Anthropol The Future of Human Insecurity (Session 7)

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• 00:00:00

  we've got two weeks left. I hope that we're following this super mechanical scheme that is free programming stuff to a certain extent. And so we're right on the downslope now where we have to deal with everything we're going to talk about in the whole of this course. And right now, this week, we're back on I'll…

• 00:27:41

  It simply isn't functional. Functional, however desirable it may be, and however bound, I mean, you know, to take on the other side, however bound up with an attempt to define and consolidate a notion of human identity, so, yeah, sorry, that's just a minor kind of. Right, can I just ask a clarification question? Who…

• 00:48:00

  So, you know, I think it's always crucial at this point to remember that from a sort of naturalistic point of view, intelligence is an instrumental property of extremely dubious value. I mean, there's lots of this interesting evidence that came across this thing that was really quite intriguing. There are animals that…

• 01:07:11

  this is how dogs think, that's coming from his... that's highly questionable, I'm sure. But for him, of course, these two things are completely tied up together. This is why he talks about it as a religious thing. There are these kind of ultimately inscrutable beings, you know, who have these purposes and goals…

• 01:22:51

  Does subjection exist in nature? You know, does subjection exist at all once we have lost this anthropomorphic, moral-political structure? Right. And I would just say, no, it doesn't. But that's because, yes, it exists in everything, everywhere. So therefore, it just doesn't exist. It's not worth... It's not worth…

• 01:40:15

  Yes. But he has something to... Yeah. So I mean there's lots going on there obviously which is I think partly why there's a stunned quality sort of thing. I mean like one is that there's a cephalization bias isn't there? I mean like it's not just anthropomorphization it's... I can't say cephalization…

• 02:09:53

  If Anthropole could be there, I mean, I sort of, you know, that's also interesting, I kind of, I've never really, I've always sort of imagined, maybe just haven't watched too much Terminator, because I always tend to see Anthropole as the victim of, you know…

• 02:34:25

  I mean, you're all in different time zones, so I don't know. I'm at two o'clock in the morning, so that's my... time frame. Yeah, 4 a.m. here, so I'm getting a little more time. Oh, wow, that's impressive. Yeah, I'm... Okay. I've gone to sleep yet, and it's 10 a.m. Right. We're on to a kind of final food next week…