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Conversations with History: Hubert Dreyfus

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Host Harry Kreisler welcomes philosopher Hubert Dreyfus for a discussion of why machines cannot become human. In their discussion, they talk about the role of philosophy in clarifying what it means to be human. Series: Conversations with History [9/2006] [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 11335]

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  • i can't believe they cut him off at his most important point! That modern thinking is STILL pre-heidegerian!

  • this is an excerpt from The Complet Idiot's Guide to Taoism (from google books) by toropov and hansen, p. 39.

    "zhuangzi celebrates the notion of self-transcending skill. In his view, highly honed skills reach a stage where we lose ourselves in perfromance and "become on with" the world in which we act. during such activities, we seldom think about the rules we learned as acolytes. we feel ourselves "pulled" by the activity, not as someone making decisions or deliberating.

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  • @Barky65 Pretty sure the other 108 act like computers at social settings though ;)

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  • Bad reading of Plato...the cave contains both firelight and sunlight. And Plato brings out the issue of calling first; the 'epistemological drive' towards 'thaumazein being' which is already the 'knight of faith'. This guy is a bit loony.

  • @luxjason Horribly Awesome.

  • wow, this intro music is horrible

  • Dreyfus remarks that the flaws in GOFAI can be traced to its founding upon a certain type of "loser" philosophy which depends on the viability of mental representation. I wonder if the same could be posited of modern psychology, that it was based upon an inherently flawed position in philosophy of mind?

  • "Be ready to take risks and be open to the thing that's trying to grab you." 56:18

    That's what my uncle Ernie used to tell me. Then we would wrestle for a while, and I a can't remember what happened after that...

  • He is a great teacher, I like him more than I like my comment about him...

  • Certainly, internet is a tool. And a powerful one. I live in Spain and I have been able to listen to this wonderful interview.

    And then they say that philosophy is of no use in our world, well, the thing is that others "take over" philosophical theses that philosophers no longer accept...

  • Oh, yeah. I remember now. It reminds me of Boards of Canada (which basically is driven by oldschoolness and childhood impressions)

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