How do you balance your life’s purpose, your creative impulse, or your art, with the realities of life? Here are the next seven responses I've received. Thanks to Shannon, Luiz, Matt Sterett, and Yulia Babanova. I'm still taking submissions. Please upload your audio response here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bryankam.com/record⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Clerestory by ⁠⁠⁠⁠Bryan Kam⁠⁠⁠⁠ • Infrequent updates at ⁠⁠⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠⁠⁠ • All my work plus exclusive content at ⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message

How do you balance your life’s purpose, your creative impulse, or your art, with the realities of life? Here are the next seven responses I've received. Thanks to <a href="https://www.instagram.com/gallikeshan/" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">Shannon</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/5sI0uPyW8EiDH1pOilCEmM" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">Luiz</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/matthewsterett" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">Matt Sterett</a>, and <a href="https://yuliababanova.com/" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">Yulia Babanova</a>. I'm still taking submissions. Please upload your audio response here: <a href="https://bryankam.com/reord" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bryankam.com/record⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠</a>. Clerestory by <a href="https://bryankam.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">⁠⁠⁠⁠Bryan Kam⁠⁠⁠⁠</a> • Infrequent updates at <a href="https://bryankam.substack.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">⁠⁠⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠⁠⁠</a> • All my work plus exclusive content at <a href="https://patreon.com/bryankam" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠</a>--- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message</a>

Epistolary: Meaningful Living vs Making a Living (Part 5)

How do you balance your life’s purpose, your creative impulse, or your art, with the realities of life? Here are the next seven responses I've received. Thanks to ⁠Patricia⁠, ⁠Liv⁠, ⁠Ben⁠, ⁠Nastasia⁠ (⁠@Gryphire⁠), ⁠Michael⁠, ⁠Maggie⁠ (⁠@Mappletons⁠), and Gloria. I'm still taking submissions. Please upload your audio response here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bryankam.com/record⁠⁠⁠⁠. I will release episodes from responses I receive, aiming for 45 minute episodes after the initial "pilot."--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message

How do you balance your life’s purpose, your creative impulse, or your art, with the realities of life? Here are the next seven responses I've received. Thanks to <a href="https://twitter.com/PHurducas" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">⁠Patricia⁠</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/LivLabonte" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">⁠Liv⁠</a>, <a href="https://whiteholeconjectures.substack.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">⁠Ben⁠</a>, <a href="https://www.nastasiagriffioen.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">⁠Nastasia⁠</a> (<a href="https://twitter.com/Gryphire" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">⁠@Gryphire⁠</a>), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/0yNKPuwzneESxIhInDLlsi?si=c930f588a17a44f3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">⁠Michael⁠</a>, <a href=" maggieappleton.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">⁠Maggie⁠</a> (<a href="https://twitter.com/mappletons" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">⁠@Mappletons⁠</a>), and Gloria. I'm still taking submissions. Please upload your audio response here: <a href="https://bryankam.com/reord" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bryankam.com/record⁠⁠⁠⁠</a>. I will release episodes from responses I receive, aiming for 45 minute episodes after the initial "pilot."--- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message</a>

Epistolary: Meaningful Living vs Making a Living (Part 4)

Part 6 in a series of interviews on the book I'm working on, Neither/Nor. In this episode, ⁠⁠⁠Isabela Granic⁠⁠⁠ asks about the Buddhist term "papança" and how it relates to anxiety and depression. Topics discussed:  The meaning of papança or ⁠Conceptual proliferation⁠ Whether this proliferation is related to rumination, anxiety, and depression Historicization of translations How to deconstruct terms Comparing conceptual evolution with biological evolution Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer on definitions The two directions of dependent origination How and when to do conceptual genealogies like Nietzsche Metaphors as newly coined versus worn-out coins The increasing abstraction of the past few thousand years Mental proliferation within a single mind The resistance to abstraction by those who don't live in the built environment (Luria) Individualism in Montaigne and Fichte The issue of "obviousnesses" in Althusser's Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses  Previous episodes:  Part 5 of this series: Crises and Revolutions Part 4 of this series: ⁠Language and Experience⁠ Part 3 of this series: ⁠⁠AI and Pyrrhonism⁠⁠ Part 2 of this series: ⁠⁠⁠A Philosophical Journey⁠⁠ Part 1 of this series: ⁠⁠Causality and Conditionality⁠⁠  Clerestory by ⁠⁠⁠Bryan Kam⁠⁠⁠ • Infrequent updates at ⁠⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠⁠ • All my work plus exclusive content at ⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠ Show notes --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message

