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Ep. 22 - Descartes vs. Hobbes

Awakening from the Meaning Crisis

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How Descartes Rejects Hobbes' Artificial Intelligence Project

"If you don't have a soul, what is it to be true to your true self and what is it that makes you utterly unique and special from the rest of the purposeless meaningless cosmos?" "It's very fashionable philosophically and cognitive scientifically to blame Descartes for many, many mistakes. But if I were to put it in a sentence I wish I had made Descartes' mistakes," he says. 'Descartes does not respond to Hobbes out of his religious faith.'

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