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

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Nov 3, 2024
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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