Ergo Sum Austin Liu Mello

This was our first attempt at an episode. It spurred me to take my plan back to the drawing board and come up with a much better plan of attack. I've left it up for the sake of transparency and context. Thanks for listening.

We talk about 'strangemaking', Plato, The Republic, and Charmander.

Get all your Allegories and Dialogues right here, folks...

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Ergo Sum is a podcast about… philosophy. Mostly.

No, ummm…

Ok. Bear with me.

I struggled a lot to write this preface.

It’s been hard to pick any one angle on something as abstract and personal as the study of philosophy. Creating a narrative around an ongoing experience is a complicated logistical challenge. Sort of an uncertainty/indeterminacy principle situation; I know where I’m at, but not where I’m going.

I’m still discovering what the podcast is. Let me try to give you a snapshot anyway.

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Ergo Sum is a podcast about… philosophy. Mostly.

No, ummm…

Ok. Bear with me.

euristic, adjective. - enabling a person to discover or learn something for themselves.

The word ‘heuristic’ has different definitions in different fields and industries. Before we explore the ways I mean it; do any of you guys use it professionally?

Fittingly, the word, like the story we're outlining, starts with the ancient greek/pre-greek;

/heu̯.rís.kɔː/ → /eˈβris.ko/ → /eˈvris.ko/ 

I happen upon by chance, find

I find out, discover

I acquire, fetch, obtain

So a heuristic tool or device is a construct to better our odds of happening upon, of discovering, of acquiring knowledge or understanding.

What I mean, for our purposes, is that the podcast itself has become a tool to help me learn and do philosophy. 

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