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All phenomenology on itself is noumenal...that is to mean all the mediated, is so, because it is potentially possible through perception...thus all objects of perception are themselves noumenal entities! Not the possession of the subject but the ones who "possess" the subject! Hegel is absolutely brilliant but he cant get past phenomenology...he reminds me Heraclitus, but I still prefer Parmenides...the idea that the "I" creates anything ad nihil is absurd, when the "I" itself is a construct...it doesn't matter as then again all phenomena are in a strange way themselves Noumena...The thing about change is that itself doesn't change...whatever changes changes within BEING...Parmenides understood that! I call it Meta-Dialectics!

I've started debating this topic way back in 2012 when Deep Learning came about here on the forums with some old school engineers lost in time that basically said I was crazy and ignorant...here's where we are right now:

Well as a Christmas celebration silly season present you will all finally get to see my face while making a fool of myself on a keyboard...happy holidays!

Because posting on this topic is never to much...

I am not sure if this a copycat Segway AGI rouse to get funded via DANGER concerns with reverse psychology or an actual middle term TRUE concern...as in AI, it is probably both. In any case here the new bio-tech bad news:

My 02 cents of bullshit for a reply:

I am an atheist and in the past few days I have been binging your videos with great surprise and satisfaction but...and here we go with the damn but, it seems to me on a first look that your command of Metaphysics is somewhat superficial IMO! No harm done there Metaphysics is probably the hardest thing human beings will ever do on this planet and you just haven't given it enough credit...Metaphysics is not exactly fashionable and its scope is far from being constrained by the dictates of Religion...its scope is way past Religious musings...are you a Moral objectivist or a Moral relativist and why? How familiar are you with Game Theory and Nash Equilibriums? I could go on...

Take the following premisse at heart for a second will ya...ALL that exists is NECESSARY not contingent. Or better framed still the Set of all possible things is actual somewhere in spacetime in the block Multiverse/Universe as you prefer. What does it mean? Well get back to Ancient Greece and the concept of Non-Being not being able to be expressed in any way fashion or form the same way in a thought experiment you cannot think of a potential imaginary line which is neither strait nor curved...it can't be thought off...what you are left with is the absence of absence, the negation of the obscure concept of absolute Nothingness, which is nothing at all, as its right there in the word that kills itself out of meaning...from there proceed to think about what is BEING transcendentally in spacetime...now how do you fare, how do you cope? What to make of the world you find yourself in? In this meta frame "Good" is what CAN exist!...

...further down the rabbit hole think of the dynamics of superorganisms because it is important in this debate, and you are a pawn with no say on the homeostatic equilibrium of the whole thing...What to say about the problem of "Evil"? Well suffering and pleasure or relief are NECESSARY opposing ingredients of Consciousness, thus an INTRINSIC part of the DRAMA of LIFE, we are NPC's in a freaking cosmic show...(And I am not talking about angels or gods here)...what do you make out of this fractal repeating wheel of time meta pattern, the Rubik cube space of all possible configurations in which we exist forever grounded in spacetime noodle like a god damned line of code, both necessary and irrelevant? "Les Miserables" once again come to my mind all to often on these debates... in them Victor Hugo portrait so well the misery of the Human condition, a man just barely sufficiently smart to be aware of its conceptual finitude, of his own death, and his prison in life in a very specific context...we all without exception are FOREVER children of ignorance! That is what it means to be "alive" to have a specific subjective pov!...

...on another deeper level what to make of the idea that statistically human beings are not even probable to be the most intelligent beings existing in this Universe or Reality at large...statistically we would be probably in the middle...suddenly you don't need ancient fairy tales from fisherman and some old scholars to have something like Boltzmann brains, demi-gods that you could not possible start to comprehend, far more complex then your run of the mill anthropomorphised God in the 3 main Abrahamic religions imagined by a semi civilized monkey ironically called Homo Sapiens...

Again I may be mistaken but it looks to me that for all the brilliant content of most of your videos at large this one might be the one you prepared the least and the one who required a far greater effort...I am glad that at the very least you are sufficiently familiar with Neo Darwinism, it is just not enough in the greater scheme of things...whatever your position is, Moral Relativist or Objectivist, frame it within the context of Superdeterminism and Albert Einstein concept of the block Universe...one of the things I hate with passion in recent years is the misuse of the word "emergent" thrown away like magic... a word that looks like something coming out of Heraclitus instead of a more wise Parmenides...it just so happens that Parmenides is the one who rides along with Einstein 2 and half millennia before he was born...

Excuse my terrible English and the "ZIP" style format of someone who wants to say to much stuff in a few small lines on a YouTube comment section...keep up the great work people like you are needed more then ever!

My 02 cents for a quick reply:
The problem of American culture right now is excess of engagement with opposing parts, this is not only true of Politics or Religion but all sorts of tribal warfare...meanwhile back in Europe a good deal of people look at the Bible in the same way they look at a Greek book about Zeus...we engage with it as a souvenir, a curiosity from the past, a relic of the old world, something mostly fun, an archaeological artefact of vague interest as it shaped (past tense) Western culture for 2 millennia and we love to conserve Historical relics as your tourists do well know when they do visit our old cities...from the Church we take the best, (e.g. Franciscan priests come to mind), and absolutely ignore the worst, not giving it any opportunity of engagement in lecturing us in any oppressive way...in Europe Church was relegated to doing funerals and praising some good deeds when people engage in them. Seen from the outside it looks to me you are at "war" with your own living culture, with a big sect of your own people "modus vivendi", not with an ancient book, which bottom line has as much power as living people put in it, as you so correctly mentioned mostly for their own private scheming agenda. I think your "war" is not even with Religion per se but with a certain oppressive way of doing Religion that your country engages with, not that much different of third old feudal cultures that still persist. "In your face loud oppression" is a very American cultural trait, and is sadly omnipresent in many things besides Religion! Sam Harris just like you seem to be engaged in a Dom Quixote war against wind mills...how was it that you put it from Napoleon? "Never interrupt your enemy while he is making a mistake"? Yeah I bet the Chinese are thinking exactly just that when they see how lost with phantoms you have got, totally incapable of diagnosing correctly your ACTUAL cultural problem, an all consuming excess of tribal, gang like internal warfare!...

If all the good doctor wants to explain away is that all aware biological entities are ontologically bound to misperception (as they are bound to many other things like breathing drinking eating and shitting), which fundamentally carries through having a specific world line subjective pov, and call that "free will", as if such epistemic constrains imply an "emergent" miraculous phenomena, I will gladly accept yet another abusive violation upon the use of the obscure wording "emergent" vernaculum now in vogue like a blissful new ghost evoked directly from Paradise Lost for mortal consumption every time we stump in Metaphysical traps! Dr. Noam is well versed in the languaging trickery our species privileges for parlance when it comes to analyse our own collective behaviour through instinctive deployment of convincing collective auto narratives as fabulous as the Bible itself as we comply to our species specific natural conceptual needs! Autopoiesis comes to mind in a blink...I leave it at that, as my point has been made sufficiently clear by now!...

Gregory Chaitin new interesting "rants" on Meta-Biology...I haven't found the complete interview yet but I will post it when I find it. I wish Farmerman was still around to comment on Chaitin proto ideas on the subject.