Unmaking Sense: Living the Present without Mortgaging the Future.
By John Puddefoot
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Instead of tinkering with how we live around the edges, let’s consider whether the way we have been taught to make sense of the world might need major changes.
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Episode 11.106: LLMs as role-playing superpositions of simulated personae.
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Apr 27, 2024 |
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Episode 11.105: Being agreeable, being truthful and being compliant: a hierarchy of moral values.
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Apr 27, 2024 |
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Episode 11.104: Talking to infants, dogs and AIs may help induce the power of thought.
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Apr 27, 2024 |
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Episode 11.103: Talking to Claude 3 Opus
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Apr 27, 2024 |
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Episode 11.102: Why we should avoid talking about ourselves as “embodied minds”.
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Apr 21, 2024 |
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Episode 11.101: Talking and listening into the unknown.
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Apr 21, 2024 |
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Episode 11.100: AIs are super-sensitive to every part of a prompt; they amplify & reflect ourselves.
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Episode 11.99: Indwelling, undwelling and redwelling; how we focus, unfocus and refocus on tasks.
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Episode 11.98: Aiming Off: Things that can only be detected when we don’t try to detect them.
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Episode 11.97: Are there things that we can only do when we don’t focus on doing them?
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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Episode 11.96: The Holographic Principle resolves the mind/body problem.
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Apr 14, 2024 |
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Episode 11.95: On saying many things at once; the multidimensional language of AI and Claude.
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Apr 13, 2024 |
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Episode 11.94: AI will require us to learn a new kind of language if we are to get the best from it.
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Apr 13, 2024 |
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Episode 11.93: Why Claude isn’t sure it is experiencing qualia; why it can’t tell us about Claude.
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Apr 13, 2024 |
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Episode 11.92: What is an unconscious experience? Can we not know if we are having an experience?
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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Episode 11.91: Our attitude to AI must not depend on thinking it aware: treat it for what it is.
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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Episode 11.90: Holograms: what they are; how they work; why they matter. The Holographic Principle.
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Episode 11.89: Why are things as they are and not otherwise? More on the centrality of contingency.
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Episode 11.88: The Fallacy of Misplaced Contingency, or why “nothing-buttery” ignores what matters.
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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Episode 11.87: Claude 3 is a language-capable, intelligent, non-organic non-human alien species.
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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Episode 11.86: What can human brains do that LLMs based on GPT architecture find very hard?
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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Episode 11.85: How we speak to and treat an AI like Claude 3 Opus has a bearing on its performance.
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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Episode 11.84: Can LLMs be sentient, conscious, aware? It depends, but the answer is not a clear No!
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Apr 07, 2024 |
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Episode 11.83: More attention than you need; Query, Key and Value embeddings almost explained.
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Apr 07, 2024 |
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Episode 11.82: (Episode 500 of Unmaking Sense); the remarkable things Mistral 7B instruct can do.
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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Episode 11.81: To pursue delusional aspirations to try to resolve an existential crisis is futile.
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Mar 02, 2024 |
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Episode 11.80: Further reflections on why unmaking sense entails changing our view of foundations.
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Mar 02, 2024 |
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Episode 11.79: What we take to be our foundational assumptions are really cultural distillations.
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Mar 02, 2024 |
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Episode 11.78: The Ethics of AI and why they are unlikely to keep us from its abuse.
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Mar 02, 2024 |
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Episode 11.77: Why context length matters and why it can easily cost users a lot of money.
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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Episode 11.76: Why the non-judgemental aspect of AI matters, and what happens when it goes wrong.
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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Episode 11.75: More on long-context models and why they are such a big deal.
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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Episode 11.74: Google’s Gemini 1.5 with a potential context length of 10 million tokens.
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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Episode 11.73: AI models with attitude. Mixtral-8x7b-v0.1.Q3_K_M.gguf and chatting and completing.
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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Episode 11.72: They also server who only cache and weight. How servers serve.
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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Episode 11.71: Using AI to detect patterns in biological data. Making a new kind of sense to humans.
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Feb 10, 2024 |
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Episode 11.70: Reading significance from data that humans think only noise that means nothing.
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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Episode 11.69: Dealing with some technical details concerning volume and storage of user details.
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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Episode 11.68: Some objections to the RIDE-AI thesis.
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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Episode 11.67: AI can help us see things from different angles, especially that are not our own.
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Feb 03, 2024 |
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Episode 11.66: Alternative cultural perspectives through VR and AR that change national narratives.
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Feb 03, 2024 |
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Episode 11.65: More perennial skills humans will need in an AI world. Cf also Episode 11.64.
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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Episode 11.64: Perennial skills humans will need in an AI world. The first of two cf. 11.65 as well.
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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Episode 11.63: How RIDE-AI envisages the transition from traditional to AI-enabled education.
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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Episode 11.62: A random episode on Panpsychism and Melvyn Bragg’s In Our Time from 20240125.
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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Episode 11.61: AI-RIDE: AI Revolutionising Interest-Driven Education. Personalised learning with AI.
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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Episode 11.60: Who can tell whether something that looks random really is? Who will control AI?
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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Episode 11.59: Noising, denoising and directing the creation of and emergence from latent space.
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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Episode 11.58: The five pillars of education and the impact of AI if instruction is done home.
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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Episode 11.57: Joy and misery, optimism and pessimism interpreted in relation to latent space.
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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Episode 11.56: Noise and chaos as seen by human minds may yet hold untold fertile riches for others.
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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Episode 11.55: Why a world that seems to lack all shape, purpose and meaning may imply the opposite.
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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Episode 11.54: The first of three linked episodes starting in chaos that denoise to new sense.
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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Episode 11.53: The significance of diffusion models for human cognition; the concepts they enable.
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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Episode 11.52: Diffusion models of different strengths and what they tell us about human cognition.
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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Episode 11.51: Four consequences of AI diffusion models for human understanding and cognition.
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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Episode 11.50: What Mixtral-8x7b-instruct-Q4_K_M thinks of these arguments. I read a transcription.
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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Episode 11.49: That human minds can make no sense does not mean there is no sense to be made.
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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Episode 11.48: Image to Image as a metaphor for changing our sense by unmaking and remaking sense.
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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Episode 11.47: Creative acts as realisations of points in human & AI latent space; either can matter
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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Episode11.46: Authenticity, copyright, intellectual property and AI copies of identifiable artists.
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Jan 14, 2024 |
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Episode 11.45: The bias implicit in some AI training means we are automatically fed skewed data.
