The Purpose Podcast

Siddhant Pusdekar

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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Thinking the Unthinkable with the Mebêngôkre (ft Charbel El-Hani)
Jun 19 2024
Thinking the Unthinkable with the Mebêngôkre (ft Charbel El-Hani)
https://youtu.be/Bs4ne_PBylY?feature=shared

Episodes

Thinking the Unthinkable with the Mebêngôkre (ft Charbel El-Hani)
Jun 19 2024
Thinking the Unthinkable with the Mebêngôkre (ft Charbel El-Hani)
https://youtu.be/Bs4ne_PBylY?feature=shared
David Oderberg & The Philosophy of Making Mistakes
Apr 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/
Further And Further And Further Back In Time
Feb 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 lifePapers referenced in this episode Genes from Junk DNAhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-022-01925-6.pdfPapers on directionality in evolution by Joanna Masel https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7153934/https://elifesciences.org/articles/57347https://academic.oup.com/genetics/article/211/4/1345/5931507
Evolution x Design - Butterfly Wing Wallpaper
Dec 9 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 wallpaperIn 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 MinnesotaArtwork 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 FoundationMusic (In order of appearance)Aimless Walk by Silicon TransmitterEmotions Are Alright With Me by GebSourced from the Free Music Archive
Finding Order in Malady
Oct 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 PusdekarEpisode cover art by Bernie CookMusic (In order of appearance)Aimless Walk by Silicon TransmitterWhere everything begins by dróbEmotions Are Alright With Me by GebSourced from the Free Music Archive