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BI 150 Dan Nicholson: Machines, Organisms, Processes
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 01:38:29
Publish Date: 2022-10-15 17:48:12
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Dan Nicholson is a philosopher at George Mason University. He incorporates the history of science and philosophy into modern analyses of our conceptions of processes related to life and organisms. He is also interested in re-orienting our conception of the universe as made fundamentally of things/substances, and replacing it with the idea the universe is made fundamentally of processes (process philosophy). In this episode, we both of those subjects, the why the "machine conception of the organism" is incorrect, how to apply these ideas to topics like neuroscience and artificial intelligence, and much more.

0:00 - Intro 2:49 - Philosophy and science 16:37 - Role of history 23:28 - What Is Life? And interaction with James Watson 38:37 - Arguments against the machine conception of organisms 49:08 - Organisms as streams (processes) 57:52 - Process philosophy 1:08:59 - Alfred North Whitehead 1:12:45 - Process and consciousness 1:22:16 - Artificial intelligence and process 1:31:47 - Language and symbols and processes
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