Bertrand Russell

An excerpt from the beginning of "The Conquest of Happiness" by Bertrand Russell. This piece is on the pursuit of sin, and reconciling your values with your actions. My pleasures are not my vices, but the outward world doesn't quite agree.

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Bertrand Russell on the Pursuit of Sin

Context: Early 1900s

Source: P.45 The Conquest of Happiness

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Bertrand Russell on the Intellectual Pleasures

Source: P.56 The Conquest of Happiness

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Bertrand Russell On Boredom

Via BBC Archives 

The inaugural Reith Lecturer is the philosopher, mathematician, and social reformer Bertrand Russell. One of the founders of analytic philosophy and a Nobel Laureate, he is the author of Principia Mathematica, and the bestselling History of Western Philosophy, written in 1946. His Reith lecture series is entitled 'Authority and the Individual'.

In his third lecture, entitled 'The Role of Individuality', he considers the importance of individual initiative to a community, and argues for flexibility, local autonomy, and less centralisation in society. Modern organisations, he says, must be more flexible and less oppressive to the human spirit if life is to be saved from boredom.

BBC Archives Bertrand Russell The Role of the Individual 1948

John Brockman's newly released book "Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI" : https://smile.amazon.com/Possible-Minds-Twenty-Five-Ways-Looking-ebook/dp/B07D6C1X3X/ref=sr_1_1 is the springboard for this Seminar on Artificial Intelligence. Brockman will interview several of the contributors to the book, Rodney Brooks: https://www.edge.org/memberbio/rodney_a_brooks, Alison Gopnik: https://www.edge.org/memberbio/alison_gopnik and Stuart Russell: https://www.edge.org/memberbio/stuart_russell on stage. Following the interviews, Kevin Kelly: https://www.edge.org/memberbio/kevin_kelly will host the Q&A and discussion with the group.

John Brockman is founder and publisher of the online salon Edge.org: https://www.edge.org/, a website devoted to discussions of cutting-edge science by many of the world's foremost thinkers, the leaders of what he has termed "the third culture."

Rodney Brooks is a computer scientist and roboticist, former Director (1997-2007) of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and founder of Rethink Robotics: https://www.rethinkrobotics.com/ and iRobot Corp: https://www.irobot.com/.

Alison Gopnik is a professor of psychology and affiliate professor of philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley. Her areas of expertise are in cognitive and language development, with specialties in the effect of language on thought, the development of a theory of mind, and causal learning.
Stuart Russell is a computer scientist focused on artificial intelligence and computational physiology. He is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley and Adjunct Professor of Neurological Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco.Kevin Kelly is a Long Now Board member, founding executive editor of Wired magazine, and a former editor/publisher of the Whole Earth Review. He is a writer, photographer, conservationist, and editor and publisher of the Cool Tools: https://kk.org/cooltools/ website.

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