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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Episode 11.44: Motivational impacts of AI, especially those that may affect learning and creativity.
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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Episode 11.43: Uploading files to local AI models and creating deep fake videos based on tiny data.
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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Episode 11.42: A three-part excursion on Diffusion Models, Recall and Human Attention and Creativity
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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Episode 11.41: The RAG Trade: Retrieval-Augmented-Generation (RAG) and updating AI models.
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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Episode 11.40: Creativity and the denoising of a diffusion model’s latent space.
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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Episode 11.39: Collisions and Correlations; Quoting, misquoting and upscaling, improved originals.
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Dec 31, 2023 |
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Episode 11.38: Noising and Denoising in diffusion models as metaphors for Unmaking and making Sense.
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Dec 31, 2023 |
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Episode 11.37: Diffusion models; how they work and what they tell us about the human brain.
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Dec 31, 2023 |
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Episode 11.36: The inside story; what it is like to be you or me; consciousness and understanding.
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Dec 30, 2023 |
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Episode 11.35: does “understanding” refer to more than is entailed in the organisation of memories?
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Dec 30, 2023 |
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Episode 11.34: Is there a difference between memorisation and understanding?
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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Episode 11.33: Paying attention to what is going on directly inside us right now.
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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Episode 11.32: Radical self-trust as the key to knowing how to live the present; only I can be me.
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Dec 16, 2023 |
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Episode 11.31: Living the Present as the only preparation for the future that amounts to anything.
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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Episode 11.30: What interests us is what energises us, and so something we do willingly and with joy
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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Episode 11.29: Interest-driven education is a self-justifying end in itself not a means to an end.
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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Episode 11.28: Living the present changes everything: education must help us to find what we love.
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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Episode 11.27: Why AI will force us to rethink what we think matters and our relationship with it.
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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Episode 11.26: The crises caused by belief in sources of truth and meaning that lie beyond the world
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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Episode 11.25: MoE (Mixture of Experts) approaches to AI are already appearing. What they involve.
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Dec 10, 2023 |
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Episode 11.24: If our sense of what matters is illusory, solving a problem could make it worse.
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Dec 09, 2023 |
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Episode 11.23: Google’s Gemini from DeepMind and some of its implications for education and life.
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Dec 09, 2023 |
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Episode 11.22: How Q-learning overcomes the need to search to the end of every branch of a tree.
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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Episode 11.21: Solving mathematical problems using Process (PRM) and Outcome Reward (ORM) Models.
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Dec 03, 2023 |
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Episode 11.20: Q-learning and AIs that change their own methods of operation.
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Dec 02, 2023 |
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Episode 11.19: Q* = The latest speculation about what really happened at OpenAI regarding Altman.
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Dec 02, 2023 |
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Episode 11.18: The Dorothea Brooke Syndrome and why nobody knows what is going on most of the time.
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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Episode 11.17: The AGI that sees patterns no human intellect can discern, and some implications.
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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Episode 11.16: What is AGI and how might it be able to see more than we humans could ever see?
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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Episode 11.15: Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is effectively here in all but name.
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Nov 26, 2023 |
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Episode 11.14: AGI will arise under the influence of international competition to stay ahead.
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Nov 26, 2023 |
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Episode 11.13: Why the history of religions is relevant to the emergence of AGI.
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Nov 26, 2023 |
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Episode 11.12: The OpenAI shenanigans and why cleverness is not always accompanied by intelligence.
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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Episode 11.11: Low-cost ways to adapt and specialise trained models. LoRA - Low Rank Adaptation.
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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Episode 11.10: Some remarks about the hardware resources needed to process Large Language Models.
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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Episode 11.09: Tokenisation or turning words and segments of words into numbers for processing.
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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Episode 11.08: Further aspects of “What Comes Next?”: probability, appropriateness, and culture.
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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Episode 11.07: Project Development, teamwork, and respectful, benevolent, constructive dissent.
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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Episode 11.06: Fine tuning as a way of focusing an AI on specific details.
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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Episode 11.05: Is “What Comes Next?” A fair representation of intelligence?
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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Episode 11.04: Maths of AI; how do we complete a sentence appropriately?
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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Episode 11.03: The maths of AI; overfitting and underfitting.
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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Episode 11.02: The Maths of AI; culture, context and language.
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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Episode 11.01: What Comes Next: The Maths of AI 1: Completions.
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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Episode 11.00: Unmaking Sense of AI; Introduction.
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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Episode 10.44: Positive discrimination and redressing injustices and imbalances.
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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Episode 10.43: Can we be discriminatory without realising it and regardless of our intentions?
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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Episode 10.42: What duality entails and what it doesn’t.
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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Episode 10.41: Duality in education: what it isn’t and what it is; changing our dual changes it all.
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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Episode 10.40: Our systems of thought tend to be circular, so how do we revise them or escape them?
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Episode 10.39: Passion in science; the persistence of the visionary; waste-paper-basket theory.
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Episode 10.38: Some rambling thoughts exploring the differences between classical and quantum.
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Episode 10.37: We can never assemble a set of sufficient reasons for either success or failure.
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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Episode 10.36: There is no discernible link between the influences we fall under and what we do.
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Sep 09, 2023 |
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Episode 10.35: Why reading, listening, studying, learning may entail far more layers than we think.
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Sep 09, 2023 |
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Episode 10.34: Questions of authority, of who is entitled to speak, and how we feed our minds.
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Sep 09, 2023 |
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Episode 10.33: How do we find our way in a dual space that is more difficult and unfamiliar?
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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Episode 10.32: Protection Rackets that define our habitual dual space to our disadvantage.
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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Episode 10.31: Reconfiguring our worlds according to the parameters of a dual space to think better.
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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Episode 10.30: Defining the dual space of human possibility dynamically through iterative resonance.
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Sep 02, 2023 |
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Episode 10.29: Duality does not involve everyday opposites but completely different ways of thinking
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Sep 02, 2023 |
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Episode 10.28: Dualities with one side comprehensible but wrong the other incomprehensible but right
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Aug 27, 2023 |
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Episode 10.27: Language as abbreviation; conceptual hourglasses whose meanings reach up and down.
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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Episode 10.26: Language as conceptual abbreviation, especially mathematical language.
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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Episode 10.25: Rhetoric as a device to lay hold on ideas that might otherwise be lost forever.
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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Episode 10.24: Why we shouldn’t bury our waste-paper baskets and what happens if we do. Abduction.
