Kant’s Matrix: Why You Will Never See the Real World #predictivehistory

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:00]Welcome to our first class.

[00:00:03]And today what I want to do is provide the framework for how we will learn the semester. What are we learning? How are we learning? Why are we learning? All right. So this is a class of ideas. So it's really important for you to pay attention and understand how these ideas connect with each other. If I'm not being clear, ask me a question. In fact, make it a habit to ask as many questions as possible because that way you will learn more. Learning will be more fun for you and learning will be much more clearer to you. Okay? So, let's get in the habit of asking questions. So, wherever I am confusing, wherever I'm speaking too fast, wherever you don't understand, interrupt me. Okay? Let's get that happen. All right? So um I first want to talk about Emmanuel Kant.

[00:01:10]We we will be discussing him a lot this semester because he is the greatest philosopher in western history and he teaches us he taught us how the world works and this is what he told us. He told us that we can never know the objective reality.

[00:01:35]There is an objective reality what he calls the nomina.

[00:01:42]Okay? Or the things in themselves that is not knowable to us. Now it's a world we can never access.

[00:01:56]Why? Because we perceive the world through our senses.

[00:02:04]Our senses, our perception warps the world and changes it into a structure that we can process called the phenomena which are the things that appear to us.

[00:02:25]Okay. So the example is time and space. Time and space do not exist outside of us.

[00:02:34]Time and space should exist in reality.