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Podcast:
http://youtube.com/@RahulSam
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http://theunhappyman.substack.com
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Metaphysical discussion between Graham Harman &
@footnotes2plato.substack.com
on objects, relations, finitude, human access and philosophy after Kant's Copernican revolution.
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Graham Harman & Matthew David Segall: OOO vs. Process Philosophy
YouTube video by Rahul Sam
https://youtu.be/RJkK4qlO54Q
5 months ago
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What does Merleau Ponty mean by phenomenology is the study of essences?
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Merleau Ponty's Phenomenology
YouTube video by Rahul Sam
https://youtu.be/KnY78RG1Qx4?si=Qij579SaplIMEzUC
2 days ago
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Philosophy is not a progressive science, nor should it be.
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Analytic Philosophy Has No Classics | A Whiteheadian Provocation
YouTube video by Rahul Sam
https://youtu.be/0yT_MUSiuNc
9 days ago
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A philosophical critique of Bryan Johnson's psychedelic experiment.
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The Blind Spot of Bryan Johnson
YouTube video by Rahul Sam
https://youtu.be/GoHDt-S9T3w?si=DKBiHglxSNaExlXd
16 days ago
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A discussion on why the best model for life is life itself.
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Enactive Machines, Intelligence vs. Rationality, and Why Psychedelics Go Wrong
YouTube video by Rahul Sam
https://youtu.be/4y6neVzJ35k
23 days ago
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How does the brain use the same amount of energy to solve Fermat's Last Theorem as it does to just doodle on a piece of paper?
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A Philosopher's Question for AI Developers
YouTube video by Rahul Sam
https://youtu.be/0zh6bh33W2w
about 1 month ago
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Currency is fungible: if I give a friend $20 and they give me two $10 notes, I still have $20. There is no change in the amount of money I have, as the indistinguishable units of currency are interchangeable. But this is not the case for intelligence.
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Intelligence Is Not Fungible
On Creating New State Spaces
https://theunhappyman.substack.com/p/intelligence-is-not-fungible
about 1 month ago
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Can the masses engage in philosophy?
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Philosophers Are Bad at Politics and Religion
YouTube video by Rahul Sam
https://youtu.be/kIyQTcSgALs
about 1 month ago
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Tony of 1Dime on the rationality of religion.
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The Problem With āSpiritual but Not Religiousā (w/ Tony of 1Dime)
YouTube video by Rahul Sam
https://youtu.be/hIhvz2PdwNA
about 1 month ago
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@jimpalmerauthor.bsky.social
on the groundlessness of human existence.
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Existential Givens
YouTube video by Rahul Sam
https://youtu.be/U-qeRPdhKGk
about 2 months ago
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How does the paradox of space tell us about the incompleteness of reality?
youtu.be/8EgMj70XF4s
@katherineveritt.bsky.social
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The Paradox of Space
YouTube video by Rahul Sam
https://youtu.be/8EgMj70XF4s
about 2 months ago
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AI researchers are racing to develop LLMs with persistent memory. But these efforts are motivated by a category error because context is neither information nor fungible.
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Do LLMs Actually Have Context?
YouTube video by Rahul Sam
https://youtu.be/38IJaGHqKQ0
2 months ago
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Interview with complexity theorist and philosopher of science, Alicia Juarrero.
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Where Did Analytic Philosophy Go Wrong? (w/ Alicia Juarrero)
YouTube video by Rahul Sam
https://youtu.be/cE7-2xJdIcA?si=kWwuXLRUHHfMzSXT
2 months ago
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What if the human brain is structurally antagonistic?
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Consciousness Enjoying Uncertainty
YouTube video by Rahul Sam
https://youtu.be/mIpnPrItDUg?si=d1hthm1tLfrNiouX
3 months ago
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Either the project of grounding mathematics in logic is impossible, or logic is more complicated than we had originally suspected.
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How GoĢdel Changed Logic
YouTube video by Rahul Sam
https://youtu.be/5m3CymmhNFg
3 months ago
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Imprint Academic
3 months ago
Check out our author Alicia Juarrero on Rahul Sam's YouTube channel! The full podcast will be out on April 16. Haven't got a copy of 'Why Context Matters' yet? You can get one here:
www.imprint.co.uk/product/cont...
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Philosopher and complexity theorist Alicia Juarrero argues that 20th-century biology was one of the first sciences to challenge the positivist, Newtonian causal metaphysics of Anglophone philosophy, which ignored context and mereology.
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How Biology Changed Philosophy
YouTube video by Rahul Sam
https://youtu.be/0v7FQhKBKCE
3 months ago
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Computationalism has had many critics in the philosophy of mind since the 1980s. Andrea Hiott and I, however, discuss the possibility that despite the well-founded criticisms, dynamic computational theories have a depth yet to be explored.
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The Dialectic of Computationalism
YouTube video by Rahul Sam
https://youtu.be/WSGu3dOZ7fU
3 months ago
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Andrea Hiott and I discuss pretty much everything.