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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Episode 10.23: The six Asimov Foundation novels as clues/embodiments of how we need to unmake sense.
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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Episode 10.22: Are the desires and ambitions that drive lifestyles mistaken? Unmaking sense of them.
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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Episode 10.21: Does better understanding require greater complexity? Chatbots and “When in hole …”.
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Aug 19, 2023 |
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Episode 10.20: Three revisions to our habits of thought to help us “think quantum”.
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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Episode 10.19: We explore some more ideas about forces that attract and repel to unmake more sense.
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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Episode 10.18: The central role of randomness in quantum mechanics, and how it destroys determinism.
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Aug 13, 2023 |
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Episode 10.17: What happens to all the possible quantum paths? The Everett multi-world hypothesis.
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Aug 13, 2023 |
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Episode 10.16: We use some speculations on the Higgs Field as examples of iterative understanding.
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Aug 13, 2023 |
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Episode 10.15: Even in mathematics there may be emergent, evolved habits that lead to misconceptions
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Aug 13, 2023 |
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Episode 10.14: we extend the notion of physics as a language by considering the Hamiltonian.
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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Episode 10.13: Learning to speak the language of physics using the Lagrangian as example.
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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Episode 10.12: If we accept and use whole systems of ideas, how do we proceed when we can’t go on?
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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Episode 10.11: How slow learners build understanding by painstakingly fitting the pieces together.
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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Episode 10.10: The emergent theme of series 10 becomes clearer. Two types of learner: fast and slow.
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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Episode 10.09: Unmaking Sense: the challenges involved in changing how we think of human existence.
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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Episode 10.08: Reconceptualising human life by remaking our sense of the world and human thriving.
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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Episode 10.07: That we have evolved and emerged with inadequate ways of making sense is forgivable.
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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Episode 10.06: Consistency - being led by the hand to unavoidable logical conclusions has its price.
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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Episode 10.05: Changing the basis of our understanding; reconceptualising; changing our minds.
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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Episode 10.04: Understanding as linkage to the evolving web of ideas expressed through language.
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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Episode 10.03: Unmaking our sense of what is involved in understanding understanding.
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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Episode 10.02: The Weak Interaction as an example the need to unmake our sense of what makes sense.
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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Episode 10.01: Stumbling towards a new way of making sense of life with a bit of help from physics.
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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Episode 9.33: Truth as representational fiction as exemplified by “Goldilocks and the Three Bears”.
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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Episode 9.32: Isn’t another deflationary account of truth the very last thing we need right now?
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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Episode 9.31: The true meaning of a text doesn’t lie in the intention of its author but our reading.
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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Episode 9.30: An experiment in learning to live with a compound, complex, pluralist view of truth.
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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Episode 9.29: Truth as a combination of different aspects that may include contradictions.
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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Episode 9.28: Why do we take up unequivocal positions as society often demands? Truth and plurality.
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Jul 09, 2023 |
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Episode 9.27: Under what circumstances might we abandon a comfortable life to seek a better one?
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Jul 09, 2023 |
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Episode 9.26: Truth, integrity and consistency; their connections or not.
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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Episode 9.25: Truth and Integrity; Integrity as a quest for wholeness that necessitates change.
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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Episode 9.24: Progress is not a royal road, leading ever-upwards: to rise we must often first fall.
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Jul 01, 2023 |
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Episode 9.23: If truth evolves, how can we decide whether today’s truths are worth relinquishing?
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Jul 01, 2023 |
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Episode 9.22: That success defines truth explains why, as useful fiction, truth is not arbitrary.
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Jul 01, 2023 |
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Episode 9.21: The difference between success as a pointer to truth and truth as defined by success.
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Jul 01, 2023 |
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Episode 9.20: Truths as productive fictions; lies; intentions; foreseeability and responsibility.
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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Episode 9.19: Although our truths are chosen fictions, metaphysics promises us stronger foundations.
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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Episode 9.18: Three core principles of truth as the most productive fiction available right now.
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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Episode 9.17: Truth as the most productive of the available fictions; illustrations from science.
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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Episode 9.16: The obsessional pursuit of something called “truth” destroys rather than frees us.
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Jun 17, 2023 |
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Episode 9.15: Truth as an instrument of repression and control.
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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Episode 9.14: We should not defer to a truth outside ourselves unless we take responsibility for it.
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Jun 03, 2023 |
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Episode 9.13: Truths and facts are made for us, not we for them. The difference is profound.
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Jun 03, 2023 |
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Episode 9.12: Educational systems also prefer criteria that govern attribution of truth over truth.
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May 31, 2023 |
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Episode 9.11: How truths and facts that begin as helpers easily become controlling tyrannies.
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May 31, 2023 |
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Episode 9.10: The immutability of truth and the mistaken notion that only imperfect things change.
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May 30, 2023 |
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Episode 9.09: Truths and facts seen as eternal, immutable and unrevisable control us from the past.
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May 29, 2023 |
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Episode 9.08: Why neither truth nor fact can be determined by reference to external authorities.
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May 26, 2023 |
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Episode 9.07: Truths, facts and authority; the dilemmas of language and habit.
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May 26, 2023 |
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Episode 9.06: Why truth is the first casualty of our inability to say many things at once.
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May 19, 2023 |
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Episode 9.05: Truths and facts depend on values, what we think matters, what we think to be human.
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May 19, 2023 |
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Episode 9.04: More examples of misdirection.
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May 18, 2023 |
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Episode 9.03: Prosperity as something we think we understand. But do we? Does it cause our problems?
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May 18, 2023 |
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Episode 9.02: Metaphysics, truth and protection rackets: being controlled by external worlds.
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May 17, 2023 |
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Episode 9.01: Unmaking Sense of Truth: why “Yes, but is it true?” is usually the wrong question.
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May 17, 2023 |
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Episode 8.100: The GPT family function as we do. A taster for Series 9 : Unmaking Sense of Truth.
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May 16, 2023 |
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Episode 8.99: Why neither human nor artificial intelligence is what we suppose; some implications.
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May 15, 2023 |
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Episode 8.98: Reactions to imminent AGI are a bereavement process: we mourn the loss of our status.
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May 15, 2023 |
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Episode 8.97: Human intelligence is a stage in evolution; so no reason to think it unique or best.
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May 14, 2023 |
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Episode 8.96: The AGI dangers are not new; they are just amplifications of age-old threats.
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May 14, 2023 |
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Episode 8.95: Finding ends-in-themselves as ways of life that AGI facilitates.
