PREMIUM-PEL Tech Nightcap July 2023

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Mark, Wes, and Seth talk about how we might cover philosophy of technology, and other areas like medical ethics, business ethics, environmental ethics, etc. Do we remember things that we recorded a few years back? What summer films are we looking forward to? Finally, can we cover David Foster Wallace?

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0:00.0	You're about to hear a preview of partially examined life supporter exclusive content.
0:10.6	To learn how to get the whole thing, check out partiallyexaminedlife.com slash support.
0:14.4	Hey, this is your partially examined life nightcap.
0:19.9	We're recording this on July 9th, 2023.
0:24.4	How you doing, fellas?
0:25.4	Not bad.
0:26.4	Alright, say something about philosophy of technology.
0:29.2	So Seth, you made some recommendations.
0:32.0	I saw the note and I thought, well, we've certainly the boss drum and all the AI stuff.
0:38.4	And even, I think to some extent, I feel like remind me who the guy was, we did on time
0:43.7	and identity.
0:45.1	Whitehead?
0:46.1	No.
0:47.1	No, the other more modern dude.
0:48.1	Henry Bergson?
0:49.1	Or Heisenberg?
0:50.1	No, I don't know.
0:51.8	It was a perfect that did the time slices, time T, because there's a bunch of thought
0:56.4	experiments there.
0:57.4	But you can conceivably talk about technology in that respect.
1:01.3	Like, I think there's an angle where there's the augmentation of the human being.
1:07.5	And at what point do we cease to be human or what constitutes the essential nature of humanity
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