Reality, Reason & Rationality with Brett Hall

Feb 07 2025 24 ep. 35 mins 22
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Trump’s Executive Orders - Analysis

Feb 07 2025 37 mins  
“How is the state to be constituted so that bad rulers can be got rid of without bloodshed, without violence?” - so asked Karl Popper in a number of places not least in “The Economist”, 1988 here: https://www.economist.com/democracy-in-america/2016/01/31/from-the-archives-the-open-society-and-its-enemies-revisited His question was to highlight that the more traditional ques

Knowledge Beyond Belief

Dec 30 2024 55 mins  
This is a partially edited transcript. It may contain errors and references to things on screen. Nevertheless for those who like text, I would guess that 95% of the central message can be gathered simply by reading this and filling in the blanks.Truth: it keeps cropping up, as it should for it's an indispensable feature of the reality we occupy both physical and abstract. We come t

Identity and Ideology

Dec 05 2023 21 mins  
No one has completely solved the question of personhood. What is a person? This question has animated philosophers since time immemorial with some claiming it boiled down at root to our capacity to do art, or our capacity to be moral creatures, or to be “moral agents” or our capacity to do “higher level thinking” like mathematics. All of these circled the actual unifying id

Net Zer0

Nov 13 2023 89 mins  
This article/transcript and podcast may be augmented by some of the images found in the (identical) video version here: Welcome to the three Rs. Reality, reason, and rationality. I'm Brett Hall and this is my other podcast. My regular podcast is Tokcast, devoted largely to the work of David Deutsch and related thinkers like Karl Popper and Chiara Marleto. Today, because this partic

The Pattern

Oct 15 2023 35 mins  
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Where do ideas come from?

Jun 28 2023 62 mins  
I had an idea earlier today. I thought to myself: having compared the mind to a kind of singularity from whence ideas come I really should try to explain myself a little further. I said in a podcast titled “Epiphenomena” where I considered the nature of consciousness and its possible relationship to explanatory creativity (found below, by the way)that:“What I am saying is: we

A weekend of Twitter

Dec 08 2022 140 mins  
A weekend spent on TwitterI ended last newsletter with an observation about people quitting Twitter. Although I cannot properly know someone else’s subjective experience at any time - including what they experience on Twitter - I did implore anyone else considering leaving the platform to not delete their entire account. Deleting, it seemed to me, and though this might sound dram

Lots of Links and Alliteration

Nov 28 2022 12 mins  
It’s been almost exactly a month since my previous newsletter. Today, an update on some of the content I’ve been creating recently which may have been missed.There’s something about my mind I have always known - but only recently come to know explicitly. That is: I seem to generate ideas in alliterative lists. Maybe everyone does this? I know I’ve done it almost all my life

Declining educational standards?

Oct 27 2022 21 mins  
On the declining standards in schoolsNow all of this is said, as usual, with the background knowledge in mind that coercion is an evil, compulsory schooling is wrong and the first article I ever constructed for my website was about how coercive, compulsory schooling should be done away with: https://www.bretthall.org/learning.htmlSo modulo all that:Here is an article explaining how

Hyperbole

Aug 20 2022 54 mins  
Welcome to newsletter number 15. It’s been a little longer than usual between newsletters. I took some time away from it to focus on other “reading and reflecting” for various things on my YouTube channel, podcast and other projects. In personal news my parents’ 50th wedding anniversary approaches in a couple of months - and so I am organising the deserved celebration for t