Reza Negarestani, Giuseppe Longo, Rocco Gangle, Ian James and Colin McLarty

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• 00:00:00

  This meeting is being recorded. Okay. Right. Okay. Okay, thank you. Welcome, welcome to this conference on an introduction to philosophy of science. It's hosted by Therese Gallery at the Elmihalby Foundation in New York. This conference is in conjunction with Eric Schmidt's Prolegomenon to a Treatise, which…

• 00:19:45

  I will say something more about this. You see, I'm not denying in criticize the genocentric approach, the axiomatic, the axiomatic completeness of the axiomatic of life. I'm not denying the relevance of DNA. My God, is the chemical phase, physical trace of evolution which is present in every cell. It's an immensely…

• 00:42:14

  mode of friendship, mode of philia. And I'm going to try to draw out this interpretation through the dialogue of the Meno. And in order to try to get the Meno and science sort of on the same page, it's worth thinking that the common term, the common denominator of this Platonic dialogue and contemporary scientific…

• 01:15:30

  I wrote this survey of her book eight pages survey. You can find it on on my web page. Okay. Any more questions. Anyone in this in the gallery corner. Well, if anyone online has a question just type it into the chat or just unmute yourself. No. Okay. Well, should we take a short break. Do you think now, and then start…

• 01:57:17

  The theory of the limit point of imminence is a It is a pass and parcel of the Pearson framework and of the very notion of qualitatively meaningful purposive and interpretive sign activity. This is my final conclusion and it's an homage to Rocco's fantastic work. Because Rocco has brilliantly developed this point…

• 02:26:11

  This is the descriptive level demarcation problem, so to speak. The description of the target phenomenon, namely boundaries and the exact designation of what is to be described is left to happy coincidence, or a miraculous act of description by way of the economy of thought a la Mark. Miraculous. Insofar…

• 02:58:06

  So you have to make symmetries, you make basic metabolites, basal metabolites. You have to say the mouse has to be at rest at least one hour after feeding, and it must not be asleep. And so you stabilize symmetry, and then you must know the past, because if you don't know how the lungs were formed, you will never…

• 03:23:50

  Ian, Rocco, people in the gallery, people who have persevered online. It's been great. Thank you very much. Thank you so much, everyone. Thank you so much. Ciao. Bye bye. Thank you. Bye.