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Podcast: youtube.com/@RahulSam | Writing: theunhappyman.substack.com

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Rahul @trsam97.bsky.social · 7h
Peter Wolfendale youtu.be/xJU7mlB2ZwA?...
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Rahul @trsam97.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Discussion with systematic philosopher and theoretical computer science researcher Peter Wolfendale. youtu.be/7y2CWU-2_hw
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Kantian Computationalism | Peter Wolfendale
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Rahul @trsam97.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
What humans can do that robots (still) cannot. youtu.be/NDtpiCwnZno?...
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The Frame Problem in AI That Just Won’t Go Away
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Rahul @trsam97.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Philosopher Nathan Hawkins on being a Christian and a philosopher. youtu.be/0tLxdUGA98U?...
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When a Christian Studies Philosophy
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Rahul @trsam97.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Discussion with Cambridge philosopher Dr Nathan Hawkins, who has a background in metaphysics, logic, the history of analytic philosophy and British Idealism. youtu.be/y_XgpNz1Quo?...
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British Idealism | Nathan Hawkins
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Stu Hatton @stuhatton.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I can get behind the main thrust of this discussion. There’s definitely something to be said for psychedelics opening up the question of the sacred, whether that be couched in religious terms or secular (e.g. ‘that which must be preserved’).
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Rahul @trsam97.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A case for analogical computational realism or how to be a realist about computational neuroscience. youtu.be/jA4jlmFEKPw?...
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How Computation Explains the Mind
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Rahul @trsam97.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A case for analogical computational realism or how to be a realist about computational neuroscience. youtu.be/jA4jlmFEKPw?...
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How Computation Explains the Mind
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Rahul @trsam97.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
What made human civilisation successful is specialisation, delegation and distributed cognition. youtu.be/OLMdUQqWBLc?...
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Humans Are Distributed Systems
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Rahul @trsam97.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Sanjeev Namjoshi on the physics of life, intelligence and belief. youtu.be/JsZVS937GHk
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Active Inference and Bayesian Mechanics
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Rahul @trsam97.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
"Freedom has always been best preserved by gifting it to others." - Peter Wolfendale youtu.be/xZ9ga9rpZeg?...
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Peter Wolfendale on Building Artificial Souls
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Rahul @trsam97.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Before discussing AGI, it's worth asking what we even mean by general intelligence. youtu.be/TNtf-YLgU0s?...
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Do Humans Have General Intelligence?
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Rahul @trsam97.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Michael Wheeler and Darius Parvizi-Wayne discuss subjectivity with CogSci and AI, relevance realization and the infamous frame problem. youtu.be/J8kDj53uxwE?...
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Existentialism and Artificial Intelligence
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Rahul @trsam97.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Interview with philosopher of computational neuroscience and historian of cognitive science and AI, Dr Danielle J. Williams. youtu.be/3og0I1h0QJI?...
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Why Do We Think of the Brain as a Computer? (w/ Danielle J. Williams)
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Rahul @trsam97.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Understanding, argue Matthieu Queloz and Pierre Beckmann, serves as an efficient proxy for a form of robust competence: it plays a fiduciary role, which is why a conceptual framework of genuine understanding is needed for AI research. youtu.be/Ci8ta645GWA?...
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Do LLMs Understand?
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Rahul @trsam97.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Hugh Grant and Andie MacDowell can teach philosophers a thing or two about precarity. youtu.be/MIPU7jThe0s?...
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Primordial Tension, or the Philosophy of Four Weddings and a Funeral
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Rahul @trsam97.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Holmberg writes, "Emotions are what they are only by the intervention of reason... Human agency can make emotions mean more than they are." youtu.be/X2poDtCSSkw?...
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Damasio's Error
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Rahul @trsam97.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
What does Merleau Ponty mean by phenomenology is the study of essences? youtu.be/KnY78RG1Qx4?...
