Episode notes
A meeting of two great minds moving from considerations of choice and agency to free will and wisdom. Books and authors mentioned follow timestamps.
Timestamps
00:00 Intro
03:30 Decision making and competent behavior do not imply high level cognition 05:20 The value of higher levels is context-dependent
06:30 Be careful not to all into patterns that lead to collectivism
07:07 Composite agents harness their parts toward an action they wouldn't normally be doing on their own. The scaling of cognition.
09:30 A. Juarrero's notion of constraint. Causes are events, happenings. Constraints are conditions and orderings of probability. Bottom up causation, top down constraints. Aristotle's impact on Juarrero: participating the tree structure. Hierarchies presume a single ontological relation. We have to get beyond simpl ...
Keywords
computationcausal relevancecausationactive inferencewfree actionfree willa symphony of choices over timeagency