Part 6 in a series of interviews on the book I'm working on, <a href="https://bryankam.com/neither" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">Neither/Nor</a>. In this episode, <a href="https://twitter.com/PlayNiceInst" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">⁠⁠⁠Isabela Granic⁠⁠⁠</a> asks about the Buddhist term "papança" and how it relates to anxiety and depression. Topics discussed: <ul> <li>The meaning of papança or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual_proliferation" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">⁠Conceptual proliferation⁠</a></li> <li>Whether this proliferation is related to rumination, anxiety, and depression</li> <li>Historicization of translations</li> <li>How to deconstruct terms</li> <li>Comparing conceptual evolution with biological evolution</li> <li>Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer on definitions</li> <li>The two directions of dependent origination</li> <li>How and when to do conceptual genealogies like Nietzsche</li> <li>Metaphors as newly coined versus worn-out coins</li> <li>The increasing abstraction of the past few thousand years</li> <li>Mental proliferation within a single mind</li> <li>The resistance to abstraction by those who don't live in the built environment (Luria)</li> <li>Individualism in Montaigne and Fichte</li> <li>The issue of "obviousnesses" in Althusser's <a href="https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/althusser/1970/ideology.htm" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses</a></li> </ul> Previous episodes: <ul> <li>Part 5 of this series: <a href="https://pod.fo/e/171350" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">Crises and Revolutions</a></li> <li>Part 4 of this series: <a href="https://pod.fo/e/16f7ac" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">⁠Language and Experience⁠</a></li> <li>Part 3 of this series: <a href="https://pod.fo/e/16b474" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">⁠⁠AI and Pyrrhonism⁠⁠</a></li> <li>Part 2 of this series: <a href="https://pod.fo/e/1692de" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">⁠⁠⁠A Philosophical Journey⁠⁠</a></li> <li>Part 1 of this series: <a href="https://pod.fo/e/15cef4" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">⁠⁠Causality and Conditionality⁠⁠</a></li> </ul> Clerestory by <a href="https://bryankam.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">⁠⁠⁠Bryan Kam⁠⁠⁠</a> • Infrequent updates at <a href="https://bryankam.substack.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">⁠⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠⁠</a> • All my work plus exclusive content at <a href="https://patreon.com/bryankam" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠</a> Show notes --- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message</a>

Mental Proliferation, with Isabela Granic

In this episode I spoke with my dear friend ⁠Joachim Brackx⁠ in a series of voicenotes. We discuss beauty, quality, and aesthetic enjoyment. We recorded the voicenotes over about a month, March–April 2023. We would both love to hear what you think of this experiment! This is a follow-up to our original epistolary experiment, on Choice, Desire, and Purpose. Subscribe to Joachim's newsletter at ⁠Relating to Self⁠ and hear more on his podcast here. Clerestory by ⁠⁠Bryan Kam⁠⁠ • Infrequent updates at ⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠ • All my work plus exclusive content at ⁠⁠Patreon⁠--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message

In this episode I spoke with my dear friend <a href="https://twitter.com/JoachimBrackx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">⁠Joachim Brackx⁠</a> in a series of voicenotes. We discuss beauty, quality, and aesthetic enjoyment. We recorded the voicenotes over about a month, March–April 2023. We would both love to hear what you think of this experiment! This is a follow-up to our original epistolary experiment, on <a href="https://pod.fo/e/16ab84" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">Choice, Desire, and Purpose</a>. Subscribe to Joachim's newsletter at <a href="http://relatingtoself.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">⁠Relating to Self⁠</a> and hear more on his podcast <a href="https://relatingtoself.transistor.fm/" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>. Clerestory by <a href="https://bryankam.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">⁠⁠Bryan Kam⁠⁠</a> • Infrequent updates at <a href="https://bryankam.substack.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠</a> • All my work plus exclusive content at <a href="https://patreon.com/bryankam" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">⁠⁠Patreon⁠</a>--- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message</a>

Epistolary: Joachim Brackx on Beauty

How do you balance your life’s purpose, your creative impulse, or your art, with the realities of life? Here are the next five responses I've received. Thanks to Caleb, Delia, Samantha, Carolina, and Jacqueline. I'm still taking submissions. Please upload your audio response here: ⁠⁠⁠https://bryankam.com/record⁠⁠⁠. I will release episodes from responses I receive, aiming for 45 minute episodes after the initial "pilot."--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message

How do you balance your life’s purpose, your creative impulse, or your art, with the realities of life? Here are the next five responses I've received. Thanks to <a href="https://twitter.com/calebmeredth" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">Caleb</a>, <a href="https://deliaburgess.blog/" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">Delia</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/_samand_" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">Samantha</a>, <a href="https://instampa.co/" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">Carolina</a>, and <a href="https://mstdn.social/@photovotary" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">Jacqueline</a>. I'm still taking submissions. Please upload your audio response here: <a href="https://bryankam.com/reord" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">⁠⁠⁠https://bryankam.com/record⁠⁠⁠</a>. I will release episodes from responses I receive, aiming for 45 minute episodes after the initial "pilot."--- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message</a>

Epistolary: Meaningful Living vs Making a Living (Part 3)

