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I never tire of watching (and re-watching) your videos. Thank you.

Geometry is the FATHER of Mythomagics. All Mythomagics is, is either an Abstract Geometry or a Dynamical Geometry with respect to Time. They've been writing Science Fiction with numerology and taking us all for a ride.

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How odd that where I became familiar with technology as an extension of the mind is from archaeology, not even a pure cognitive field. This was a theme back in the early 2000s for a small niche of European archeologists like Lambros Malifouris, Carl Knappett, John Sutton, and others, based on the philosophy of Andy Clark

I feel so lucky to be able to listen to this... having access to a brilliant mind / very thoughtful and careful, clear teacher through the internet. in my sitting room. An amazing thing.

randomness can be any pattern, and it has nothing to do with weirdness relative to an alleged non-random pattern. it confounds any pattern we ever found in data; it is entirely possible that all events/occurrences/happenings are brutely random. so no, it does make sense. what's far harder to plausify is all the speculative metaphysics of non-random chains of causation, relation, dependence, fundamentality, governance relations, virtual & potential & possible & platonic structures... now that's wildly implausible and lacking empirically meaningful motivation. we'll never be able to escape the randomness confound.

if bare wavefunction realism is speculative metaphysics, then all this vague gesturing at 'the virtual, the possible, the potential' realms is speculative metaphysics to the power of infinity.

Would it be inaccurate to call it Panhensionism? Might roll of the tongue better, but either way, I appreciate the goal of reframing pansychism and enjoyed the discussion!

host: please consider using simpler, clearer language and less pseudo-profound onanistic logorrheic waffling. whiteheadian, vervaekean, thompsonian... zingers & buzzwords obscure, don't explicate. might be a cliché, but if you understand what they mean with these neologisms, you can probably explain that without using these terms. these zingers are annoying and frankly, unnecessary. their utility is mostly exhausted by propping up their marketability and memetic potential. it's not that you shouldn't use them at all, but rather that your sentences are contorted and torturously rife with these magic zingers AND way more often than not, you don't explain them. combined with your relaxed speaking, you just sound like a guru or a charismatic cult leader or an enchanted cult member that's speaking gibberish, just riffing under the spell of vacuous memes and exalted experiences, gesturing at 'there's definitely something else!'

Really nice treatment. I learned Hegel under Bob Solomon at Texas and you capture some of the playful bounce Hegel can be read with.

The “golden age of autodidacts” - love it. I hope yours truly is a good, golden, example.

He is not delayed, we are.

On the forms of computation have you considered so called deep learning, from (successful) AI?

You have no idea how important the work you are doing is going to be to humanity in this century and the ones to come. Please do not relent!

You guys should interview Yogi

Someone brought up quantum computing in a really important way. A computer system that collapsed reality by using our collective consciousness would feel like it was our choice in a deep way. I mean, if the current limited and gated applications r directed toward transcendental processes, like RR. Not random but precognitive processes. Like instantly, someone who has never played baseball is capable of hitting a 100mph fastball with regularity. That would require a tech leap that supports a massive integration into cyborgness we would ethically have a hard time with societally.

The production of random hypothesis is a useless proposal. The number of such proposals is uncountably vast. Purely arbitrary generation would doom any system to endlessly useless proposals until dies. Human creativity does not demonstrate pure randomness. In fact, it looks like human beings cannot generate randomness. The problem of relevance realization is finding something between the arbitrary and the algorithmic which are both combinatorially explosive. Simply invoking intuition is not explaining anything. It is pointing to something that needs explanation. All the work I have done on insight is about this. Invoking chance in evolution is misleading. The main proposal of RR theory is that it operates according to the same principles as biological evolution. Evolution is the codependence of variation ( which is not completely random but mutation, genetic drift, autocatalytic closure, etc., within biological constraint) and selection. The point about a needed ontology is well placed. I have been making an argument that once RR is grounded in 4E cog. sci. ( as we did in the paper) we can see that such 4E cog. sci. is grounded in a Neoplatonic ontology. All the work on transcendent naturalism is about this. One can only do so much in one paper. Happy to talk with the two of you about all of this is you would like. Finally, gratitude for the respect and care shown in this critique.

Explains alot about how my braincells perceive my existence to provide a syncronous feeling of self as a unit system.

