If LLMs have world models, they must be radically different to ours. youtu.be/mud6ipsLmWk?...

Few people, if any, would now accept the Hegelian contention that there are dialetheias (true contradictions). It is the main claim of Graham Priest that Hegel was right: our concepts, or some of them anyway, are inconsistent, and produce dialetheias. youtu.be/zg_mdD8jI0A?...

Graham Harman and @footnotes2plato.substack.com discuss why philosophy is more than pure logical analysis. youtu.be/YPgiLm6nVso?...

My discussion with Daniel of O.G. Rose on the problem of internally consistent systems, the map-territory distinction and the loss of givens. youtu.be/3bxpfCv6JFY

Thinking Things with Graham Harman: Whitehead’s Way Beyond Philosophies of Human Access Rahul Samaranayake has had me on his podcast a few times over the years, including an especially generative conversation with Peter Rollins last year. This time he invited me and Graham Harman into dialogue.…

Metaphysical discussion between Graham Harman & @footnotes2plato.substack.com on objects, relations, finitude, human access and philosophy after Kant's Copernican revolution. youtu.be/RJkK4qlO54Q

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.

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? youtu.be/-ZbTSLUsrZ0

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.

Seems like my YouTube tutorial arc has started (again). Let's see how long it will last this time. youtu.be/uksr4HDZbM0

​Chatbots 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.

Discussion with logician Graham Priest on the existence of true contradictions in reality. youtu.be/YXqlWwIRMLE

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. youtu.be/0d-O2sIPDrg?...

One of the best discussions of AI I've seen in a while, because it's deeply informed by philosophy AND computer science. LLM’s are more than just “stochastic parrots”, but their understanding is still nonhuman. The discussion of concepts, understanding, and world models is especially informative.

A discussion on the philosophy of deep learning, mechanistic interpretability and the epistemology of LLMs. @pierrebeckmann.bsky.social @matthieu-queloz.bsky.social youtu.be/1_0ttM8zp9o?...

"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 youtu.be/xZ-DESZwfTg?...

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. youtu.be/cphGXEgOgO4?...

Christianity without God? youtu.be/lLHnH9sO_fQ?...

Dan Zahavi on speculative realism. youtu.be/r49wt7QdiWg?...

My conversation with phenomenological philosopher Dan Zahavi. youtu.be/_AmJLKN_wTM?...

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. youtu.be/wBZFLb8cANA?...

My conversation with philosopher and radical theologian Jim Palmer. We discuss deconstructing and reconstructing Christianity. youtu.be/dOZ0sH9ZgXs?...

"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. youtu.be/NRWRuyY4b_Y

A discussion on the corporatisation and financialisation of the university with philosopher of education Dr Vlasta Sikimić. youtu.be/cGyXSKBS_to?...

A discussion with @vlastasikimic.bsky.social on ChatGPT and AI's impact on education. youtu.be/zRrJVsjeqJc

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

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. youtu.be/GVxY-5dKlGk

Freud gave up neurology precisely because he was a good scientist.

A discussion between Prof Mark Solms and John Dall'Aglio on neuropsychoanalysis and Lacan's metapsychology. youtu.be/C0DeGaOsL_Y?...

Excerpt from my livestream with Nathan Ormond. We discussed the relationship between class and academia—particularly the role of academic philosophers. youtu.be/0yPf_p1TX8U

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. youtu.be/NIrEks0Jp58?...

I came across Nathan Ormond a few months ago and have since enjoyed his thoughtful and insightful livestreams. youtube.com/live/PJjdwSx...

My conversation with writer and Marxist philosopher Daniel Tutt. We discuss comradeship and the politics of friendship. youtu.be/7IDCy88x4pY?...

I’m interested in interviewing theorists and researchers working on the philosophy of technology from Marxist and leftist perspectives. I’d be grateful for any recommendations.

"The subject is where consciousness isn't," says the German Idealist philosopher Rafael Holmberg as he explicates subjectivity, analysing insights from psychoanalysis and neuroscience. youtu.be/Ll5ya-TVQr4?...

Marxist philosopher Daniel Tutt contends that celebrating gratuitous political violence is an anti-political act and does not serve emancipatory politics whatsoever. youtu.be/3qa1sY3OQWw

Computational neuroscientist Nicolás Hinrichs reflects on the influence of process philosophies and relational ontologies on his scientific thinking. youtu.be/DVefbGbT3XU?...

Phenomenologists @robinmuller.bsky.social and @jyoshimi.bsky.social discuss Merleau-Pontyan thought’s resistance to resolving ambiguity. To conclusively answer the “What is it really?” question is perhaps the wrong philosophical move. youtu.be/HbRWsn1u0gE

Computational neuroscientist Nicolás Hinrichs explains how information geometric modelling is used in machine learning and neuroscience. youtu.be/d6ETCRYkUfM?...

Hello AI/CogSci/Robotics friends. After reading 'Bio A.I. - From Embodied Cognition to Enactive Robotics' from the Frontiers in Neurorobotics journal, I have been trying to move my thesis research towards evolutionary robotics despite knowing little to none about the field.

My conversation with computational neuroscientist Nicolás Hinrichs, who works on active inference, social cognition and modelling interpersonal neural networks via information geometry. youtu.be/Lg_DnleZq18?...

Joyce's salvation for his fugitive sense of self was writing and the worlds he created, says Lacanian analyst Prof Stijn Vanheule. youtu.be/JabYPyU_4I8

America is such a violent nation. It's unbelievable. A violence felt universally that, at times, the only acceptable response is irony. In many ways, Charlie Kirk's views were monstrous, but he was a human being. And monstrosity is part of the human condition.

Shaun Gallagher proposes an enactivist philosophy of nature against panpsychism, in order to tackle the problems of consciousness and qualia in modern philosophy, that is, if they are problems to begin with. youtu.be/quLgdmRK5f4

I already reposted twice about this yesterday, but allow me one more post, this time with my own reading notes! So, last week I was on @trsam97.bsky.social 's podcast talking about Merleau-Ponty with @robinmuller.bsky.social ... youtu.be/YPmuFqUwSLw

This was such a great conversation, and such a fun opportunity to explore some methodological tensions internal to classical and contemporary phenomenology. Thank you @jyoshimi.bsky.social and @trsam97.bsky.social!

I am not a Victorian anymore, but here's an example of excellent governance. Working from home could potentially become a right in VIC, and in my view, it should be the case for all Australians nationally. engage.vic.gov.au/wfh

Robin Muller and Jeffrey Yoshimi discuss the phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty's views on the role of the philosopher in science. youtu.be/Pe9JxAammw8?...

A discussion on Merleau-Pontyan philosophy, cognitive science and ambiguity being fundamental to reality. @robinmuller.bsky.social youtu.be/YPmuFqUwSLw?...

Even the most abstract forms of high-order cognition are embodied, as Prof Shaun Gallagher illustrates through the enactivist approach. youtu.be/_Tzl3I3R2dI?...