Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0

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Popper appears as a foundational reference for theorizing open societies and their adversaries, invoked through his landmark *The Open Society and Its Enemies* in discussions of how conspiracy theories emerge as responses to perceived systemic closure and epistemic instability. His work provides philosophical scaffolding for understanding conspiracy thinking not as mere irrationality but as a symptom of postmodern conditions where grand institutional narratives have fractured, making pattern-seeking and counter-narratives seem rationally justified. In the context of this course, Popper's epistemology becomes a foil for examining how AI systems, algorithmic filtering, and cybernetic feedback loops might reproduce or amplify the very conditions he warned against—societies that feel "closed" to verification and transparent reasoning.

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Aaron French

The Mandela Effect and New Memory

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Academic literature on conspiracy theories is limited, but there are enough books on the market to see how scholars have approached the subject — that is, as the “relic of a populist, right wing, political tradition, which refuses to go awa…studies, reframes conspiracy theory as an acceptable response to the postmodern world, the decline of Western society, mass surveillance, late capitalist economy, and neoliberal globalization. Scholars such as Knight, Fenster, Melley, and G…New Covenant Baptist. “The Lion and the Lamb (Mandela Effect Debunked).” YouTube Video, 7:35. July 29, 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6ku06695qs. Pinchbeck, Daniel. 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl. New York: Jeremy Tarcher/Penguin…

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Paul M. Churchland

Eliminative Materialism

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Daniel Dennett has defended a view along these lines.<sup>5</sup> And the view just outlined gives voice to a theme of the property dualists as well. Karl Popper and Joseph Margolis both cite the normative nature of mental and linguistic ac…--- <sup>5</sup>: Most explicitly in "Three Kinds of Intentional Psychology" (forthcoming), but this theme of Dennett's goes all the way back to his "Intentional Systems," this JOURNAL, LXVIII, 4 (Feb. 25, 1971): 87–106; reprinted in his Br…the sheer amount of information exchanged. The cable of the commissure consists of $\approx$200 million neurons,[^10] and even if we assume that each of these fibres is capable of one of only two possible states each second (a most conserva…

Claudia Jacques

Human-Computer Interaction Design and the Cybersemiotic Experience

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In his 1957 “Creative Act” lecture, Marcel Duchamp established the concept of interactivity introducing a pseudo-arithmetical equation to explain the relationship between artist, spectator, and artwork. Aiming to stay neutral in judging the…

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