There's No Thinking Without Love | Byung-Chul Han and The Agony of Eros @RahulSam

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Byung-Chul Han claims that love is the condition of possibility for thought itself. Dr Davood Gozli (@DavoodGozli) and I discuss the relationship between eros and thinking.

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$Theres No Thinking Without Love | Byung-Chul Han and The Agony of Eros Byung-Chul Han claims that love is the condition of possibility for thought itself. Dr Davood Gozli (@DavoodGozli) and I discuss the relationship between eros and thinking. Watch the full podcast here: https://youtu.be/8u124FUrFn8?si=S-3k1lSqrSoRuMYM {Podcast} Substack: https://rsampod.substack.com/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le Anchor: https://anchor.fm/rahul-samaranayake Available on other platforms at https://link.chtbl.com/PDBAf9Zd {Website} https://rahulsam.me/ {Social Media} https://www.instagram.com/name_is_rahul/ https://substack.com/@trsam/ https://x.com/trsam97 https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-samaranayake-981a9315b/ {Reference Links} https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34848070-the-agony-of-eros If the ideas I discuss in this channel evoke your interest, consider visiting https://theunhappyman.substack.com/ Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statutes that might otherwise be infringing. If you are or represent the copyright owner of materials used in this video and have a problem with the use of the related material, please email me at trahulsam@gmail.com, and we can sort it out. Thank you.$ $Bros Discuss... Why Get Married? (w/ Euwyn Goh) Euwyn and I discuss marriage, love and modernity. Connect with Euwyn at: https://twitter.com/euwyngoh https://memoirworthwriting.substack.com https://www.instagram.com/euwyngoh {Podcast} Substack: https://rsampod.substack.com/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le Anchor: https://anchor.fm/rahul-samaranayake {Website} https://rahulsam.me/ {Social Media} https://twitter.com/trsam97 https://www.instagram.com/name_is_rahul/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-samaranayake-981a9315b/ {Images & Videos used} The Lovers by René Magritte (1928) If the ideas I discuss in this channel evoke your interest, consider visiting https://theunhappyman.substack.com/ Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statutes that might otherwise be infringing. 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TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - Introduction 2:03 - Marriage divorced from its historically religious core 13:55 - Marriage as cultural dogma 20:34 - The relationship between marriage and love 27:19 - The notion of Two become one and falling/being in love 35:33 - Marriage as a commitment to duty 44:39 - The aesthetic of duty 53:30 - On playing the long game 58:10 - The modern corruptions of love 1:11:30 - The construction of marriage within marriage 1:20:00 - The aesthetic of the universal 1:27:28 - The universal as the brokenness 1:35:45 - Closing$ $Mel Andrews: Ontology of the Free Energy Principle and the Philosophy of Machine Learning Mel Andrews is a philosopher of science who primarily focuses on machine learning and the role of mathematical and computational methods in scientific modelling. Mel is currently a predoctoral research associate at the Department of Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon University and doing a PhD in philosophy of science at the University of Cincinnati. 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In this episode, we discuss the Hegel renaissance, Hegelian contradiction, Dialetheism and Paraconsistent logic, ontology from Kant to Hegel, coupling Lacanian psychoanalysis and existentialism, universalism and alienation, Peter Rollins Church of the Contradiction. 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Anna was a researcher at the Viennese Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support and a member of the Global Shapers Community organised by the World Economic Forum, serving as curator for the Vienna Hub. You can find more of Riedls work at https://www.riedlanna.com/ and https://x.com/AnnaLeptikon. CogSci map: https://www.riedlanna.com/cognitivesciencemap.html CogSci millennium: https://cognitivescience.substack.com/p/the-cognitive-science-millennium RSam Podcast #44 {Podcast} Substack: https://rsampod.substack.com/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le Anchor: https://anchor.fm/rahul-samaranayake Available on other platforms at https://link.chtbl.com/PDBAf9Zd {Website} https://rahulsam.me/ {Social Media} https://www.instagram.com/name_is_rahul/ https://substack.com/@trsam/ https://x.com/trsam97 https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-samaranayake-981a9315b/ {Reference Links} https://youtu.be/0aQebCENIjg?si=Ed0aiOSKHEhCndlv https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9780230307827 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24113.G_del_Escher_Bach https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/695429.G_del_s_Proof https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34848865-exact-thinking-in-demented-times https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Question_Concerning_Technology