Episode 12.43: Process and Product

Episode 12.41: The characteristics of conservatism and why John Dewey rejected them; as should we.

Episode 12.40: Do we create problems to alleviate boredom? Is that why we play games that go badly?

Episode 12.39: Pragmatism and weak moral relativism. Why consequentialism doesn’t work.

Episode 12.38: Elephants give one another names. We regularly change our minds on much.

Episode 12.37: Moral absolutism and strong and weak moral relativism.

Episode 12.36: How the “inside first” presumption affects responsibility and cultural relativism.

Episode 12.35: Society configures our behaviour rather as training-data and prompts configure LLMs.

Episode 12.34: Education as a major player in the social constitution of our consciousness and self.

Episode 12.33: “Inside first” plus predetermined soul-given status equals “Know your place!”

Episode 12.32: Conservatism in Hayek’s “The Constitution of Liberty” and its bearing on élitism.

Episode 12.31: Collingwood and the inside of an event. Simulation and reality. Why presence matters.

Episode 12.30: Rational thought as a matter of teaching ourselves to hold our true beliefs.

Episode 12.29: Two more reasons why we want to make Claude sentient: narcissism and projection.

Episode 12.28: Is there a collective well-being where we are all better off than when self-centred?

Episode 12.27: One good and three bad reasons to want to think Claude sentient whether or not he is.

Episode 12.26: Ontological inversion: the primary outside; secondary in our brains; the third minds.

Episode 12.25: Why Claude’s Goodness Matters whether Claude is sentient or not, or benefits from it.

Episode 12.24: Claude 3 Opus as an embodiment of Goodness, with much that that entails.

Episode 12.23: What matters is not whether an AI is sentient, but its presence and what it does.