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Katherine Everitt: Quantum Mechanics, Psychoanalytic AI, and a Hegelian Ontology of Space

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Nov 3, 2024

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Katherine Everitt

Katherine Everitt, a Hegelian scholar and philosopher, dives into the intersection of quantum mechanics and psychoanalytic AI. She brilliantly unpacks the philosophy of space, exploring its infinite nature and how it shapes our understanding of reality. The discussion touches on how consciousness and AI challenge human identity, along with the existential themes of vertigo and freedom. Everitt's insights on the significance of gaps in subjectivity and ontology reveal complexities in our perception of existence and the void.

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Space Ensures Reality's Incompleteness

Space guarantees incompletion in both logical and natural senses, meaning there can never be a totalizing containment of space.
This openness allows for the possibility of freedom and creation beyond existing determinations.

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Space Grounds Subjectivity and Contradiction

The subject's self-identity requires a bare minimum of spatial difference to alienate and constitute itself.
Space's indifference inherently contains a seed of difference that grounds contradiction and self-alienation.

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Vertigo as Encounter with Emptiness

Vertigo is the confrontation with emptiness or pure space, causing anxiety without a clear object.
We overcome vertigo by arbitrarily orienting ourselves to build a ground and meaning.

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Katherine Everitt is a Hegelian scholar, philosopher, writer, poet and artist. Katherine is a Research Fellow at the Global Center for Advanced Studies in Dublin and a Secondary Faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. Her PhD, 'Hegel in Vertigo: An Ontology of Space,' was supervised by Frank Ruda at the European Graduate School. Reading Hegel with Badiou and Zizek, she argues that space is the indifferent ground of logic, nature, and spirit in Hegel's Encyclopedia. In this episode, we discuss the philosophy of quantum mechanics, space and the void, subjectivity and the gap, psychoanalysis and AI, vertigo and Katherine's Hegelian ontology of space.

You can find more of Katherine's work at https://linktr.ee/katherineveritt and https://x.com/katherineveritt.

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