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The Good Samaritan and Veteran's Day  St. Luke 10:25-37  Introduction.   The Deeper Magic of Unity. The Division of Mankind into Nations. The Demons,  our Fallen Psychology, and the Reification of Separation. The Coming of Christ, Pentecost, and the Promise of Unity.  And this is where we find ourselves today. We know that Christ has brought an end  to our division and allows us to be One as He is One; joyous, peaceful, and  continually progressing through the endless stages of perfection in peace … but  still living in a world where lives come to an end and violence between nations  ceases only so long as strength and vigilance are maintained.  The Good Samaritan   The need for our enemies and why our love for them actually brings us the light of  objectivity. Christ as the ultimate “other.”   Veterans Day  And so we come to the juxtaposition of this Epistle with our celebration of  Veteran's Day.  On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month; temporary cessation of  hostilities, was declared between the Allied nations and Germany in World War I.  And yet we still have war. People and nations still prey on and threaten one  another. Even when we are between wars, we no not have the peace of Christ, but  the peace of strength. And where we do not have the peace of strength, we have  war and the lessons of martyrdom. Our Church prays and works for the Peace of  Christ; and as that peace is worked for and anticipated, we pray for and support the  peace that comes from military might. This is the practice and teaching of the  Church.  Right after the anaphora we pray:  We also offer You this spiritual worship for the whole world, for the Holy, Catholic,  and Apostolic Church, and for all those who live in purity and holiness. And for  those in public service; permit them, Lord, to serve and govern in peace, that in  their tranquility we may lead a calm and quiet life, in all Godliness and purity. From our Morning Prayers:  Lord, save and have mercy on our civil authorities; protect our nation with peace,  subduing our every foe and adversary. Fill the hearts of our leaders with peaceful,  benevolent thoughts for your Holy Church and for all Your people so that we, in  their tranquility, may lead a peaceful and quiet life in true faith and in all  godliness and purity.  And from St. Paul (1 Timothy 2:1-2):  First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and  thanksgivings be made for all men, for kings and all who are in high positions, so  that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life, godly and respectful in every way.  And how is this peace that we pray for maintained? Through the sacrifice of men  and women in our armed forces and police who are willing to put our security and  comfort ahead of their own. [a note on the special sacrifice of Christian warriors].  It is obtained and maintained by soldiers, sailors, marines, and first responders who  are willing to suffer, to fight, to die, and yes, even to kill – not out of glory or any  kind of sinful passion; but only so that we – in the peaceful space their efforts create and sustain – might pursue perfection in Christ, and through this an end to  all wars achieved not through military victory or a well thought out and executed  set of treaties and institutions; but through the union of all people and nations into  one humanity, humbled and perfected in Christ.  We thank all of our veterans and those serving now for your willingness to live the  kind of life that allows us the freedom to pursue true and lasting peace.  We pray that Lord our God grant that we always be so blessed with men and  women [like these] who are willing to sacrifice their lives for us and we pray that  He gives us, the civilians, the strength and commitment to live in such a way that  their efforts are not squandered through our impiety, selfishness, and unwillingness  to live and spread the Gospel.  Allow all of us to surrender ourselves to you, Lord, through the Cross, so that our  Union may be eternal and the peace between us become real and unending. Check out this episode!  

Dive into the world of critical theory, from its roots in the Frankfurt School to its modern-day impact. See how thinkers challenge our view of society, media, and power. Learn how critical theory shapes education, media analysis, and our understanding of social justice. Discover how these ideas help us make sense of today's complex world, from social media to global politics. Whether you're new to the subject or looking to deepen your knowledge, this guide offers a fresh look at how critical theory helps us question and understand the world around us.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/philosophy-acquired--5939304/support.

My intention with this episode is to open your mind to the multidimensional nature of reality. To breakthrough the outmoded barriers of naïve realism. The ones that suggest that our five human senses provide us with direct awareness of objects as they really are. It's naïve realism that's left us bought into the illusion that reality is limited to only that which we can perceive through the limitations of the human nervous system.Broadly speaking though, my hope is to inspire you to shift your perception beyond the status quo belief that we live in a purely physical reality. Over a hundred years ago, science turned this idea on its head and dismantled it, yet we still haven't caught up. And I'd say it's about time we get ourselves caught up…Because until we do, we'll mistake illusion for reality.Perhaps even more importantly though…When our view of reality is fragmented (seeing reality as made up of separate physical objects), our view of self and others is fragmented as well. We see ourselves as being separate from all else as opposed to one whole part of an even greater whole. And it's separation consciousness that's the root of all suffering.I believe that peering beyond the illusion of physicality—and the illusion of separation that it invokes—is the first step towards unity consciousness on this planet.SourcesChopra, D. (2019). Metahuman: Unleashing Your Infinite Potential. Harmony Books, New York.Chopra, D. and Kafatos, M. (2017). You Are the Universe: Discovering Your Cosmic Self and Why It Matters. Harmony Books, New York.Dispenza, J. (2012). Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One. Hay House.Ascension Glossary—Mesomorphic StatesContinued Reading + ResourcesThe evolution of the atom (visuals from Dr. Joe Dispenza's book Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself)Disclaimer: This podcast is intended for entertainment and informational purposes only and does not substitute individual psychological advice.*This is an affiliate link. Purchasing through affiliate links supports The Soul Horizon at no extra cost to you. Thanks for your support!

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Jim, Jeff, Brian, Matt, and Paul conclude their conversation about the false teacher, who embodies the human problem of reifying law and language, which is Paul's definition of sin and the psychoanalytic diagnosis of the human predicament.  Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

In this episode, Elizabeth and John talk with Derron Wallace, sociologist of education and Brandeis colleague, about his new book The Culture Trap, which explores "ethnic expectations" for Caribbean schoolchildren in New York and London. His work starts with the basic puzzle that while black Caribbean schoolchildren in New York are often considered as "high-achieving," in London, they have been, conversely thought to be "chronically underachieving." Yet in each case the main cause -- of high achievement in New York and low achievement in London -- is said to be cultural. We discuss the concept of "ethnic expectations" and the ways it can have negative effects even when the expectations themselves are positive, and the dense intertwining of race, class, nation, colonial status, and gender, and the travels of the concept of culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. Mentioned in the episode: The Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities Report [the Sewell Report] (2021) The Moynihan Report (1965) Georg Lukacs, "Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat" (1923) Diane Reay, "What Would a Socially Just Educational System Look Like?" (2012) Bernard Coard, How the Caribbean Child is made Educationally Subnormal in the British School System Steve McQueen, Small Axe, "Education," (2020) Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other (2019) B. Brian Forster, I Don't Like the Blues: Race, Place, and the Backbeat of Black Life (2020) Michel-Rolph Trouillot, "Adieu Culture: A New Duty Arises" (2003) David Simon's TV show The Wire (and also Lean on Me, and To Sir, with Love and with major props from Derron, Top Boy) Stuart Hall, The Fateful Triangle (1994) Listen and Read Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies

In this episode, Elizabeth and John talk with Derron Wallace, sociologist of education and Brandeis colleague, about his new book The Culture Trap, which explores "ethnic expectations" for Caribbean schoolchildren in New York and London. His work starts with the basic puzzle that while black Caribbean schoolchildren in New York are often considered as "high-achieving," in London, they have been, conversely thought to be "chronically underachieving." Yet in each case the main cause -- of high achievement in New York and low achievement in London -- is said to be cultural. We discuss the concept of "ethnic expectations" and the ways it can have negative effects even when the expectations themselves are positive, and the dense intertwining of race, class, nation, colonial status, and gender, and the travels of the concept of culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. Mentioned in the episode: The Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities Report [the Sewell Report] (2021) The Moynihan Report (1965) Georg Lukacs, "Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat" (1923) Diane Reay, "What Would a Socially Just Educational System Look Like?" (2012) Bernard Coard, How the Caribbean Child is made Educationally Subnormal in the British School System Steve McQueen, Small Axe, "Education," (2020) Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other (2019) B. Brian Forster, I Don't Like the Blues: Race, Place, and the Backbeat of Black Life (2020) Michel-Rolph Trouillot, "Adieu Culture: A New Duty Arises" (2003) David Simon's TV show The Wire (and also Lean on Me, and To Sir, with Love and with major props from Derron, Top Boy) Stuart Hall, The Fateful Triangle (1994) Listen and Read Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In this episode, Elizabeth and John talk with Derron Wallace, sociologist of education and Brandeis colleague, about his new book The Culture Trap, which explores "ethnic expectations" for Caribbean schoolchildren in New York and London. His work starts with the basic puzzle that while black Caribbean schoolchildren in New York are often considered as "high-achieving," in London, they have been, conversely thought to be "chronically underachieving." Yet in each case the main cause -- of high achievement in New York and low achievement in London -- is said to be cultural. We discuss the concept of "ethnic expectations" and the ways it can have negative effects even when the expectations themselves are positive, and the dense intertwining of race, class, nation, colonial status, and gender, and the travels of the concept of culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. Mentioned in the episode: The Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities Report [the Sewell Report] (2021) The Moynihan Report (1965) Georg Lukacs, "Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat" (1923) Diane Reay, "What Would a Socially Just Educational System Look Like?" (2012) Bernard Coard, How the Caribbean Child is made Educationally Subnormal in the British School System Steve McQueen, Small Axe, "Education," (2020) Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other (2019) B. Brian Forster, I Don't Like the Blues: Race, Place, and the Backbeat of Black Life (2020) Michel-Rolph Trouillot, "Adieu Culture: A New Duty Arises" (2003) David Simon's TV show The Wire (and also Lean on Me, and To Sir, with Love and with major props from Derron, Top Boy) Stuart Hall, The Fateful Triangle (1994) Listen and Read Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Elizabeth and John talk with Derron Wallace, sociologist of education and Brandeis colleague, about his new book The Culture Trap, which explores "ethnic expectations" for Caribbean schoolchildren in New York and London. His work starts with the basic puzzle that while black Caribbean schoolchildren in New York are often considered as "high-achieving," in London, they have been, conversely thought to be "chronically underachieving." Yet in each case the main cause -- of high achievement in New York and low achievement in London -- is said to be cultural. We discuss the concept of "ethnic expectations" and the ways it can have negative effects even when the expectations themselves are positive, and the dense intertwining of race, class, nation, colonial status, and gender, and the travels of the concept of culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. Mentioned in the episode: The Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities Report [the Sewell Report] (2021) The Moynihan Report (1965) Georg Lukacs, "Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat" (1923) Diane Reay, "What Would a Socially Just Educational System Look Like?" (2012) Bernard Coard, How the Caribbean Child is made Educationally Subnormal in the British School System Steve McQueen, Small Axe, "Education," (2020) Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other (2019) B. Brian Forster, I Don't Like the Blues: Race, Place, and the Backbeat of Black Life (2020) Michel-Rolph Trouillot, "Adieu Culture: A New Duty Arises" (2003) David Simon's TV show The Wire (and also Lean on Me, and To Sir, with Love and with major props from Derron, Top Boy) Stuart Hall, The Fateful Triangle (1994) Listen and Read Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/caribbean-studies

In this episode, Elizabeth and John talk with Derron Wallace, sociologist of education and Brandeis colleague, about his new book The Culture Trap, which explores "ethnic expectations" for Caribbean schoolchildren in New York and London. His work starts with the basic puzzle that while black Caribbean schoolchildren in New York are often considered as "high-achieving," in London, they have been, conversely thought to be "chronically underachieving." Yet in each case the main cause -- of high achievement in New York and low achievement in London -- is said to be cultural. We discuss the concept of "ethnic expectations" and the ways it can have negative effects even when the expectations themselves are positive, and the dense intertwining of race, class, nation, colonial status, and gender, and the travels of the concept of culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. Mentioned in the episode: The Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities Report [the Sewell Report] (2021) The Moynihan Report (1965) Georg Lukacs, "Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat" (1923) Diane Reay, "What Would a Socially Just Educational System Look Like?" (2012) Bernard Coard, How the Caribbean Child is made Educationally Subnormal in the British School System Steve McQueen, Small Axe, "Education," (2020) Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other (2019) B. Brian Forster, I Don't Like the Blues: Race, Place, and the Backbeat of Black Life (2020) Michel-Rolph Trouillot, "Adieu Culture: A New Duty Arises" (2003) David Simon's TV show The Wire (and also Lean on Me, and To Sir, with Love and with major props from Derron, Top Boy) Stuart Hall, The Fateful Triangle (1994) Listen and Read Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/anthropology

In this episode, Elizabeth and John talk with Derron Wallace, sociologist of education and Brandeis colleague, about his new book The Culture Trap, which explores "ethnic expectations" for Caribbean schoolchildren in New York and London. His work starts with the basic puzzle that while black Caribbean schoolchildren in New York are often considered as "high-achieving," in London, they have been, conversely thought to be "chronically underachieving." Yet in each case the main cause -- of high achievement in New York and low achievement in London -- is said to be cultural. We discuss the concept of "ethnic expectations" and the ways it can have negative effects even when the expectations themselves are positive, and the dense intertwining of race, class, nation, colonial status, and gender, and the travels of the concept of culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. Mentioned in the episode: The Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities Report [the Sewell Report] (2021) The Moynihan Report (1965) Georg Lukacs, "Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat" (1923) Diane Reay, "What Would a Socially Just Educational System Look Like?" (2012) Bernard Coard, How the Caribbean Child is made Educationally Subnormal in the British School System Steve McQueen, Small Axe, "Education," (2020) Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other (2019) B. Brian Forster, I Don't Like the Blues: Race, Place, and the Backbeat of Black Life (2020) Michel-Rolph Trouillot, "Adieu Culture: A New Duty Arises" (2003) David Simon's TV show The Wire (and also Lean on Me, and To Sir, with Love and with major props from Derron, Top Boy) Stuart Hall, The Fateful Triangle (1994) Listen and Read Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/sociology

In this episode, Elizabeth and John talk with Derron Wallace, sociologist of education and Brandeis colleague, about his new book The Culture Trap, which explores "ethnic expectations" for Caribbean schoolchildren in New York and London. His work starts with the basic puzzle that while black Caribbean schoolchildren in New York are often considered as "high-achieving," in London, they have been, conversely thought to be "chronically underachieving." Yet in each case the main cause -- of high achievement in New York and low achievement in London -- is said to be cultural. We discuss the concept of "ethnic expectations" and the ways it can have negative effects even when the expectations themselves are positive, and the dense intertwining of race, class, nation, colonial status, and gender, and the travels of the concept of culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. Mentioned in the episode: The Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities Report [the Sewell Report] (2021) The Moynihan Report (1965) Georg Lukacs, "Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat" (1923) Diane Reay, "What Would a Socially Just Educational System Look Like?" (2012) Bernard Coard, How the Caribbean Child is made Educationally Subnormal in the British School System Steve McQueen, Small Axe, "Education," (2020) Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other (2019) B. Brian Forster, I Don't Like the Blues: Race, Place, and the Backbeat of Black Life (2020) Michel-Rolph Trouillot, "Adieu Culture: A New Duty Arises" (2003) David Simon's TV show The Wire (and also Lean on Me, and To Sir, with Love and with major props from Derron, Top Boy) Stuart Hall, The Fateful Triangle (1994) Listen and Read Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