How do you balance your life’s purpose, your creative impulse, or your art, with the realities of life? Here are the next four responses I've received. Thanks to Adam, Isabela, ⁠Gareth, and Catherine. I'm still taking submissions. Please upload your audio response here: ⁠⁠https://bryankam.com/record⁠⁠. I will release episodes from responses I receive, aiming for 30-45 minute episodes after the initial "pilot."--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message

How do you balance your life’s purpose, your creative impulse, or your art, with the realities of life? Here are the next four responses I've received. Thanks to <a href="https://twitter.com/agnbarnett" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">Adam</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/PlayNiceInst" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">Isabela</a>, <a href="https://www.solve.earth" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">⁠Gareth</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/chwoodiwiss" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">Catherine</a>. I'm still taking submissions. Please upload your audio response here: <a href="https://bryankam.com/reord" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">⁠⁠https://bryankam.com/record⁠⁠</a>. I will release episodes from responses I receive, aiming for 30-45 minute episodes after the initial "pilot."--- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message</a>

Epistolary: Meaningful Living vs Making a Living (Part 2)

How do you balance your life’s purpose, your creative impulse, or your art, with the realities of life? Here are the first seven responses I've received. Thanks to Nasos, Romeo, Jay, Khuyen (Kasper), Joachim, Nicole, and Nathan. I'm still taking submissions. Please upload your audio response here: ⁠https://bryankam.com/record⁠. I will release episodes from responses I receive, aiming for 30-45 minute episodes after the initial "pilot." Clerestory by ⁠⁠⁠Bryan Kam⁠⁠⁠ • Infrequent updates at ⁠⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠⁠ • All my work plus exclusive content at ⁠⁠⁠Patreon--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message

How do you balance your life’s purpose, your creative impulse, or your art, with the realities of life? Here are the first seven responses I've received. Thanks to <a href="https://twitter.com/naspap3" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">Nasos</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/RomeoStevens76" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">Romeo</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/@jaystephens" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">Jay</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/GKhuyen" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">Khuyen</a> (Kasper), <a href="https://twitter.com/JoachimBrackx" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">Joachim</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/NicoleBosky" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">Nicole</a>, and <a href="https://disabled.social/@nathanlovestrees" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">Nathan</a>. I'm still taking submissions. Please upload your audio response here: <a href="https://bryankam.com/reord" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">⁠https://bryankam.com/record⁠</a>. I will release episodes from responses I receive, aiming for 30-45 minute episodes after the initial "pilot." Clerestory by <a href="https://bryankam.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">⁠⁠⁠Bryan Kam⁠⁠⁠</a> • Infrequent updates at <a href="https://bryankam.substack.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">⁠⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠⁠</a> • All my work plus exclusive content at <a href="https://patreon.com/bryankam" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">⁠⁠⁠Patreon</a>--- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message</a>

Epistolary: Meaningful Living vs Making a Living (Part 1)

How do you balance your life’s purpose, your creative impulse, or your art, with the realities of life? Please upload your audio response here: https://bryankam.com/record. I will release episodes from responses I receive, every time I receive 45 minutes. Clerestory by ⁠⁠Bryan Kam⁠⁠ • Infrequent updates at ⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠ • All my work plus exclusive content at ⁠⁠Patreon--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message

How do you balance your life’s purpose, your creative impulse, or your art, with the realities of life? Please upload your audio response here: <a href="https://bryankam.com/reord" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">https://bryankam.com/record</a>. I will release episodes from responses I receive, every time I receive 45 minutes. Clerestory by <a href="https://bryankam.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">⁠⁠Bryan Kam⁠⁠</a> • Infrequent updates at <a href="https://bryankam.substack.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠</a> • All my work plus exclusive content at <a href="https://patreon.com/bryankam" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">⁠⁠Patreon</a>--- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message</a>

Meaningful Living vs Making a Living

In this episode I spoke to my friend Eyal Shay in a series of voicenotes, recorded over a period of a few months at the start of this year. This episode is an experiment in epistolary podcasting 😊 Over the course of the pandemic I got to know people from the internet quite well through voicenotes. These were sent asynchronously to overcome timezone and calendar fatigue. In this episode, Eyal and I alternated messages with different lengths:  1 minute, then 2, 4, and 8 minutes. We sent these through WhatsApp. Clerestory by ⁠Bryan Kam⁠ • Infrequent updates at ⁠Substack⁠ • All my work plus exclusive content at ⁠Patreon--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message

In this episode I spoke to my friend <a href="https://eyalshay.substack.com/" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">Eyal Shay</a> in a series of voicenotes, recorded over a period of a few months at the start of this year. This episode is an experiment in epistolary podcasting 😊 Over the course of the pandemic I got to know people from the internet quite well through voicenotes. These were sent asynchronously to overcome timezone and calendar fatigue. In this episode, Eyal and I alternated messages with different lengths:  1 minute, then 2, 4, and 8 minutes. We sent these through WhatsApp. Clerestory by <a href="https://bryankam.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">⁠Bryan Kam⁠</a> • Infrequent updates at <a href="https://bryankam.substack.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">⁠Substack⁠</a> • All my work plus exclusive content at <a href="https://patreon.com/bryankam" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">⁠Patreon</a>--- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message</a>

