Incredible Machines 3

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Adjudicated APPROVED 2026-07-11 (basis: owner ruling 2026-07-11: institutional recordings released except fee-charging course content; lane recent-institutional -> recent-institutional-released). Series: standalone. Source: video original (.mp4).

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• 00:00:00

  Thank you, Mo, and welcome everyone to the third panel of Incredible Machines, Digitality and Modern Systems of Knowledge at the Threshold of the 21st Century. My name is Sean Williams, and I will be chairing this afternoon's event. So we'll first have two 20-minute presentations in succession by Daniel Saciloro…

• 00:13:17

  Thought must think of the conditions under which it can think being, or indeed anything, whatsoever. And this dimension of thinking, and it is this dimension of thinking, And this dimension of thinking, which Kant tells us is non-objective, insofar as to ask about the conditions of possibility to think of what there…

• 00:25:31

  If on the other hand, we understand humanity in terms of its material constitution, then the destitution of man by the emergence of new technologies that obviate the dependence of sapiens on the organic appears ever less remote and even likely. Obscurity only results when the two levels of explanation the functional…

• 00:39:02

  And this other phenomenon around it. And then it becomes necessarily part of the structure in a sense. So the idea of the platform is extremely extensive from that point of view. It's a grass through the function of this language that some of my Wimsatt or William Bechtel uses. But not only in terms of artificial…

• 00:53:48

  It will sound just fine. Let's just reboot. I think rebooting is better. People refuse to do the phone here. Just text her on the side and say, just stop, and then we'll reboot. Okay. Please, I can do that too, but I just can't find a window. It's just that it would be a lot faster. But sure. And plus, there's…

• 01:06:02

  There is a third thing growing outside, cultivating in the mud, educating in the most absolute illiteracy, graduated in prisons like a monster alien hidden in the cracks of the city. A new language has emerged. It is this. It is otherlingua. We are facing what I would call post-misery. That's it. The post-misery…

• 01:20:38

  To the entity of the platform. Because I was... I mean, I got really excited about this whole idea of potentially looking at every object as a platform because I think... I mean, coming from where I come from, it's also very... To me, it's like a querying of the objects. And I was thinking of, like... I was just going…

• 01:34:59

  So if my question is made any sense at all then I suppose that's it.