Life as the standard; AI, consciousness & life; how v. whether; causation; focus, good & evil; etc.

18 June 2025 Livestream #32 0:09 Intro, reading update: The Book of Genesis 5:25 Man's smallness/weakness in the Bible relative to God vs. Rand's view of yourself as the highest value, pride 8:59 Man's life as the standard of value Virtues as evidence of how Rand understands "man's life" 14:45 Heroes in Ayn Rand's novels, standards of measurement/value 20:59 Blocked chatter from last show 22:55 What does an Objectivist look like? (Robert Nasir) "Fact and Value," "Knowledge is power" (Francis Bacon) Brief Israel/Iran update 29:33 Life as the standard of value: inducing from one's own experience vs. observing heroes 34:42 AI, consciousness & life (i like numbers) Could a destructible machine be moral? Could a machine have goals? "Frightening" AI 46:56 How free will comes to be vs. whether it exists (Robert Nasir) 51:44 "The hard problem of consciousness" (David Chalmers) Brute facts and invalid questions 1:00:32 Causation: Volitional and non-volitional 1:05:26 Break for a few minutes 1:12:23 Does consciousness have content? (Wade) Ayn Rand quote 1:18:15 Engaging with "Papa" re: Israel 1:22:18 Bias and levels of consciousness (Wade) 1:24:53 More engaging with "Papa" re: Israel and "collective punishment"; he gets blocked 1:37:40 Bias and levels of consciousness (continued) (Wade) 1:47:16 Evil, good, choice, and focus (Wade, Simon Grassi) Passage from Ayn Rand on our basic choice, focus 1:58:14 Animal urges (Wade and Jason) Miscellaneous, outro www.patreon.com/DanNorton www.paypal.me/DanNorton11 #aynrand #objectivism #philosophy #debate