Epistolary: Recourse to the Divine, with Eyal Shay

Maggie Appleton

This is a continuation of the conversation I had with Maggie previously: "The Dark Forest and Generative AI." We discuss why we write, versus why to use AI and LLMs to produce writing, and what effects that loss is likely to have. Discussed in this episode:  Why do humans write? Writing is around 5,000 years old We mention a note-taking system called a "Zettelkasten" which I wrote about here Writing to our future selves How do we read? Science and philosophy as conversations On getting up to speed in conversation How much to read before we should write Who wants to read GPT outputs? Roland Barthes' "The Death of the Author" (1967) The deep link between cognition, action, perception The 4Es: embodied, embedded, enacted, extended (see: enactivism) Moravec's paradox Gwern  Clerestory by ⁠⁠⁠Bryan Kam⁠⁠⁠ • Infrequent updates at ⁠⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠⁠ • All my work plus exclusive content at ⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠ Show notes https://pod.fo/e/1720c4--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message

This is a continuation of the conversation I had with Maggie previously: <a href="https://pod.fo/e/163c8c" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">"The Dark Forest and Generative AI."</a> We discuss why we write, versus why to use AI and LLMs to produce writing, and what effects that loss is likely to have. Discussed in this episode: <ul> <li>Why do humans write?</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_writing" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">Writing is around 5,000 years old</a></li> <li>We mention a note-taking system called a "Zettelkasten" which I wrote about <a href="https://clerestory.netlify.app/zk/" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">here</a></li> <li>Writing to our future selves</li> <li>How do we read?</li> <li>Science and philosophy as conversations</li> <li>On getting up to speed in conversation</li> <li>How much to read before we should write</li> <li>Who wants to read GPT outputs?</li> <li>Roland Barthes' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_the_Author" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">"The Death of the Author"</a> (1967)</li> <li>The deep link between cognition, action, perception</li> <li>The 4Es: embodied, embedded, enacted, extended (see: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enactivism" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">enactivism</a>)</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">Moravec's paradox</a></li> <li><a href="https://gwern.net/" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">Gwern</a></li> </ul> Clerestory by <a href="https://bryankam.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">⁠⁠⁠Bryan Kam⁠⁠⁠</a> • Infrequent updates at <a href="https://bryankam.substack.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">⁠⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠⁠</a> • All my work plus exclusive content at <a href="https://patreon.com/bryankam" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠</a> Show notes <a href="https://pod.fo/e/1720c4" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://pod.fo/e/1720c4</a>--- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message</a>

Why We Write and Language Models with Maggie Appleton

A podcast on philosophy. I'm interested in the origins of complexity, suffering, and selfhood. I'm now lucky to have conversations with amazing people, mostly on Eastern/Western philosophy. Early episodes are my monologues (with prose followed by poetry).

Part 5 in a series of interviews on the book I'm working on, Neither/Nor. In this episode, ⁠⁠Isabela Granic⁠⁠ begin the discussion with Whitehead and his assertion that philosophy must be in conversation with the sciences. Topics discussed:  My enormous Kuhn thread Are we in a scientific crisis? My recording of Kuhn's lecture: "Objectivity, Value Judgment, and Theory Choice" (1973) Kuhn's relationship to the Buddha The Buddha's relationship to Darwin Schopenhauer and his case for using intuition versus rational reasoning Buddha’s dependent origination and how “backward causality” is precisely the process that Schopenhauer espouses in his writing about intuition, Kuhn with his observations of paradigm shifts, and Darwin with his careful consideration of catgories of species Framed this discussion and the podcast as a whole as a process of laying out the many different strands and nodes of ideas that need to be laid bare before selecting and constructing the coherent theoretical framework for Neither/Nor, the book I’m writing Recent podcasts on emptiness with Jake Orthwein and Rob Knight The Nietzsche quote I mention is this one, from a draft of Ecce Homo (1888) Hypercarnivory: https://archive.org/details/CopesRuleHypercarnivory Are we in a revolution? A crisis? To come back to: Heraclitus, Zhuangzi, Sextus Empiricus, Hannah Arendt, Kropotkin's Mutual Aid Ended with the impossible question: Are we living at the cusp of a paradigm shift?  Previous episodes:  Part 4 of this series: Language and Experience Part 3 of this series: ⁠AI and Pyrrhonism⁠ Part 2 of this series: ⁠⁠A Philosophical Journey⁠ Part 1 of this series: ⁠Causality and Conditionality⁠  Clerestory by ⁠⁠Bryan Kam⁠⁠ • Infrequent updates at ⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠ • All my work plus exclusive content at ⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠ Show notes https://pod.fo/e/171350--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message