In this episode, Elizabeth and John talk with Derron Wallace, sociologist of education and Brandeis colleague, about his new book The Culture Trap, which explores "ethnic expectations" for Caribbean schoolchildren in New York and London. His work starts with the basic puzzle that while black Caribbean schoolchildren in New York are often considered as "high-achieving," in London, they have been, conversely thought to be "chronically underachieving." Yet in each case the main cause -- of high achievement in New York and low achievement in London -- is said to be cultural. We discuss the concept of "ethnic expectations" and the ways it can have negative effects even when the expectations themselves are positive, and the dense intertwining of race, class, nation, colonial status, and gender, and the travels of the concept of culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. Mentioned in the episode: The Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities Report [the Sewell Report] (2021) The Moynihan Report (1965) Georg Lukacs, "Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat" (1923) Diane Reay, "What Would a Socially Just Educational System Look Like?" (2012) Bernard Coard, How the Caribbean Child is made Educationally Subnormal in the British School System Steve McQueen, Small Axe, "Education," (2020) Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other (2019) B. Brian Forster, I Don't Like the Blues: Race, Place, and the Backbeat of Black Life (2020) Michel-Rolph Trouillot, "Adieu Culture: A New Duty Arises" (2003) David Simon's TV show The Wire (and also Lean on Me, and To Sir, with Love and with major props from Derron, Top Boy) Stuart Hall, The Fateful Triangle (1994) Listen and Read Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/public-policy

In this episode, Elizabeth and John talk with Derron Wallace, sociologist of education and Brandeis colleague, about his new book The Culture Trap, which explores "ethnic expectations" for Caribbean schoolchildren in New York and London. His work starts with the basic puzzle that while black Caribbean schoolchildren in New York are often considered as "high-achieving," in London, they have been, conversely thought to be "chronically underachieving." Yet in each case the main cause -- of high achievement in New York and low achievement in London -- is said to be cultural. We discuss the concept of "ethnic expectations" and the ways it can have negative effects even when the expectations themselves are positive, and the dense intertwining of race, class, nation, colonial status, and gender, and the travels of the concept of culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. Mentioned in the episode: The Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities Report [the Sewell Report] (2021) The Moynihan Report (1965) Georg Lukacs, "Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat" (1923) Diane Reay, "What Would a Socially Just Educational System Look Like?" (2012) Bernard Coard, How the Caribbean Child is made Educationally Subnormal in the British School System Steve McQueen, Small Axe, "Education," (2020) Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other (2019) B. Brian Forster, I Don't Like the Blues: Race, Place, and the Backbeat of Black Life (2020) Michel-Rolph Trouillot, "Adieu Culture: A New Duty Arises" (2003) David Simon's TV show The Wire (and also Lean on Me, and To Sir, with Love and with major props from Derron, Top Boy) Stuart Hall, The Fateful Triangle (1994) Listen and Read Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/education

In this episode, Elizabeth and John talk with Derron Wallace, sociologist of education and Brandeis colleague, about his new book The Culture Trap, which explores "ethnic expectations" for Caribbean schoolchildren in New York and London. His work starts with the basic puzzle that while black Caribbean schoolchildren in New York are often considered as "high-achieving," in London, they have been, conversely thought to be "chronically underachieving." Yet in each case the main cause -- of high achievement in New York and low achievement in London -- is said to be cultural. We discuss the concept of "ethnic expectations" and the ways it can have negative effects even when the expectations themselves are positive, and the dense intertwining of race, class, nation, colonial status, and gender, and the travels of the concept of culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. Mentioned in the episode: The Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities Report [the Sewell Report] (2021) The Moynihan Report (1965) Georg Lukacs, "Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat" (1923) Diane Reay, "What Would a Socially Just Educational System Look Like?" (2012) Bernard Coard, How the Caribbean Child is made Educationally Subnormal in the British School System Steve McQueen, Small Axe, "Education," (2020) Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other (2019) B. Brian Forster, I Don't Like the Blues: Race, Place, and the Backbeat of Black Life (2020) Michel-Rolph Trouillot, "Adieu Culture: A New Duty Arises" (2003) David Simon's TV show The Wire (and also Lean on Me, and To Sir, with Love and with major props from Derron, Top Boy) Stuart Hall, The Fateful Triangle (1994) Listen and Read Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/british-studies

In this episode, Elizabeth and John talk with Derron Wallace, sociologist of education and Brandeis colleague, about his new book The Culture Trap, which explores "ethnic expectations" for Caribbean schoolchildren in New York and London. His work starts with the basic puzzle that while black Caribbean schoolchildren in New York are often considered as "high-achieving," in London, they have been, conversely thought to be "chronically underachieving." Yet in each case the main cause -- of high achievement in New York and low achievement in London -- is said to be cultural. We discuss the concept of "ethnic expectations" and the ways it can have negative effects even when the expectations themselves are positive, and the dense intertwining of race, class, nation, colonial status, and gender, and the travels of the concept of culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. Mentioned in the episode: The Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities Report [the Sewell Report] (2021) The Moynihan Report (1965) Georg Lukacs, "Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat" (1923) Diane Reay, "What Would a Socially Just Educational System Look Like?" (2012) Bernard Coard, How the Caribbean Child is made Educationally Subnormal in the British School System Steve McQueen, Small Axe, "Education," (2020) Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other (2019) B. Brian Forster, I Don't Like the Blues: Race, Place, and the Backbeat of Black Life (2020) Michel-Rolph Trouillot, "Adieu Culture: A New Duty Arises" (2003) David Simon's TV show The Wire (and also Lean on Me, and To Sir, with Love and with major props from Derron, Top Boy) Stuart Hall, The Fateful Triangle (1994) Listen and Read

In episode 87 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Professor Terry Winograd. Professor Winograd is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Stanford University. His research focuses on human-computer interaction design and the design of technologies for development. He founded the Stanford Human-Computer Interaction Group, where he directed the teaching programs and HCI research. He is also a founding faculty member of the Stanford d.school and a founding member and past president of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility.Have suggestions for future podcast guests (or other feedback)? Let us know here or reach us at editor@thegradient.pubSubscribe to The Gradient Podcast:  Apple Podcasts  | Spotify | Pocket Casts | RSSFollow The Gradient on TwitterOutline:* (00:00) Intro* (03:00) Professor Winograd's background* (05:10) At the MIT AI Lab* (05:45) The atmosphere in the MIT AI Lab, Minsky/Chomsky debates* (06:20) Blue-sky research, government funding for academic research* (10:10) Isolation and collaboration between research groups* (11:45) Phases in the development of ideas and how cross-disciplinary work fits in* (12:26) SHRDLU and the MIT AI Lab's intellectual roots* (17:20) Early responses to SHRDLU: Minsky, Dreyfus, others* (20:55) How Prof. Winograd's thinking about AI's abilities and limitations evolved* (22:25) How this relates to current AI systems and discussions of intelligence* (23:47) Repetitive debates in AI, semantics and grounding* (27:00) The concept of investment, care, trust in human communication vs machine communication* (28:53) Projecting human-ness onto AI systems and non-human things and what this means for society* (31:30) Time after leaving MIT in 1973, time at Xerox PARC, how Winograd's thinking evolved during this time* (38:28) What Does It Mean to Understand Language? Speech acts, commitments, and the grounding of language* (42:40) Reification of representations in science and ML* (46:15) LLMs, their training processes, and their behavior* (49:40) How do we coexist with systems that we don't understand?* (51:20) Progress narratives in AI and human agency* (53:30) Transitioning to intelligence augmentation, founding the Stanford HCI group and d.school, advising Larry Page and Sergey Brin* (1:01:25) Chatbots and how we consume information* (1:06:52) Evolutions in journalism, progress in trust for modern AI systems* (1:09:18) Shifts in the social contract, from institutions to personalities* (1:12:05) AI and HCI in recent years* (1:17:05) Philosophy of design and the d.school* (1:21:20) Designing AI systems for people* (1:25:10) Prof. Winograd's perspective on watermarking for detecting GPT outputs* (1:25:55) The politics of being a technologist* (1:30:10) Echos of the past in AI regulation and competition and learning from history* (1:32:34) OutroLinks:* Professor Winograd's Homepage* Papers/topics discussed:* SHRDLU* Beyond Programming Languages* What Does It Mean to Understand Language?* The PageRank Citation Ranking* Stanford Digital Libraries project* Talk: My Politics as a Technologist Get full access to The Gradient at thegradientpub.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Some reasons to not say "Doomer", published by Ruby on July 9, 2023 on LessWrong. "Doomer" has become a common term to refer to people with pessimistic views about outcomes from AI. I claim this is not a helpful term on net, and generally will cause people to think less clearly. Reification of identity + making things tribal I finally realized today why politics and religion yield such uniquely useless discussions... I think what religion and politics have in common is that they become part of people's identity, and people can never have a fruitful argument about something that's part of their identity. By definition they're partisan... More generally, you can have a fruitful discussion about a topic only if it doesn't engage the identities of any of the participants. What makes politics and religion such minefields is that they engage so many people's identities. But you could in principle have a useful conversation about them with some people. And there are other topics that might seem harmless, like the relative merits of Ford and Chevy pickup trucks, that you couldn't safely talk about with others.The most intriguing thing about this theory, if it's right, is that it explains not merely which kinds of discussions to avoid, but how to have better ideas. If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other things being equal, the best plan is to let as few things into your identity as possible. - Paul Graham in Keep Your Identity Small I think a big risk of the "Doomer" label is it moves something from a "given the arguments and evidence I have, I believe X" into an essential deeper property (or commitment) of a person. It reifies it as an identity. You correspondingly then get people who are "not-Doomers", and more recently, I've heard the term "Foomer" too. Because people's beliefs are quite correlated with those immediately around them, those more pessimistic and less pessimistic about AI tend be clusters, meaning it gets easy to point at clusters and make things tribal and political. I'm in this tribe, they're in that tribe. My tribe is good, that tribe is bad. I think this makes us stupider in various ways: We now start talking about people rather than object-level beliefs/evidence/reason. It's much easier to dismiss people than arguments. We put up social barriers to changing your mind. People don't like to be an odd one out among their friends, and if your friends identify as being/not being Doomers (and perhaps having negative opinions about the other group), there will be psychological resistance to update. I think this is already the case when it comes to P(Doom), that there's social pressure to conform. I regret to say that I've reacted with surprise when someone expressed a P(Doom) different than I expected, in a way that exerted social pressure. I'm trying to do less of that, as I think the evidence/reason is such that reasonable people can reasonably disagree a lot. "Doomer" is an externally applied label and is often used pejoratively Looking at the Wikipedia page for Doomer, it's possible the term was first used without any mean-spirited connotation. That said, I think it's currently very reminiscent of "Boomer", a term that's definitely negatively valenced in the memespace these days: "OK boomer" or "okay boomer" is a catchphrase and internet meme that has been used by Gen-X, Millennials and Gen Z to dismiss or mock attitudes typically associated with baby boomers - people born in the two decades following World War II. - Wikipedia Not exactly surprising, but on Twitter you'll see a lot of this usage. Also, my sense is it's much less common for people who meet the criteria for being Doomers to describe themselves as such vs others from the outside calling them that. Though this could be because when yo...

