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The Fundamentalists

Deepfakes

The Fundamentalists

Elliott Morgan and Peter Rollins

Society & Culture:philosophy, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.8743 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In this weeks episode, the boys use Instagram, Second Life and Deepfakes to explore the notion of subjectivity. Is there a substantive self, what is that self, and are we all, at the end of the day NPCs?

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Fundamentalist's podcast, everybody. My name is Elliot. I'm here today with Peter

0:09.2

Rollins. He is a philosopher, writer, public speaker from Northern Ireland, Belfast specifically.

0:15.0

He's one of my best friends in the world. We love each other dearly. We support one another,

0:19.2

and we do so even in this podcast when we

0:21.6

disagree with a lot of podcast friends do their friendship ends right there's bar was it bar still

0:28.5

there are these two girls who would do a podcast and they fell out really badly really and they

0:33.6

were podcast best friends and it just didn't work out. So let's just make sure that doesn't happen.

0:39.1

No, we keep our priorities straight.

0:41.5

I think fairly often.

0:43.4

But this is a podcast where we like to talk about the possibility of life before death.

0:46.9

We like to talk about psychoanalysis, psychological stuff.

0:53.3

Pete likes to talk about Lacan and Hegel. I like to talk about, what do I like to

0:58.7

talk about? Bugs Bunny. Bugs Bunny and Hanger University and Johnny Cup. Yes. So this particular

1:04.1

episode, y'all, first of all, thank you very much for all the kind comments that you made about

1:09.7

the last video that we posted.

1:11.6

You're very sweet, most of you.

1:12.6

And I appreciate every one of you, most of you.

1:15.6

And that's really nice and it's been lovely.

1:18.6

And this particular podcast is on deep fakes.

1:22.6

So we're going to get into that a little bit.

1:24.6

And Pete has some interesting stuff to say about it,

1:26.6

and I can't wait to talk about it.

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