In a deep dive with Alexander Bard, a philosopher and co-author of *Process and Event*, thought-provoking topics unfold. They tackle monism versus dualism and its impact on belief systems. The radical idea of a political body of grandmothers sparks intriguing governance discussions. Bard explores libido and mortido as dual forces shaping identity, and critiques leadership archetypes, using the 'Pillar Saint' and 'Boy Pharaoh' as key examples. This captivating dialogue blends philosophy, gender identity, and the essence of storytelling in understanding our reality.
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Monism vs. Dualism
Monism views the universe as interconnected, while dualism separates mind and body.
Alexander Bard accidentally monist but notes limited long-range relationality.
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Graded Relationality
Spinoza's monism, while influential, overemphasizes interconnectedness.
True relationality is graded, primarily local, and defined by causality.
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Emergence Vector Theory
Emergence vector theory describes branching emergences, like life and consciousness.
It explains phenomena across scales, from personal development to the universe's birth.
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Jim talks with Alexander Bard in the second of three conversations about his and Jan Söderqvist's recent book Process and Event. They discuss eventological monotheism vs nomadological iconology, dualism vs monism, substance dualism, Spinoza's monism, graded relationality, emergence vector theory, Syntheism & its concepts, God as the ultimate dream, creating God, 4 dimensions of time, a more complete metaphysics, the problem with oneness, the two-headed phallus, priests & chiefs, the 3 fundamental entities in Hinduism, a congress of grandmothers, Plato & Confucius's idealization of tyrants, libido & mortido, objectification of the mamilla, Julia Kristeva's discovery, the Gnostic delusion, being embodied and en-minded, examples of boy pharaohs & pillar saints, paradigmatics, membranics, archetypology, the geneplex vs the memeplex, 4 paradigms in human history, finding one's paradigmatic role, embedded membranes, trans men & women as new paradigmatic categories, the dialectics of the Hegelian negation & the Nietzschean oscillation, the negation of the negation in identity production, negation in phenomenology, the golden age of 19th century German philosophy, American pragmatists, transcendental emergentism, getting laid, principles rather than laws, studying each emergence vector as its own domain, emergence vector theory in creativity, the stability of physics, cosmological Darwinism, negation & oscillation as the fundamental dialectics of reality & thought, and much more.
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Alexander Bard is a philosopher, artist, songwriter and music producer, author of six books with Jan Söderqvist, living in Stockholm, Sweden. Bard built his career as a philosopher in parallel with a highly successful 25-years-plus career in the international music industry. Bard & Söderqvist’s philosophy concentrates on the relationship between human beings and technology, using human beings as the constant throughout civilization, with technology as the ever faster changing variable. Their work takes inspiration from thinkers like Hegel, Nietzsche, Whitehead, Deleuze, and Eastern philosophy and spirituality, in the latter case adding Persia to the well known triad of India, China and Japan. They are convinced philosophy will be the last human activity to ever be affected by AI.
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