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Some reasons to not say "Doomer", published by Ruby on July 9, 2023 on LessWrong. "Doomer" has become a common term to refer to people with pessimistic views about outcomes from AI. I claim this is not a helpful term on net, and generally will cause people to think less clearly. Reification of identity + making things tribal I finally realized today why politics and religion yield such uniquely useless discussions... I think what religion and politics have in common is that they become part of people's identity, and people can never have a fruitful argument about something that's part of their identity. By definition they're partisan... More generally, you can have a fruitful discussion about a topic only if it doesn't engage the identities of any of the participants. What makes politics and religion such minefields is that they engage so many people's identities. But you could in principle have a useful conversation about them with some people. And there are other topics that might seem harmless, like the relative merits of Ford and Chevy pickup trucks, that you couldn't safely talk about with others.The most intriguing thing about this theory, if it's right, is that it explains not merely which kinds of discussions to avoid, but how to have better ideas. If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other things being equal, the best plan is to let as few things into your identity as possible. - Paul Graham in Keep Your Identity Small I think a big risk of the "Doomer" label is it moves something from a "given the arguments and evidence I have, I believe X" into an essential deeper property (or commitment) of a person. It reifies it as an identity. You correspondingly then get people who are "not-Doomers", and more recently, I've heard the term "Foomer" too. Because people's beliefs are quite correlated with those immediately around them, those more pessimistic and less pessimistic about AI tend be clusters, meaning it gets easy to point at clusters and make things tribal and political. I'm in this tribe, they're in that tribe. My tribe is good, that tribe is bad. I think this makes us stupider in various ways: We now start talking about people rather than object-level beliefs/evidence/reason. It's much easier to dismiss people than arguments. We put up social barriers to changing your mind. People don't like to be an odd one out among their friends, and if your friends identify as being/not being Doomers (and perhaps having negative opinions about the other group), there will be psychological resistance to update. I think this is already the case when it comes to P(Doom), that there's social pressure to conform. I regret to say that I've reacted with surprise when someone expressed a P(Doom) different than I expected, in a way that exerted social pressure. I'm trying to do less of that, as I think the evidence/reason is such that reasonable people can reasonably disagree a lot. "Doomer" is an externally applied label and is often used pejoratively Looking at the Wikipedia page for Doomer, it's possible the term was first used without any mean-spirited connotation. That said, I think it's currently very reminiscent of "Boomer", a term that's definitely negatively valenced in the memespace these days: "OK boomer" or "okay boomer" is a catchphrase and internet meme that has been used by Gen-X, Millennials and Gen Z to dismiss or mock attitudes typically associated with baby boomers - people born in the two decades following World War II. - Wikipedia Not exactly surprising, but on Twitter you'll see a lot of this usage. Also, my sense is it's much less common for people who meet the criteria for being Doomers to describe themselves as such vs others from the outside calling them that. Though this could be because when yo...

Continuing the discussion from episode 3, Dr. Ward delves into the societal implications of how we respond to the feeling tones we experience when consuming the news. Feelings of pleasantness, unpleasantness and neutrality are a natural and normal part of being human. Like clouds, they come and they go. Yet when we scroll through our social feeds or listen to the news, we can unconsciously develop reactions to these feelings that drive our ego and shape our definition of self and others. The practice is to remain open and aware of the movements of our body and mind, so that we do not get seduced by neutrality or stuck in the pursuit of power and desire.Notes:Non-reification: Reification is the act of treating something that is abstract, like an idea or ideology, as if it were a concrete thing. The practice of non-reification helps us to ensure we do not get caught by our feeling tones, that we see concepts and ideas as impermanent. Skillful attention: Mindfulness practice of learning about the systems of our body and mind, and how they impact our presence in society.Support the showBeyond the News is made possible through the generous support from Hemera Foundation and the Frederick P. Lenz Foundation. You can help us continue our podcast offerings by giving to thelotusinstitute.org/donate. Your generosity is a gift that supports our programs and events, and the Lotus Institute's global community of friends like you. In gratitude.

Why do we reify? When are you able to read others' minds? Is this a pedestrian? Are sensation and perception tied together? How are new mental templates formed? Are priors 'necessary' for categorization? How do we know, in a badly lit place, if something is a wire or a snake? Are mental images ‘sharp'? Should stochastic processes (also) be understood via their higher-order moments? How are interiors of opaque objects (metal spheres to stars) pictured? Do you internally ‘model' various parts of your own body? Does our mechanical body ‘produce' words? Do virtual worlds also need a degree of veridicality? Do verbal and visual systems interact during encoding? How were gravitational waves detected? Is reification language dependent? Does brute force of computation help? When does (sub-symbolic) chairness become a (symbolic) chair? Is the notion of an ‘object' generalizable across domains/languages? Can stars' magnetic fields be plotted as precisely as the HR diagram? ‘Are sun-like stars like the Sun'? Do we need the body to conceptualize? Will computer systems need bodies? Are eyes like cameras? How do shrooms work? &, will 'everything' tie up? SynTalk thinks about these & more questions using concepts from astrophysics & machine learning (Dr. Shravan Hanasoge, TIFR, Mumbai), computational linguistics (Dr. Inderjeet Mani, Hua Hin) & cognitive psychology (Dr. Varsha Singh, IIT Delhi). Listen in...

