What made human civilisation successful is specialisation, delegation and distributed cognition. youtu.be/OLMdUQqWBLc?...
Humans Are Distributed Systems
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What made human civilisation successful is specialisation, delegation and distributed cognition. youtu.be/OLMdUQqWBLc?...
Humans Are Distributed Systems
YouTube video by Rahul Sam
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Sanjeev Namjoshi on the physics of life, intelligence and belief. youtu.be/JsZVS937GHk
Active Inference and Bayesian Mechanics
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"Freedom has always been best preserved by gifting it to others." - Peter Wolfendale youtu.be/xZ9ga9rpZeg?...
Peter Wolfendale on Building Artificial Souls
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Before discussing AGI, it's worth asking what we even mean by general intelligence. youtu.be/TNtf-YLgU0s?...
Do Humans Have General Intelligence?
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Michael Wheeler and Darius Parvizi-Wayne discuss subjectivity with CogSci and AI, relevance realization and the infamous frame problem. youtu.be/J8kDj53uxwE?...
Existentialism and Artificial Intelligence
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Interview with philosopher of computational neuroscience and historian of cognitive science and AI, Dr Danielle J. Williams. youtu.be/3og0I1h0QJI?...
Why Do We Think of the Brain as a Computer? (w/ Danielle J. Williams)
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Understanding, argue Matthieu Queloz and Pierre Beckmann, serves as an efficient proxy for a form of robust competence: it plays a fiduciary role, which is why a conceptual framework of genuine understanding is needed for AI research. youtu.be/Ci8ta645GWA?...
Do LLMs Understand?
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Hugh Grant and Andie MacDowell can teach philosophers a thing or two about precarity. youtu.be/MIPU7jThe0s?...
Primordial Tension, or the Philosophy of Four Weddings and a Funeral
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Holmberg writes, "Emotions are what they are only by the intervention of reason... Human agency can make emotions mean more than they are." youtu.be/X2poDtCSSkw?...
Damasio's Error
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What does Merleau Ponty mean by phenomenology is the study of essences? youtu.be/KnY78RG1Qx4?...
Merleau Ponty's Phenomenology
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Philosophy is not a progressive science, nor should it be. youtu.be/0yT_MUSiuNc
Analytic Philosophy Has No Classics | A Whiteheadian Provocation
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A philosophical critique of Bryan Johnson's psychedelic experiment. youtu.be/GoHDt-S9T3w?...
The Blind Spot of Bryan Johnson
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A discussion on why the best model for life is life itself. youtu.be/4y6neVzJ35k
Enactive Machines, Intelligence vs. Rationality, and Why Psychedelics Go Wrong
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How does the brain use the same amount of energy to solve Fermat's Last Theorem as it does to just doodle on a piece of paper? youtu.be/0zh6bh33W2w
A Philosopher's Question for AI Developers
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Currency is fungible: if I give a friend $20 and they give me two $10 notes, I still have $20. There is no change in the amount of money I have, as the indistinguishable units of currency are interchangeable. But this is not the case for intelligence. theunhappyman.substack.com/p/intelligen...
Intelligence Is Not Fungible
On Creating New State Spaces
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Can the masses engage in philosophy? youtu.be/kIyQTcSgALs
Philosophers Are Bad at Politics and Religion
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Tony of 1Dime on the rationality of religion. youtu.be/hIhvz2PdwNA
The Problem With “Spiritual but Not Religious” (w/ Tony of 1Dime)
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@jimpalmerauthor.bsky.social on the groundlessness of human existence. youtu.be/U-qeRPdhKGk
Existential Givens
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How does the paradox of space tell us about the incompleteness of reality? youtu.be/8EgMj70XF4s @katherineveritt.bsky.social
The Paradox of Space
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AI researchers are racing to develop LLMs with persistent memory. But these efforts are motivated by a category error because context is neither information nor fungible. youtu.be/38IJaGHqKQ0
Do LLMs Actually Have Context?
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Interview with complexity theorist and philosopher of science, Alicia Juarrero. youtu.be/cE7-2xJdIcA?...
Where Did Analytic Philosophy Go Wrong? (w/ Alicia Juarrero)
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What if the human brain is structurally antagonistic? youtu.be/mIpnPrItDUg?...
Consciousness Enjoying Uncertainty
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Either the project of grounding mathematics in logic is impossible, or logic is more complicated than we had originally suspected. youtu.be/5m3CymmhNFg
How Gödel Changed Logic
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Check out our author Alicia Juarrero on Rahul Sam's YouTube channel! The full podcast will be out on April 16. Haven't got a copy of 'Why Context Matters' yet? You can get one here: www.imprint.co.uk/product/cont...
Philosopher and complexity theorist Alicia Juarrero argues that 20th-century biology was one of the first sciences to challenge the positivist, Newtonian causal metaphysics of Anglophone philosophy, which ignored context and mereology. youtu.be/0v7FQhKBKCE
Philosopher and complexity theorist Alicia Juarrero argues that 20th-century biology was one of the first sciences to challenge the positivist, Newtonian causal metaphysics of Anglophone philosophy, which ignored context and mereology. youtu.be/0v7FQhKBKCE
How Biology Changed Philosophy
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Computationalism has had many critics in the philosophy of mind since the 1980s. Andrea Hiott and I, however, discuss the possibility that despite the well-founded criticisms, dynamic computational theories have a depth yet to be explored. youtu.be/WSGu3dOZ7fU
The Dialectic of Computationalism
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Andrea Hiott and I discuss pretty much everything. youtu.be/ZqlVhnaI3u0?...
The Marvels of Computationalism, Radical Embodiment and Holding Paradox (w/ Andrea Hiott)
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If LLMs have world models, they must be radically different to ours. youtu.be/mud6ipsLmWk?...
Mechanistic Indicators of World Models in LLMs
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Few people, if any, would now accept the Hegelian contention that there are dialetheias (true contradictions). It is the main claim of Graham Priest that Hegel was right: our concepts, or some of them anyway, are inconsistent, and produce dialetheias. youtu.be/zg_mdD8jI0A?...
Was Hegel (and Marx) a Dialetheist?
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Graham Harman and @footnotes2plato.substack.com discuss why philosophy is more than pure logical analysis. youtu.be/YPgiLm6nVso?...
Whitehead on the Aim of Philosophy
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