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?...

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?...