What are other people thinking…uh, if they are thinking (eh-heh-heh)? How do we attribute to others beliefs, desires, and intentions? In this Snippet from E12: Daniel Dennett’s Easy Problems, the Dawdlers discuss Dennett’s idea “Folk Psychology”, among other incarnations of the general dynamic…
This Snippet comes from E12: Daniel Dennett’s Easy Problems. Here the Dawdler’s discuss philosophical zombies. And as usual, we’re right about everything even if Ryan’s inner chimp is still inactive. What does that even mean!? Who knows. We can’t believe you’re still reading this! Enjoy! -Dawds
This time the Dawdler’s examine Daniel Dennett’s book “Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking” (2013). Regardless of all that, these two tools think they think. Topics explored are philosophical zombies, Occam’s Razor, black boxes, and sorta operators. Do you smell that? It’s the sweet potpourri of Dennettian thinkadinks. -Dawds Read more…
Another snippet from E11: I just wanna get off the bus. In this one, Harland doesn’t want to leave the episode so he just starts asking relevant questions. No, really! Ryan hates him so much… Most biologists might define a population based on spacetime coordinates. Agreed. But that’s just part Read more…
From E11: I just wanna get off the bus, a snippet about carrying capacity. It’s a snippet where Harland gets snippy. But who gets to have the capacity, the environment or the population? Well, duh. Everyone knows that… …right?
From E10: The Argument Argument, in this Snippet the Dawdlers rap about a Harland meme about the function of idealization in argumentation, and philosophy generally. Under the rubric of: Chimps ==== Angels ==== Gods [Always] – [Sometimes] – [Never] If we are domesticated primates, with accompanying baggage and bias, finite Read more…
From E10: The Argument Argument, this Snippet contains a sampling of some of the basic concepts included in Argumentation Theory, this discussion significantly influenced by Charles Arthur Willard’s book A Theory of Argumentation. Touched upon are: 1) Pro and Con 2) Actual Speech Acts v. Abstract Propositions 3) Enthymemes 4) Read more…
Typically, people may describe a “wide-ranging” podcast conversation as covering topics from A to Z to あ. Maybe that’s the case for those podcasts. Us dawdlers? Eh… Ryan thinks this episode is on the psychology of “over”-population and Malthusian growth dynamics. Harland thinks Ryan just doesn’t like being one-of-many and Read more…
The free world is kind of a mess right now. Seems we’ve lost something in a trade or hit a wall. We’re so team oriented sending and receiving messages is like exchanging alien signals. Naturally, if we are to decode these strange outbursts, it’s time to get innovative. We have Read more…
Once again, Earth gets the bullet too! This episode the Dawdlers yammer on about Mass Extinction. Ryan is trying not to screw up and Harland is working on his impromptu pun skills. Hopefully something is learned but likely it’s just not nothing. Oh, and we’ve now a little ditty. Enjoy Read more…