Cognitive scientist Anna Riedl helps me get a sense of the emerging paradigm in cogsci and beyond dedicated to understanding how we make meaning in an uncertain and entropic world. After that, we tackle ideas Anna is working on informed by her experience with and critique of effective altruism: a framework she provisionally calls "autopoiethics," which relates to the normative decision-making processes of autopoetic systems.
0:00 Introduction
I. State of the Art in Meaning Studies
1:22 Meaning, Relevance, and Rationality
11:28 Synthesizing Abstract and Particular
21:56 Metarationality and the Transjective Frame
30:03 A New Paradigm?
40:41 Related Fields and Thinkers
II. Autopoethics
52:11 Normativity and Collective Welfare
57:06 Autopoietic Normativity vs. Effective Altruism
1:15:05 Perspectival Values
1:26:50 Function vs. Process
1:31:44 Conclusion
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