The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Bob introduced his "junkyard" drumming style on two Sonic Youth albums near the beginning of their career ('83-'85), then moved to Jon Spencer's Pussy Galore for four albums ('86-'90), led his own band Bewitched from two albums and two EPs in the early '90s, and has played with Chrome Cranks, Lydia Lunch, and many other projects.
We discuss "Cancel This!" an instrumental from his first official solo album, Beach Bongo Bloodbath (2026), "Chocolate Frenzy" by Bewitched (1986), and "Death Valley '69" by Sonic Youth from Bad Moon Rising (1985). End song: "Silky Narcotic" by The Wolfmanhattan Project from Summer Forever and Ever (2022) (plus a Richard Hell cover from the new album at the very end). Intro: "Making Out with Satan" by Bewitched (1993).
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On David Chalmers' "Could a Large Language Model Be Conscious?" (2023) and Hubert Dreyfus' What Computers Can't Do: The Limits of Artificial Intelligence (1972), ch. 7-9.
How are intelligence and consciousness related, and even if an AI should be considered authentically intelligent, could any AI ever be considered conscious? Chalmers considers various arguments why current LLMs should be considered conscious now (he considers these unconvincing) and why they will never be (he also finds these unconvincing).
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Everybody's talking about the Nathan Fielder/Lance Oppenheim documentary about Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes You Can See Everything, and so are we!
Bigwig pundit John Ganz joins Mark, Lawrence, Sarahlyn and Al to talk about the psychological issues, the ethics and dynamics of documentaries and docudramas, and the Nathan-esque second half.
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Mark, Mary, and Anthony continue to chat about Ch. 1 of The Therapy of Desire by Martha Nussbaum (aka Noose Bomb).

We talk and/or act out mush-mouth characters, "acting naturally," human-object hybrids, AI, plus puppetry, being on hold, how to take notes on philosophy, Elf Ron Hubbard, and more.
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Continuing on Raphaël Millière and Cameron Buckner's "A Philosophical Introduction to Language Models, Part I: Continuity With Classic Debates."
We go through the various arguably important features for intelligence, including particular ways of learning and comprehending language, being able to generalize from the data set, and to use a world model to navigate problems. Can something have intelligence without having intentions, and do programmed goals count as intentions?
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