The Purpose Podcast

Siddhant Pusdekar
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Through the purpose podcast we will meet people involved in the Biological Purpose Project. They include experimentalists, theoreticians, and philosophers working on a range of problems from curing cancer to the conservation of the biosphere. In each episode, we delve into the unexpected ways in which they're blending philosophy and science.

Episodes

  1. Aug 20

    How the earth shapes life and natural selection with Richard Boyle

    In the 1960s the search for alien life inspires the chemist James Lovelock to imagine that life, if it occurred anywhere in the universe would be accompanied by an atmosphere that was in constant flux. He called this the Gaia hypothesis. Since then the idea has been subject to constant misinterpretation. In this episode, Siddhant talks to Richard Boyle about what the Gaia hypothesis is, what it isn't how planetary scale dynamics interact with life and natural selection. This episode assumes some knowledge of earth systems and evolution. Richard's paper describing an attempt to Darwinize Gaia https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/reader/10.1098/rstb.2024.0087

    How the earth shapes life and natural selection with Richard Boyle

  2. 06/19/2024

    Thinking the Unthinkable with the Mebêngôkre (ft Charbel El-Hani)

    https://youtu.be/Bs4ne_PBylY?feature=shared

    Thinking the Unthinkable with the Mebêngôkre (ft Charbel El-Hani)

  3. 04/22/2024

    David Oderberg & The Philosophy of Making Mistakes

    David Oderberg is a professor of philosophy at the University of Reading. In this episode he talks about why he got into philosophy, why philosophy is important for the study of living things and the theory of mistakes he's developing along with the rest of the Mistakes in Living Systems team. Find out more about his work - https://www.davidsoderberg.co.uk/

    David Oderberg & The Philosophy of Making Mistakes

  4. 02/16/2024

    Further And Further And Further Back In Time

    Host Siddhant Pusdkekar speaks to Joanna Masel about how she stumbled upon a 4 billion year old trend and a problem that evolution has been trying to solve since the beginning of life Papers referenced in this episode Genes from Junk DNA https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-022-01925-6.pdf Papers on directionality in evolution by Joanna Masel https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7153934/ https://elifesciences.org/articles/57347 https://academic.oup.com/genetics/article/211/4/1345/5931507

    Further And Further And Further Back In Time

  5. 12/09/2023

    Evolution x Design - Butterfly Wing Wallpaper

    Emilie Snell-Rood convinces people that studying weird animals can be useful for designing things. Jessica Rossi-Mastracci is looking forward to playing with bioinspired designs, one of which may or may not be a butterfly wing wallpaper In this episode of The Purpose Podcast we meet a designer and an evolutionary biologist who are working together to bring light into a dark corner of the University of Minnesota Artwork by Bernie Cook, who is open to requests (nardcook13@gmail.com) The Purpose podcast is hosted and produced by Siddhant Pusdekar (pusde001@umn.edu) and is brought to you by the Biological Purpose Project (https://www.biologicalpurpose.org/) funded by The John Templeton Foundation Music (In order of appearance) Aimless Walk by Silicon Transmitter Emotions Are Alright With Me by Geb Sourced from the Free Music Archive

    Evolution x Design - Butterfly Wing Wallpaper

  6. 10/18/2023

    Finding Order in Malady

    Ramray Bhat is an associate professor at the Indian Institute of Science in Banagalore, India. He studies how collectives of cancer cells migrate and metastasize to new organs within the human body. To learn more about the Biological Purpose Project visit - https://www.biologicalpurpose.org/ Podcast produced by Siddhant Pusdekar Episode cover art by Bernie Cook Music (In order of appearance) Aimless Walk by Silicon Transmitter Where everything begins by drób Emotions Are Alright With Me by Geb Sourced from the Free Music Archive

    Finding Order in Malady
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Through the purpose podcast we will meet people involved in the Biological Purpose Project. They include experimentalists, theoreticians, and philosophers working on a range of problems from curing cancer to the conservation of the biosphere. In each episode, we delve into the unexpected ways in which they're blending philosophy and science.

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  • Creator
    Siddhant Pusdekar
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    6
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Siddhant Pusdekar, The Biological Purpose Project 2023
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    The Purpose Podcast