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Not School Digest Jan 2013: A Bonus Quasisode

January 23, 2013 by Mark Linsenmayer 4 Comments

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Excerpts of discussions about Deleuze & Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus, an article on emergence called “More Is Different” by Nobel Prize Winning physicist P.W. Anderson, John Searle’s Mind: A Brief Introduction, and Italo Calvino’s trippy science fantasy novel Cosmicomics.

How does the world fit together, with its different layers of organization, each with its different science? What’s the relationship between lower layers like particle physics, and biology, and consciousness? Are the higher layers all reducible to the lower ones, or what? What about the different epochs where these layers were built up through cosmological and biological evolution of various sorts? All these discussions strangely fit together around this same ground explored a bit in our recent David Chalmers and Carnap episodes, with Anderson claiming that you can’t even given infinite computing power predict the behavior of a higher level given a lower, John Searle claiming that the mental is causally but not ontologically reducible to the physical (and don’t you dare call him a property dualist!), Deleuze putting forth a whole new metaphor (the “rhizome!”) for thinking about these multiplicities instead of “layers,” and Calvino putting us in the shoes of a cosmic being named Qfwfq who lives and loves through the progression through history all the way back to before the existence of space and matter.

Read more and sign up at www.partiallyexaminedlife.com/pel-not-school-introduction. This will give you access to the full-length (ca. 90 min) recordings of these, plus lots of supporting forum posts on these readings. All of these groups and many more will be available for you to join as well. Jump in and propose a cooperative learning effort yourself!

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Filed Under: Podcast Episodes Tagged With: Giles Deleuze, Italo Calvino, John Searle, Not School, P.W. Anderson, philosophy of mind, reductionism

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  1. dmf says

    January 23, 2013 at 11:17 pm

    very impressed that you folks have gotten this all up and running and pleased to hear that it is flying smoothly in its test stages, ever onward!

    http://www.recalcitrance.com/deleuzelast.htm

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  2. Conner says

    April 24, 2018 at 1:09 pm

    Awesome piece. I missed the Cosmicomics discussion before. I remember the introduction to the work exceeded my patience originally (I cannot be interested in a topic that is dry and irrelevant to me unfortunately). This looks good.

    Reply

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