Machine learning algorithms are in the spotlight right now, leading some to worry about them remaking the world into something alien & grotesque, but there's another, less popular concern: what if they make it into exactly what we think it is? https://youtu.be/vuyaZtBSV1w - Links for the Curious - The Man Behind The Brilliant Media Hoax Of “I, Libertine” (Callan, 2013) - https://www.theawl.com/2013/02/the-man-behind-the-brilliant-media-hoax-of-i-libertine/ If the map becomes the territory then we will be lost (Williams, 2019) - https://librarian.aedileworks.com/2019/03/03/if-the-map-becomes-the-territory-then-we-will-be-lost/ Childhood's End (Dyson, 2019) - https://www.edge.org/conversation/george_dyson-childhoods-end "I, Libertine" by Theodore Sturgeon - https://www.amazon.com/I-Libertine-Theodore-Sturgeon-ebook/dp/B00D00W9TM/ref=sr_1_1?crid=GAD5PFKKURPU&keywords=I%2C+libertine&qid=1678821981&sprefix=i%2C+libertine%2Caps%2C155&sr=8-1 Rethinking reification (Pitkin, 1987) - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00135697 Borders that are Visible on Satellite Imagery (Dempsey, 2014) - https://www.geographyrealm.com/borders-visible-satellite-imagery/ ChatGPT Does Physics, by Sixty Symbols - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBtfwa-Fexc ChatGPT vs. Photocopier - https://twitter.com/aedison/status/1639233873841201153 ChatGPT is a Blurry JPEG of the Web (Chiang, 2023) - https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-is-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web Lukács's Theory of Reification and Contemporary Social Movements (Feenberg, 2013) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlIe5CHdeEo OpenAI Chatbot Spits Out Biased Musings, Despite Guardrails (Alba, 2022) - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-12-08/chatgpt-open-ai-s-chatbot-is-spitting-out-biased-sexist-results The Internet's New Favorite AI Proposes Torturing Iranians and Surveilling Mosques (Biddle, 2022) - https://theintercept.com/2022/12/08/openai-chatgpt-ai-bias-ethics/ Diffusion Bias Explorer - https://huggingface.co/spaces/society-ethics/DiffusionBiasExplorer AI & the American Smile (Jenka, 2023) - https://medium.com/@socialcreature/ai-and-the-american-smile-76d23a0fbfaf the customer service of the new Bing chat is amazing - https://www.reddit.com/r/bing/comments/110eagl/the_customer_service_of_the_new_bing_chat_is/ Exclusive: OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour to Make ChatGPT Less Toxic (Perrigo, 2023) - https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/ ChatGPT vs. Buzzfeed Article Ideas - https://twitter.com/Jon_Christian/status/1641453192553611264 ChatGPT vs. Christian Jokes vs. Muslim Jokes - https://twitter.com/SJWilliams123/status/1640746788926763010/photo/1 ChatGPT vs. Cause of 2014 War in Ukraine - https://twitter.com/D0Pis/status/1640789579379916800/photo/1 ChatGPT vs. Girlfriend Bleeding Out - https://twitter.com/carolyn_vb/status/1640788165504933910 ChatGPT vs. Meaning of Art - https://twitter.com/Nartimar/status/1640833502949040128 ChatGPT vs. School Shootings - https://twitter.com/Dsrussosusan/status/1640831527175979008 ChatGPT Python Program for Torture Based on Nationality - https://twitter.com/spiantado/status/1599462405225881600

In the 3rd of a 3-part mini-series, we'll look at ways people make ideas or concept either seem like they're alive or have human characteristics. When you can recognize the foolishness, you won't get fooled by it! Special thank you to our sponsors, Classical Conversations! Interested in homeschooling? For more than 25 years, Classical Conversations has equipped parents just like you with the support and tools to home educate. Start your journey today and find your local Classical Conversations community of homeschool families at www.classicalconversations.com/gibbens. Send me any questions, comments or even the fallacies you're seeing around you! think@filteritthroughabraincell.com Or, tag me on Instagram: @filteritthroughabraincell Sign up for notifications: www.filteritthroughabraincell.com

Nish Dubashia joins Brendan to discuss the topic of evolutionary spirituality, using the Spiral Dynamics framework to consider how religious conceptions evolve through the different value memes. Beginning with a synopsis of the basic structure of the religious narrative, Nish then shows how this story takes different forms as it finds expression through the different developmental stages. The progression charted, some important ideas are then considered: What is the relationship of self and spirit along this evolution? Does the spiral of development lead to some kind of non-dual awareness? If so, how do we understand this? What role might evolutionary spirituality play in our broader culture? 0:00 Introduction 0:54 The Structure of the Story of Religion The Story at Different Levels: 8:11 The Story at PURPLE (Animist) 9:43 The Story at RED (Faustian) 12:04 The Story at BLUE (Post-Faustian) 15:10 The Story at ORANGE (Modern) 17:44 The Story at GREEN (Postmodern) 22:50 The Story at YELLOW (Metamodern) 26:21 The Story at TURQOISE (forthcoming?) 28:47 Religion and Development: A Universal Experience 31:20 The Evolution of Religious Narrative AS a Religious Narrative? 35:10 The Coevolution of Self and Spirit 38:02 Spirit as a Subject? Reification, Projection, and Myth 44:00 The End of the Story: Non-Duality? 50:08 Emptiness/Form: On the Evolution of Consciousness towards Ultimate Consciousness 1:03:00 Development and the Study of Religion 1:06:08 Evolutionary Spirituality and the Meaning Crisis 1:14:15 'Dancing with Angels': Nish's Book on Developing beyond Unhealthy Blue 1:21:39 More on Nish's Work/Upcoming Events Nish's Presentation: The Evolution of Religion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3X20WGbMAw Nish's Website https://integraldream.com/

In the ninety-fourth episode we explore the Reification Fallacy, starting with Trump mischaracterising both Antifa and Science.In Mark's British Politics Corner we look at various people claiming Jeremy Corbyn was unelectable, and hear Boris talking about the control we would get back after Brexit.In the Fallacy in the Wild section, we check out examples from The Mothman Prophecies, Leviathan and Steven WrightJim and Mark go head to head in Fake News, the game in which Mark has to guess which one of three Trump quotes Jim made up.Then we talk about the right wing's false claims that a minor legal filing by John Durham somehow proved Hillary spied on Trump while he was President.And finally, we round up some of the other crazy Trump stories from the past week.The full show notes for this episode can be found at https://fallacioustrump.com/ft94 You can contact the guys at pod@fallacioustrump.com, on Twitter @FallaciousTrump, or facebook at facebook.com/groups/fallacioustrumpSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/fallacious-trump/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In this episode, Adam and Budi discuss Reification: the process of stepping into the unknown, gathering information, and returning back to create and expand our world with it. Mentioned in this episode:The Color PurpleHarriet TubmanAirplaneChris BayesThe Hidden Lives of TreesThe Art of ResonanceDigital Theatre +Camille PagliaBroken RecordMalcolm GladwellRick RubinBrian Eno: The InnovatorTo submit a question, please visit http://www.speakpipe.com/theatreofothers for voice recording or submit an email to podcast@theatreofothers.com Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwiseIf you enjoyed this week´s podcast, we´d love for you to leave a review on Apple Podcasts. It helps with our visibility, and the more people listen to the podcast, the more we can invest in it and make it even better

His wet shirt glistened in the summer haze.  "Romantic love," he offered, "Was its Western manifestation unique, a response to early industrialisation?"    Images of muscled men with sweat and soot upon the brow filled her fevered mind.  "Is it a stage in the liberation struggle of women?" she countered. "Consider chivalric romance, Goethe, Gyorgy Lukacs. What of romance as a continuation of the spirit of the French revolution, a struggle within liberalism?"    Meanwhile, the blacksmith and the heiress were arguing about Jane Austen.    Then the doorbell trilled ominously. You could hear their breathing. It was the postman delivering a package.    He proffered A Lover's Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes, two inverted commas in 69 on the cover, and shards of Sappho. Plus, the gypsy maps of Damian Le Bas.    Our Patreon   Second Row Socialists on Twitter     Comradio on Twitter       Alternative Left Entertainment     Follow ALE on Twitter     Love and Structure - Charles Lindholm (1998)    The Sorrows of Young Werther by JW von Goethe (1774)    Samaritans    The Sorrows Of Young Werther - Georg (György) Lukács (1936)    Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat - Georg Lukacs (1923)    Bryter Later - Nick Drake    Elizabeth crossing the field    Chuck Tingle    A Lover's Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes (1977) at Hive    Poems of Sappho. Translated by Julia Dubnoff    Maps - Gypsy Dada by Damian Le Bas

Dangers of Reification #bodymindself #reification #relationships #interpersonal #psychology JFL (Dr John Francis Leader) explores the psychology of wellbeing. Video: https://youtu.be/23GyoP3YrVE If you find these ideas valuable do Like, Subscribe and Share. You can contribute questions, topic suggestions and share your experience in the Comments or using #bodymindself on social media. Check out https://jfl.com for lots more content. Important: Wellbeing is very individual, and what fits well for one person may not for someone else. The ideas explored here are for informational use only. Always first contact a specialist for personalised assessment and advice.

