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Noam Chomsky on Consciousness, Reality, Mind Body Connection, and Mathematical Realism
Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal
Apr 12, 2022
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1 hr 13 min
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Ep 87
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-Dennett's Quining Qualia:
https://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/dennett/papers/quinqual.htm
-Michael Levin TOE podcast:
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TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 Introduction 00:03:41 Putnam and Mathematical Realism 00:09:06 Are numbers "real"? 00:10:01 Text vs. Meaning / Content vs. Meaning 00:13:28 Are all words "contrast words"? (only making sense in terms of their negation) 00:16:01 How can the word "meaningless" ever be "meaningful"? 00:17:38 Reference vs. Referent 00:28:32 Daniel Dennett's "Quining Qualia" 00:30:44 Consciousness explained? 00:34:27 Mind Body dualism ("body" is no more fundamental than "mind") 00:44:32 Is Chomsky an idealist? 00:46:29 We can't answer anything with certainty 00:50:53 Articulating what's ambiguous (what the heck is going on!?) 00:58:24 Studying consciousness from the 1st person vs 3rd person perspective 00:59:34 How do we generate "definitions" 01:04:59 Curt's question to the audience (for linguists) * * * Just wrapped (April 2021) a documentary called Better Left Unsaid
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