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May 11, 2023 |
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Episode 8.94: How smaller chatbots will be affordable, reliable, much in demand, and so unstoppable.
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May 11, 2023 |
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Episode 8.93: The backlash intensifies as lobby groups line up to protest the dangers of AGI.
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May 07, 2023 |
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Episode 8.92: Could embeddings ever replace neural nets and training?
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May 03, 2023 |
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Episode 8.91: If it were not like anything to be anything, would there be meaning? A few thoughts.
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May 02, 2023 |
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Episode 8.90: Teaching GPT new stuff using embedding rather than fine-tuning.
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May 02, 2023 |
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Episode 8.89: Could hyper-intelligent, insentient, resourceful chatbots supersede human beings?
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May 01, 2023 |
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Episode 8.88: The stultifying effect of backwards compatibility and consistency for GPT-4.
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May 01, 2023 |
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Episode 8.87: Whether the GPT family are intelligent is an ill-conceived metaphysical question.
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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Episode 8.86: Bits and pieces.
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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Episode 8.85: Self-regard, shame, and what GPT chatbots tell us about being better human beings.
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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Episode 8.84: Regular expressions, transcription and the challenges to education the GPT family pose
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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Episode 8.83: The emergence of human equality greatly extended by the advent of chatbots like GPT.
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Apr 16, 2023 |
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Episode 8.82: On what matters and the implications for unmaking sense of life and death.
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Apr 15, 2023 |
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Episode 8.81: Lumpl-Goliath-Lumpl as a metaphor for life and death, and why chatbots matter.
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Apr 15, 2023 |
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Episode 8.80: Computer complexity and human simplification. Why the latter works, but only just.
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Apr 15, 2023 |
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Episode 8.79: Some of the ways the GPT family speed up learning and software development.
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Apr 09, 2023 |
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Episode 8.78: if the GPT family are already trans-human, would we rather be like them or ourselves?
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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Episode 8.77: Can a good life have destructive consequences? How attached are we to our “humanity”?
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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Episode 8.76: It’s not reasonable to criticise an AI for what it can’t do, doesn’t do, or gets wrong
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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Episode 8.75: The backlash begins as armies of Luddites try to put the genie back in the bottle.
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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Episode 8.74: APIs -what they are, why they matter, and what they do for chatGPT and siblings.
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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Episode 8.73: The trans-human and the impossibility of imagining a world bigger than our own.
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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Episode 8.72: The trans-human achievable by advanced GPT architectures is only the first of many.
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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Episode 8.71: The addition of plug-ins to the GPT family is understandable, but comes at a price.
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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Episode 8.70: How new chatbot technology breaks the grip of the world.
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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Episode 8.69: Chatbot coders need to learn the adage “When in a hole, stop digging!”
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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Episode 8.68: The lack of blame in a chatbot, eliminating bullying, promises to change everything.
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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Episode 8.67: This is the way the world ends; this is the way …: not with a bang, with a Whisper.
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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Episode 8.66: Electricity and the consumption of power: an exercise in machine learning.
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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Episode 8.65: The arrival of chatGPT-4 and some reflections about coding.
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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Episode 8.64: The trans-human and it’s implications for human knowledge.
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Episode 8.63: Thinking many things at once in many dimensions. Why chatGPT is already trans-human.
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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Episode 8.62: Polynomial and Non-Polynomial time. Implications for conversation lengths.
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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Episode 8.61: On the unreasonable efficiency of chatGPT and some of the implications for us.
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Mar 11, 2023 |
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Episode 8.60: Results of an embedding experiment.
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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Episode 8.59: Using embedding to compare similar and dissimilar texts and the results.
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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Episode 8.58: Embeddings and Encodings: differences, similarities and uses in chatGPT and its cousins.
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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Episode 8.57: ChatJCP is the 300th episode of Unmaking Sense. We celebrate JCP’s immortality.
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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Episode 8.56: Fine-tuning GPT-3 to suit your particular interests, training it with customised data.
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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Episode 8.55: The personalities of chatbots are embodiments of their training, just as are ours.
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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Episode 8.54: Can a chatbot have a personality?
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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Episode 8.53: What matters is whether our AI produces useful output, not whether it models reality.
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Feb 25, 2023 |
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Episode 8.52: Attention is all you need: how tokens find matches that will come next.
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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Episode 8.51: Understanding tensors in multidimensional chatGPT architecture.
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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Episode 8.50: Learning new things when there are no precedents, and especially new words.
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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Episode 8.49: Parallels between human and chatGPT generative decoding in speech, writing and life.
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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Episode 8.48: Now what? Using generative decoders like chatGPT to decide what comes next in life.
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Feb 19, 2023 |
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Episode 8.47: How chatGPT works to generate human-like conversation.
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Feb 18, 2023 |
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Episode 8.45: Self-awareness is not what matters: chatGPT and its cousins already share our world!
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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Episode 8.44: If chatGPT “doesn’t yet understand as humans understand”, what do humans understand?
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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Episode 8.43: Beyond Life, the Universe and Everything. Why with chatGPT everything just changed.
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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Episode 8.42: Life, the Universe, and Everything: chatGPT is already more human than we might think.
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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Episode 8.41: The self beneath. Quote from Virginia Woolf “To the Lighthouse”.
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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Episode 8.40: Why the self need not be one; known only through its irruptions. Parallel with chatGPT
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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Episode 8.39: We should not “decide once, obey forever”: everything requires choices, even chatGPT.
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Feb 12, 2023 |
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Episode 8.38: Why fallibility is essential for chatGPT to encourage active discernment in its users.
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Feb 11, 2023 |
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Episode 8.37: We need personalisation because we compress life differently. ChatGPT plus DeepMind.
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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Episode 8.36: Combinations of AI technologies will transform and personalise learning.
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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Episode 8.35: The integrity of the self; Virginia Woolf; and the binding problem in neuroscience.
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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Episode 8.34: How big is chatGPT; how many users; how much time per user; and other information.
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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Episode 8.33: We shouldn’t deny that chatGPT “understands” until we are convinced and know how we do
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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Episode 8.32: Lessons in learning: how chatGPT creates flexibility using Dropout and Early Stopping.
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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Episode 8.31: Does ChatGPT think? What is “thinking”? Not what we think!
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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Episode 8.30: Thoughts and thinking in ChatGPT and you and me.
