this episode of Do Explain. They discuss the theory and purpose of AT, similarities and differences from other meditative frameworks, non-doing, bodymind, posture, mindfulness, contracted vs. expanded awareness, flow, and other related topics. They also answer questions from Twitter. Michael Ashc...

Christofer and metabolic nutritionist Marek Doyle speak about the human metabolism and chronic fatigue in this episode of Do Explain. They discuss Marek's six principles of health, the three stages of metabolic functioning, evidence-based medicine, the interaction between physiology and psychology, intermittent fasting, the myth of oversleeping, weight loss, exercise frequency, veganism, and...

Christofer and management consultant Bart Vanderhaegen speak about management consulting through a Popperian lens  in this episode of Do Explain. They discuss workplace hierarchies and problems with the standard model, the importance of error-correction in organizations, distributed problem solving, organizational reductionism, cooperation, autonomy, internal vs. external motivation, the concept o...

Christofer and intelligence researcher Dennis Hackethal speak about his new book, 'A Window on Intelligence', about the philosophy of people and why we need a unification of philosophy and software engineering to continue making progress in various fields, in this episode of Do Explain. They discuss problems with current AI-research and potential solutions, the biological evolution of in...

Christofer and physicist David Deutsch speak about why neither genetic nor 'environmental' determinism explain human choices in this episode of Do Explain. They discuss the horrors of prehistoric existence, gender norms, twin studies, the brain/mind distinction, universality of computation, cognitive bias, and other related topics. David Deutsch is a Visiting Professor of Physics at the...

Christofer and his buddy Charlie Jungheim speak about how to think about meditation in a Deutschian/Popperian framework in this episode of Do Explain. They discuss Kobe Bryant's recent passing, misconceptions of death, the value and pitfalls of meditation, the self, and other related topics. Charlie Jungheim is a philosophy YouTuber, impressionist, and musician from Laguna Beach, currently re...

Christofer and physicist Sam Kuypers speak about why the world is not best described as a mechanical clockwork of atoms in this episode of Do Explain. They discuss determinism and causality, myths in quantum physics, evolutionary psychology, and other related topics. Sam Kuypers , known as Crit_Rat on Twitter, is a DPhil student in physics at the University of Oxford. He researches foundational is...

Christofer and writer Lulie tanett speak about epistemology and its fundamental connection with fun in this episode of Do Explain. They discuss Justified True Belief, the Duhem-Quine Problem, meta discussion, hangups, suffering, willpower, and other related topics. Lulie Tanett is a writer from Oxford, England, specialising in applied critical rationalism. She writes about all things epistemology...

Christofer and his buddy Charlie Jungheim speak about how to apply David Deutsch's Critical Rationalism to one's life in this episode of Do Explain. They discuss meaning and interpretation, personal insight, Deutschian optimism, the usefulness of drugs, and other related topics. They also answer listener questions from Twitter. Charlie Jungheim is a philosophy YouTuber, impressionist, an...

Christofer and political writer Logan Chipkin speak about 'The Big Three' and the philosophical case against government in this episode of Do Explain. They discuss Constructor Theory and its implications, Praxeology and Austrian economics, Economic Creationism, and other related topics. Logan Chipkin is a freelance writer from Philadelphia who's articles have been featured in online...

Christofer and his buddy Charlie Jungheim speak about various aspects of David Deutsch's  worldview in this episode of Do Explain. They discuss the immorality of moral relativism, free will and the reality of abstractions, reductionism, and other related topics. Charlie Jungheim is a philosophy YouTuber, impressionist, and musician from Laguna Beach, currently residing in Palm Springs, Califo...

Christofer and his buddy Charlie Jungheim speak about David Deutsch's latest Ted Talk, 'After Billions of Years of Monotony, the Universe is Waking Up', in this episode of Do Explain. They discuss cultural evolution, memes, morality, the difference between closed and open societies, and other related topics. Charlie Jungheim is a philosophy YouTuber, impressionist, and musician from...

Christofer and software engineer Dennis Hackethal speak about everything to do with Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) in this episode of Do Explain. They discuss the problem of induction and how knowledge grows, the difference between AI and AGI, issues with current research approaches, the universality of computation, AI-risk, and other related topics. Dennis Hackethal is a software engineer...

Christofer and his buddy Charlie Jungheim speak about David Deutsch's latest book, 'The Befinning of Infinity', in this episode of Do Explain. They discuss human progress and its relation to problem-solving, good and bad explanations, what people fundamentally are, and other related topics. Charlie Jungheim is a philosophy YouTuber, impressionist, and musician from Laguna Beach, cur...