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?...

Prof Shaun Gallagher presents the enactive approach as a radical philosophy of nature. youtu.be/UHzEIVJTGWA?...

Rafael Holmberg outlines the argument of his essay Reason against Emotion: A Critique of Antonio Damasio. youtu.be/3oMaBkynCvs

Since the founding of analytic philosophy, there has been an antipathy towards Hegelian philosophy. But perhaps unexpected convergences with American Pragmatism and the Pittsburgh School of Philosophy have caused the tides to shift. youtu.be/ZsTwLZsOVrs?...

Why do people fight for their servitude as if it were their salvation? Why do we act in ways clearly against our interests? The question asked by Spinoza of why human beings desire their own destruction has occupied the minds of philosophers and writers since time immemorial.

My conversation with the psychoanalytic and German Idealist philosopher Rafael Holmberg, in which we discussed the relationship between German Idealism and neuroscience. youtu.be/yxpzYfn5txs?...

Philosopher Tim Elmo Feiten discusses Daniel Dennett's famous paper 'Quining Qualia' while discussing subjective experience. youtu.be/5JRb9IoUmnY

Discussing philosophy after Kant with Graham Harman. theunhappyman.substack.com/p/is-kant-th...

Dr Joshua Wretzel elucidates why a philosophical investigation can't be decoupled from history. youtu.be/lgcreTdPMc0

My conversation with Hegelian philosopher Dr Joshua Wretzel. youtu.be/dO0NhGNwf28

Tim Maudlin comments on the deep schism caused by Kant's Transcendental Idealism in modern science and philosophy. youtu.be/yLeg90zsZow?...

Dr Inês Hipólito gives a comprehensive explication of computational phenomenology, an interdisciplinary metaphysical framework for artificial intelligence and theory of mind. youtu.be/wwGSWG_a4Q4

Andrew Flores explains the difference between Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault in how they view knowledge, two thinkers wrongly put in the same camp of "postmodernists" by Anglo-American philosophers. youtu.be/0rp57aWVH3g?...

My conversation with Andrew Flores on Lacanian theory and analytic philosophy. youtu.be/u8alYioW0O8?...

Economist and computer scientist Dr Paul Cockshott outlines how markets go awry in capitalism. youtu.be/LWg_DCOIX6w?...

Adrian Johnston is probably one of the best-read philosophers of Žižek's corpus. Prof. Johnston claims Žižek's engagement with quantum mechanics betrays his own Hegelian metaphysics. youtu.be/embHsB95mNo

Cogitations on Wittgenstein. open.substack.com/pub/theunhap...

Tim Maudlin comments on Thomas Kuhn's 'paradigm shift' from The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, especially the infamous chapter X. youtu.be/L9qRWvEBGR0?...

One of the world's experts in the history of analytic philosophy and philosophical logic, Prof. Michael Potter, comments on how Kurt Gödel turned the foundations of mathematics, logicism, and the whole of 20th-century philosophy on its head. youtu.be/TRff97qoxKI?...

Freedom for psychoanalysis lies in the unconscious. I asked psychoanalytic philosopher Dr Jack Black if a machine can have an unconscious. youtu.be/HlaCso4U72A?...

There just is no precise, exact physical theory called "quantum theory," Prof Tim Maudlin writes. Therefore, he claims there should not be interpretations of quantum mechanics, as we don't even have a physical ontology to interpret in the first place. youtu.be/c9TVq4eNsW0?...

My conversation with philosopher of physics Prof Tim Maudlin, who is at the forefront of researching the foundations of physics. youtu.be/i_Vu-QAn9To

Economist and computer scientist Dr Paul Cockshott presents Marx's materialism as being more aligned with Newton than with Hegel or German Idealism. youtu.be/eZnf5Viro44

Cognitive computing researcher Mahault Albarracin argues that AI agents cannot reason if they don't have beliefs about the world. youtu.be/8mN50NnPayc?...

My conversation with computer scientist and economist Dr Paul Cockshott. youtu.be/t5pJgFPBLO4

"The neighbour, however, has never been presented as an object of admiration. Christianity has never taught that one must admire the neighbour—but one must love him." - Søren Kierkegaard, Works of Love youtu.be/D-tO7YSEuzI?...

What's causing the housing crisis in Australia? Do tweaks on the current system work, or do we need fundamental changes? ActuallyAdu has a few ideas worth listening to. youtu.be/mCwdSQJLQWY?...

My conversation with video essayist and political commentator ActuallyAdu. youtu.be/6iFlx22GVSc?...

My conversation with cognitive computing and social science researcher Mahault Albarracin. youtu.be/b90M8bxkAYs

My conversation with sociologist and psychoanalytic theorist Dr Jack Black, where we discuss AI, language and subjectivity. youtu.be/18IXGHrnld0?...

Religious experience is ethically ambiguous; it can lead one to do good or commit the most heinous acts. Heterodox thinkers Peter Rollins and @footnotes2plato.substack.com discuss authentic spirituality—if there's such a thing. youtu.be/3kBFtca8Bos

Philosopher of science Tim Elmo Feiten illustrates how empirically driven fields unfold dialectically. youtu.be/oYWI6cLMfqE?...

The question of identity is at the forefront of contemporary politics. Consider this case against identity in my discussion with philosopher Prof Richard Boothby, who wrote one of the best psychoanalytic books on religion, Embracing the Void. youtu.be/Sget_P2DqXY?...

My conversation with Dr Tim Elmo Feiten, in which we discuss dialectical science and why AI research needs continental philosophy. youtu.be/cvRWwD6xSKE?...

While discussing the "Lacanian triad," the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real, Andrew Flores warns against comparing Lacan's concepts to Heidegger's. youtu.be/vYCl2eZ3kEw

Andrew Flores gives a Lacanian twist to Wittgenstein's infamous sense-nonsense distinction. youtu.be/QbRUZBTtVgY?...

My conversation with Andrew Flores on Lacan's metapsychology and theory of the subject. youtu.be/Wzu63JKoB3w?...

Husserl is emphatic that mathematics and phenomenology are distinct and, in some sense, incompatible. However, Prof Jeffrey Yoshimi and Darius Parvizi-Wayne nonetheless believe that mathematical formalisation still has a place in phenomenology. youtu.be/J3beLvsNin0?...

Philosophy, for Alain Badiou, should not be in the business of discovering truth. youtu.be/rpEFGcUeV6Y?...