David and Tamler return to David Hume’s somewhat slippery brand of skepticism, this time focusing Chapter 12 of his Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. Plus speaking of things to be skeptical about, we dive into a recent paper called “Your Brain on ChatGPT” – does neuroscience show that LLM users incur a “cognitive debt”? <a href= "https://www.edtechinnovationhub.com/news/mit-study-shows-chatgpt-reshapes-student-brain-function-and-reduces-creativity-when-used-from-the-start"> MIT study shows ChatGPT reshapes student brain function and reduces creativity when used from the start [edtechinnovationhub.com]</a> <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872v1#page=141.78">Your brain on ChatGPT [arxiv.org]</a> <a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jiunn-tyng-yeh-medical-ai-neurotech_people-are-sufferingyet-many-still-deny-activity-7339320656062312450-S14r/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAADY9qCcBc2e2ktJButJ8jzaxzP31H9nz-Yo"> People are suffering... [linkedin.com]</a> <a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Enquiry_Concerning_Human_Understanding"> David Hume's "An Enquiry Concerning Hunan Understanding"</a> [wikipedia.org] Hume's Enquiry Section 12: <a href= "https://davidhume.org/texts/e/12">Of the Academical or Sceptical Philosophy</a> [davidhume.org]

Episode 313: The Spontaneous Eruption of Now

Very Bad Wizards is a podcast featuring a philosopher (Tamler Sommers) and a psychologist (David Pizarro), who share a love for ethics, pop culture, and cognitive science, and who have a marked inability to distinguish sacred from profane. Each podcast includes discussions of moral philosophy, recent work on moral psychology and neuroscience, and the overlap between the two.