Epistemology of emotions, AI and Consciousness, and utility of the notion of Free Will with Prof. Andreotta

Somewhat Seriously by Jafar Jalili

Episode notes

Professor Adam Andreotta is a philosophy researcher from Perth, Western Australia. He has a doctoral degree in Philosophy from the University of Western Australia

In this episode he explains, from a philosophical perspective, how it is that we come to know our emotions and challenges the social constructivist view of the interpretation of our emotions

Further we touched on AI and the hard question of consciousness. And inevitably of course, Free Will came up where we touched on the takes of the likes of Sam Harris on the notion of Free Will

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emotionsartificial intelligencepsychologyfirst person authoritysam harris