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Merleau Ponty's Phenomenology
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Rahul @trsam97.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Philosophy is not a progressive science, nor should it be. youtu.be/0yT_MUSiuNc
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Analytic Philosophy Has No Classics | A Whiteheadian Provocation
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Rahul @trsam97.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
A philosophical critique of Bryan Johnson's psychedelic experiment. youtu.be/GoHDt-S9T3w?...
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The Blind Spot of Bryan Johnson
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Rahul @trsam97.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
A discussion on why the best model for life is life itself. youtu.be/4y6neVzJ35k
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Enactive Machines, Intelligence vs. Rationality, and Why Psychedelics Go Wrong
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Rahul @trsam97.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
How does the brain use the same amount of energy to solve Fermat's Last Theorem as it does to just doodle on a piece of paper? youtu.be/0zh6bh33W2w
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A Philosopher's Question for AI Developers
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Rahul @trsam97.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Currency is fungible: if I give a friend $20 and they give me two $10 notes, I still have $20. There is no change in the amount of money I have, as the indistinguishable units of currency are interchangeable. But this is not the case for intelligence. theunhappyman.substack.com/p/intelligen...
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Intelligence Is Not Fungible
On Creating New State Spaces
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Rahul @trsam97.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Can the masses engage in philosophy? youtu.be/kIyQTcSgALs
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Philosophers Are Bad at Politics and Religion
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Rahul @trsam97.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Tony of 1Dime on the rationality of religion. youtu.be/hIhvz2PdwNA
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The Problem With “Spiritual but Not Religious” (w/ Tony of 1Dime)
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Rahul @trsam97.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
@jimpalmerauthor.bsky.social on the groundlessness of human existence. youtu.be/U-qeRPdhKGk
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Existential Givens
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Rahul @trsam97.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
How does the paradox of space tell us about the incompleteness of reality? youtu.be/8EgMj70XF4s @katherineveritt.bsky.social
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The Paradox of Space
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Rahul @trsam97.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
AI researchers are racing to develop LLMs with persistent memory. But these efforts are motivated by a category error because context is neither information nor fungible. youtu.be/38IJaGHqKQ0
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Do LLMs Actually Have Context?
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Rahul @trsam97.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Interview with complexity theorist and philosopher of science, Alicia Juarrero. youtu.be/cE7-2xJdIcA?...
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Where Did Analytic Philosophy Go Wrong? (w/ Alicia Juarrero)
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Rahul @trsam97.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
What if the human brain is structurally antagonistic? youtu.be/mIpnPrItDUg?...
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Consciousness Enjoying Uncertainty
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Rahul @trsam97.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Either the project of grounding mathematics in logic is impossible, or logic is more complicated than we had originally suspected. youtu.be/5m3CymmhNFg
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How Gödel Changed Logic
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Imprint Academic @imprintacademic.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Check out our author Alicia Juarrero on Rahul Sam's YouTube channel! The full podcast will be out on April 16. Haven't got a copy of 'Why Context Matters' yet? You can get one here: www.imprint.co.uk/product/cont...
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Rahul @trsam97.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Philosopher and complexity theorist Alicia Juarrero argues that 20th-century biology was one of the first sciences to challenge the positivist, Newtonian causal metaphysics of Anglophone philosophy, which ignored context and mereology. youtu.be/0v7FQhKBKCE
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How Biology Changed Philosophy
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Rahul @trsam97.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Computationalism has had many critics in the philosophy of mind since the 1980s. Andrea Hiott and I, however, discuss the possibility that despite the well-founded criticisms, dynamic computational theories have a depth yet to be explored. youtu.be/WSGu3dOZ7fU
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The Dialectic of Computationalism
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Rahul @trsam97.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Andrea Hiott and I discuss pretty much everything. youtu.be/ZqlVhnaI3u0?...
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The Marvels of Computationalism, Radical Embodiment and Holding Paradox (w/ Andrea Hiott)
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Rahul @trsam97.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
If LLMs have world models, they must be radically different to ours. youtu.be/mud6ipsLmWk?...
