Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
An Enlightenment philosopher whose arguments for a necessarily existing being (God) to avoid infinite regression are compared to the reasoning of ancient philosophers like Anaximander.
Videos Mentioning Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion - How Evolution Hid the Truth | Lex Fridman Podcast #293
Lex Fridman
A philosopher who, in his 'Monadology', understood the 'hard problem' of consciousness and suggested irreducible mental substances (monads) that are not in SpaceTime, anticipating some of Hoffman's ideas.
Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of Reality | Lex Fridman Podcast #101
Lex Fridman
A classical philosopher whose ideas are associated with mathematical constructivism.
Jed Buchwald: Isaac Newton and the Philosophy of Science | Lex Fridman Podcast #214
Lex Fridman
A German polymath who independently developed a form of calculus, which is the notation used today, leading to a long-standing controversy with Newton.
Stephen Wolfram: Computational Universe | MIT 6.S099: Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
Lex Fridman
Philosopher and mathematician who, 300 years ago, pursued a similar goal to Wolfram: formalizing everyday discourse and legal questions into logic for automatic execution.
Peterson Academy | Dr. James Orr | Ancient Philosophy | Lecture 1 (Official)
Peterson Academy
An Enlightenment philosopher whose arguments for a necessarily existing being (God) to avoid infinite regression are compared to the reasoning of ancient philosophers like Anaximander.