Continuing our deep dive into what it means to be human in the age of AI, and inspired by the physicalist yet transcendent worldviews of the transhumanists, in this episode I start to explore the concept of worldviews, focusing first on physicalism / scientific materialism (the idea that matter / energy is fundamental), and how that particular metaphysics or worldview was based entirely on a series of assumptions that were never empirically proven. We contextualize all of it via the postmodern zombie mythology.
I focus on the unexplained anomalies from quantum physics as how they undermine the physicalist worldview. I then explore the reasons that physicalism is so intractable as a worldview.
All of this is just to set the table for an exploration of #idealism in my next episode (the idea that mind or consciousness is fundamental). Then we can finally turn our attention to transhumanism and human faculties.
You can find a YouTube version of this episode here.
Sam Altman’s “Intelligence Age” post
Quantum measurement explained:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHDMJqJHCQg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kxmR82QMN8
Quantum entanglement explained:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqmIVeheTVU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuvK-od647c
John Vervaeke on being rational and spiritual
John Vervaeke on Zombies
The famous Einstein - Bergson debate of 1922
My video on the hurdles to AGI
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