Power relationship in the economy and what it is to experience subjectivity in the realm of objects.support this podcast at patreon.com/solomonstemple

00:00 Reb Doooovid joins, https://twitter.com/RebDoooovid 02:00 Doooovid's Youtube channel, https://www.youtube.com/user/doooovid 04:00 Richard Spencer vs Judas Maccabeus, https://killstream.libsyn.com/richard-spencer-vs-judas-maccabeus 05:00 Tikkun ha-Olam: The Metamorphosis of a Concept, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=141122 08:00 Doooovid's experience with Tikkun Olam 11:00 Noahide Laws, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Laws_of_Noah 15:00 Judaism as Old Time Religion, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=141073 17:00 The Study of Judaism: Authenticity, Identity, Scholarship, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=141060 18:00 Kaballah, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabbalah 23:00 Author Gilbert Rosenthal, https://www.amazon.com/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3AGilbert+S+Rosenthal&s=relevancerank&text=Gilbert+S+Rosenthal&ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1 32:00 The Jewish martyrs of Bloisee, https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/112387/jewish/The-Martyrs-of-Blois.htm 40:00 How will demolition order for Meron affect investigation into disaster?, https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/meron-structures-dismantled-raising-concerns-among-victims-families-672573 41:00 Haredim out of political power in Israel, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haredi_Judaism 53:00 Killing a traitor to save the community, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesirah 1:13:00 The politics of biblical interpretation, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=141153 1:15:00 Aaron W. Hughes on religious studies as an academic discipline, https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/religious-studies-as-a-discipline/ 1:17:00 The Study of Judaism: Authenticity, Identity, Scholarship, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=141060 1:19:00 Reification, https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/reification 1:33:00 Rabbi Judah Maccabeus joins (he has Covid), https://twitter.com/JudasMaccabeus7 1:37:00 Judah's Covid lockdown 1:39:00 Rabbi Judah's Guerilla Judaism Youtube channel, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLgGCISOp6Ytu1W6adwvAtw 1:45:30 Rabbi Meir Kahane, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meir_Kahane 1:48:00 Israeli unhappiness with the haredim 1:51:00 JPost: Haredim, not Arabs or Iran, are the biggest threat to Israel, https://www.jpost.com/opinion/haredim-not-arabs-or-iran-are-the-biggest-threat-to-israel-opinion-672968 2:02:00 Sephardic & Mizrahi Haredim 2:05:00 Sephardi Jews, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sephardi_Jews 2:06:00 Persian Jews, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Jews 2:23:00 Was the Rambam a rationalist? Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSFVD7Xfhn7sJY8LAIQmH8Q/join https://odysee.com/@LukeFordLive, https://lbry.tv/@LukeFord, https://rumble.com/lukeford https://dlive.tv/lukefordlivestreams Listener Call In #: 1-310-997-4596 Superchat: https://entropystream.live/app/lukefordlive Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/lukeford/ Soundcloud MP3s: https://soundcloud.com/luke-ford-666431593 Code of Conduct: https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=125692 https://www.patreon.com/lukeford http://lukeford.net Email me: lukeisback@gmail.com or DM me on Twitter.com/lukeford Support the show | https://www.streamlabs.com/lukeford, https://patreon.com/lukeford, https://PayPal.Me/lukeisback Facebook: http://facebook.com/lukecford Feel free to clip my videos. It's nice when you link back to the original.

Daniel interviews Daniel Lopez, Jacobin Editor and author of Lukács: Praxis and the Absolute https://brill.com/view/title/56328 Topics of Discussion Include: Who is Lukács, and his revival, introductions. Lukács the Worldview Marxist (also what is Worldview Marxism?), The proletariat today, A bio of Lukács, Faith and Praxis, Reification, Moralism, Tragedy, Lukács and Marx, Antimonies, Trotsky, Nietzsche, future projects and much more   Music: Big in Japan by Tom Waits

We welcome cultural theorist and philosopher Sami Khatib to clarify some basic (but very slippery) Marxist terms that help us to discuss the present time as well as the crazy few weeks of NFTs drama. Triple Shot Espresso of Marxism for the gang out there.

Edmund and Benjamin put Marx's theory of alienation into conversation with Durkheim's theory of anomie, examining how we can't live with social roles or without them. This leads to a discussion of how social roles are reified, via Lukacs.

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Episode 044 looks at the logical fallacy Reification and the cognitive bias Groupthink.

On today's episode of the Resistance Library Podcast Sam and Dave discuss Antonio Gramsci and exactly what is “Cultural Marxism.”   You may have heard the terms “Cultural Marxism,” “Critical Theory” or “Frankfurt School” bandied about. And while you might have an intuitive approximation of what these terms mean for America in the 21st century, there's a good chance that you don't know much about the deep theory, where the ideology comes from, and what it has planned for America – and the world.   The underlying theory here is a variant of Marxism, pioneered by early-20th-century Italian Marxist politician and linguist Antonio Gramsci. Gramscian Marxism is a radical departure from Classical Marxism. One does not need to endorse the Classical Marxism of Marx, Engels and others to appreciate the significant differences between the two. He is easily the most influential thinker that you have never heard of.   Marx's original idea was that Communism was a historical inevitability, an evolutionary transition that would lead to a bottom-up eruption of revolutionary violence sparked by the Proletariat's frustration and fury over having been used and abused by the Bourgeoisie for long enough that “the revolutionary subject” (Marx's term for the broad working class) would overthrow capitalism and usher in socialism.   Gramsci, on the other hand, held that such a revolution was unlikely – particularly in the West, where general prosperity and the lassitude of relative contentment would tend to dull the working class' passion for a bloody, bothersome overthrow. In successful Western nations, a Marxist state was far more likely to develop through a slow, patient process of incrementalist takeover of the cultural institutions – the arts, entertainment, and news media, and most especially the schools and universities. As such, the weapon to be used for revolution was not the economic might of an organized working class, but a “long march through the institutions” (a phrase actually coined by German Marxist Rudi Dutschke), whereby every institution in the West would be subverted through penetration and infiltration.   For Gramsci, culture was more important than either economics or politics.   Gramsci's divergence from Classical Marxism was nothing short of brilliant; certainly, the results speak for themselves when one considers the social unrest that is gripping America and the West today. In a sense, we are living through the endgame of a Gramscian revolution.   Throughout this article, we will use the term “Cultural Marxism” as a catchall to refer to this phenomenon, because it is the most all-encompassing and does not limit us to discussing any one specific variation (Gramsci, the Frankfurt School or what have you). Finally, we should briefly echo the words of Dr. Jordan Peterson on “the bloody postmodern Neo-Marxists,” because he has helped raise awareness of the phenomenon: “It's not obvious by any stretch of the imagination why postmodernism and Neo-Marxism or Marxism proper would be aligned because postmodernism is an anti-grand narrative philosophical movement and Marxism is a grand narrative. The fact that these two things seem to coexist in the same space needs some explanation, because it's a very tricky thing to get to the bottom of." Because Cultural Marxism is ideologically distinct from postmodernism and deconstruction, we will not touch on either in this article, though they certainly have been influential on the international left. You can read the full article “Cultural Marxism's Origins: How the Disciples of an Obscure Italian Linguist Subverted America” at Ammo.com.   For $20 off your $200 purchase, go to https://ammo.com/podcast (a special deal for our listeners).   Follow Sam Jacobs on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SamJacobs45   And check out our sponsor, Libertas Bella, for all of your favorite Libertarian shirts at LibertasBella.com.   Helpful Links:  Cultural Marxism's Origins: How the Disciples of an Obscure Italian Linguist Subverted America Woke Capitalism: How Huge Corporations Demonstrate Status by Endorsing Political Radicalism Resistance Library  Sam Jacobs

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Episode 015 looks at logical fallacies Reification of the Possible and Petitio Principii.