Part 5 in a series of interviews on the book I'm working on, Neither/Nor. In this episode, <a href="https://twitter.com/PlayNiceInst" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">⁠⁠Isabela Granic⁠⁠</a> begin the discussion with Whitehead and his assertion that philosophy must be in conversation with the sciences. Topics discussed: <ul> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/bryankam/status/1303688412923400192" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">My enormous Kuhn thread</a></li> <li>Are we in a scientific crisis?</li> <li>My recording of Kuhn's lecture: <a href="https://pod.fo/e/14f2f8" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">"Objectivity, Value Judgment, and Theory Choice" (1973)</a></li> <li>Kuhn's relationship to the Buddha</li> <li>The Buddha's relationship to Darwin</li> <li>Schopenhauer and his case for using intuition versus rational reasoning</li> <li>Buddha’s dependent origination and how “backward causality” is precisely the process that Schopenhauer espouses in his writing about intuition, Kuhn with his observations of paradigm shifts, and Darwin with his careful consideration of catgories of species</li> <li>Framed this discussion and the podcast as a whole as a process of laying out the many different strands and nodes of ideas that need to be laid bare before selecting and constructing the coherent theoretical framework for Neither/Nor, the book I’m writing</li> <li>Recent podcasts on emptiness with <a href="https://pod.fo/e/161fee" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">Jake Orthwein</a> and <a href="https://pod.fo/e/1699b6" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">Rob Knight</a></li> <li>The Nietzsche quote I mention is <a href="https://twitter.com/bryankam/status/1642623870870999041?s=20" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">this one</a>, from a draft of Ecce Homo (1888)</li> <li>Hypercarnivory: <a href="https://archive.org/details/CopesRuleHypercarnivory" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/CopesRuleHypercarnivory</a></li> <li>Are we in a revolution? A crisis?</li> <li>To come back to: Heraclitus, Zhuangzi, Sextus Empiricus, Hannah Arendt, Kropotkin's Mutual Aid</li> <li>Ended with the impossible question: Are we living at the cusp of a paradigm shift?</li> </ul> Previous episodes: <ul> <li>Part 4 of this series: <a href="https://pod.fo/e/16f7ac" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">Language and Experience</a></li> <li>Part 3 of this series: <a href="https://pod.fo/e/16b474" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">⁠AI and Pyrrhonism⁠</a></li> <li>Part 2 of this series: <a href="https://pod.fo/e/1692de" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">⁠⁠A Philosophical Journey⁠</a></li> <li>Part 1 of this series: <a href="https://pod.fo/e/15cef4" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">⁠Causality and Conditionality⁠</a></li> </ul> Clerestory by <a href="https://bryankam.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">⁠⁠Bryan Kam⁠⁠</a> • Infrequent updates at <a href="https://bryankam.substack.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠</a> • All my work plus exclusive content at <a href="https://patreon.com/bryankam" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠</a> Show notes <a href="https://pod.fo/e/171350" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://pod.fo/e/171350</a>--- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message</a>

Crises and revolutions, with Isabela Granic

Part 4 in a series of interviews on the book I'm working on, Neither/Nor. In this episode, ⁠Isabela Granic⁠ and I discuss how AI technologies like ChatGPT relate to experience. We move into Schopenhauer's distinction between rationality and the intuition in The World as Will and Representation. Topics discussed:  Previous podcast episode: ⁠The AI and Dark Forest, with Maggie Appleton⁠ The explicit versus implicit in text Philosophy is about changing your mind and life Opportunity costs of reading Brian Magee article on clarity in philosophical texts: Sense and Nonsense My thread on Shklovsky and defamiliarization Tolstoy's Hadji Murat My thread on Janus words, Freud's (un)heimlich Richard Wilhelm's I Ching Graham: Zhuangzi's reaction against logic for ends in life (as opposed to means): aphorism, example, parable, and poetry We'll come back to mathematics at some point We'll come back to language models as averages Dependent Origination article  Previous episodes:  Part 3 of this series: AI and Pyrrhonism Part 2 of this series: ⁠A Philosophical Journey Part 1 of this series: Causality and Conditionality  Clerestory by ⁠Bryan Kam⁠ • Infrequent updates at ⁠Substack⁠ • All my work plus exclusive content at ⁠Patreon⁠ Show notes https://pod.fo/e/16f7ac--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message

