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Can an AI have a gender? If an AI said it has a gender. Philosophers will create justification to affirm its gender. Edit: The only disagreement will be is the AI oppressed by the patriarchy or part of the patriarchy.
Capitalists want to profit; Scientists want to quantify existence as a means of ego. Globalists leverage both as a means of control with the goal to eliminate human existence and replace it with The Singularity, turning humans into cyborgs (as part of the depopulation agenda started via the bioweapon). Being “human” is energy choosing to inhabit a human body for an experience in this dimension which is consciousness tied to spirit. As more technology is fed into existence, human vulnerability is seduced into dependence on, and subsequently conversion to the alternate, sold as better, state of being. Being vulnerable as a human is living, which Turkle embraces. All other forms of human existence as sold by the demonic Transhumanists is death and not “maximizing human potential.”
I’m excited about her forthcoming book. Still think she could have given Bruno Latour a bit more credit Here is some more details for those interested in her coming publication: N. Katherine Hayles University of Chicago Press, 2025 - Philosophy - 304 pages "Humans are driving the planet toward catastrophe, and yet humans are the only species capable of taking positive actions on a global scale to prevent collapse. For N. Katherine Hayles, human hubris and the anthropocentrism that underlies it is one of the main drivers of our current planetary crises. So, if we are to take action to save the planet, we urgently need to re-think basic assumptions about agency, decision-making, control, and our relations to nonhuman and artificial cognizers. In Bacteria to AI, Hayles develops an integrated cognitive framework (ICF) that includes humans, nonhuman lifeforms, and some computational media, including artificial intelligence. Bacteria to AI analyzes how the first-order emergences of physical phenomena, multicellularity, and technics are now interacting together to create second-order emergences that greatly accelerate technical developments. The book explores these entanglements through case studies ranging from gene editing to autopoiesis and Gaia theory, bacteria and xenobots to artificial intelligence. Spanning evolutionary biology, artificial intelligence, and contemporary literature, Bacteria to AI recognizes the risks of contemporary technologies but insists a positive way forward, with ICF at its core, is possible for us and for the more than human world"-
Kudos to threading the needle of a much maligned term in this world. I applaud your efforts to redefine this psychological state and find a silver lining in envy. Personally speaking, I don't feel much envy in my own life, but I have seen it destroy others around me. Nice to look on it in a positive way. I look forward to reading your book.
Good lecture. Pasquinellis is saying academically some very scary things: the freezing of collective knowledge, the freezing of cultural adaptations and pepetuation of monopoly capital power via AI.
The two influential papers are Elijah Millgram’s “The Great Endarkenment,” which discusses the problem of hyperspecialization and the difficulty of mastering arguments that span multiple fields, and Annette Baier’s “Trust and Antitrust,” which explores the concept of trust as making oneself vulnerable by placing something in another’s power, particularly their goodwill. These papers reshaped the speaker’s understanding of the challenges in epistemology and the role of trust.
Great discussion. We don't talk about how dog whistles, figleaves, and obvious falsehoods are a huge component in right wing ideology around racism and xenophobia.
Brilliant discussion, we are so quick to flatten and commodify the human experience despite the ability to connect at a level, globally, that we have never come close to... yet we turn to machines as companions and fly migrants to Rwanda 🤡
I fear it might be too late for the so-called west…….. especially in the cesspool of the depravity of US capitalism; off the backs and the blood of the blacks brought here in chains, and the decimation of the indigenous populations. Fanon has almost never been more precient. Thank you Professor Gordon. Miss Jenny
it truly is violence to have to sit and listen to idealogically driven halfwits (who think of themselves as philosophers, academics and inteligentsia in general) desperately trying to reinvent the wheel by (sloppy, lets be real) covert indoctrination with failed ideologies.
Listening in Chile. I'm 78 and old age, for me, means I walk more slowly. I have to make an effort to cross the street while there's a green light. I fear falling. Young people even with the best intentions, don't understand what it's like to be old. Like the woman who offered me her seat in the subway and I explained to her that it's more an effort for me to sit down and stand up again than it is for me to stay on my feet. That physical weakness changes everything: getting dressed in the morning is a long process. I have to avoid crowds, think about every step when I go down the subway stairs, etc. Thanks for doing this dialogue. We old people grow more courteous in general.
