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| Title | Pub. Date | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI/mathematics, ethics, the missing link in our knowledge, building a world for the brain. | 10 Jun 2025 | 01:25:19 | |
Join Aidan and Helena for an episode on a contemporary philosophical problem: artificial intelligence. We talk about mathematics, descriptions of reality, the fiction of AI discovering reality, reasoning with vs. reasoning from, AI as supplementing a missing link in our own knowledge, the problem with AI ethics, and how we could build a world for the brain. We have sadly had some audio issues while recording this episode. We hope you can still enjoy it! Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/either_or_pod/ The cover art for this episode is a stylization of Nicolas P. Rougier's rendering of the human brain licensed under GNU GPL v3.0. | |||
| kierkegaard/God, love, irony, choice, and the ethical vs. the aesthetic life. | 03 Jun 2025 | 01:30:22 | |
"What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know." - Søren Kierkegaard Join us for our inaugural episode as we discuss the 19th-century Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard and what his texts have to say about God, faith, love, irony, the ethical vs. the aesthetic life, anxiety, freedom and choice. Follow us: https://www.instagram.com/either_or_pod/ The cover art for this episode is a stylization of the cover of Princeton University Press's 2013 edition of Either/Or by Søren Kierkegaard. | |||