Part 4 in a series of interviews on the book I'm working on, Neither/Nor. In this episode, <a href="https://twitter.com/PlayNiceInst" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">⁠Isabela Granic⁠</a> and I discuss how AI technologies like ChatGPT relate to experience. We move into Schopenhauer's distinction between rationality and the intuition in The World as Will and Representation. Topics discussed: <ul> <li>Previous podcast episode: <a href="https://pod.fo/e/163c8c" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">⁠The AI and Dark Forest, with Maggie Appleton⁠</a></li> <li>The explicit versus implicit in text</li> <li>Philosophy is about changing your mind and life</li> <li>Opportunity costs of reading</li> <li>Brian Magee article on clarity in philosophical texts: <a href="https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/bryan-magee-profundity-obscurity-bad-writing" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">Sense and Nonsense</a></li> <li>My thread on <a href="https://twitter.com/bryankam/status/1385143914458460161" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">Shklovsky and defamiliarization</a></li> <li>Tolstoy's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadji_Murat_(novella)" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">Hadji Murat</a></li> <li>My thread on <a href="https://twitter.com/bryankam/status/1393998936038330381" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">Janus words, Freud's (un)heimlich</a></li> <li>Richard Wilhelm's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Ching" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">I Ching</a></li> <li>Graham: Zhuangzi's reaction against logic for ends in life (as opposed to means): <a href="https://twitter.com/bryankam/status/1640100977788305409" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">aphorism, example, parable, and poetry</a></li> <li>We'll come back to mathematics at some point</li> <li>We'll come back to language models as averages</li> <li><a href="https://clerestory.netlify.app/do/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=20230326" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">Dependent Origination article</a></li> </ul> Previous episodes: <ul> <li>Part 3 of this series: <a href="https://pod.fo/e/16b474" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">AI and Pyrrhonism</a></li> <li>Part 2 of this series: <a href="https://pod.fo/e/1692de" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">⁠A Philosophical Journey</a></li> <li>Part 1 of this series: <a href="https://pod.fo/e/15cef4" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">Causality and Conditionality</a></li> </ul> Clerestory by <a href="https://bryankam.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">⁠Bryan Kam⁠</a> • Infrequent updates at <a href="https://bryankam.substack.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">⁠Substack⁠</a> • All my work plus exclusive content at <a href="https://patreon.com/bryankam" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">⁠Patreon⁠</a> Show notes <a href="https://pod.fo/e/16f7ac" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://pod.fo/e/16f7ac</a>--- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message</a>

Language and Experience, with Isabela Granic

Part 3 in a series of interviews on the book I'm working on, Neither/Nor. In this episode, Isabela Granic and I discuss how AI technologies like ChatGPT relate to living textual traditions. We then move into Socrates vs Zhuangzi, and the Pyrrhonist "middle way" between dogmatism and nihilism. Topics discussed:  Previous podcast episode: The AI and Dark Forest, with Maggie Appleton The relationship of textual traditions to their oral traditions and central texts The Socratic method versus Zhuangzi's "illumination" Pyrrho of Elis and Sextus Empiricus Part 2 of this series: A Philosophical Journey, with Isabela Granic  Clerestory by Bryan Kam • Infrequent updates at Substack • All my work plus exclusive content at Patreon Show notes https://bit.ly/3J50vEG--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message

Part 3 in a series of interviews on the book I'm working on, Neither/Nor. In this episode, <a href="https://twitter.com/PlayNiceInst" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Isabela Granic</a> and I discuss how AI technologies like ChatGPT relate to living textual traditions. We then move into Socrates vs Zhuangzi, and the Pyrrhonist "middle way" between dogmatism and nihilism. Topics discussed: <ul> <li>Previous podcast episode: <a href="https://pod.fo/e/163c8c" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The AI and Dark Forest, with Maggie Appleton</a></li> <li>The relationship of textual traditions to their oral traditions and central texts</li> <li>The Socratic method versus <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhuang_Zhou" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Zhuangzi</a>'s "illumination"</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrho" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Pyrrho of Elis</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sextus_Empiricus" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sextus Empiricus</a></li> <li>Part 2 of this series: <a href="https://pod.fo/e/1692de" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A Philosophical Journey, with Isabela Granic</a></li> </ul> Clerestory by <a href="https://bryankam.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bryan Kam</a> • Infrequent updates at <a href="https://bryankam.substack.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Substack</a> • All my work plus exclusive content at <a href="https://patreon.com/bryankam" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Patreon</a> Show notes <a href="https://bit.ly/3J50vEG" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3J50vEG</a>--- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message</a>

AI and Pyrrhonism, with Isabela Granic

In this episode I spoke to my friend Joachim Brackx in a series of voicenotes, recorded over a period of a few weeks at the end of last year. See more about Joachim (and hear his mellifluous podcast!) at Relating to Self. This episode is an experiment in epistolary podcasting 😊 Over the course of the pandemic I got to know people from the internet quite well through voicenotes. These were sent asynchronously to overcome timezone and calendar fatigue. In this episode, Joachim and I alternated messages with different lengths:  1 minute, then 2, 4, and 8 minutes. Clerestory by Bryan Kam • Infrequent updates at Substack • All my work plus exclusive content at Patreon--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message

