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Merleau-Ponty & Cognitive Science (w/ Robin Muller & Jeffrey Yoshimi)
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A discussion on Merleau-Pontyan philosophy, cognitive science and ambiguity being fundamental to reality. @robinmuller.bsky.social youtu.be/YPmuFqUwSLw?...
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
The Antidote to Self-Help
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November 11, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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 Was a Good Scientist
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November 6, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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?...
Mark Solms & John Dall'Aglio: Prospects for a Lacanian Neuropsychoanalysis
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November 5, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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?...
Mark Solms & John Dall'Aglio: Prospects for a Lacanian Neuropsychoanalysis
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November 1, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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
The Left Lost Its Way When It Stopped Talking About Class
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October 27, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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?...
Marxism Against Carl Schmitt's Friend-Enemy Distinction
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October 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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.
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Discussing the Value (or Lack Thereof) of Political Discourse w/ Nathan Ormond
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October 21, 2025 at 11:45 PM
I came across Nathan Ormond a few months ago and have since enjoyed his thoughtful and insightful livestreams.
youtube.com/live/PJjdwSx...
youtube.com/live/PJjdwSx...
My conversation with writer and Marxist philosopher Daniel Tutt. We discuss comradeship and the politics of friendship. youtu.be/7IDCy88x4pY?...
Daniel Tutt: Who Is A Comrade? Who Is A Friend?
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October 17, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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.
October 13, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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?...
The Subject Is Not Consciousness, Rather the Opposite
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October 12, 2025 at 8:55 PM
"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
Marxist Philosopher Reflects on the Charlie Kirk Moment
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October 7, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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?...
A Neuroscience Approach to Relation Meaning
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October 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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
The Fundamental Ambiguity of Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophy
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September 30, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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?...
Information Geometry and Social Neuroscience
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September 25, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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.
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.
September 21, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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.
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?...
Geometric Hyperscanning, Interbrain Networks and Social Cognition (w/ Nicolás Hinrichs)
YouTube video by Rahul Sam
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September 21, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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
What James Joyce Tells Us About Psychosis
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September 15, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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.
September 11, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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
Enactivist Interventions in Panpsychism
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September 10, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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
Reposted by Rahul
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
So, last week I was on @trsam97.bsky.social 's podcast talking about Merleau-Ponty with @robinmuller.bsky.social ...
youtu.be/YPmuFqUwSLw
September 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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
So, last week I was on @trsam97.bsky.social 's podcast talking about Merleau-Ponty with @robinmuller.bsky.social ...
youtu.be/YPmuFqUwSLw
Reposted by Rahul
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 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
So, last week I was on @trsam97.bsky.social 's podcast talking about Merleau-Ponty with @robinmuller.bsky.social ...
youtu.be/YPmuFqUwSLw
September 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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
engage.vic.gov.au/wfh
Have your say: Working from home legislation
We want to hear your views on the Victorian Government’s plan to introduce working from home legislation.
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September 8, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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
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?...
Philosophers Should Not Arbitrate for Science (and Vice Versa)
YouTube video by Rahul Sam
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September 5, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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?...
Merleau-Ponty & Cognitive Science (w/ Robin Muller & Jeffrey Yoshimi)
YouTube video by Rahul Sam
youtu.be
August 31, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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?...
Mathematical Thinking Is Embodied
YouTube video by Rahul Sam
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August 26, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Even the most abstract forms of high-order cognition are embodied, as Prof Shaun Gallagher illustrates through the enactivist approach. youtu.be/_Tzl3I3R2dI?...