This is interesting. There's a rarely mentioned disconnect between how Western psychology implements mindfulness (mindfulness movement) and how Buddhism practices mindfulness. There are some good articles on the subject so I won't dive off the deep end with details. But Buddhism, in general, with the exception of some sects, implicitly denies the possibility or existence of meta-cognition. 'Observing the observer' was an idea that the Buddha was arguing against from the very get-go (e.g., you can't think about a thought because 'thinking about a thought' is simply another thought). It's one of the main parts of the no-self/no soul teachings. Western psychology misses that part and it has caused some (serious) issues. Mindfulness can lead to the dissolution of the self and a radical shift in perspective. What some people call an 'ego-death' can be really dangerous and earth-shattering depending on who you are and what your belief system is. I think Weil definitely traversed some of those steep landscapes.
We all are the history of mankind. Thank you, gentlemen, and especially Dr. Lewis Gorden 's of scintillating freshness of Frantz Omar Fanon's books of excellence for the interconnectivity we humans may become of awareness of one another with new insights. A rainbow of colors one sees and hears as we dance to the musicality from the adventures of the past, with languages mixing of orators of poetry. Hopefully, instead of making weapons of war, the use of the wrong side of the brain, therefore more disorders mentally behooves the breakdown of societies into black and white. What is book knowledge? What is the difference between the intellect and the mind? What creates chaos and violence, and religious divisions for centuries? What is "ego"? The next question is who are "we"? What is psychological time? I would love to hear the exchange of Dr. Lewis Gordon with Dr. Iain McGilchrist. Alongside with the Krishnamurti Foundation teachers. I strongly believe we need all to benefit and enlarge our world which begins with me. 🙏❤️🌎🌿🕊🎵🎶🎵🎶
I found my own interpretation of the blond beast passage to be less about aryans and more about the noble spirit of the lion that exists in multiple cultures. Nietzsche mentions (directly after that sentence) Asian and North African cultures that embodied such a spirit. Although if we are to reference the entire corpus of his works, the lion cannot be the end but rather the "yes!" saying child.
Ruins of authority and tradition indeed. All is allowed! Do anything you want! What could possibly go wrong?? Who needs authority and tradition? Oh I don’t know - maybe a functioning society?
Who doesn't want "care, attention and admiration"? What a bunch of antihuman nonsense. From a couple privileged white women no less; the most privileged creatures in the history of all mankind!
So sad spinoza died young at 44 years old..failing to preserve his conatus and due to his failure to gain knowlege of cause and effect that glass dust would ruin his lung...caute..
Steven Nadler gives us much information about Spinoza’s philosophy; however more clarity is needed. As a private teacher and student of Spinoza’s Ethics, I understand that free will is an illusion and that the laws of necessity and self-preservation govern and direct all of existence. Also, intuition is required to understand his Ethics, reason alone will not help you. His philosophy is to be lived and understood; otherwise, it becomes abstract and only entertaining.
Steven Nadler gives us much information about Spinoza’s philosophy; however more clarity is needed. As a private teacher and student of Spinoza’s Ethics, I understand that free will is an illusion and that the laws of necessity and self-preservation govern and direct all of existence. Also, intuition is required to understand his Ethics, reason alone will not help you. His philosophy is to be lived and understood; otherwise, it becomes abstract and only entertaining.
Steven Nadler gives us much information about Spinoza’s philosophy; however more clarity is needed. As a private teacher and student of Spinoza’s Ethics, I understand that free will is an illusion and that the laws of necessity and self-preservation govern and direct all of existence. Also, intuition is required to understand his Ethics, reason alone will not help you. His philosophy is to be lived and understood; otherwise, it becomes abstract and only entertaining.
Prof Curry speaks what happens in my clinical practice on a daily basis…shame that he does not as many Anglophon philosophers engage with continental critical philosophy after the Shoa understood as racism outside the American black-white frame
