Our traditional educational institutions no longer support the life of constant wonder and doubt. Crippling students with debt, faculties frame the ‘college experience’ as preparation for the modern labor market. Regarded as useless and counterproductive, the hopeful romantics inspired by philosophy, poetry, art, music, the beauty of the human imagination, appear to be out-of-touch with the so-called values of the ‘real world’ and its idolization of capital and technological production. Assuredly, the idea that Big Tech might create platforms supportive of creative ingenuity and critical thought is a utopian daydream. Yet, as Nietzsche once said, enemies must become our friends if we are to surmount the growing relativism and nihilism spreading like wildfire in our culture. As the first open source, multimedia platform designed to help users think and create philosophical material be it prose, music, film, etc, the Khora platform challenges users to first understand themselves and the world around them while also challenging users to entertain opposing points of view. do more than consume and ‘like’ individuals can forge connections between content, while contributing to the infinite expansion of wisdom that highlights the diversity of ways each of us live and think philosophically as philosophy is not an academic discipline. Rather, it is an initiation into the romantic world where once again all things are made possible. .For a myriad of reasons, our culture has lost sight of this fact, preferring instead the vacuous world of the online space, with all its trivial information and fractured attention spans. We believe that the internet, and the way it has connected the world over, is not doomed to monotony and triviality, but can be harnessed and channeled into something constructive and challenging.Khora has been designed with this specific goal in mind, to deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world around us, and to reanimate a sincere and consistent interest in living the philosophical life. Danielle A. Layne, Professor of Philosophy at Gonzaga University, has published widely on Plato and the Platonic tradition, including the recent “Divine Names and the Mystery of Diotima” in the Routledge Companion to Women in Ancient Philosophy (2024). Founder of Palinode Productions, a Deep Learning Philosophy Platform (June 2024 release), Layne eagerly embraces novel approaches to the study of antiquity that reanimate and vivify the uniqueness of the Platonic tradition. Conveners: Dr. Jim Garrison ----- To join Humanity Rising Mon-Fri live via Zoom or make a voluntary contribution to support the Humanity Rising team, please see our contribution form. https://humanityrising.solutions/#supportformore Join our global community of changemakers at https://www.ubiquityuniversity.org Ubiquity University offers certification programs as well as MA/PhD pathways that invite you to go deep into a topic related to who we need to become to be able to solve our current global challenges. We draw on the age-old insights from the wisdom traditions as well as the latest insights from modern science. Choose your preferences and sign up for the latest Ubiquity University news at : https://share.hsforms.com/1JxEUyycRRtuaIEJzyIScsg2op4l Explore some of our latest offerings at https://linktr.ee/ubiquityuniversity Shop UU merchandise at https://ubiquity-universitys-store.sellfy.store/

In the Integral community, we tend to show too little love to the Lower Right quadrant. In this new series, Love the System, Layman Pascal and his guests will take deep dives the nature of living and man-made systems, and explore the most promising systemic approaches to managing the challenges of our day. In Episode 26, Layman meets with professor of philosophy, Danielle Layne, to talk about an AI-assisted, philosophically oriented deep learning platform, Palinode, that she and her team have been developing, centered on an algorithm they call Khora. "As the first open source, multimedia platform," her team explains, "the Khora algorithm will adapt to each user’s learning style(s). Challenging users to do more than consume and ‘like’, individuals can forge connections between content, while contributing to the infinite expansion of wisdom that highlights the diversity of ways each of us live and think philosophically." Danielle A. Layne, Ph.D. is a Professor of Philosophy, and the Director of the Philosophy Graduate Program, at Gonzaga University. Her areas of expertise and publishing are within the domain of Ancient Philosophy, particularly Plato and the later Platonic tradition, e.g. Proclus. Her interests in this area are diverse and wide-ranging with publications in Socratic studies, Platonic hermeneutics, late ancient theories of prayer and feminist interpretations of Platonic metaphysics. Overall, her work tends to problematize the traditional understanding of Plato/Platonism as rejecting the sensible, embodied life. Palinode Productions website https://www.palinode.productions/ Follow The Integral Stage on Fathom! https://hello.fathom.fm/ Remember to like, subscribe, and support The Integral Stage on Patreon to make more of these conversations possible! https://www.patreon.com/theintegralstage Special thanks and big love to Shai Newman, The Limited Hangout Guys, Brandon LaChance, Mike McElroy, Brandon Norgaard, Brendan Graham Dempsey, Francesca, and all of our other Patreon supporters!

In this interview, Dr. Danielle Layne talks about the origins, progress and scope of Palinode Productions and the Khora platform.