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In response to the witches question, Bromwich uses Banquo's line about the earth having bubbles to show that Shakespeare includes an ordinary skeptical stance alongside Macbeth's susceptibility.
Jiang treats mirror neurons as a possible but unconfirmed neuroscientific explanation for empathy and openly resists treating the theory as settled fact.
The class is asked to attack the framework, generate counterarguments, and use the final examination as a test of where the theory fails or survives.
Jiang explicitly presents the framework as partial and in-progress rather than settled doctrine.
British empiricism, skepticism, utilitarianism, and liberalism are framed as a philosophical sequence that denies God and truth and replaces them with experience, convention, and utility.
Jiang explicitly frames the class as speculation and theory, not proven truth, and tells students to be skeptical and doubtful.
Jiang says the three predictions capture the essence of Alexander's life, but he also instructs the class to be skeptical and ask whether the model's prejudice may make them unfair to Alexander.
Jiang defines British empiricism as the view that we can only know what we experience or see, and links it to skepticism toward abstract philosophy.
"why are they doing what they are doing so I'll first point out the naturalistic almost dismissal of the witches that we get from..."
"Yeah, let's Google mirror neurons. I want to see if this is actually true, okay? Are mirror neurons responsible for empathy? Are they responsible..."
"Okay, so two years old is when we develop the mirror neurons, right? Okay. Alright. I'm not convinced mirror neurons actually exist. It's a..."
"Does it make sense? Right? So what I'm trying to do is I'm trying to capture everyone's energy for myself. And the mechanism I..."
"So we can expand on it better understand it and what's really important is for everyone to constantly question and be skeptical about my..."
"I am a beneficiary of what we call the meritocracy, right? I worked hard, my IQ was very high, I did well on tests...."
"the bedouin goat uh herder is looking for for his goat and he gets to this cave and he takes a stone and he..."
"written on them and there's like passages from the torah in them that are you know near direct it's like the earliest copies we..."
"to the world and claim that this is jews reclaiming the land that they were at 2 000 years ago it's like some claim..."
"this layer of trust in these kinds of institutions right if you doubt it i suppose you just have to think there's some sort..."
"that stuff is absurd and anyone who makes that case is just as a bozo but it's interesting history nonetheless and so now we're..."
A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
Jiang's education argument begins with a narrow definition and ends with a democratic dream.
Jay Shapiro does not let Jiang hide inside the viral avatar.
A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on transnational capital, British sea empire, Frankist revolutionary theology, Disraeli’s Coningsby, Bolshevism, Marx, Bakunin, and Freud: modernity appears as a machine that hides capital, displays a scapegoat, turns...
Jiang's argument begins with a simple civilizational scorecard: energy, openness, and cohesion.
Greg Carlwood keeps pushing Jiang from historical method into prophecy, money, education, and mystical disclosure until one through-line becomes visible: bureaucratic empires hollow out the human soul, then try to escape their own decay...
The lecture turns evil into a technology of dissociation: ancient priests allegedly learn to split the pharaoh into identities, modern institutions learn to do it to everyone, and the hard refrain is that social...
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