The Metaphysics of Subjectivity: confronting Descartes (Udemy.com)

This course is part of: What is thinking? From thinking to political domination.

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Created by: Sergio Santos

Produced in 2021

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This is a course (talk) on the metaphysics of subjectivity.
What is objectivity?
What is subjectivity?
What do we strictly mean when we say something is subjective?

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This course is a talk split into 11 videos and divided into 4 topics. Please do not take this course (talk) if you are not willing to think for yourself. I will not quiz you. The questions are left open and the reader/listener is invited to ask the questions and see the possibilities they offer. What does subjectivity mean?
The metaphysics of subjectivity prevail in science and western culture (now globally) Where does the metaphysics of subjectivity leave the subject?
1. First, I discuss what it is that we mean when we say that something is subjective. The metaphysics of subjectivity are explored fundamentally and the historical origin is briefly reviewed. The interpretation that I give is basic and therefore reveals the obscurity of the use of these terms: subjective and objective. In general, the whole of science and western culture are dominated by the metaphysics of subjectivity, and by default, objectivity. 2. Second, many scientific topics are split into subjective and objective theories or interpretations. The way in which we commonly speak also invokes the terms subjective and objective. 3. Third, my target is to show how science, including the recent developments in AI and machine learning, orient themselves through the metaphysics of subjectivity in a way that the concept of world is presupposed. I invite the reader to check websites, books, or internet databases like Wikipedia or any others, and see for themselves how theories, and more thoroughly, interpretations of theories are generally divided into subjective and objective interpretations. This is the case for example in probability and statistics. These are fundamental fields for the development of intelligence and are meant to guide human decision. You can check for example "probability interpretations" in the Wikipedia entry. The background and the expectation I go through some of what leading authors in the 20th century, such as Sartre and Heidegger, had to say on the topic and target to raise the question as to what it means to invoke subjectivity or objectivity as a standard. My expectation is that the reader/listener actively asks the questions. Who this course is for:
If you wonder what subjectivity (or objectivity) means and you want to think in this direction, you can take this course.
Please check the preview video before you take this course (talk). You will not be quizzed.

Time: 4h

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Sergio Santos

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Dr Santos has spent more than ten years researching in the fields of bio/nanotechnology and data science. His interests extend to fields as broad as philosophy, psychology, human behavior, arts and computing.
Dr Santos is the author of more than 60 peer-reviewed journal articles in the fields of applied physics, materials science, nanotechnology, bio-nanotechnology, analysis of non-linear systems, chaos theory, harmonic analysis and data science in general.

2021/MAY Update

Metaphysics

There is this problem that has lasted thousands of years. Some people believe that logic, reason and truth have the last word.

This point of departure typically ends up trapped in a metaphysics of facts, i.e. of having to explain what a fact is and how facts relate to logic and truth. Here I show that claiming that logic is the last resort for human discussion leaves out the fact that logic itself is freely floating and depends on a metaphysics of truth and/or fact that is also freely floating. The result is that logic itself depends on something which logic is not.

This does not disturb the progress of science in the least because in order to advance science only needs a metaphysics of world that is mathematical in nature. This is precisely our current metaphysics of truth. So science can advance, but this creates the residues of morality, human value and human decision among other.
Of course mathematics can also be employed to model