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Mechanistic Indicators of World Models in LLMs
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Rahul @trsam97.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Few people, if any, would now accept the Hegelian contention that there are dialetheias (true contradictions). It is the main claim of Graham Priest that Hegel was right: our concepts, or some of them anyway, are inconsistent, and produce dialetheias. youtu.be/zg_mdD8jI0A?...
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Was Hegel (and Marx) a Dialetheist?
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Rahul @trsam97.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Graham Harman and @footnotes2plato.substack.com discuss why philosophy is more than pure logical analysis. youtu.be/YPgiLm6nVso?...
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Whitehead on the Aim of Philosophy
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Rahul @trsam97.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
My discussion with Daniel of O.G. Rose on the problem of internally consistent systems, the map-territory distinction and the loss of givens. youtu.be/3bxpfCv6JFY
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Scale vs. Spread, Indestructible Maps, and Incompleteness (w/ Daniel L. Garner of O.G. Rose)
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Footnotes2Plato @footnotes2plato.substack.com · 07/02/2026
Thinking Things with Graham Harman: Whitehead’s Way Beyond Philosophies of Human Access Rahul Samaranayake has had me on his podcast a few times over the years, including an especially generative conversation with Peter Rollins last year. This time he invited me and Graham Harman into dialogue.…
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Thinking Things with Graham Harman: Whitehead’s Way Beyond Philosophies of Human Access
Rahul Samaranayake has had me on his podcast a few times over the years, including an especially generative conversation with Peter Rollins last year. This time he invited me and Graham Harman into dialogue. Below is the transcript.  Whitehead popping Kant's phenomenal bubble. RAHULIt’s funny. I was reading some of your articles, Graham. You mention Whitehead quite a lot.
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Rahul @trsam97.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Metaphysical discussion between Graham Harman & @footnotes2plato.substack.com on objects, relations, finitude, human access and philosophy after Kant's Copernican revolution. youtu.be/RJkK4qlO54Q
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Graham Harman & Matthew David Segall: OOO vs. Process Philosophy
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Rahul @trsam97.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I just wanted to learn about graphs in trigonometry and had a typo in my youtube search. These two assholes came up. Now algo is ruined. Sigh.
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Rahul @trsam97.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
There have been attempts to develop the mathematical infrastructure based on paraconsistency rather than classical logic. What does this mean for the formalisms of the sciences? youtu.be/-ZbTSLUsrZ0
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Can Physics Use Inconsistent Mathematics?
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Rahul @trsam97.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Damn, power really does make people sociopaths, doesn't it? Exactly why we should redistribute it. New Epstein files surely show depravity has no limits.
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Rahul @trsam97.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Seems like my YouTube tutorial arc has started (again). Let's see how long it will last this time. youtu.be/uksr4HDZbM0
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Are the following vectors linearly independent?
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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
​Chatbots have been an incredible loss for scientists and an incredible win for the people who send scientists 5,000 word emails about anti-gravity engines and CIA microchips.
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Rahul @trsam97.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Discussion with logician Graham Priest on the existence of true contradictions in reality. youtu.be/YXqlWwIRMLE
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Graham Priest: Logic, Contradiction, Dialetheism and Hegel
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Rahul @trsam97.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
After the overwhelming number of recent LLM-based product launches, can we still say these are mere rote token-prediction machines? Based on the findings of mechanistic interpretability and insights from epistemology, Pierre Beckmann and Matthieu Queloz say otherwise. youtu.be/0d-O2sIPDrg?...
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LLMs Are Not “Stochastic Parrots” Anymore
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Jeff Yoshimi @jyoshimi.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
One of the best discussions of AI I've seen in a while, because it's deeply informed by philosophy AND computer science. LLM’s are more than just “stochastic parrots”, but their understanding is still nonhuman. The discussion of concepts, understanding, and world models is especially informative.
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Rahul @trsam97.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
A discussion on the philosophy of deep learning, mechanistic interpretability and the epistemology of LLMs. @pierrebeckmann.bsky.social @matthieu-queloz.bsky.social youtu.be/1_0ttM8zp9o?...
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Mechanistic Interpretability and How LLMs Understand
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