Corpus evidence — top 10 passages

Most-relevant passages from the entire indexed corpus (67,286 paragraph chunks across YouTube transcripts, PubMed, arXiv, archive.org, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, OpenAlex, and more) ranked by semantic similarity (bge-small-en-v1.5).

1. 01 · _intake0.926

   > so what do we do with that well there's always risk through that we obviously don't want to have a naive metaphysics like we now know like Aristotle has by just conceptualizing

   _intake/claims-allbranch/curated-low/godhead/010-so-what-do-we-do-with-that-well-there-s-always-risk-through-.md

2. 02 · yt0.795

   Even even when he's talking about metaphysics, he needs to dig the monarchy. only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm. Okay? So, I'm not telling you that causes and effects don't exist. I'm not telling you they're illusions. I'm telling you they're not fundamental. They're not built into, and I'll explain what exactly what I mean by this. They're not built into the deepest, most comprehensive, most fundamental vocabulary we have for talking about the world. And yet, the bottle of water stops moving when I stop pushing it. Right? So the task of this talk is to reconcile those two f…

   yt/rqezWO5Yba8-sean-carrol-the-big-picture-on-the-origins-of-life-meaning-a/transcript.txt

3. 03 · gutenberg0.768

   The reader must naturally have a strong inducement to co-operate with the present author, if he has formed the intention of erecting a complete and solid edifice of metaphysical science, according to the plan now laid before him. Metaphysics, as here represented, is the only science which admits of completion—and with little labour, if it is united, in a short time; so that nothing will be left to future generations except the task of illustrating and applying it _didactically_. For this science is nothing more than the inventory of all that is given us by _pure reason_, systematically arrange…

   gutenberg/PG-4280-the-critique-of-pure-reason/PG-4280.txt

4. 04 · yt0.765

   And so it's often much more important for people instead of figuring out what's actually the case to figure out what does my in-group believe so I will get tenure or that I will get a job or and right and this sometimes is a conflict with what's actually true because if for instance if you let scientific institutions get to a point where it's much more important that you have the right opinions about everything rather than to have the right criteria to rationally determine what's true independently of what other people think is true. then you cannot really do science anymore at some point. So …

   yt/oR-BQTSpL5U-joscha-bach-the-operation-of-consciousness-agi-25/transcript.txt

5. 05 · yt0.762

   Therefore, we could say have any number of representations, some better than others. For example, science had a certain representation of nature in the 19th century. It's got another one in the 20th century, but in the 21st, it may get another one. Right? You see, representations have no special character. They're not sacred or they don't grasp reality exactly as it is. Right? Now, if we think of it that way and I say, well, however I think of you, that is only a representation. However, I think of me or society or of nature, it is only a representation. And we therefore have to be open not on…

   yt/tzlx1AXVp7s-essential-reality-david-bohm/transcript.txt

6. 06 · blog0.761

   He does think this, as far as it goes, but he also maintains, more instructively, that we can be led astray by the terms within which philosophical problems are bequeathed to us. Very often, the puzzles confronting us were given crisp formulations by earlier thinkers and we find them puzzling precisely for that reason. Equally often, however, if we reflect upon the terms within which the puzzles are cast, we find a way forward; when a formulation of a puzzle betrays an untenable structuring assumption, a solution naturally commends itself. This is why in more abstract domains of inquiry we are…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/aristotle.md

7. 07 · gutenberg0.760

   Would the idea ever have occurred to us to doubt this absolute value of our knowledge if philosophy had not shown us what contradictions our speculation meets, what dead-locks it ends in? But these difficulties and contradictions all arise from trying to apply the usual forms of our thought to objects with which our industry has nothing to do, and for which, therefore, our molds are not made. Intellectual knowledge, in so far as it relates to a certain aspect of inert matter, ought, on the contrary, to give us a faithful imprint of it, having been stereotyped on this particular object. It beco…

   gutenberg/PG-26163-creative-evolution/PG-26163.txt

8. 08 · yt0.759

   What they were saying is it has to be based on certain values, behaviors that contribute to your own goodness, but also to those of others. We do not live as isolated automatons. We live in a social situation, and in that, we find our fulfillment. Now, you may query how it is that philosophers still draw inspiration from ancient texts, from, like, Plato's dialogues, which I've just been discussing with you, and indeed, what started out as Aristotle's notes about which these female philosophers based themselves, and Drury discussed this practice explicitly in his letters, and he found his answe…

   yt/y1kafU4oODc-wittgenstein-drury-the-philosopher-and-the-psychiatrist/transcript.txt

9. 09 · yt0.758

   Things happen you might be forgiven for thinking that the ultimate purpose was ever more grandiose hairstyles for professional philosophers Even if live Nets sort of had some artificial help there in in in his coffer The problem is that this is not right? The problem is that the world does not work this way at a fundamental level There's two problems one is it's not right the other is Despite the fact that it's not right we haven't abandoned it yet So we have learned a lot about how the world works because of the progress science and philosophy but we still talk a language that is handed down …

   yt/2JsKwyRFiYY-the-big-picture-from-the-big-bang-to-the-meaning-of-life-wit/transcript.txt

10. 10 · yt0.758

    This is the real behavior of physical stuff in the universe. So Aristotle says, "I know what's going on. Motion is an unnatural state of being. There are natural ways for things in the universe to be places that things want to be in forms of motion that places and things want to have. And if you just let something go and don't disturb it, it will just sit there. It will not move. Motion requires an impetus, a mover. Something needs to be pushing it." This illustration stolen from the internet. The dog is not actually moving the car. You see the dog there, right? If you look very closely, there…

    yt/rqezWO5Yba8-sean-carrol-the-big-picture-on-the-origins-of-life-meaning-a/transcript.txt