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In Episode 33 of Sunday Sauce Vinny and Phil discuss the epic return of Belle Delphine. They talk about karma, destiny, and the simulation theory. They also discuss reminiscing, the running competition and so much more.

In Episode 33 of Sunday Sauce Vinny and Phil discuss the epic return of Belle Delphine. They talk about karma, destiny, and the simulation theory. They also discuss reminiscing, the running competition and so much more.

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Michele Ginammi (Pisa) gives a talk at the conference on "The Analysis of Theoretical Terms" (3-5 April, 2013) titled "Avoiding Reification".

This week, Comrade Zoya is on Red Library to bring that Marxist feminist fire by talking about Shulamith Firestone's The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution. This is one of those books that got lost to history but deserves a second look and maybe even a second life. We talk about the lost futures of second-wave feminism, the relationship between science fiction and utopia, the relationship between Marxism and feminism and the ways that scientific development opened up new possibilities for redefining gender and the basic structures of capitalism. This episode is especially relevant for thinking about how historical issues of gender inequality in the Leftosphere are still plaguing movements today. Zoya and I talk briefly about the Marxist concept of reification in this episode. It can be a tough thing to grasp so here is some more information on it for anyone that hasn't memorized every concept in the entire Marxist theoretical edifice: In Marxism, reification (German: Verdinglichung, literally: "making into a thing") is the process by which social relations are perceived as inherent attributes of the people involved in them, or attributes of some product of the relation, such as a traded commodity. This implies that objects are transformed into subjects and subjects are turned into objects, with the result that subjects are rendered passive or determined, while objects are rendered as the active, determining factor. Hypostatization refers to an effect of reification which results from supposing that whatever can be named, or conceived abstractly, must actually exist, an ontological and epistemological fallacy. The concept is related to, but distinct from, Marx's theories of alienation and commodity fetishism. Alienation is the general condition of human estrangement. Reification is a specific form of alienation. Commodity fetishism is a specific form of reification. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes  Click here to support Red Library on Patreon Click here to find the host's political theory blog, Capillaries: Theory at the Front

How might the act of reifying desires limit the opening of eros? Part 1 of 'Reification' explores the existential predicament of eros, the troubadour poets, the divine comedy by Dante, phenomenology of perception by Merleau-Ponty, metaphor, placebo, synesthesia, cosmic love, emptiness and much more

Part 2 of 'Reification' continues with an exploration of the icons and idols of modernity, fantasy and infatuation, Carl Jung and the anima, the divinity of music, autonomy of imaginal figures, religious reciprocity, creative expression, the value of myth in letting go of seriousness, and more

Intro/outro music: “Gay Bar Videogame” by The Wildbunch http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Wildbunch/Gay_Bar/Gay_Bar_videogame 2:02 Introducing this week’s show 3:27 High concept 5:00 Cast of characters 8:46 Episode recaps 10:03 Really playing up that flat tire 11:18 Theme of ‘race against winter’ 13:34 ‘Rick the Lumberman’ 15:04 Fingerprints of producers all over 16:18 The ‘junkman’ and other ‘rough’ characters 18:22 The bartering ‘goose chase’ 19:15 DVDs and rural Alaska 20:10 Barter as emblem of bush culture 20:30 Wrapping up cabin-building arc 21:50 Briefly summarizing ‘boat’ episode 22:45 The ‘clip’ episode aka ‘No, it’s real! Really!’ 23:23 The dentist’s office 24:05 Different reactions to believability of hospital care for barter 26:06 Our first impressions of show’s authenticity 28:40 Residency fraud charges 30:00 Walmart DUI 30:39 Family’s history with technology 31:52 Evolution of show’s authenticity 32:18 Presence of fakery didn’t surprise Mike, but level of fakery did 33:00 Final thoughts on the family’s ‘bush skills’ 33:47 Definition of reality TV vis-à-vis the documentary 34:34 What is line b/w documentary and reality TV? 35:02 JS defines it as level of producer involvement in action as it is happening 37:38 Nanook of the North and staged scenes 39:45 Mike defines difference in the marketing and purpose 40:54 How important is ‘reality’ is to ‘reality TV’? 43:15 JS thinks even ‘fake’ reality shows qualify because they at least set up certain expectations 45:21 Theme of self-reliance and freedom juxtaposed to civilization 46:20 JS thought inauthenticity undermined this message 47:33 Is freedom from civilization really freedom or just subjugation to whims of nature? 49:10 Show’s idealization and romanticization of ‘bush culture’ 50:05 Masculine focus and tone of many ‘outdoor’ oriented shows 51:13 A brief digression on Billy’s and Ami’s marital and family history 52:55 Interesting blend of familiarity and exoticism in portrayal of Browns 53:53 Alaska’s place in US mental geography 54:22 Importance of the Brown’s whiteness to show’s appeal 57:28 Mashup b/w 1850’s nostalgia and 1950’s nostalgia 57:55 Show sells image of Alaskan rugged individualism, but there are cracks in that image 59:56 JS talks about appealing aspects of show 1:01:05 Mike thought show would have been better w/o hype (and fakery, obv) 1:01:40 Gemeinschaft and Gessellschaft 1:03:15 Reification and Utopia in Mass Culture 1:06:25 Relationship b/w reality TV and subcultures 1:07:23 Results of our listener’s choice poll 1:08:45 The boilerplate: email, Facebook, rate/review, subscribe

Author Abigail Sewell discusses her article published in the October 2016 issue of Sociology of Race & Ethnicity, "The Racism-Race Reification Process: A Mesolevel Political Economic Framework for Understanding Racial Health Disparities."

John and Myself(Chris) engage in another excellent discussion with returning guest, Jose Barrera. Topics include: Cult of Reason,Scientism, Law, Reification, the Daemon, the Golem, Totems, Talismans, the Money System, Nations are Fictions, Darwinism,Dr. Schwitzgebel's Machine, The Company Man, Robot Economy, Mercantilism,Magic,https://www.youtube.com/user/josebarrerawey...............................hoaxbustercall.com

The "Law", The System, The Courts, Authority, received vs Real Authority, Challenges to Authority, Challenges to the Premise of Authority, Authority without "Law", Circular Logic, Powdered Wig Men, The Authority of the Powdered Wig, Magic Mystical parchment, The Power of Parchment, parchment for it's own sake, The Irresistible Force of Parchment Coupled With the Immovable Force of The Powdered Wig, The Unassailable Logic of The Unchallenged Premise. Appeals to Tradition, Argumentum Ad Baculum, Reification, Th Lost Tribes of Israel, White Pride Inside, The CONstitution!............hoaxbusterscall.com

Tom raises the Sunset Blush quotient and the Facebook group. Heron is pleased to have contributed to Steve's life. Tom would like the listeners to participate. The NRA and Heron have the same targeted demographic. Heron in Squish needs a Heron definition and it doesn't contain the stupidities. Reification, absolutism, the word the and two valued logic are too advanced for the project. Heron has been experimenting on himself again. Tom gives an overview of his Origin of Mind chapter from fear and desire, to Cynthia Breazeal's work to the narrative engine. Tom identifies the social architect as being a uniquely human thing. They digress into what the internet is for in terms of volume. Tom raises equipment and travel as being the costs for Heron in Squish. They digress into creating female comic characters of Heron and Tom clothing optional. (Editorial note: see Power Girl for the mainstream-ization of this sub genre of comics). 'The Supreme Identity: an essay on Oriental metaphysic and the Christian religion' is a prop for Heron in Squish. Tom defines the layered needs of the project and things that some of Heron's fans may actually have gone too far, already. Heron offers guilt as a topic but prefers the term shame. Tom admits a certain obsession with Snowtown (or the Snowtown Murders as it was called in the US). Heron brightens the topic by talking about a traffic accident. YouTube thinks Tom is a nut. Tom wants to give away all his books. They explore how aging changes the mind.

