@rudystarberg5137

I'm going to re-listen to this to absorb more and check out what further output from the mind of James Evans is accessible. Which makes it one of the best episodes. For me, another one was the one with David Eagleman, led to me reading a couple of the guest's books. This whole Mindscape channel is great. Young, curious people these days are so lucky they've got free access to this stuff, as are we all.

@Im-just-Stardust

Thank you sir !

@sydneysymposia

Francis Bacon's "Novum Organum" doesn't mean "new world", as James mentioned. It means new organ, instrument, or tool. The ambiguity is nice here: the epistemic machinery of the organ of the mind was itself, so Bacon proclaimed, in need of revision. Scientific thinking needed a software update, e.g., Bacon was also doing a kind of Science of science. To a certain extent, the modern history of philosophy engaged in epistemology, or the problem of knowledge, method, and the attainment of reproducible truths, could be seen as a series of attempts at the Science of science. In light of this, whether or not James' approach itself is all that surprising is a bit questionable. Rather, the means of gathering and sorting data through vast computer models seems to be the determining factor here.

@davegrundgeiger9063

This is super interesting!

@topcat7365

Thanks For this!

@alanjones5639

Very nice section on Peirce, abduction, expeditions, and surfing the boundary.  What about:  Abduction in Dewey's instrumentalism and Toulmin argumentation?  Merging dynamic systems theory with Dewey's instrumentalism (W. Teed Rockwell)?

@benjones1717

I literally think my head has grown from all the gosh darned thinking.

@peteunderdown6889

You're forgetting about the icebergs we're already hitting as a civilization

@peteunderdown6889

Dude has figured out using AI to write papers and grant proposals. He got a $20 million grant for this be said.

@gtziavelis

A true and unfiltered, free and brave AGI would tell us to explore psychedelia (the 'useful disruption' mentioned in the episode) and shun personal gain within a community in the same way that most of our ancestors did (the 'memory' mentioned in the episode), which is how we came to be at all in the first place, thus highlighting the importance of such, so/but with our ego-based human nature, we will roadblock it and constrain it to make it lesser-than-AGI, and then we will declare it "The True AGI". Only humans! ❤
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