The Voluntary Contrarian takes a hard look at arguments against liberty from social and mainstream media. Host Jared Nordin utilizes critical thinking from a thoroughly libertarian and free market perspective.
Categories: Education, Society & Culture
Tags: Anarchist, Freedom, government, Libertarian, Liberty, logic, rationality, Reason, voluntaryist
What does it actually mean to be rational? The kind of rationality where you make good decisions, even when it’s hard; where you reason well, even in the face of massive uncertainty; where you recognize and make full use of your fuzzy intuitions and emotions, rather than trying to discard them. In Rationality: From AI to Zombies, Eliezer Yudkowsky explains the science underlying human irrationality with a mix of fables, argumentative essays, and personal vignettes. These eye-opening accounts of how the mind works (and how, all too often, it doesn’t) are then put to the test through some genuinely difficult puzzles: questions in computer science about the future of artificial intelligence (AI), questions in physics about the relationship between the quantum and classical worlds, questions in philosophy about the metaphysics of zombies and the nature of morality, and many more.
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Tags: ai, artificial intelligence, Computer Science, intelligence, lesswrong, logic, neuroscience, Philosophy, Psychology, rationality, ZOMBIES
Anthropologists study human culture and society. They ask “what it is to be human?”. Anthropologists answer this question by analysing diverse societies to find out what all humans have in common. To undertake this study, anthropologists have a ‘kit’ full of conceptual tools. Join the Audible Anthropologist (aka La Trobe University’s Nicholas Herriman) as we describe some of these tools and put them to use.
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Tags: anthropologist, anthropology, fetish, La Trobe, la trobe university, magic, nicholas herriman, nick herriman, rationality, rites, ritual
We use our approximate knowledge of many things to craft unanswerable questions. We mix cognitive science and philosophy with pop culture, tech and science to start with raw perspectives. Refining them through steamed up yet rational conversation we generally stumble upon odd answers. Hosted pseudo monthly by two humans.
We’ve been preparing this episode for quite a while and this time we have sources! We confront our knowledge of Japanese language and lacanian psychoanalysis to try and understand the Japanese psyche!
We start off by Lacan’s famous statements about the fact that Japanese people have no need for psychoanalysis. We’ll see what he was talking about through a brief history of the incredible chaotic mess that is the Japanese language. Did he know it well enough?
In any case, we felt it was worth widening the scope! From language, we move to the construction of identity in Japanese culture, but also to Buddhism and Sartre, to finish on the Japanese psychoanalytical concept of Amae.
Can we find anything here to cure the existential angst that comes from being an isolated lacking self? Or is this just inviting more problems?Introduction of the Japan Psychoanalytic Society
https://www.ipa.world/IPA/en/Societies/societies_focus/jps.aspx
FREUD, LACAN AND JAPAN
Kazushige Shingu
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:3tzbPiuLr8kJ:https://thediscourseunit.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/shingu_mpm_paper.doc+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=fr
Why Lacan says : “no one who dwells in the Japanese language has a need to be psychoanalysed”
Luke S. Ogasawara
http://ogswrs.blogspot.com/2019/01/why-lacan-says-no-one-who-dwells-in.html
The Japanese subject and the unconscious
P-J Van Haecke
https://psychocinematography.com/2019/09/24/the-japanese-subject-and-the-unconscious-part-1/
February 2016 Psychoanalytic Inquiry
Takeo Doi
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/295677377_Chapter_1_Psychoanalysis_and_the_Japanese_Personality_Chapter_2_Psychoanalysis_and_Western_Man_Chapter_3_Amae_and_Transference-Love_Chapter_4_Heeding_the_Vocabulary_of_Another_Culture_Psychoanalysis_i
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