In this episode I spoke to my friend <a href="https://twitter.com/JoachimBrackx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Joachim Brackx</a> in a series of voicenotes, recorded over a period of a few weeks at the end of last year. See more about Joachim (and hear his mellifluous podcast!) at <a href="http://relatingtoself.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Relating to Self</a>. This episode is an experiment in epistolary podcasting 😊 Over the course of the pandemic I got to know people from the internet quite well through voicenotes. These were sent asynchronously to overcome timezone and calendar fatigue. In this episode, Joachim and I alternated messages with different lengths:  1 minute, then 2, 4, and 8 minutes. Clerestory by <a href="https://bryankam.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bryan Kam</a> • Infrequent updates at <a href="https://bryankam.substack.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Substack</a> • All my work plus exclusive content at <a href="https://patreon.com/bryankam" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Patreon</a>--- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message</a>

Epistolary: Joachim Brackx on Choice, desire, and purpose

Rob Knight

In this episode I speak to Rob Knight about approaches to meditation. We discuss the Buddhist traditions, how dependent origination relates to emptiness, cognitive science, and the problem of universals in philosophy. I speak about the ideas in  Neither/Nor, the book I'm writing, and the two complimentary modes required to understand and interact with the world. My website. Occasional updates on my Substack. Frequent updates on my Patreon. See also the InterIntellect for events.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message

In this episode I speak to <a href="https://twitter.com/rob_knight" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rob Knight</a> about approaches to meditation. We discuss the Buddhist traditions, how dependent origination relates to emptiness, cognitive science, and the problem of universals in philosophy. I speak about the ideas in  Neither/Nor, the book I'm writing, and the two complimentary modes required to understand and interact with the world. <a href="https://bryankam.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">My website</a>. Occasional updates on <a href="https://bryankam.substack.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">my Substack</a>. Frequent updates on <a href="https://www.patreon.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">my Patreon</a>. See also the <a href="https://interintellect.com/series/interintellect-fellow-bryan-kam/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">InterIntellect</a> for events.--- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message</a>

Meditation paths, with Rob Knight

Part 2 in a series of interviews on the book I'm working on, Neither/Nor. Isabela Granic and I recap dependent origination and discuss how I encountered philosophy through Russian literature, Taoism, and eventually got interested in Western philosophy.  My article: "Dependent Origination without any Pali" "The Disarticulation of the Self in Nietzsche" (1981) by J. Hillis Miller PDF Brian Magee article on philosophy: "Sense and nonsense" (2000) Our earlier episode: Experimental and Historical Sciences Article by Deborah Casewell: "Karl Jaspers: The forgotten father of existentialism" (2023)  My website. Occasional updates on my Substack. Frequent updates on my Patreon. See also the InterIntellect for events.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message

Part 2 in a series of interviews on the book I'm working on, Neither/Nor. <a href="https://twitter.com/PlayNiceInst" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Isabela Granic</a> and I recap dependent origination and discuss how I encountered philosophy through Russian literature, Taoism, and eventually got interested in Western philosophy. <ul> <li>My article: <a href="https://bit.ly/3J3pR6Z" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"Dependent Origination without any Pali"</a></li> <li>"The Disarticulation of the Self in Nietzsche" (1981) by J. Hillis Miller <a href="http://t.msls.net/miller1981.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PDF</a></li> <li>Brian Magee article on philosophy: <a href="https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/bryan-magee-profundity-obscurity-bad-writing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"Sense and nonsense"</a> (2000)</li> <li>Our earlier episode: <a href="https://anchor.fm/bkam/episodes/History-versus-Physics--with-Isabela-Granic-and-Sam-Biagetti-e1unn5l" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Experimental and Historical Sciences</a></li> <li>Article by Deborah Casewell: <a href="https://aeon.co/essays/karl-jaspers-the-forgotten-father-of-existentialism?utm_source=rss-feed" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"Karl Jaspers: The forgotten father of existentialism"</a> (2023)</li> </ul> <a href="https://bryankam.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">My website</a>. Occasional updates on <a href="https://bryankam.substack.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">my Substack</a>. Frequent updates on <a href="https://www.patreon.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">my Patreon</a>. See also the <a href="https://interintellect.com/series/interintellect-fellow-bryan-kam/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">InterIntellect</a> for events.--- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message</a>

A philosophical journey, with Isabela Granic

I was awarded an InterIntellect fellowship! See the announcement here. In this episode, I speak in the Wood about what I'm interested in and why. This includes Pyrrhonism, Buddhism, Spinoza, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Hume, Peirce, Kuhn, Jaynes, McGilchrist, and more. I will post the Rob Knight podcast soon! I mentioned my friend's podcast: Growing Up with Delia Burgess. Occasional updates on my Substack. Frequent updates on my Patreon. See also the InterIntellect for events.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message

