Why doesn’t rational analysis lead all sensible people to the same conclusions on important matters of the day?
Portfolism is a set of ideas and metaphors that try to make sense of this lack of rational convergence, recognising the limits of rational calculation without slipping into the relativism of postmodernism.
This is the blog post that will be associated with this video.
The metaphor that we live in separate social bubbles is misleading because it suggests that meaningful dialogue might never be possible between people living in different bubbles.
In my latest video I argue that our embodiment in the world prevents such a level of unbounded relativism. We don’t live in separate bubbles, we live in different fingers of the same hand.
This latest video explores the question of whether it is best to understand the world that we experience as being socially constructed or as objectively real.
After a few months break I’ve finally published a new video on my Go Meta channel. It’s a simple vlog video introducing the channel.
The latest Covid-19 lockdown has further reduced the available time I have to make videos and write blog posts, but I also feel compelled to make at least some progress on the projects that are deeply important to me.
This is the associated blog post for the video on my YouTube channel about why rational arguments can be so persuasive. The video looks at the rise in our ability to perform calculations and why it is that calculations can be so persuasive.
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