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BI 150 Dan Nicholson: Machines, Organisms, Processes

Oct 15, 2022

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The Computer Metaphor of the Brain as an Information Processing Computer

03:39

The Machine Concept of the Organism

03:08

The Mind Brain Problem, You Know?

01:44

Introduction

3min

Do You Have a Philosophy Degree?

3min

Isn't Philosophy of Science a Good Idea?

4min

Is Philosophy a Discipline?

2min

Are You Making a Difference in Science?

3min

How Do You Translate That Into a Process in the Lab?

2min

How Do You Read History of Science?

3min

Is Everything Flows the Same?

4min

What Is Life?

4min

10.

Was That Surreal?

5min

11.

The Order of the Cell

4min

12.

The Machine Concept of the Organism

3min

13.

All Models Are Wrong, but Some Are Useful

4min

14.

Is There a Fundamental Difference Between Organisms and Machines?

5min

15.

Is There a Need for Metaphors?

2min

16.

The Computer Metaphor of the Brain as an Information Processing Computer

4min

17.

The Developmental Process, the Materiality, the Substance of Life

3min

18.

Process Philosophy

2min

19.

The Process, Philosophy of a Process View

2min

20.

Is There a Difference Between Science and Metaphysics?

3min

21.

A Process Oriented Perspective in Neuroscience

3min

22.

Is There a Pattern Through Time?

2min

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Is Alfred North Whitehead's Process Philosophy the Incorrect Process Philosophy?

3min

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Is There a Process of Consciousness?

2min

25.

How to Identify Hierarchies of Processes

3min

26.

The Mind Brain Problem, You Know?

2min

27.

Is the Big Bang a Process?

2min

28.

Is There a Beginning?

2min

29.

Is There a Difference Between Artificial Intelligence and Life?

5min

30.

AI Models Aren't Modeling Our Intelligence, Right?

2min

31.

Is There a Disanalogy in Artificial Intelligence?

3min

32.

How to Think About Language and Symbols in Process Thinking

2min

33.

What Is a Concept?

2min

34.

What Is Life Revealed?

2min

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Dan Nicholson is a philosopher at George Mason University. He incorporates the history of science and philosophy into modern analyses of our conceptions of processes related to life and organisms. He is also interested in re-orienting our conception of the universe as made fundamentally of things/substances, and replacing it with the idea the universe is made fundamentally of processes (process philosophy). In this episode, we both of those subjects, the why the "machine conception of the organism" is incorrect, how to apply these ideas to topics like neuroscience and artificial intelligence, and much more.

0:00 - Intro 2:49 - Philosophy and science 16:37 - Role of history 23:28 - What Is Life? And interaction with James Watson 38:37 - Arguments against the machine conception of organisms 49:08 - Organisms as streams (processes) 57:52 - Process philosophy 1:08:59 - Alfred North Whitehead 1:12:45 - Process and consciousness 1:22:16 - Artificial intelligence and process 1:31:47 - Language and symbols and processes

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