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GrahamJ

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They are here. There are also transcripts for each episode. (I find it's often best to search from outside the BBC website.)
July 22, 2025 at 08:02
Well, I paint and draw and that's how I think of the distinction between them. Objects (which may be abstract) are separated by changes in colour or t...
July 20, 2025 at 09:51
A painting is made of areas. A drawing is made of edges. They both change the appearance of a surface.
July 18, 2025 at 09:17
You have talked quite a bit about making decisions under uncertainty - about medical treatments, weather forecasts, coin-tossing, and beer in fridges....
July 14, 2025 at 14:25
You may be groping your way towards Bayesian statistical decision theory. As I have said before, there are 4 components: model, data, prior, utility. ...
July 13, 2025 at 20:14
So I did. I called them identical, and immediately contradicted myself by asserting a difference between them! I did not intend to call them identical...
July 07, 2025 at 18:53
If I place two identical digits side by side (22) is this a difference which doesn't make a difference? In decimal notation the answer would be that i...
July 05, 2025 at 14:03
(my bolding.)
July 04, 2025 at 13:46
I associate the phrase 'a difference that makes a difference' with various social sciences. I didn't know where the phrase came from. Your reference t...
July 02, 2025 at 14:29
There's a similarity between Deleuze and Wikman, but you've added an 'a', which changes the meaning. In a bit (of information as in computer science),...
July 02, 2025 at 08:17
I don't know, but I know something I would like it to include, which is prior elicitation. It is usually thought of, as in that article, as capturing ...
June 28, 2025 at 14:14
It doesn't seem to indicate a problem for biological evolution. Possibly Williamson, or Banno-interpreting-Williamson is thinking of a very specific c...
June 28, 2025 at 13:59
Is one of those scientifics supposed to be philosophical?
June 28, 2025 at 11:24
@"Banno" Having read SEP's account of Bayesian epistemology, I think the entry on Philosophy of Statistics, especially section 4 would be a better sta...
June 27, 2025 at 17:12
I don't know how to explain, because I don't know how much you already know. In the other thread I mentioned the four components of Bayesian decision ...
June 27, 2025 at 12:44
No, no, no, no, no, that is not anything like my position.I don't know much about Wittgenstein, but enough to know I prefer the later version. (See my...
June 27, 2025 at 07:50
The labels 'continental' and 'analytic' are silly but I find it helpful to think of there being arty philosophy and sciency philosophy. They can be mi...
June 26, 2025 at 20:15
The philosopher Hans Moeller who has a youtube channel called Carefree Wandering has said that continental philosophers are failed writers and analyti...
June 25, 2025 at 12:19
McCormick's paper reminds me a lot of the distinction between Bayesian prediction and Bayesian decision theory. (Very briefly: In all statistical infe...
June 08, 2025 at 20:48
I am a scientist not a philosopher, and have only read brief summaries of later Wittgenstein. When I first encountered language-games I immediately th...
May 04, 2025 at 15:26
I am interested in this area, and I like the sound of a trans-disciplinary approach. I am a scientist, a mathematician and programmer with experience ...
May 04, 2025 at 15:04
OK. So how do you know that ? I don't think cars experience pleasure or suffering myself, but I don't know for sure. And I sometimes think my real att...
January 26, 2025 at 15:24
Have you read what psychologists say about the self? I have read Damasio's The Feeling of what Happens. I've also read Anil Seth's Being You, and I pr...
January 26, 2025 at 13:44
Modern cars are embodied AI. I said more here: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/961175
January 26, 2025 at 13:34
We could. More interestingly, we have. You may have one of the beasts hiding in plain sight on your driveway. A typical modern car (no self-driving or...
January 16, 2025 at 19:35
This is from the transcript of the video What is Philosophy Good For? from YT channel Carefree wandering.
January 10, 2025 at 15:27
Yes, I think there must be quite a lot of miscommunication. I'll use biology as an example because it's most familiar to me. Bayesian statistics uses ...
December 30, 2024 at 09:22
What do you mean by modern thought? Presumably you're restricting to philosophers? Anglo-American philosophers? And over what time period? From the po...
December 24, 2024 at 10:10
Thanks for your reply. We are using language very differently, particularly the word emotion. It's hard to tell how much we disagree about feelings th...
December 17, 2024 at 13:49
I am a mathematician and programmer. I've been interested in AI since the 1980s. I don't particularly remember Moravec's paradox but a lot of people w...
December 16, 2024 at 18:27
You could try the Wikipedia page on qubits. It explains things better than I could. If Wikipedia does not meet your standards, well, qubits are a hot ...
December 09, 2024 at 13:57
Dumbed-down quantum theory. I guess this quote is more your level: ‘it’s very hard to talk quantum using a language originally designed to tell other ...
December 07, 2024 at 21:14
It sounds like a qubit.
December 07, 2024 at 17:43
Perhaps I should have said my lucid dreaming self has limited mental capacity compared to my waking self. Still, my first thought in my first lucid dr...
December 03, 2024 at 07:59
I have had lucid dreams since I was a teenager in the 1970s, though they have declined a lot in frequency over the past couple of decades. I don't thi...
December 02, 2024 at 21:11
Now I've described the reputational self I can give a sort of an answer to the OP. Descartes' self stays within the confines of the public relations d...
November 11, 2024 at 19:47
I think the Reputation element in the diagram is intended to be the person's reputation among others. It is their actual reputation which they cannot ...
November 11, 2024 at 18:49
I'd pick 1, but I don't like the much misused word paradigm. I agree with Chalmers that we need to add an extra ingredient to science, and I think tha...
November 11, 2024 at 09:41
I have read Damasio's The Feeling of what Happens. I've also read Anil Seth's Being You, and I preferred the latter. Seth's decomposition of the self ...
November 10, 2024 at 18:21
Superhuman machines will first be made in the year 2525, if man is still alive, if woman can survive. There are many important issues involving AI in ...
October 15, 2024 at 06:57
Not true for me. I made the mistake of buying licencing some maths/science books for Kindle. A couple of months ago I found I was unable to open the K...
May 14, 2024 at 18:37
I'm going to respond to the medium article, not the op. I can see you've put a lot of effort into this. Congratulations on writing out your stance in ...
May 02, 2024 at 20:02
It sounds like you want a reviewer, not a proof reader. There are several youtube channels by youngish ex-academics (eg Jared Henderson, Nathan Hawkin...
April 20, 2024 at 10:57
Well, I think I can understand what Heidegger means. His stance is that mathematics is a collection of ideas developed over human history, so it is pa...
February 21, 2024 at 16:50
Thanks for picking @"Lionino" up on this. I too failed to find plain proof of anyone advocating dodgy arithmetic.
February 21, 2024 at 12:58
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When I think about questions like 'what is mathematics really?' I tend to consider three different ways. How did mathematical skills arise in evolutio...
February 17, 2024 at 21:27
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?? Of course there are many conceptions of "2". I don't know what you mean by objects, why you're talking about objects, or what point you are attempt...
February 15, 2024 at 19:49
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Earlier you said (for example): and By a 'mathematical antirealist' I meant someone who thinks maths is invented, not discovered. Or someone who think...
February 14, 2024 at 18:26
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I've invented a game. At least I think I invented it. I believe that mathematics is invented rather than discovered, and it is kind of a mathematical ...
February 13, 2024 at 20:03
Personally, I'd be inclined to answer in terms of psychology, based on Elizabeth Spelke's book What do Babies Know?
February 10, 2024 at 18:32