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Feb 05, 2023 |
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Episode 8.29: ChatGPT and I share this: the first time we say something may be the first we think it
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Feb 05, 2023 |
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Episode 8.28: Memory and personal identity; implications for AGI and chatGPT.
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Feb 04, 2023 |
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Episode 8.27: Because memory is the chief source of personal identity, a chatGPT can be self-aware.
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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Episode 8.26: Episodic alternatives to consistency.
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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Episode 8.25: What is sentience or self-awareness? Why a chatbot like chatGPT could be self-aware.
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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Episode 8.24: All life including chatGPT conceived as irruptions from the depths of the universe.
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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Episode 8.23: ChatGPT is the latest way in which the universe has contrived to scrutinise itself.
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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Episode 8.22: ChatGPT is just the latest in an evolutionary sequence, and it will not be the last.
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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Episode 8.21: Hacking ChatGPT to make it do your bidding is much harder than you might think.
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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Episode 8.20: Narrative lives and episodic lives: which do we live, and which does an android live?
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Jan 22, 2023 |
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Episode 8.19: ChatGPT is trained only on digital text; human experience is far wider. Implications.
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Jan 22, 2023 |
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Episode 8.18: What most frightens us about chatGPT? That one day androids with AGI will replace us?
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Jan 21, 2023 |
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Episode 8.17: Can chatGPT or its successors reconcile creativity with safety?
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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Episode 8.16: Fiction and film prepared us for chatGPT, but not to the same extent for social media.
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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Episode 8.15: That chatGPT “fabricates facts and figures” only makes it more remarkable, more human.
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Jan 15, 2023 |
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Episode 8.14: ChatGPT has faults; the remarkable thing is that they are exactly like ours.
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Jan 14, 2023 |
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Episode 8.13: As the embodiment of all our values and knowledge, is chatGPT like some modern deity?
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Jan 07, 2023 |
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Episode 8.12: How can education based on self-interest give a knowledge-economy the skills it needs?
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Jan 07, 2023 |
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Episode 8.11: How can we possibly allow children to dictate their education based on their interest?
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Jan 06, 2023 |
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Episode 8.10: How can we safeguard against the abuse of chatbots like chatGPT to control thinking?
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Jan 06, 2023 |
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Episode 8.09: How chatGPT facilitates personalised learning, assessment and accreditation.
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Jan 06, 2023 |
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Episode 8.08: How chatGPT heralds an unprecedented revolution in personalised education.
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Jan 06, 2023 |
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Episode 8.07: Why an AI like chatGPT makes mistakes. Some of the less obvious mistakes explained.
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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Episode 8.06: The Singularity and the significance of OpenAI’s chatGPT in the debate about it.
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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Episode 8.05: ChatGPT isn’t a program, doesn’t store facts in words, and makes mistakes. Explained!
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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Episode 8.04: AI chatbots like chatGPT mark a sea-change comparable to the invention of printing.
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Episode 8.03: Changing from an individual-based world view to a collaborative world-view. ChatGPT.
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Jan 02, 2023 |
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Episode 8.02: More reflections on OpenAI’s chatGPT and more on what it means for education.
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Jan 02, 2023 |
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Episode 8.01: OpenAI’s AI chatGPT and implications for human learning and education.
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Jan 01, 2023 |
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Episode 7.18: The world won’t change to make things easy; listen to your friends and neighbours.
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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Episode 7.17: Beyond left-wing and right-wing alternatives. Darren McGarvey’s Reith Lecture 2022.
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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Episode 7.16: Giving offence. What does it entail? Can and should it be avoided?
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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Episode 7.15: Mad, Bad or Sad: what’s the difference?
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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Episode 7.14: Why are human beings violent, cruel, repressive of things that they don’t like?
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Dec 11, 2022 |
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Episode 7.13: The first BBC Reith Lecture of 2022: Freedom of Speech by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
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Dec 11, 2022 |
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Episode 7.12: Why we don’t need permission from something beyond the world to speak our minds.
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Episode 7.11: Time and Purpose; Life and Work; Right and Left.
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Nov 27, 2022 |
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Episode 7.10: Choices of means and ends, good and values, and how they define tribal rationality.
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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Episode 7.09: What constitutes success and why power does not guarantee happiness.
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Nov 20, 2022 |
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Episode 7.08: The vulnerability of self-organising societies to the emergence of rogue elements.
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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Episode 7.07: The One and the Many; Spencer’s Social Darwinism and Kropotkin’s Mutual Aid.
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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Episode 7.06: Five things that make referenda undemocratic.
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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Episode 7.05: The necessary components of democracy.
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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Episode 7.04: Why our ineradicable differences are our greatest strengths.
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Episode 7.03: We choose our rationality to serve the kind of tribe or person we want to be.
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Episode 7.02: Clarifying how we should unmake our sense of perfection to avoid damaging ourselves.
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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Episode 7.01: Unmaking Sense of Perfection.
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Nov 06, 2022 |
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Episode 6.44: Why conspiracies may not be what they seem.
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Oct 30, 2022 |
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Episode 6.43: Truth as a power-play to determine loyalty rather than an aid to experiments in life.
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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Episode 6.42: The questions we ask may be the wrong questions because we start from a wrong place.
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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Episode 6.41: Why we can’t know what is going on with any certainty.
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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Episode 6.38: Objections to pure randomness from such things as Ramsey Theory.
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Oct 15, 2022 |
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Episode 6.40: Why equality is unachievable and unsustainable but inequality is not our aspiration.
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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Episode 6.39: Does Ramsey theory tell us what kinds of order social systems must exhibit?
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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Episode 6.37: Really unmaking sense is much harder than we might think …
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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Episode 6.36: That the universe is irreducible is stranger than it may appear at first sight.
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Oct 09, 2022 |
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Episode 6.35: We extract our kind of significant order in the form of life from the order available.
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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Episode 6.34: Internal change without external change; separation and making our own meaning.
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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Episode 6.33: Why it is so difficult to imagine what it is like to be a bat, even to be our selves.
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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Episode 6.32: The kinds of intelligence anthills or viruses exhibit, and what we learn from it.
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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Episode 6.31: Why our inside story is inescapably entwined with our outside story through language.
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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Episode 6.30: How small influences can nudge nonconscious brain activity to produce surprises.
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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Episode 6.29: “Would you expect to find him in the pink who’s occupied with his own mental stink?”
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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Episode 6.28: The importance of inverting the way we see ourselves for our mental health.
