Patterson in Pursuit

Sep 29 2024 178 ep. 42 mins 7.4k
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Philosophy in the real world. Interviewing intellectuals across the globe. Grappling with the biggest ideas.

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4 Steps to the Immaterial [Narration]

Sep 29 2024 4 mins  
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Why We Need to Replace Mathematics [Narration]

Sep 21 2024 5 mins  
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The Objectivity of Structure Outside our Concepts [Narration]

May 06 2023 6 mins  
The world outside our mind is actually glued together; relations are mind-independent; and patterns are objectively real. Get full access to Steve Patterson's Substack at stevepatterson.substack.com/subscribe

Ep. 106 - Living with the Robots | Dr. RollerGator

Apr 02 2023 103 mins  
Trying to envision life alongside AI. How will our culture change? What will the norms be around beloved robots? Should we let the machines hijack our emotional circuitry? Will AI become the highest-level decision makers within governments? Get full access to Steve Patterson's Substack at stevepatterson.substack.com/subscribe

Ep. 105 - The Philosophy of AI (pt 1) | Alexandros Marinos

Mar 24 2023 135 mins  
The world is ablaze with discussion about the risks and benefits of AI like ChatGPT I have not been persuaded by the doomsdayers concerns about rogue AI, but that doesn't mean the technology is actually safe. I investigate some philosophical concepts surrounding AI with Alexandros Marinos. Get full access to Steve Patterson's Substack at stevepatterson.substack.com/subscribe

Ep. 104 - "No Longer a Christian" | Isaac Deitz

Nov 25 2021 111 mins  
Wonderful conversation with my old friend Isaac Deitz who shares his personal religious journey. After decades of being a Christian, he no longer identifies with that label. In my opinion, that's only because "Christian" is a terrible term nowadays. By some metrics, Isaac is a raging Christian. By others, he is a heretic. In that respect, I am coming to many of the same ideas about

Our Present Dark Age

Jul 05 2021 20 mins  
The best explanation for the current madness of the world is that we're in a dark age and have been for at least a century. The epistemic standards of the 20th century were not high enough to overcome social, psychological, and political entropy. Get full access to Steve Patterson's Substack at stevepatterson.substack.com/subscribe

Ep. 103 - "Mad at Mathematicians" | Isaac Morehouse

Jan 20 2021 48 mins  
A couple of months ago, my friend Isaac Morehouse asked me to talk about the philosophy of mathematics and why I consider it so important. Appeals to mathematics are everywhere, from COVID lockdowns to NFL play calling, and if our concepts about math are flawed, we make the world a significantly worse place. Get full access to Steve Patterson's Substack at stevepatterson.substack

Ep. 102 - Scientific Progress and Intellectual Schelling Points | Dr. Geoff Anders

Apr 19 2020 110 mins  
What does scientific progress look like? Is it steady progress, getting ever closer to the truth? Or does it go through waves? What about cases where we seem to have lost knowledge or the foundations of a theory we’ve been building on turned out to be wrong? Can that still be useful? Is that still progress? These are some of the questions I explore with Dr. Geoff Anders.

Critical Thinking | Zooming In and Zooming Out

Mar 31 2020 8 mins  
A critical thinker must have the ability to zoom in and zoom out - to hyper-focus on cause and effect and to see how things interconnect in the big picture. It's a common and critical error to be too-zoomed-in or too-zoomed-out. The over-focused mind is like the mathematician who doesn't realize the assumptions of his model are non-mathematical and likely wrong. The under-focused m