8 | Lenses

The second part in the two part episode exploring other forms of cognizance and the human race to build one.

A followup to episode 15 that covered Purpose. This episode introduces the idea of cognizant artificial intelligence that will be dived into further in Pt 2.

What are we doing? 

Infinitely many tangents!

We explore breaking things and things breaking.

How do we define ourselves in space as we move within our environments?

When integrating new ideas into our understanding, unlike when we encounter physical objects, we need to build out the ideological scaffolding to be able to support the information.

A breakdown of our realities from the perspective of social dynamics and not physics. All the water you choose to consume, every bit of food you eat, all the time you spend on your couch, is being calculated by somebody somewhere.

Categories are useful for understanding our realities but are only as useful as they are simultaneously both well defined and fluid. Everything falls on a gradient, even gradients.  "There are no differences but differences of degree among different degrees of difference and no difference." - William James Simple Brain Anatomy

Exploring informed personal bias, or lenses. There is so much knowledge that humans have generated, knowledge which has only been created and refined through interaction with other pieces of knowledge, that when we look through our lens at other aspects of reality they seem to hold true, because they are. Knowledge built upon knowledge built upon knowledge.   Some fun links in case you want to read up on some topics: Sense Data Kant’s Idealism Husserl (Founder of Phenomenology) Idealism Phenomenology