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The Marvels of Computationalism, Radical Embodiment and Holding Paradox (w/ Andrea Hiott)
YouTube video by Rahul Sam
https://youtu.be/ZqlVhnaI3u0?si=ugsBQLIPb3mVmRBM
4 months ago
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If LLMs have world models, they must be radically different to ours.
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Mechanistic Indicators of World Models in LLMs
YouTube video by Rahul Sam
https://youtu.be/mud6ipsLmWk?si=n87s7GUwucF1M-qY
4 months ago
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Few people, if any, would now accept the Hegelian contention that there are dialetheias (true contradictions). It is the main claim of Graham Priest that Hegel was right: our concepts, or some of them anyway, are inconsistent, and produce dialetheias.
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Was Hegel (and Marx) a Dialetheist?
YouTube video by Rahul Sam
https://youtu.be/zg_mdD8jI0A?si=HBdrwu89gfnnohL-
4 months ago
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Graham Harman and
@footnotes2plato.substack.com
discuss why philosophy is more than pure logical analysis.
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Whitehead on the Aim of Philosophy
YouTube video by Rahul Sam
https://youtu.be/YPgiLm6nVso?si=XVxzVgHm2boacWBD
4 months ago
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My discussion with Daniel of O.G. Rose on the problem of internally consistent systems, the map-territory distinction and the loss of givens.
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Scale vs. Spread, Indestructible Maps, and Incompleteness (w/ Daniel L. Garner of O.G. Rose)
YouTube video by Rahul Sam
https://youtu.be/3bxpfCv6JFY
5 months ago
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Footnotes2Plato
5 months ago
Thinking Things with Graham Harman: Whiteheadās Way Beyond Philosophies of HumanĀ Access Rahul SamaranayakeĀ hasĀ had me on his podcastĀ a few times over the years, includingĀ an especially generative conversation with Peter Rollins last year. This time he invited me and Graham Harman into dialogue.ā¦
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Thinking Things with Graham Harman: Whiteheadās Way Beyond Philosophies of HumanĀ Access
Rahul SamaranayakeĀ hasĀ had me on his podcastĀ a few times over the years, includingĀ an especially generative conversation with Peter Rollins last year. This time he invited me and Graham Harman into dialogue. Below is the transcript.Ā Whitehead popping Kant's phenomenal bubble. RAHULItās funny. I was reading some of your articles, Graham. You mention Whitehead quite a lot.
http://footnotes2plato.com/2026/02/07/thinking-things-with-graham-harman-whiteheads-way-beyond-philosophies-of-human-access/
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Metaphysical discussion between Graham Harman &
@footnotes2plato.substack.com
on objects, relations, finitude, human access and philosophy after Kant's Copernican revolution.
youtu.be/RJkK4qlO54Q
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Graham Harman & Matthew David Segall: OOO vs. Process Philosophy
YouTube video by Rahul Sam
https://youtu.be/RJkK4qlO54Q
5 months ago
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I just wanted to learn about graphs in trigonometry and had a typo in my youtube search. These two assholes came up. Now algo is ruined. Sigh.
5 months ago
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There have been attempts to develop the mathematical infrastructure based on paraconsistency rather than classical logic. What does this mean for the formalisms of the sciences?
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Can Physics Use Inconsistent Mathematics?
YouTube video by Rahul Sam
https://youtu.be/-ZbTSLUsrZ0
5 months ago
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Damn, power really does make people sociopaths, doesn't it? Exactly why we should redistribute it. New Epstein files surely show depravity has no limits.
5 months ago
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Seems like my YouTube tutorial arc has started (again). Let's see how long it will last this time.
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Are the following vectors linearly independent?
YouTube video by Rahul Sam
https://youtu.be/uksr4HDZbM0
5 months ago
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Mel Andrews
5 months ago
āChatbots have been an incredible loss for scientists and an incredible win for the people who send scientists 5,000 word emails about anti-gravity engines and CIA microchips.
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Discussion with logician Graham Priest on the existence of true contradictions in reality.
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Graham Priest: Logic, Contradiction, Dialetheism and Hegel
YouTube video by Rahul Sam
https://youtu.be/YXqlWwIRMLE
5 months ago
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After the overwhelming number of recent LLM-based product launches, can we still say these are mere rote token-prediction machines? Based on the findings of mechanistic interpretability and insights from epistemology, Pierre Beckmann and Matthieu Queloz say otherwise.
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LLMs Are Not āStochastic Parrotsā Anymore
YouTube video by Rahul Sam
https://youtu.be/0d-O2sIPDrg?si=iQMBQopYMuAI8R5L
5 months ago
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Jeff Yoshimi
6 months ago
One of the best discussions of AI I've seen in a while, because it's deeply informed by philosophy AND computer science. LLMās are more than just āstochastic parrotsā, but their understanding is still nonhuman. The discussion of concepts, understanding, and world models is especially informative.
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A discussion on the philosophy of deep learning, mechanistic interpretability and the epistemology of LLMs.