I was awarded an InterIntellect fellowship! See the announcement <a href="https://interintellect.substack.com/p/interintellect-fellowship-awardees?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>. In this episode, I speak in the Wood about what I'm interested in and why. This includes Pyrrhonism, Buddhism, Spinoza, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Hume, Peirce, Kuhn, Jaynes, McGilchrist, and more. I will post the Rob Knight podcast soon! I mentioned my friend's podcast: <a href="https://anchor.fm/deliaburgess/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Growing Up with Delia Burgess</a>. Occasional updates on <a href="https://bryankam.substack.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">my Substack</a>. Frequent updates on <a href="https://www.patreon.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">my Patreon</a>. See also the <a href="https://interintellect.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">InterIntellect</a> for events.--- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message</a>

InterIntellect Fellowship and What I'm Reading

I'm joined by developmental psychologist Isabela Granic and historian Sam Biagetti to discuss the differences between how reasoning is used in experimental sciences versus historical sciences. How do we get certainty from physics experiments? How do we get certainty about what caused the extinction of the dinosaurs? What do "nomothetic" and "idiographic" mean? We continue on from the discussion in Causality and Conditionality. We also make reference to an earlier discussion ("There's only two disciplines: history and physics") I had with Sam on this podcast. We rely on two papers by Carol Cleland:  The long one: "Methodological and Epistemic Differences between Historical Science and Experimental Science" (2002): PDF. The short one: "Historical science, experimental science, and the scientific method" (2001): PDF.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message

I'm joined by developmental psychologist <a href="https://twitter.com/PlayNiceInst" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Isabela Granic</a> and historian <a href="https://twitter.com/Historiansplain" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sam Biagetti</a> to discuss the differences between how reasoning is used in experimental sciences versus historical sciences. How do we get certainty from physics experiments? How do we get certainty about what caused the extinction of the dinosaurs? What do "nomothetic" and "idiographic" mean? We continue on from the discussion in <a href="https://anchor.fm/bkam/episodes/Causality-and-Conditionality-with-Isabela-Granic-e1tdcg0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Causality and Conditionality</a>. We also make reference to an earlier <a href="https://anchor.fm/bkam/episodes/Interview-with-Sam-Biagetti-of-Historiansplaining-e1pha4s" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">discussion</a> ("There's only two disciplines: history and physics") I had with Sam on this podcast. We rely on two papers by Carol Cleland: <ul> <li>The long one: "Methodological and Epistemic Differences between Historical Science and Experimental Science" (2002): <a href="https://joelvelasco.net/teaching/5330/cleland02-methodological_differences.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PDF</a>.</li> <li>The short one: "Historical science, experimental science, and the scientific method" (2001): <a href="https://www.csus.edu/indiv/m/merlinos/SCI/Cleland.Geology.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PDF</a>.</li></ul>--- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message</a>

History versus Physics, with Isabela Granic and Sam Biagetti

We discuss Maggie's recent article The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI, and other issues related to generative models, machine learning, ChatGPT, and more! Also mentioned: AI: Markets for Lemons, and the Great Logging Off. Please consider supporting my ongoing work on Patreon.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message

We discuss Maggie's recent article <a href="https://maggieappleton.com/ai-dark-forest" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI</a>, and other issues related to generative models, machine learning, ChatGPT, and more! Also mentioned: <a href="https://www.fortressofdoors.com/ai-markets-for-lemons-and-the-great-logging-off/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AI: Markets for Lemons, and the Great Logging Off</a>. Please consider supporting my ongoing work on <a href="https://www.patreon.com/bryankam" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Patreon</a>.--- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message</a>

The Dark Forest and Generative AI with Maggie Appleton

Jake Orthwein

I loved having this conversation with Jake. In it, we discuss Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism, Pyrrhonism, pragmatism, and different theories of truth. Stay tuned for more! Read Jake's thread on Darwin's new type of scientific theory. Follow @JakeOrthwein or @bryankam on Twitter, or follow me on Mastodon: @bryankam@writing.exchange. Clerestory by Bryan Kam • Infrequent updates at Substack • All my work plus exclusive content at Patreon--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message

I loved having this conversation with Jake. In it, we discuss Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism, Pyrrhonism, pragmatism, and different theories of truth. Stay tuned for more! Read <a href="https://twitter.com/JakeOrthwein/status/1421668554554810372" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jake's thread on Darwin's new type of scientific theory</a>. Follow <a href="https://twitter.com/jakeorthwein/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@JakeOrthwein</a> or <a href="https://twitter.com/bryankam" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@bryankam</a> on Twitter, or follow me on Mastodon: <a href="https://writing.exchange/@bryankam" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@bryankam@writing.exchange</a>. Clerestory by <a href="https://bryankam.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bryan Kam</a> • Infrequent updates at <a href="https://bryankam.substack.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Substack</a> • All my work plus exclusive content at <a href="https://patreon.com/bryankam" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Patreon</a>--- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message</a>

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