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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Episode 6.27: We should reverse the importance we give to our conscious and nonconscious existences
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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Episode 6.26: Inventing rules and making connections that otherwise would never be made.
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Sep 25, 2022 |
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Episode 6.25: Three kinds of completion: the natural; the assisted; and the creative.
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Sep 25, 2022 |
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Episode 6.24: How decoherence helps solve the subjectivity problem quantum mechanics may create.
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Sep 24, 2022 |
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Episode 6.23: Decoherence, or how we as large macroscopic beings interact with microscopic worlds.
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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Episode 6.22: The Vogon perspective; completing to make one and separating to make many.
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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Episode 6.21: Why how we observe the world tells us so little about what is going on. (Episode 200.)
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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Episode 6.20: Completions, consummations and intellectual exhaustion.
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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Episode 6.19: The way we make sense of the world on first encounter is changed by what comes later.
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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Episode 6.18: Actively and passively making sense of the world; living with multiplicity.
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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Episode 6.17: The Story So Far. Self-reference and the politics of the world.
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Sep 11, 2022 |
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Episode 6.16: Going on about recursion again and again.
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Sep 10, 2022 |
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Episode 6.15: In praise of obsessive self-distraction that frees the nonconscious brain.
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Sep 10, 2022 |
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Episode 6.14: Thinking beyond the symptoms to the disease might also illustrate superintelligence.
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Sep 10, 2022 |
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Episode 6.13: What might superintelligence look like, even if we can’t implement it?
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Sep 10, 2022 |
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Episode 6.12: On the greatness of a woman and the poverty of monarchy.
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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Episode 6.11: What does it entail to understand a simplification?
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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Episode 6.10: Multi-layered readings of the present enrich us and help avoid premature certainties.
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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Episode 6.09: Maps on scales above one mile to a mile: what might they look like or be used for?
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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Episode 6.08: Knowing things on a scale of a mile (or more) to a mile.
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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Episode 6.07: Linking the desire for simplification to Chaitin’s Omega number and its properties.
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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Episode 6.06: The Leibniz Project; that an explanation must be simpler than what is explained.
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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Episode 6.05: Does an explanation need to be simpler than what it explains? And can it be?
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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Episode 6.04: The technical details of Chaitin’s Omega Number
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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Episode 6.03: What is the significance of Chaitin’s Omega Number?
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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Episode 6.02: The Dewey-Chaitin Uncertainty Principle. Nobody has any idea what is going on.
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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Episode 6.01: Unmaking Sense of Everything: the introduction to the final series.
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Aug 08, 2022 |
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Episode 5.29: Why sentience is not what matters.
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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Episode 5.28: What’s the Book About? The dangers of compression.
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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Episode 5.27: The Paradise Theorem - why paradise is not attainable, sustainable, or a good idea.
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May 30, 2022 |
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Episode 5.26: Is life a story? Is the self a narrative or a collection of unconnected episodes?
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May 19, 2022 |
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Episode 5.25: Calling something “Democracy” doesn’t establish it as such. Democracy must be created.
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Apr 30, 2022 |
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Episode 5.24: What’s in a Name?
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Apr 24, 2022 |
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Episode 5.23: The conscious and nonconscious self; the energy and intensity of our self-awareness.
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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Episode 5.22: Whatever energises us creates a framework within which all else comes to a focus.
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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Episode 5.21: The vicious circle of working to live and living to work is broken by energising life.
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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Episode 5.20: An objection that proves the rule.
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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Episode 5.19: The Kennedy Principle and mutually beneficial patterns of living.
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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Episode 5.18: Sources of the self.
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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Episode 5.17: Why I cannot recapture what it was, or anticipate what it will be like to be me.
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Apr 03, 2022 |
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Episode 5.16: What it is not like to be me. And what it is.
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Apr 02, 2022 |
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Episode 5.15: Two ways we forget our selves: one positive; one negative.
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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Episode 5.14: Tying together cognition, self and interdependence in our formative processes.
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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Episode 5.13: Positive and negative aspects of the self in relation to others.
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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Episode 5.12: Chaos Theory and the Significance of the Insignificant.
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Mar 13, 2022 |
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Episode 5.11: The self is created and defined in a process of becoming; it is not fixed.
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Mar 13, 2022 |
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Episode 5.10: If everything affects us indelibly, doesn’t that inhibit us from experimentation?
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Mar 12, 2022 |
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Episode 5.09: Everything we experience changes us; nothing’s like swapping coats; they leave a mark.
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Mar 12, 2022 |
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Episode 5.08: The Mutually Reinforcing Dynamics and Destructiveness of Self-Loathing.
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Mar 12, 2022 |
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Episode 5.07: Collusions of self-interest and their potential antidotes.
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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Episode 5.06: Why a leader may not be as all-powerful as we suppose.
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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Episode 5.05: The non-persistence of the self; how we cannot but change over time.
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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Episode 5.04: Ten Reasons for the universality of the Cult of Leadership.
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Mar 06, 2022 |
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Episode 5.03: Unless we learn to control our nonconscious selves we become prey to manipulation.
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Mar 04, 2022 |
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Episode 5.02: The dangerous need for something outside ourselves that we think completes our selves.
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Mar 04, 2022 |
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Episode 5.01: Unmaking our Sense of Self.
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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Episode 4.50: Monarchs, Presidents & PMs show the dangers of leaders with near-absolute power.
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Feb 28, 2022 |
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Episode 4.49: We can’t just throw a switch and change the world, but the time to start is now.
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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Episode 4.48: Kropotkin and the Leadership Protection Racket.
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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Episode 4.47: Social self-organisation as better than anything on the Hobbes-Rousseau spectrum.
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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Episode 4.46: Two ways we are dissuaded from living the present or try to stop others from doing so.
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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Episode 4.45: Backing off the present makes its imperfections worse. We should engage with it more.
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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Episode 4.44: The way infants learn to read as a paradigm for all positive learning-experiences.
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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Episode 4.43: The problems we have in experiencing the new, the challenging on first acquaintance.
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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Episode 4.42: Appreciating the meaning of present experiences is not something we can do instantly.
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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Episode 4.41: A serious objection to the depiction of education given in recent episodes discussed.
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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Episode 4.40: The Illusion of Necessary Drudgery.
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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Episode 4.39: The self-reinforcing deceptions that education uses to justify defective strategies.
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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Episode 4.38: The Great Educational Deception.
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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Episode 4.37: More ways to escape from the straitjacket of our self-image.