https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262540568/being-in-the-world/ https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262540674/what-computers-still-cant-do/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Dreyfus%27s_views_on_artificial_intelligence https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-94-009-8947-4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenomenology_of_Perception https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5299/Active-InferenceThe-Free-Energy-Principle-in-Mind https://academic.oup.com/book/36527 https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262514620/vision/ https://study.sagepub.com/friedenberg3e https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262701099/mind/ If the ideas I discuss in this channel evoke your interest, consider visiting https://theunhappyman.substack.com/ Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. 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Watch the full podcast here: https://youtu.be/776USUOinX0?si=rwxoTrXR7IoNjuW5 {Podcast} Substack: https://rsampod.substack.com/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le Anchor: https://anchor.fm/rahul-samaranayake Available on other platforms at https://link.chtbl.com/PDBAf9Zd {Website} https://rahulsam.me/ {Social Media} https://twitter.com/trsam97 https://www.instagram.com/name_is_rahul/ https://substack.com/@trsam/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-samaranayake-981a9315b/ If the ideas I discuss in this channel evoke your interest, consider visiting https://theunhappyman.substack.com/ Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statutes that might otherwise be infringing. 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Original piece: https://theunhappyman.substack.com/p/love-is-violent-love-is-mundane {Podcast} Substack: https://rsampod.substack.com/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le Anchor: https://anchor.fm/rahul-samaranayake {Website} https://rahulsam.me/ {Social Media} https://twitter.com/trsam97 https://www.instagram.com/name_is_rahul/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-samaranayake-981a9315b/ {Images & Videos used} James Cameron - Titanic (1997) If the ideas I discuss in this channel evoke your interest, consider visiting https://theunhappyman.substack.com/ Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statutes that might otherwise be infringing. If you are or represent the copyright owner of materials used in this video and have a problem with the use of the related material, please email me at mrrahulmaxcontact@gmail.com, and we can sort it out. Thank you.$ $Effective Java Item 7: Eliminate Obsolete Object References My disquisition on Item 7 of Effective Java by Joshua Bloch: Eliminate Obsolete Object References. I also cover garbage collection, WeakHashMaps and Weak References. GitHub repository: https://github.com/TRahulSam1997/Effective-Java-Joshua-Bloch/tree/main/src/main/java/Item7 Joshua Blochs GitHub repository: https://github.com/jbloch/effective-java-3e-source-code/tree/master/src/effectivejava/chapter2/item7 Book: https://www.amazon.com.au/Effective-Java-Joshua-Bloch/dp/0134685997/ Full playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcJ6nqGscKrd2UxeLTY-fIr0dzdMIOHAK {Podcast} Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le Anchor: https://anchor.fm/rahul-samaranayake {Website} https://rahulsam.me/ {Social Media} https://twitter.com/trsam97 https://www.minds.com/trahulsam/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-samaranayake-981a9315b/ https://trahulsam.medium.com/ https://www.instagram.com/name_is_rahul/ Facebook Group: https://goo.gl/JoL9CA {Reference Links & Resources For Further Study} https://java-programming.mooc.fi/part-5/4-objects-and-references https://www.baeldung.com/java-int-char-cannot-be-dereferenced Garbage Collection Algorithms: Mark Sweep, Generation Hypothesis and JIT code injection - https://youtu.be/ZhbIReLe-r8 Garbage Collection Algorithms: Concurrent Mark Sweep, Fragmentation and Compaction, Lost Writes - https://youtu.be/trkYGEGT6_w C Programming: What does Dereferencing a Pointer Mean? - https://youtu.be/VvHDY5STNhU https://stackoverflow.com/a/67656111/6367109 https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/11/docs/api/java.base/java/lang/ref/WeakReference.html https://stackoverflow.com/questions/299659/whats-the-difference-between-softreference-and-weakreference-in-java https://wiki.c2.com/?CanonicalizedMapping https://www.philosophicalgeek.com/2014/09/03/practical-uses-of-weakreference/ https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/scheduledthreadpoolexecutor-class-in-java/ https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/LinkedHashMap.html#removeEldestEntry-java.util.Map.Entry- https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/asynchronous-synchronous-callbacks-java/ How to garbage collect callbacks with weak references in Java? - https://stackoverflow.com/q/74373440/6367109 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65967486/android-difference-between-callback-and-listener https://www.baeldung.com/java-profilers If the ideas I discuss in this channel evoke your interest, consider visiting https://theunhappyman.substack.com/ Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. 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