Ray Brassier - Rules, Games and Patterns [ENHANCED]

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• 00:00:00

  So thanks Luciana for inviting me. So first thing I should say this talk is it's not the has a different title and the topic is different from the one that was initially advertised. It's not going to focus so much on the work of Robert Brandon as I hope to but more on the on the work of Wilfred Sellers on whom I'm…

• 00:10:22

  But then this comes at the cost of rooting intentionality in sentience after all, because there's a kind of immediate conceptual, there's a grasp of something as something, conceptual comprehension, which is not itself articulated by a more fundamental, by a rule, which is not itself rule governed. So the challenge…

• 00:18:59

  Just as in an object language, an object language consists of first order, you know, discourse about things, about the world. A metalanguage is the, is the kind of the stratum which contains the, the rules governing the proper use, or the proper functioning of sentences in the object language. So, Sellers' paradigm…

• 00:29:51

  This is or acting for a reason are unpredictable. Because they cannot be tracked. By facts at the level of the object game. Or at least this is a conjecture. One way of understanding the unpredictability. Of sapient beings. For the reason or for themselves. Is because. There are two. There's a no there's…

• 00:39:01

  Okay. Again, this is one private, one of the concepts I think, which has been much misunderstood and I think unfairly kind of dismissed. I think it's particularly, you know, particularly, helpful if one wants to kind of show, in fact, it's, it's indispensable. If one won't honest, one wants to understand how rules…

• 00:52:39

  Obviously an algorithm could be computation, computer, book, and not track. You know, arranging all the permutations of further things is perfect. You can state the alpha. There are just too many possibilities to actually compute. I guess there is an intertipic computational track that would have given that closed…

• 01:00:30

  Okay. That's not working. Oh, I thought it was the question. No, that was the question. Well, okay. One thing I'll say. Um, Put it on your Mac. Um, two things. One is that this, you know, as I, as I understand them, sellers is not, I mean, the whole point is that this, um, in a way that kind of the boundary between…

• 01:10:20

  But, um. Okay. Thank you very much. I think we have a break of 15 minutes to have a coffee and then come back for this episode. Thank you very much. Bye bye guys.