Michael Cannon

philosophy as way-finding;

philosophy of AI in the Cthulucene

[Michael Cannon @philososkier]

"Verse" etymology: 'vertere' (latin) - to turn; 'verso'
-sides, perspectives

The Uni-verse is a poetic and poietic con-versation amongst those with a verse to share:

A florilegium.
(Flor: flowers + legere: gather)

A gathering of flower and verse.

[Kate Nave @KathrynNave]

A Drive to Survive now has a cover!

Unfortunately the release has been delayed another two months 😓 but the pre-print can be downloaded here https://t.co/fXZeTOkAf4 or I’m happy to email a PDF to anyone interested!

[Michael Cannon @philososkier]

"Visionary experience isn't the same as mystical exp. Mystical is beyond the realm of opposites...Heaven entails hell, & 'going to heaven' is no more liberation than is the descent into horror.Heaven is merely a vantage point from which the divine Ground can more clearly be seen"

[Michael Cannon @philososkier]

Like the earth a hundred years ago, our mind still has its darkest Africa's, its unmapped Borneo's and Amazonian basins. In relation to the fauna of these regions we are not yet zoologists, we are mere naturalists and collectors of specimens.

- Aldous Huxley, "Heaven & Hell"

[Michael Cannon @philososkier]

Love

[John Tasioulas @JTasioulas]

Coming up at @EthicsInAI

*Assoc Prof / Prof in AI ethics and theoretical philosophy in assoc with @JesusOxford

*Postdoc in AI ethics and theoretical philosophy in assoc with @BalliolOxford

*Postdoc in AI ethics and law (tbc)

and more jobs later in the year. Stay tuned.

[Michael Garfield 🔮 @michaelgarfield]

A moral fable.

[Michael Cannon @philososkier]

A bit blind-sided by @ResObscura's
moving prose here
A painting of aging
Margaret Mead's encounter with her own aging

- "Tripping on Utopia"

[Jonny Miller @jonnym1ller]

Resharing, cause, y’know this election stuff tends to hijack nervous systems en masse

[Michael Cannon @philososkier]

@EtheHerring 🥹

[Hanzi Freinacht @HFreinacht]

Modern sociology asks: What is society?

Postmodern sociology: How is society viewed, by whom, and why?

Metamodern sociology: How do these views of society emerge, and how can they be made to emerge in ways that are beneficial from a multiplicity of weighted and compared views?

[Céline Henne @celinehenne]

Not saying I'm leaving academia (yet) but... out of curiosity, philosophers who left academia, what are you doing now, and are you happy? Could we make the replies to this post a database of alt-ac jobs for philosophy PhDs?

[Michael Cannon @philososkier]

@jonnym1ller 🙋

[Michael Cannon @philososkier]

Like the earth a hundred years ago, our mind still has its darkest Africa's, its unmapped Borneo's and Amazonian basins. In relation to the fauna of these regions we are not yet zoologists, we are mere naturalists and collectors of specimens.

- Aldous Huxley, "Heaven & Hell"

[Hanzi Freinacht @HFreinacht]

Erich Fromm once wrote that for society to prosper, we need not more distant intellect, but “men and women who are in love with life”. But to be in love with life, we must also succe­ssfully fall in love with one ano­ther.

[Hanzi Freinacht @HFreinacht]

Last chance if you want to join the metamodern course about the 6 hidden patterns. Just a few weeks until it begins. It's going to be overwhelming.
https://t.co/LuoXFa4gx6

[Inês Hipólito @ineshipolito]

18-19 & 25-26 October.
Mary Carman
Eros de Carvalho
Mazviita Chirimuuta
Chris Letheby
Nico Orlandi
Jun Tani
Jennifer WIindt
https://t.co/szxAzqFAAt

[JPA @2Philosophical_]

Thomas Nagel: “Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time.”

[Michael Cannon @philososkier]

🤯

[Manoj Doss not exist @ManojDoss]

This is nuts. Neural synchronization (measured via EEG) between humans and dogs during social interactions is reduced in a dog model of autism (Shank3 mutation), but 24 hours after giving the dogs LSD, human-dog neural synchronization increases 🤯
https://t.co/qTeiPYuvwE

[Michael Cannon @philososkier]

Tuning in!

[Tom Froese, Embodied Cognitive Science Unit (ECSU) @DrTomFroese]

Looking forward to this later today! 👇

[MetaNoia @metanoia_si]

All talks from The Organic and the Normative conference that took place between Jul 30–Aug 1, 2024 in Ljubljana are now available in this Youtube playlist: https://t.co/D6WDUgx0sJ

[Michael Cannon @philososkier]

@dagroundathlete Look great. Nice one. Barefoot/wide toebox etc?