Within Reason #162 Two Million Subscriber QnA
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Jul 30, 2026 A two million subscriber Q&A covering YouTube watch habits and surprising viewing choices. He muses on legacy, academic ambitions, and a playful philosophical idea called global emotivism. There's talk of gaming streams, music projects, travel preferences, and favourite Beatles songs. Quickfire personal questions reveal routines, struggles with nutrition, memorable debates, and an honest professional regret.
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PhD Aim To Link Consciousness Metaphysics With Religion
- Alex wants a PhD to make an original scholarly contribution beyond his public communication work.
- He aims to connect consciousness-first metaphysics like panpsychism or idealism to religious doctrines such as divine simplicity or Advaita Vedanta.
Global Emotivism As A Radical Theory Of Propositions
- Alex sketches 'global emotivism': extend emotivism from ethics to all propositions by treating assertions as expressions driven by underlying emotional intuitions.
- He links this idea to deflationary truth and to Simon Blackburn's move on conditional emotivism.
Propositions As Actions Challenge Truth Values
- He offers a playful argument: if propositions are actions (assertions) and actions lack truth-value, maybe propositions lack truth-value too.
- He admits the argument is flawed but says exposing the flaw could illuminate our theory of truth.
