Tent Talks

In this episode of Tent Talks, I speak with Hunter Gentry about the so-called extended mind thesis in philosophy. Hunter received his master’s degree in philosophy from the University of Houston, and is currently a PhD student in philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His work primarily focuses on perception, memory, and control. Our discussion here focuses on a forthcoming paper of Hunter’s entitled ‘Extended Control Systems: A Theory and Its Implications’, which can be found at the following link: https://philpapers.org/rec/GENECS?fbclid=IwAR0EhHHcarDzLCqc0-cUQ3NFimsiS3eACU-qnqXxod5Zie_pjZ0QgpxZ5FQ

In this episode of Tent Talks, I speak with my brother Brad (aka B-rad 3) about Buddhism, the idea of karma, and the metaphysics of consciousness.

In this episode of Tent Talks, I speak with my colleague Eric Berg about anarchism.  Eric is a self-described anarchist and is currently a PhD student in philosophy at the University of Connecticut.  Here we talk about many different things related to anarchism, such as the distinction between anarchism and chaos, the distinction between anarcho-communism, anarcho-capitalism, and anarcho-primitivism, what voting and public safety look like in an anarchist society, the defund the police movement, and the capitol hill autonomous zone in Seattle.

In this episode of Tent Talks, I speak with my friend Benji Buchanan. Benji is an entrepreneur and currently a computer science student at the University of Connecticut. We talk about a range topics, including Benji’s experience in the military and what it was like for him to undergo buds navy seal training, mindfulness, the educational app that Benji recently developed, the ethics of augmented reality systems, the question as to whether internet access is a human right, the question as to whether there is a right to be forgotten online, and the problem of algorithmic filtering.