01:41 - Descartes was wrong: ‘a person is a person through other persons’

13:59 - Predicting How People Behave and Act via Machine Learning is Ethically Flawed

34:21 - Examining Machine Learning Models and Data

“When you get rid of what you don’t want, you do not necessarily get what you do want and you may get something you want a lot less. It is that simple…..anyone that ever watches television knows that!” – Russell L. Ackoff

50:09 - Important Ideosyncracies and Contaminating Factors

Reflections:

Mando: Cartesian thinking and worldview is embedded in us.

Avdi: “Contaminating factors.”

“Dive into yourself to find yourself.”

Rein: Jainism has gotten this right for centuries.

Jessica: Giving the Cartesian program credit for what it’s good for: using science as a way to break things down into parts and studying them deeply; we’ve learned a lot.

Abeba: It’s not all bad. BUT, we forget to put the pieces back together and acknowledge reality.

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