I'm sorry but the claim that Wittgenstein was a linguistic idealist of aby sort is quite wrong. Of course you can call him anti realist in metaphysics, but that would be misleading. The real world is out there for him, its just the world that we actually live our lives in, not the world of metaphysical theories. Though what Rorty did to wittgenstein and what he said himself is not my concern, perhaps you are right about him. Of course I'm speaking about "2nd Wittgenstein". BTW its important to note that while Tractatus was important to the Vienna Circle, Wittgenstein wasnt in any way a logical positivist. You dont suggest that, but people watching might get confused.

Thank you both.

Interesting to think about collective action not requiring a person to perform that action, and the understanding of why to do it pulling those that do it consciously from where? The future? The great human oversoul? A statistical appreciation of reality would allow compromise. Yet I can see where that goes wrong, to collect a butterfly and stick it to a board doesn't seem to matter statistically since there are many of them. The information can be collected, a collective object but not moving like the collective action, which is important if the moving not the objects are the being, but the knowledge can be reengaged or reapplied into being again (folding these static objects back in) so a collective free will possible. Collectors who share, and collectors who don't, individual free choice.

I wonder what Michael Levin at Tufts would think to learn that Whitehead talks about every particle being a society. Levin emphasizes that cells are societies.

When read shackspeare or in that time searching the roots of civilization and alphabetical exodus they begin noticing moral realism . Thermodynamical systems being judged with equal measure.. Steam engine is gonna gain alot from the social mindset just like how are all on line now going back to find out what 1700s-1800s esoterica America already learned lol

Richard finneman Prayer logic would've asked specific question about steam engine specific system and predicted a specific industrial revolution. Mosaic subjective complexities within code of measure dug out. Prayer logic whataboutism platonic macro micro cast systeming Curses blessings Socrates face value idealistic physical. Indecension nilhisms hulucinations etc etc etc You know anthropic copying newton does from the sepretist puritans dacarte did he couldn't help put the dualistic European spin on it leaving soul agency for hamiltonian to anthromorphize . Platonic macro micro choked it out sepretated ancient face value knowledge blocking the ability to dig out subjective complexities.. Subjective complexities is what everyone will denounce moms to fight and save platonic or everything physicalism naturalism worshiping anthromorphized Curses and blessings addition subtraction these idealistic forces faiths & physical works are all emerging energetic actors in us that we prescribe onto the courts ,economic weights and measure

Because my ancestors took the keys to the cosmos textualism methodology objectivism specifically encoding king James English plus usa by design built anchored to one day code future beast of burden shining capital on the means of production it's tuned & weighted for self drivers you name it built for it. Usa is the laboratory based on 1700s-1800s esoterica America mosaic triality of self canvas where Ben Franklin father refused to send Ben to learn under the European educations abstract Euclidean minds good memorization skills tend to be niave passive etc. Of course Prussian used it for recruiting soldiers originally Obviously, 1900s structuralism call to arms platonic posterity in America the last 100 years as we granted liberal power to gov/ higher education deterministic simplicity and unification pushing the infinite sums of complexity upon many different diciplines and personal actors of response. 20 yr old Cannon fodder necessary evils to everything physicalism class transfer wealth push complexity on free flow of information likeminded word. We recruited army's of mathematicians turned schools into recruitment by design antithetical to enriching young minds to better navigate the world. Censorship of all things pragmatic common sense Christian objectivism proper. This would say no magic Matter huxlys panspermia no single orgin mud puddle struck by lightning space is a bottleneck.. It says astronomical energy density on earth molecular structures in a epoch we call cambrian explosion of life diversity very strongly grounded indentefiers.. Population species ordering to radical & extreme We did prenticious clocklike prescribed realism over anti realism to further over time lines of measure grand unified babylonian evolutionary cosmogony

Renesance men. 🧐

Computer industry putting stock in people rather than truth? History will most probably (Heisenberg joke) reveal that the quest for quantum computers was undertaken, ironically, because of faith in a particular interpretation of QM that turned out to be incorrect. And then maybe they can argue wether or not we're just living in a verse where they are not possible yet. Thank you gentlemen.

Abduction - Relevance Deduction - Realization Induction - Recursion Transduction - Relation

Great conversation!

That coffee kicked in hard!! Ooft Tim on a total tear up through that opening half hour. Matt didn’t stand a chance with his slowly reflective GnT. Good work however…….fascinating discussion.

