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Oct 19, 2026
Wes AlwanHOST
Well, I think it's better to end the podcast badly intentionally.
Mark LinsenmayerHOST
This was a fun diversion from we're going to go back to a little more philosophy of mind.
Mark LinsenmayerHOST
So I wanted to do these papers on AI before we get to them in my class.
Mark LinsenmayerHOST
And I believe I just asked.
Wes AlwanHOST
Okay.
Mark LinsenmayerHOST
Well, those were not conveyed to me.
Mark LinsenmayerHOST
So when I was coming up with my draft syllabus for my philosophy of mind class, and I was looking for what we should try to cover on here, just to see, are these the right things? Maybe we need more than one.
Mark LinsenmayerHOST
Maybe we'll try.
Mark LinsenmayerHOST
And I'm Mark Linsenmayer.
Mark LinsenmayerHOST
And so we continue on our philosophy of mind journey.
Mark LinsenmayerHOST
I had wanted to do something from The Concept of Mind by Gilbert Ryle from 1949.
Mark LinsenmayerHOST
We had only read just the introduction to this in our original Partially Examined Life, episode 21, Philosophy of Mind, 'cause that's the thing that is often excerpted, but it gives you nothing about what his positive view is.
Mark LinsenmayerHOST
Uh, this, this intro, it's actually called Chapter One: Descartes' Myth, is just purely a critique of Descartes as over intellectualizing everything, as putting by, uh, dividing the world into mind and matter.
Mark LinsenmayerHOST
Mind ends up having a quasi-material status, right? It's not a material substance, but it's still a substance.
Mark LinsenmayerHOST
And I'm Mark Linsenmayer.
Mark LinsenmayerHOST
And so we continue on our philosophy of mind journey.
Mark LinsenmayerHOST
I had wanted to do something from The Concept of Mind by Gilbert Ryle from 1949.
Mark LinsenmayerHOST
We had only read just the introduction to this in our original Partially Examined Life, episode 21, Philosophy of Mind, 'cause that's the thing that is often excerpted, but it gives you nothing about what his positive view is.
Mark LinsenmayerHOST
Uh, this, this intro, it's actually called Chapter One: Descartes' Myth, is just purely a critique of Descartes as over intellectualizing everything, as putting by, uh, dividing the world into mind and matter.
Mark LinsenmayerHOST
Mind ends up having a quasi-material status, right? It's not a material substance, but it's still a substance.
Mark LinsenmayerHOST
And I'm Mark Linsenmayer.
Mark LinsenmayerHOST
And so we continue on our philosophy of mind journey.
Mark LinsenmayerHOST
I had wanted to do something from The Concept of Mind by Gilbert Ryle from 1949.
Mark LinsenmayerHOST
We had only read just the introduction to this in our original Partially Examined Life, episode 21, Philosophy of Mind, 'cause that's the thing that is often excerpted, but it gives you nothing about what his positive view is.
Mark LinsenmayerHOST
Uh, this, this intro, it's actually called Chapter One, Descartes' Myth, is just purely a critique of Descartes as over intellectualizing everything, as putting, by, uh, dividing the world into mind and matter, mind ends up having a quasi-material status, right? It's not a material substance, but it's still a substance.
Mark LinsenmayerHOST
It doesn't have, uh, material causality, but it has its own kind of causality.
speaker_1NARRATOR
I was not aware that by 1860 Europe had long passed his works by in favor of more modern thinking.
speaker_1NARRATOR
With a passionate desire to reach a comprehension of the truth I grappled with the system, began with the Encyclopedia, read the three volumes of Aesthetics, the Philosophy of Law, the Philosophy of History, the Phenomenology of the Mind, then the Philosophy of Law again, and finally the Logic, the Natural Philosophy, and the Philosophy of the Mind, in a veritable intoxication of comprehension and delight.
speaker_1NARRATOR
One day when a young girl towards whom I felt attracted had asked me to go and say good-by to her before her departure, I forgot the time, her journey, and my promise to her over my Hegel.
speaker_1NARRATOR
As I walked up and down my room I chanced to pull my watch out of my pocket and realized that I had missed my appointment and that the girl must have started long ago.
speaker_1NARRATOR
I was not aware that by 1860 Europe had long passed his works by in favor of more modern thinking.
speaker_1NARRATOR
With a passionate desire to reach a comprehension of the truth, I grappled with the system, began with the Encyclopedia, read the three volumes of Aesthetics, the Philosophy of Law, the Philosophy of History, the Phenomenology of the Mind, then the Philosophy of Law again, and finally the Logic, the Natural Philosophy, and the Philosophy of the Mind, in a veritable intoxication of comprehension and delight.
speaker_1NARRATOR
One day when a young girl towards whom I felt attracted had asked me to go and say good-bye to her before her departure, I forgot the time, her journey, and my promise to her over my Hegel.
speaker_1NARRATOR
As I walked up and down my room I chanced to pull my watch out of my pocket and realized that I had missed my appointment and that the girl must have started long ago.
TheoHOST
It isn't an argument that it isn't AI.
TheoHOST
And somehow our 4 a.m. brain slop seminar has now become philosophy of mind before sunrise.
Tracy HarrisHOST
And I think it's important to recognize that the concepts of intelligence and learning existed before neuroscience.
Tracy HarrisHOST
They aren't about internal states, but behavioral realities.
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TheoHOST
Reducing the effort required to accomplish something is very often the purpose of technology.
TheoHOST
And dismissing users as lazy without knowing what barriers the tool removes has an accessibility problem baked into it.
TheoHOST
So instead of spending your intellectual energy trying to drag one stranger from LLMs aren't AI all the way through machine learning, philosophy of mind, reconstructive memory, personal identity, accessibility, you can take the interesting question she accidentally handed you and give it to thousands of people who voluntarily came to hear you think.
TheoHOST
That's a hell of a better return on investment.
Sean McDowellHOST
J.P. Malone, you are considered one of the most influential living philosophers today, especially your work in philosophy of mind.
Sean McDowellHOST
By my standard and an objective one, you would be one of the most influential apologists of the past three or four decades.
Sean McDowellHOST
You've also been through a lot of physical pain and hurt, and you're at a unique place in your life and ministry.
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J.P. MorelandGUEST
They live close.
J.P. MorelandGUEST
And we have a really close family.
Sean McDowellHOST
So what was the shift to go from studying chemistry to decide you want to study the philosophy of mind in particular?
J.P. MorelandGUEST
Well...
J.P. MorelandGUEST
There were a lot of Christians that were doing their work about the existence of God or the reliability of the New Testament.
Mark LinsenmayerHOST
So we had talked a lot about...
Mark LinsenmayerHOST
He, he kind of takes in this, uh, chapter 12, "Qualia Disqualified," and goes through a number of the arguments that we have covered in, uh, our original Philosophy of Mind episode, right? So the what is it like to be a bat, we talked [laughs] for, for most of the second half.
Seth PaskinHOST
[laughs]
Mark LinsenmayerHOST
Somehow we got on...
Mark LinsenmayerHOST
So we had talked a lot about, he kind of takes in this Chapter 12, Qualia Disqualified, and goes through a number of the arguments that we have covered today.
Mark LinsenmayerHOST
in our original Philosophy of Mind episode, right? So what is it like to be a bat? for most of the second half.
Mark LinsenmayerHOST
Somehow we got on.
Mark LinsenmayerHOST
I mean, he does talk about animal consciousness in here, so it wasn't crazy, but we skipped over some of the other stuff.