@pierrebeckmann.bsky.social
@matthieu-queloz.bsky.social
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Mechanistic Interpretability and How LLMs Understand
YouTube video by Rahul Sam
https://youtu.be/1_0ttM8zp9o?si=3inFohxgvH2iqwR_
6 months ago
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"Science is founded on the lifeworld, and will eventually sink down into the ground it is standing on. As time goes by, theoretical assumptions are assimilated into daily praxis, becoming part of the lifeworld." - Dan Zahavi
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Husserl and the Lifeworld
YouTube video by Rahul Sam
https://youtu.be/xZ-DESZwfTg?si=zgmWng2Zj_NEw3Uu
6 months ago
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A discussion on Hegel's adoption in Anglo-American philosophy after decades of being written off in the 20th Century, perhaps for political reasons above all else.
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Hegel and American Pragmatism
YouTube video by Rahul Sam
https://youtu.be/cphGXEgOgO4?si=FbctcReSpJQqMFGZ
6 months ago
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Christianity without God?
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The Word āGodā Should Be Made Obsolete
YouTube video by Rahul Sam
https://youtu.be/lLHnH9sO_fQ?si=EWQBCeji3xJWZJXn
6 months ago
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Dan Zahavi on speculative realism.
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Phenomenology vs. Object-Oriented Ontology
YouTube video by Rahul Sam
https://youtu.be/r49wt7QdiWg?si=T3i1mQwaJduNta_z
6 months ago
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My conversation with phenomenological philosopher Dan Zahavi.
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Husserl's Phenomenology and Social Ontology (w/ Dan Zahavi)
YouTube video by Rahul Sam
https://youtu.be/_AmJLKN_wTM?si=i8KkSlRIEfH-P197
7 months ago
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When discussing neuropsychoanalysis, Mark Solms and John Dall'Aglio consider whether developments in neuroscience allow for Lacanian theory to be a part of Freud's original project for a scientific psychology.
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Lacan and Neuroscience?
YouTube video by Rahul Sam
https://youtu.be/wBZFLb8cANA?si=O11lfJe1tZTAVLxR
7 months ago
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My conversation with philosopher and radical theologian Jim Palmer. We discuss deconstructing and reconstructing Christianity.
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Saving Christianity From Itself (w/ Jim Palmer)
YouTube video by Rahul Sam
https://youtu.be/dOZ0sH9ZgXs?si=T_LqQsORsLNUr46c
7 months ago
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"It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our life that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living" - Simone de Beauvoir Discussed de Beauvoir's existentialism with Jim Palmer.
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Simone de Beauvoir on Reasons for Living
YouTube video by Rahul Sam
https://youtu.be/NRWRuyY4b_Y
7 months ago
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A discussion on the corporatisation and financialisation of the university with philosopher of education Dr Vlasta SikimiÄ.
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Why Educate Yourself
YouTube video by Rahul Sam
https://youtu.be/cGyXSKBS_to?si=OFC5l9yIM51HOzZu
7 months ago
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A discussion with
@vlastasikimic.bsky.social
on ChatGPT and AI's impact on education.
youtu.be/zRrJVsjeqJc
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Has AI Killed Education? (w/ Vlasta SikimiÄ)
YouTube video by Rahul Sam
https://youtu.be/zRrJVsjeqJc
7 months ago
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Peter Rollins is the greatest demotivational speaker in the business. To say his thinking has had a profound impact on me is the understatement of the year.
youtu.be/Jp9nmzwVPB4
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The Antidote to Self-Help
YouTube video by Rahul Sam
https://youtu.be/Jp9nmzwVPB4
8 months ago
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Founder of Neuropsychoanalysis Mark Solms, while in discussion with Lacanian John Dall'Aglio, highlights that contrary to the "mythology", Freud abandoned neuroscience precisely because he was a good scientist.
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Freud Was a Good Scientist
YouTube video by Rahul Sam
https://youtu.be/GVxY-5dKlGk
8 months ago
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Freud gave up neurology precisely because he was a good scientist.
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8 months ago
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A discussion between Prof Mark Solms and John Dall'Aglio on neuropsychoanalysis and Lacan's metapsychology.
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Mark Solms & John Dall'Aglio: Prospects for a Lacanian Neuropsychoanalysis
YouTube video by Rahul Sam
https://youtu.be/C0DeGaOsL_Y?si=q63mfgXvfknjvZ-p
8 months ago
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Excerpt from my livestream with Nathan Ormond. We discussed the relationship between class and academiaāparticularly the role of academic philosophers.
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The Left Lost Its Way When It Stopped Talking About Class
YouTube video by Rahul Sam
https://youtu.be/0yPf_p1TX8U
8 months ago
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Philosopher Daniel Tutt challenges the infamous friend-enemy distinction of Carl Schmitt by introducing a Marxian view in which class relations are not ontological but a social relation.
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Marxism Against Carl Schmitt's Friend-Enemy Distinction
YouTube video by Rahul Sam
https://youtu.be/NIrEks0Jp58?si=KcIbUiUGEPHccGqp
8 months ago
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I came across Nathan Ormond a few months ago and have since enjoyed his thoughtful and insightful livestreams.
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Discussing the Value (or Lack Thereof) of Political Discourse w/ Nathan Ormond
YouTube video by Rahul Sam
https://youtube.com/live/PJjdwSx-nJg
8 months ago
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