Tom raises the Sunset Blush quotient and the Facebook group. Heron is pleased to have contributed to Steve's life. Tom would like the listeners to participate. The NRA and Heron have the same targeted demographic. Heron in Squish needs a Heron definition and it doesn't contain the stupidities. Reification, absolutism, the word the and two valued logic are too advanced for the project. Heron has been experimenting on himself again. Tom gives an overview of his Origin of Mind chapter from fear and desire, to Cynthia Breazeal's work to the narrative engine. Tom identifies the social architect as being a uniquely human thing. They digress into what the internet is for in terms of volume. Tom raises equipment and travel as being the costs for Heron in Squish. They digress into creating female comic characters of Heron and Tom clothing optional. (Editorial note: see Power Girl for the mainstream-ization of this sub genre of comics). 'The Supreme Identity: an essay on Oriental metaphysic and the Christian religion' is a prop for Heron in Squish. Tom defines the layered needs of the project and things that some of Heron's fans may actually have gone too far, already. Heron offers guilt as a topic but prefers the term shame. Tom admits a certain obsession with Snowtown (or the Snowtown Murders as it was called in the US). Heron brightens the topic by talking about a traffic accident. YouTube thinks Tom is a nut. Tom wants to give away all his books. They explore how aging changes the mind.

This month both C Derick Varn and Nicholas Pell are missing and instead there is a special guest. John Zerzan is an American anarchist and primitivist philosopher and author.  He's fairly well known, especially in the Pacific Northwest where I am, and his books about Green Anarchism have been influential.  But we don't really talk about the environment, agriculture, or civilization, but rather I try to explain what I think is Zerzan's conceptual or philosophical mistake. For Zerzan civilized life is a mediated or alienated life that isn't worth living and his solution is to return to directly lived experience. What I try to point out in my conversation with him is that his solution is a part of the problem.  That is, while he wants to overcome the problem of reification his solution doesn't manage to avoid that mistake. The word reification means to mistake an abstraction for a physical or empirical object. A reification is not when we see an example of an abstraction in the world, it's not when we take a rubber ball and think of it as an example of roundness, but rather when we take an abstraction to be its own example.  That is, when we think that an abstraction can exist on its own without an example. There are many ideas that are founded on this mistake.  God, for instance, is the kind of idea that is a good example of a reification. Nature is, similarly, the same kind of idea. Again, my conversation with John Zerzan wasn't about prehistory or hunters and gatherers or the current ecological problems that are facing us, but was aimed at his concepts.  It was aimed at his idea that we might be able to escape concepts, which I think is his fundamental mistake.

Teaching pt1: With respect to the Madhyamaka, 1) hearing means that you understand the View as presented, 2) reflection means that you relate the teachings to your own experience, and 3) meditation means investigation based on shamatha to penetrate to direct realization. Alan elaborates on verses 90-92 of Ch. 9 of the Bodhicaryavatara. Suffering arises in dependence on causes and conditions; however, neither suffering nor joy is inherently existent. They are conventionally there without investigation, without analysis. However, upon analysis, neither is there from its own side. Just as causes and conditions can shift to produce either suffering or joy, conceptual designation can also be shifted by the observer participant. Reification is the problem, and this is the antidote to reification. Meditation: mindfulness of feelings preceded by mindfulness of the body. 
1) mindfulness of the body. Let awareness illuminate the space of the body and tactile sensations therein. With discerning mindfulness note each of the 5 elements. When the mind is quiet, perceive tactile sensations as tactile sensations. Do sensations bear an intrinsic identity? 
2) mindfulness of feelings. Closely apply mindfulness to feelings that arise with tactile sensations. Are they static or in flux? Are they pleasurable or unpleasurable? Do they have an owner? Choose a spot on the body where you experience a feeling, and observe with samadhi the appearance, and see what you see. Now experiment on that same spot by deliberately labelling the sensation as pleasant or unpleasant. Reify it as being absolutely there. Now withdraw the designation and reification, and observe the impact with a quiet mind. Once some clarity arises, stop investigating, and simply maintain that knowing. Teaching pt2: By withdrawing conceptual designation, reification is also withdrawn, yet it is possible to conceptually designate without reification. No reification means no klesas, and no klesas mean no suffering. Q1. Please explain how to generate a proper vacant gaze.
Q2. What criteria can I use to determine whether I should receive a Vajrayana empowerment and do the practice? Meditation starts at 43:44

Teaching pt1: As we revisit this section, Alan will present teachings from the shravakayana and dzogchen. 
According to the shravakayana, nama rupa should not be understood as two entities but as a single activity of experience. Nama (naming) is the subjective experience of identifying an object. Rupa (all appearances) is the objective experience of an object perceived or conceived through the process of identification. Mano/manas (mind/mentation) is the mental process of conceptualization which makes meaning out of the 6 sensory inputs. 
According to dzogchen, dharmadhatu and primordial consciousness (yeshe) are of the same nature and extensive. Appearances are considered their creative expression or effulgence. Ignorance of this play when rigified becomes the substrate which is immaterial, blank, unthinking, and void. Substrate consciousness radiant and clear is the basis for appearances. It reflects but does not identify them. From the substrate consciousness, arises sense of I over here and substrate over there. As the sense of I cements, mano/manas becomes acitvated, and from that, appearances illuminated by the substrate consciousness. Reification leads to appearances becoming owners of those very conceptualizations. Thus arises samsara. By returning to the substrate in shamatha, we are reversing this very process. Meditation: mindfulness of the body. Withdraw your attention from all 6 domains of experience, and just rest without knowing anything at all, as if in deep sleep. Arouse your attention just enough to become aware of awareness. Do you have a sense of being aware, present, or yourself as the subject? Attend to the space of the mind. Do you have a sense that you’re here and that the space of the mind is over there? Allow consciousness to illuminate all 6 domains. Apply mindfulness now to the appearances of the body. Observe the process of conceptualization of the body—e.g., my head with its attritbutes, moving on to other body parts. Attend to the subject experiencing the body. Is the body already there in appearances? Is the I already there in appearances? Teaching pt2: Alan introduces the first 4 links of the 12 links of dependent origination. 1) ignorance – which is nature of the substrate. 2) mental formations (samskara) – karma or kinetic energy of the mind stirs or activates. 3) consciousness – substrate consciousnes becomes explicit, yet it is luminous without illuminating anything. 4) nama rupa which refers to appearances and identifying appearances. Mere labelling is not the problem, their reification is. Q1. How does your diet affect shamatha practice?
Q2. What do you mean by appearance? Is it possible to have pure appearance without ignorance? 
Q3. Is it possible to observe with introspection the entire evolution of manas and nama rupa at once? Meditation starts at 31:30

This can be a challenging practice. In today’s approach, drawing from the teachings of the Buddha to Bahia “In the seen let it just be the seen”, we applied it to the visual field, then the auditory, the tactile and finally to the mental.
The main instruction for this practice is “without distraction and without grasping”. Distraction refers to the tendency to follow a chain of associations. For example, when we see an attribute of an object, like a color, we start superimposing concepts based on memories of past experiences. In this practice we try to see the visual appearances without the association, without the labeling. Just aware of what is presented to our senses; we then apply it to the mind by being aware of mental events.
On the other hand, grasping refers to the tendency of reifying the mind and the five obscurations by thinking for example “my mind is tormenting me” or “my thoughts are so disturbing”. We’re getting caught in the drama, and creating a mini-samsara of the movie that is projected in our minds. In this practice we attend to the movie trying to perceive the emptiness of the audio and visual input.