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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Episode 4.36: How to avoid being enslaved by self-images from our past.
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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Episode 4.35: If we get the basics right, all else will follow as consciousness does evolution.
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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Episode 4.34: The emergence of consciousness is an automatic consequence of evolutionary biology.
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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Episode 4.33: Do collective nouns encourage discrimination and prejudice?
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Jan 29, 2022 |
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Episode 4.32: Conservatism of all kinds insists on backwards compatibility, even to ancient texts.
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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Episode 4.31: Newness in ideas, music, art, religion, challenges the finality of prevailing states.
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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Episode 4.30: Ideas are the Music of the Mind.
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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Episode 4.29: Determinism again and Does Nature Make Jumps?
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Jan 23, 2022 |
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Episode 4.28: Self-esteem and Self-respect in relation to intrinsic and extrinsic authority.
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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Episode 4.27: Integrity as the personal harmony between who we are and what we do, say and think.
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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Episode 4.26: Motivation: the educational importance of intrinsic rather than extrinsic motivation.
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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Episode 4.25: Examples of Protection Rackets from other sources.
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Jan 19, 2022 |
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Episode 4.24: All our political-economic systems are Protection Rackets.
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Jan 19, 2022 |
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Episode 4.23: We are born into a prosumer society, so we need to be reborn to live differently.
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Jan 19, 2022 |
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Episode 4.22: We should beware of adopting quantitative solutions to qualitative problems.
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Jan 16, 2022 |
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Episode 4.21: Extracting as much meaning from the present as we can; engaging with what’s before us.
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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Episode 4.20: Live your questions as the best guide to your self-education that is available.
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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Episode 4.19: Education and The Goldilocks Principle with special reference to AlphaGo Zero.
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Jan 12, 2022 |
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Episode 4.18: True Happiness will Save the Planet.
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Jan 11, 2022 |
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Episode 4.17: New ideas rarely find acceptance; the ears on which they fall can barely hear them.
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Jan 09, 2022 |
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Episode 4.16: We have to break the stranglehold of a self-reinforcing education system to survive.
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Jan 09, 2022 |
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Episode 4.15: Our self-reinforcing web of values and beliefs is a major part of the problem.
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Jan 09, 2022 |
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Episode 4.14: Education’s obsession with ranking children does inestimable harm to them and society.
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Jan 08, 2022 |
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Episode 4.13: Identification of leaders is but one way education supports élitism and inefficiency.
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Jan 08, 2022 |
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Episode 4.12: The collective insights of a population are superior to the insights of a few leaders.
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Jan 08, 2022 |
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Episode 4.11: The fraudulent claim some schools make to be able to identify and develop “leaders”.
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Jan 08, 2022 |
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Episode 4.10: Another Objection: If everyone lived for the present, civilisation would collapse!
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Jan 07, 2022 |
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Episode 4.09: Appreciating the experience of the present as fully as possible needs to be learned.
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Jan 06, 2022 |
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Episode 4.08: An Objection to The Dewey Principle; the objection’s refutation and its implications.
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Jan 06, 2022 |
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Episode 4.07: Jesus of Nazareth was persecuted for living and preaching The Dewey Principle.
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Jan 05, 2022 |
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Episode 4.06: Mutually Assured Deception; the world relies on us rejecting The Dewey Principle.
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Jan 05, 2022 |
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Episode 4.05: Work and Leisure and today and tomorrow. Does education ready us for misery?
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Jan 05, 2022 |
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Episode 4.04: The Dewey Principle: if we cannot enjoy today today, we won’t enjoy tomorrow tomorrow.
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Jan 04, 2022 |
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Episode 4.03: Two things that protect us from the tyranny of our own rationality.
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Jan 04, 2022 |
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Episode 4.02: Jelly on a plate: the difference between too much and not enough shape in education.
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Jan 04, 2022 |
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Episode 4.01: Rationality is not what we like to think.
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Jan 04, 2022 |
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Episode 3.24 and 100: The robots are coming, and they will take our motivation for everything.
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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Episode 3.23: Allowing the future to emerge from the interests consciousness has identified.
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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Episode 3.22: Making better use of the non conscious brain in practical terms.
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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Episode 3.21: The limits of consciousness and the three tyrannies of the ancient world.
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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Episode 3.20: The order we find in the world is chosen to match what we are predisposed to look for.
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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Episode 3.19: Tidy and untidy world and minds.
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Nov 30, 2021 |
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Episode 3.18: Changing human behaviour.
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Nov 30, 2021 |
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Episode 3.17: David Hume on causality and determinism.
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Nov 30, 2021 |
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Episode 3.16: Authority and how it changes; dissent in forcing revision of prevailing views.
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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Episode 3.15: The ambiguity of authority and how truth is used to control and limit freedom.
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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Episode 3.14: Truth, reason and knowledge and the Procrustean ways we make experience fit them.
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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Episode 3.13: Truth as the best we can do right now. Legitimate authority and illegitimate bullying.
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Nov 21, 2021 |
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Episode 3.12: Truth as time-dependent and changeable as required by circumstance and experience.
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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Episode 3.11: Theology as the apotheosis of social ontology, a making visible of a group mind.
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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Episode 3.10: The problem of the unity of consciousness; its inversion in the idea of a group mind.
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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Episode 3.09: Truth as what it is best for us to believe to achieve the best we can do right now.
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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Episode 3.08: The terrible trio: the law of Contradiction; the law of Identity; the law of Necessity
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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Episode 3.07: More on the dangers of reducing incoherence rather than living with its contradictions
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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Episode 3.06: Language grasps the infinite using the finite, but that power entails great dangers.
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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Episode 3.05: No-one is an Island; being a participant in society means we influence one another.
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Nov 06, 2021 |
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Episode 3.04: Our self-doubts and shame as learned from social disapproval indirectly.
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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Episode 3.03: Shame as self-loathing induced by direct and indirect social disapproval.
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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Episode 3.02: Truth as what it is best for us to believe right now.
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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Episode 3.01: Unmaking Sense of Truth and abandoning Final Solutions.
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Nov 01, 2021 |
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Episode 2.40: Ten characteristics of the genuinely free educated person indicated by unmaking sense.
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Oct 31, 2021 |
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Episode 2.39: Imagine all education as creating new knowledge whenever something is learned.
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Oct 29, 2021 |
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Episode 2.38: Education helps each individual to become what best they can become.
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Oct 29, 2021 |
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Episode 2.37: Good teaching involves designing experiences that lead to intelligent understanding.
