Nick Chater is Professor of Behavioural Science at Warwick Business School, who works on rationality and language using a range of theoretical and experimental approaches. We discuss his books The Mind is Flat, and the Language Game. Please support us on Patreon - https://patreon.com/mlst - Access the private Discord, networking, and early access to content. MLST Discord: https://discord.gg/machine-learning-street-talk-mlst-937356144060530778 https://twitter.com/MLStreetTalk Part 2 on Patreon now: https://www.patreon.com/posts/language-game-1-98661649 Would you like to sponsor MLST? Please contact mlstreettalk@gmail.com Buy The Language Game: https://amzn.to/3SRHjPm Buy The Mind is Flat: https://amzn.to/3P3BUUC Find Nick: https://www.wbs.ac.uk/about/person/nick-chater/ https://twitter.com/nickjchater?lang=en TOC: 00:00:00 The mind of Anna Karenina 00:05:38 Our brain is like the Shoggoth 00:09:26 Brain simulations are incoherent 00:12:32 The world is gnarly 00:19:56 Human moral status 00:23:28 Living a hallucination 00:25:37 Colour perception 00:28:12 Universal knowledge? / rationalism 00:31:33 Math realism 00:35:13 Bayesian brain? 00:39:53 Language game Kick off - Charades 00:49:13 Evolution of language 00:53:54 Intelligence in the memesphere 00:58:21 Creativity 01:04:41 Language encoding and overloading 01:09:54 Analogical reasoning 01:13:25 Language is complex 01:14:19 Language evolution/decline 01:17:23 Is language knowledge? 01:19:53 Chomsky 01:23:36 Theories of everything 01:26:29 Prof Bishops comments on book 01:31:09 Singularity Interviewer: Dr. Tim Scarfe https://www.linkedin.com/in/ecsquizor/ Pod version: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/machinelearningstreettalk/episodes/Prof--Nick-Chater---The-Language-Game-Part-1-e2gh3dv