COLLECTION NAME:
Peter G. Ossorio Collection
Record
Collection Name:
Peter G. Ossorio Collection
Title:
The Society for Descriptive Psychology Master, Part 1
Title Type:
Proper Title
Name:
Ossorio, Peter G.
Resource Type:
Moving image
Genre:
color films (visual works)
Genre:
lectures
Date Created:
1990
Language Term:
English
Extent:
1 videocassette (1 hour, 34 min., 39 sec.)
Form:
VHS
Abstract:
A recorded lecture of Peter Ossorio in which he discusses topics including the human condition, experience, behavior, artificial intelligence, consciousness, disclaimers, and the real world.
Note:
00:00:00 An unidentified speaker is giving the audience instructions regarding an information sheet and introductory letter for them to fill out. He then introduces Peter Ossorio. 00:01:54 Ossorio begins his lecture introducing his topic on the human condition and the consideration of the domain of persons and behaviors. He explains that his lecture will be split into three sections 00:03:36 To lead into the first section Ossorio discusses how he became interested in the notion of experience via "The Leap Into Space" and the [Optimum Mix Problem]. He then connects experience to artificial intelligence, computers, and robots and the notion of making them as human-like as possible. 00:08:13 Ossorio discusses what it means to be a person in connection with experience and robotics. He discusses descriptive psychology and experience to provide examples of personhood. 00:13:07 Ossorio discusses central terms of consciousness: experience, consciousness, awareness, feeling, perception, and intuition. He discusses these terms usability in relationship with experience through the need to clarify certain uses of the terms. He provides three cases/examples. 00:25:06 Ossorio discusses psychology's machine theories of mental processes and experiences integral part of the process. 00:27:45 Ossorio discusses the television model. 00:30:46 Ossorio discusses the issues with dispensing of experience. He discusses how there is no way, by default, to describe experience through examples. 00:39:21 Ossorio discusses disclaimers in the context of experience and human interaction. 00:41:48 Ossorio discusses potentially what can take experiences place in the human condition and if there is any real difference between these mechanisms. 00:46:16 pauses his lecture to take audience questions. An audience member makes a comment on writer's use of metaphor and disclaimers as means to describe experience. 00:47:50 An audience member asks a clarification questions about the way people describe experience. 00:49:48 An audience member asks a clarification about the difference between a person and an organism per an earlier example given by Ossorio. 00:50:34 Ossorio instructs for a break in the lecture. 00:50:58 The recording picks up after the break. Ossorio begins discussing connecting experience to cognition and how connecting experience to behavior is a better metric from which to work. 00:56:03 An audience member asks about reconstructing/perceiving the world. 00:58:43 Ossorio discusses what people see when they observe the world: objects, processes, events, states of affairs. He discusses the history of philosophy backing up his assertion of the essential elements that make up the world people observe. 01:03:52 Ossorio focuses the conversation back to behavior. He uses the example of being deserted on a deserted island and adds variables to discuss behavior. 01:09:33 Ossorio discusses how the real-world effects behavior. 01:11:34 The unidentified man from the start of the recording begins passing around a paper to the audience at Ossorios direction. 01:13:48 Ossorio begins discussing the handout which outlines a "simple [formal] system". He discusses objects, processes, events, and states of affairs as not independent of one another which is why they are they are called transitionals. 01:18:16 Ossorio discusses the real world and limiting cases. 01:20:05 Ossorio discusses states of affairs as a limited case and as a transitional. Ossorio connects his analysis of state of affairs back to the idea of the real world. 01:23:18 An audience member asks a clarification question about one of Ossorio's examples. Another audience member, piggybacking off that question, asks a clarification question. 01:23:57 Ossorio discusses children language learning as the closest example. 01:25:16 Ossorio circles back to the idea that objects, processes, events, and states of affairs are like booking keeping systems for behavior classification. Ossorio draws a diagram on the blackboard to explain in more detail. 01:31:24 Ossorio discusses the 95 maxims focusing on person and world. 01:33:09 An audience member asks about the diagram and clarification of the schema. 01:34:00 Ossorio ends the lecture for a break before the last section of the lecture. 01:34:39 End of recording.
Note Type:
Segment sequence
Subject Topic:
Psychology
Subject Topic:
Computer programming
Subject Topic:
Artificial intelligence--Data processing
Subject Topic:
Experience
Subject Topic:
Human behavior
Subject Name:
Ossorio, Peter G.
Subject Name:
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951
Identifier:
U183071307182_narv_ossorioPeter_37-28_societyForDescriptivePsychologyPart1_a.mp4
Physical Location:
COU:3855 | Box: 37 | Tape: 28
Related Item:
The Society for Descriptive Psychology Master, Part 2
Related Item Type:
constituent
Related Item Identifier:
U183071307116_narv_ossorioPeter_37-29_societyForDescriptivePsychologyPart2_a.mp4
Date Captured:
Spring, 2024
Internet Media Type:
video/mp4
Digital Origin:
reformatted digital
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