Neither Ghost Nor Machine: How life happens

@neitherghostnormachinehowl5305host: Jeremy ShermanAnalyzed

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Subscribers538

Views per video381median of the last 30

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Comments per video1median

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Last upload1.3y ago2025-07-09

Total views35.5K

Total videos55

Long-form / Shorts20% / 0%

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What Neither Ghost Nor Machine: How life happens makes

Topics philosophy, science, consciousness, AI, emergence

What is life and how did it start in an aimless universe? Videos about the physical emergence of telos (purpose) in a purposeless universe, how mattering emerges from matter, how currencies (values) emerge from currents (energy) how life's struggle for persistence emerges in a universe in which nothing is trying to do anything.

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