DesCartes Exhibition @Singapore Design Week: Reflections and Knowledge Sharing on Responsible Urban AI
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David W. Bates’s An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence enters at a moment when our understanding of the human is caught between two powerful but incompatible narratives. In the first, the human is reduced to a “brain”, a computational organ... Read More ›Source| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
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Version imprimable de Vers les Grecs Marcel ConcheVers les Grecs Pour entamer mon itinéraire vers les Grecs, il me faut d’abord parler de Dieu, ou plutôt des dieux. J’ai dit comment je croyais aux dieux païens sans croire qu’ils existent réellement. Sur ce point, je risque de me distinguer d’Épicure qui, lui, affirme l’existence des […]| Les Amis de Bartleby
Below is my talk at the “Revitalizing Biophilosophy” conference I co-hosted earlier this week. It is based on a long paper I am working on both for this conference and for “Cognizing Life,” another conference that I’ll present at next week in Tübingen, Germany (there is a free livestream option if you’d like to tune […]| Footnotes2Plato
We are developing an ambitious research program focused on fluid and thermal behaviour in urban environments. The interaction between airflow and heat exchange plays a key role in pollutant dispersion, directly impacting air quality and urban comfort.| DesCartes
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The RA will take place within DesCartes program, https://www.cnrsatcreate.cnrs.fr/descartes/, a large research project that aims to develop disruptive hybrid AI to serve the smart city and to enable optimized decision-making in complex situations, encountered for critical urban systems.| DesCartes
Matt: Hi, Victoria! How are you doing this morning? Victoria: Good. Well, it’s evening for me here in England. Matt: Right. Well, really lovely to connect with you. Victoria: Ye…| Footnotes2Plato
Above, Tim Jackson and I dialogue about a number of conversations we watched, including: Matt Segall: So this is going to be laid back. We didn’t read anything, but we did listen to a whole bunch o…| Footnotes2Plato
Prof Bahia Guellaï got interviewed by Mrs Mael Rigneau from French Tech Singapore on 1 May 2025.| DesCartes
Slightly abridged transcript: Maitreyabandhu: So what we’re going to do this evening is have a conversation—obviously between Matt and me—about process philosophy and Buddhism. Really simply,…| Footnotes2Plato
Tevin Naidu recently hosted me on his Mind-Body Solutions podcast. Above is the video and below is an edited and somewhat condensed transcript. Tevin: I have shaped today’s episode around your pape…| Footnotes2Plato
“What man most passionately wants is his living wholeness and his living unison, not his own isolate salvation of his ‘soul.’ Man wants his physical fulfillment first and foremost, since now, once …| Footnotes2Plato
Companies are being urged to review their procurement and supply chain strategies in the wake of the US government’s tariff programme, as concerns grow over shipping costs and price rises across a range of goods. US President Donald Trump’s imposition of sweeping tariffs on imports, and retaliatory measures from trading partners across the world, has…| Global Trade Review (GTR)
In this conversation, Mahon McCann invited me to reflect on what he referred to as a metaphysical revolution in natural science—gesturing toward the shift I and others have been tracking across dis…| Footnotes2Plato
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Li Qianxiao for being awarded the Young Scientist Award!| DesCartes
The DesCartes Program is looking for a research associate focusing on optimization and risk analysis for decision making. This role would focus on implementing a risk quantification for DesCartes’ real world applications, using machine learning.| DesCartes
Tim Jackson and I discussed Hartshorne’s article, “Whitehead’s Revolutionary Concept of Prehension.” Charles Hartshorne offers a detailed and insightful examination of Alfred…| Footnotes2Plato
Below is a draft of my review of: BRIAN G. HENNING, JOSEPH PETEK, and GEORGE LUCAS, eds. The Harvard Lectures of Alfred North Whitehead (1925-1927): General Metaphysical Problems of Science.&n…| Footnotes2Plato
Michael, host of the podcast Third Eye Drops, invited me and the developmental biologist Michael Levin into dialogue. The video should be posted in the coming weeks, and I will share it here. I’ve …| Footnotes2Plato
Two years ago, I sat down with the late philosopher and physicist, Wolfgang Smith, to discuss his novel approach to quantum physics and the need for a return to Platonic conceptions of reality. You…| Footnotes2Plato
I just finished listening (at x2 speed!) to Tyler Goldstein’s very long but also very insightful YouTube commentary (see above) responding to my recent dialogue with Curt Jaimungal (“What is …| Footnotes2Plato
Below I am sharing a couple of outputs from ChatGPT4o1 as a hopefully interesting way of summarizing my 3 hour conversation with Curt. In my prompt I asked it to create a very detailed narrat…| Footnotes2Plato
Below is a rough transcript of my dialogue with Sam. Sam: Do you mind just giving a definition? What is mechanistic materialism? Matt: Mechanistic philosophy emerges in the 16th and 17t…| Footnotes2Plato
Here is a rough transcript of some of my comments to Gregg: I think this book speaks to both of us for obvious reasons. The work you’ve been engaged in with your UTOK system to bring together…| Footnotes2Plato
Roman and Matt delved into Whitehead’s metaphysics, exploring its intersections with modern science and spiritual experience. Roman began by asking Matt about the distinction between Whitehea…| Footnotes2Plato
