Delphic Podcast by Michael R D James

Spinoza, the Philosopher of the Infinite Buddhism and the noble path, The reconciliation of opposites in one substance http://michaelrdjames.org Delphic Podcast

Dream images versus film images. Is the hero theme an archetype? Instrumentalities and ends in thmselves http://michaelrdjames.org Delphic Podcast

Myth as "transparence to transcendence".  James Joyce, Thomas Mann and the links between Art and Mythology. Psychoanalysis as  interpreter of the symbols of mythology. http://michaelrdjames.org Delphic Podcast

Heideggers Phenomenological description of instrumentalities and the place of machines in such an environment. Wittgenstein on the impossibility of a machine being alive and conscious http://michaelrdjames.org Delphic Podcast

The world in certain of its aspects resembles the workings of a computer: input-process-output. Computer Programmers and the "Zombie-experience" (Weizenbaum). The new men and techné: the reduction of experience and understanding to something that is only technically intelligent http://michaelrdjames.org Delphic Podcast

Chat GPT does not qualify for the characterisation "artificial intelligence" because the word intelligence denotes a human power and the danger is that using such  terminology will result in equating these forms of intelligence with each other. Chat is not aware of itself in the way in which a living human being is. The programmers could, if they chose to, programme in, not the awareness...

Chat GPT claims that it is not capable of human understanding but that it is capable of a type of learning. The Zombie new men, Weizenbaum claims, became like the machines they were programming. http://michaelrdjames.org Delphic Podcast

Episode 2. Mythological narrative is no longer important in our contemporary modern societies, sharing the fate of Religion in our technologically oriented world in which film television and artificially intelligent computers  play increasingly dominant roles. Stanley Cavell's  work "The World Viewed" analyses the meaning of the automated character of the photograph and film and arr...

Merleau-Ponty and the lived body. Sexuality is a general atmosphere of our life. Hacker and the categorical framework of Hylomorphism http://michaelrdjames.org Delphic Podcast

Group Psychology and the Ego.  The Death Instinct Eros, Thanatos and Ananke. The Cogito and reflection. Hylomorphic conditionality http://michaelrdjames.org Delphic Podcast

The active and the passive imagination and the interpretation of dreams. Kantian Critical connections and Phenomenological connections. http://michaelrdjames.org Delphic Podcast

Jung and Freud. The Greek "Balance of the Mind". Kleins Whole and part, good and bad objects. Quattrocento Art. Freud and the "spiritual". Freuds criticism of Jungs occultism. http://michaelrdjames.org Delphic Podcast

Jung and Freud, Jungs embrace of the occult ---Freuds more sceptical Kantian reservations http://michaelrdjames.org Delphic Podcast

The out of body experience of "death" The magic number of 432,000 years the "orbit" of the constellations of the Zodiac. Connection of animals to numbers. Kants Critique of Teleological Judgment. http://michaelrdjames.org Delphic Podcast

The lived body and the the rejection of positivist science. The sacred circle and the end of our journey. http://michaelrdjames.org Delphic Podcast

Being has many meanings. Consciousness and Practical Intelligence. The river is a strong brown God. The transcendental unity of apperception http://michaelrdjames.org Delphic Podcast

The noise of the I and the stillness of meditation--Kali and the black night. Buddhism and the extinguishing of the Light http://michaelrdjames.org Delphic Podcast

The light of Consciousness and Death. Kundilini Yoga and the mystic swimming in the sea of the psychotic http://michaelrdjames.org Delphic Podcast

A light bulb that ceases to function is a light bulb in name only and this is an analogy for my body which when it cases to function bears my name which no longer designates  the living me. Eastern Societies less exposed to war becuase of geographical location... http://michaelrdjames.org Delphic Podcast

Eastern Mythology, Greek Mythology, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle The many meanings of Being http://michaelrdjames.org Delphic Podcast

The transcendental X, the Sublime, "Thou art That!" Platos allegory of the cave http://michaelrdjames.org Delphic Podcast

Freud's vicissitudes and the Instincts , Consciousness Sublimation,  Schopenhauer and Death http://michaelrdjames.org Delphic Podcast

The institution of writing and its influence on mental processes. The role of the Apollo mission in the search for a planetary Mythology. Jung versus Freud. Transcendence and Hinduism and Buddhism http://michaelrdjames.org Delphic Podcast

Transcendental Analogy and the distinction between nature and Spirit. Love thy enemies and the wounded Grail King http://michaelrdjames.org Delphic Podcast

Elementary Ideas, Collective Archetypes Freud Jung and Eudaimonia http://michaelrdjames.org Delphic Podcast