Oops. My slogan is “open-ended evolution does not *begin with* life, open-ended evolution *enables* life” - just in case anyone is confused by my slip of the tongue just prior to the 29 minute mark.

weird, I just saw your video come up on youtube notifications, forgot who you were and why I even subbed. Im wearing nearly the same shirt and have a goa tee also, brown hair and a thin brown mustache

"the Global Ecological Crisis...(as)...a crisis of human consciousness, that the root of that external decimation that we see happening in the Earth, is found within the human mind". Brilliant, and so true. Great starting point -- I'm hooked.

Great gyan

At the end, mentorship and alleviating the financial stress are two solutions that come together in the pay forward community where graduates are welcome guests (philosophers in residence) give talks in a local space to mentor, travel or go online to be mentored and have a decent, affordable home. By engaging in the pay forward the philosopher is embedded in a virtuous system. Also a new political level possibly, between the family and the municipal. Important because climate change events will focus governments and cost lots, which leaves an untrustworthy big business sector more in charge. A really agile conversation, thank you. More!

This conversation, although extremely interesting, draws me toward the Ouroboros. I wonder what Ludwig Wittgenstein would say about this conversation . Moreover Nietzsche drive theory might be a beginning. However enjoyed the conversation

I truly can't thank you enough for this video. You are giving shape, giving voice, to a level of meaning that I feel I want to express, but find almost inexpressible. I have known from early childhood that beauty was the great underlying thought of nature. Bringing that thought to the surface, giving it a frame. with its attendant arising thoughts, developing a relationship to it, is my life's best work. I am 85, so that gives you a context for my words, and for my gratitude.

excellent !

On communication of thought: There is a realy great insight from training martial arts: Teachers will often train their students "at their own level" (the teachers level), forgetting that they themselves had to go through a whole history of training, in order to be able to do and understand what they are trying to teach their students.... Similarly I think many thinkers try, in discussions with other thinkers, to present only the fruits of their latest thoughts instead of conveying the feeling of the whole argument. Which makes it impossible to understand (actually understand, empathically) what they are trying to convey. 😕 I think true understanding must be felt. It can't be merely logically deduced. Which is why I truly appreciate and admire these (recurring) discussions with different people!👍🏼 Thank you for sharing!💕

On pluralism: The more inclusive perspective will end up being the more powerful ("dominant" in evolution) one. (No?) So plurality might be the driver of progress, since it challenges the status quo to become even more inclusive...? Presuming anyone is interested in integration and not just analysis... (as it seams you two suggest is what's happening in universities!??) So let's do this integrative philosophy!?!😊👍🏼 Who's on board?😄

running into two folks like yall irl would be like stumbling into a unicorn talking with a gnome without the aid of psychedelics, glad i am able to observe these rare encounters

The concept of a toroidal shaped universe seems to be a " Theory of everything". It gives us a map to test our ideas on everything from quantum physics to biology, and everything in between.

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well done sir! You made me want to reexamine Hegel now that you laid out the path

This is absurd; nonsensical.

around 35 min Matt says knowledge is sacred and it seems understanding is sacred, where information moves to knowledge then understanding. Knowledge by itself isn't tied to action as an autopoetic expression, which reduces trust, so I can trust someone's skills but not their person, which makes their skills irrelevant. It's possible that information is sacred also: I'll think about knowledge, thanks. The thing about knowledge is that it can guide one thru two settings for compromise, where one compromises in the short term but not in the long term because that locks one into a lower level of perception. One uses pain killers as needed as opposed to an addict, and knowing of the addictive qualities helps avoid traps. Similar tricky mind mechanisms hold information in triggers that move one onto the philosophical silk road, perhaps. Past knowledge to understanding as peaks and valleys instead of a flat ontology, since it opens up and follows what's there. also ritual as allowing the sacred, where the impact of the knowledge is a switch that has a certain threshold to cross, and this jump causes ripples that need time to subside or will corrupt the harmonics in a most discombobulating way. Switch bounce, avoided by allowance as intelligent as in the attention span.

Steiner goes through the whole whitehead experience in his gospel of luke. Materialists understand things incorrectly. If you TRULY want to understand our reality steiner is the ONLY authority. He was gifted the highest degree of seership. Your comparing materialistic abstraction in whitehead and true concrete reality in steiner. You must FEEL steiners work and not simply intellectually digest it. Good work shining a light on him. Steiner was a gift erased from history by Ahriman and his cohorts.