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018 - The Cybernetic Brain, Part 1: Ontological Theatre

General Intellect Unit

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The Two Ways of Thinking About the Brain

Pickering originally found cyber next to be interesting is because it went beyond just sort of talking about ontology in a very abstract way to actually designing objects and projects that dealt with specificOntological relations or, you know, specific things in the world. In modern times we have this kind of like over emphasis of knowledge and a sort of under emphasis oflike things and how they actually behave. That's where Kant gets to in understanding the transcendental subject - God knows everything, but there is nothing to know except himself.

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