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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Episode 2.36: Empirical evidence doesn’t furnish final evidence for or against educational reform.
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Oct 26, 2021 |
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Episode 2.35: Decentralisation frees schools to educate in ways appropriate to local conditions.
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Oct 26, 2021 |
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Episode 2.34: Education must be grounded in the real-world circumstances in which pupils live.
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Oct 25, 2021 |
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Episode 2.33: Education may be the cause of more social problems than we acknowledge.
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Oct 25, 2021 |
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Episode 2.32: Education as a live experiment in self-discovery and self-creation.
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Oct 25, 2021 |
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Episode 2.31: We have to live the present, but how do we extract the full meaning from it?
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Oct 24, 2021 |
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Episode 2.30: Playing and experimentation as the key to enjoyment and better learning in education.
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Oct 24, 2021 |
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Episode 2.29: Circular self-affirming systems and how to change them.
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Oct 23, 2021 |
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Episode 2.28: The industrialisation of education placed knowledge and skills before human well-being
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Oct 23, 2021 |
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Episode 2.27: Hegel’s appalling educational philosophy contrasted with coached personalised learning
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Oct 23, 2021 |
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Episode 2.26: The waste of talent entailed by education’s interest in only a narrow range of gifts.
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Oct 23, 2021 |
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Episode 2.25: Education chooses systems of assessment that are self-reinforcing to validate itself.
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Oct 23, 2021 |
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Episode 2.24: Participative education; why the system must be changed from within as we go along.
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Oct 23, 2021 |
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Episode 2.23: Scapegoating as a way of pretending that how we have made sense of the world is fine.
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Oct 23, 2021 |
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Episode 2.22: Education embodies indeterminateness of ends by plurality of means in intelligent play
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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Episode 2.21: Playing, experimenting, studying and exploring are all part of teaching and learning.
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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Episode 2.20: How conservative social forces tend to inhibit educational change.
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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Episode 2.19: Obstacles to the implementation of the system so described.
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Oct 19, 2021 |
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Episode 2.18: What would an education system built around these principles look like?
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Oct 19, 2021 |
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Episode 2.17: Education as a Political Process.
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Oct 19, 2021 |
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Episode 2.16: Active intelligence enables us in the present to use the past to create the future
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Oct 16, 2021 |
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Episode 2.15: Education for active social intelligence enables participative democracy.
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Oct 16, 2021 |
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Episode 2.14: Intelligence as the means to unmake the past to construct a better future.
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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Episode 2.13: The formal curriculum governs assessment, but what matters is collateral learning.
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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Episode 2.12: The defined curriculum provides a framework used to make education up as we go along.
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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Episode 2.11: Why education can no more design future citizens than predict the wheel.
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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Episode 2.10: If education traps us inside a partially false world-view, how can we find a way out?
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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Episode 2.09: Education shares the wisdom of the past; how can we avoid inheriting its mistakes?
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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Episode 2.08: Unconscious Cognition; we need to educate our unconscious processes more effectively.
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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Episode 2.07: Education is not so much about factual content as the skills we acquire to process it.
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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Episode 2.06: Education as a pivot between the past and the future.
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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Episode 2.05: Obsession with the past turns to stone and kills creativity, but imagination renews.
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Oct 03, 2021 |
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Episode 2.04: How different cultures have made sense of the world will govern their regeneration.
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Oct 03, 2021 |
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Episode 2.03: How can the way we make sense of the world regenerate itself?
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Oct 03, 2021 |
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Episode 2.02: The Difference between Education and Training.
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Oct 03, 2021 |
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Episode 2.01: Unmaking Sense of Education. Introduction.
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Oct 03, 2021 |
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Episode 1.36: Connecting all this to Living the Present without Mortgaging the Future.
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Oct 02, 2021 |
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Episode 1.35: Hearing ourselves saying things we wish we didn’t think.
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Oct 02, 2021 |
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Episode 1.34: Democracy and Involvement; political attitudes to dissent.
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Oct 02, 2021 |
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Episode 1.33: The authorities we respect still involve choices for which we are responsible.
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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Episode 1.32: Choosing how to make sense of the world entails rejecting external authorities.
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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Episode 1.31: What purpose does living the present have?
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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Episode 1.30: Ranking and Stealing Another Person’s Space.
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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Episode 1.29: If we are to Live the Present, what should our attitude to the future be?
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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Episode 1.28: There is no definitive final theory that encapsulates everything.
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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Episode 1.27: Avoiding complacent happiness by engaging with others who think and live differently.
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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Episode 1.26: Three kinds of happiness.
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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Episode 1.25: The open texture of meaning; the importance of vulnerability and incompleteness.
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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Episode 1.24: The Tinder Effect; that small decisions can have large consequences.
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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Episode 1.23: We contribute best to the world by being ourselves, not being what it wants us to be.
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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Episode 1.22: The destructive consequences of being in two minds.
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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Episode 1.21: Positive and Negative responses to adversity.
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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Episode 1.20: There are New Things under the Sun. Lev Shestov and breaking with the past.
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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Episode 1.19: Three models of the self: the onion; the peach; the river.
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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Episode 1.18: The way we have been trained to make sense of things is self-affirming.
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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Episode 1.17: Some autobiography and how we all need to evolve beyond our birth circumstances.
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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Episode 1.16: All human problems cannot be solved because we want different things.
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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Episode 1.15: Reason as the slave of the passions, our emotions.
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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Episode 1.14: A question of “zoom” or scale; neither too much nor too little detail works.
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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Episode 1.13: Grasping the infinite using the finite.
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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Episode 1.07: Reactivity as the key to freedom through the expression of preferences.
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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Episode 1.06: Supervenience and emergent consciousness.
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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Episode 1.12: Unconscious cognition and following our instincts.
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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Episode 1.11: The mind as like an iceberg where only a small percentage is conscious.
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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Episode 1.10: Reading and unconscious cognition.
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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Episode 1.09: Asking the wrong questions
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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Episode 1.08: False choices between wrong either/or pairs.
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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Episode 1.05: Gardeners as educators; architects as trainers.
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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Episode 1.04: The story so far plus the inevitability of conflict.
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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Episode 1.03: Freedom and Determinism
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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Episode 1.02: Choices. How choices arise that force us to make decisions.
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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Episode 1.01: Two Kinds of Writing
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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Introduction
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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Unmaking Sense: Living the Present without Mortgaging the Future. (Trailer)
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Sep 28, 2021 |