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This was Christoffer’s term. I took it in a very general sense to mean the most advanced ‘thinking’ devices we can imagine humans capable of creating....

AI will never be either autonomous nor sentient in any way remotely comparable to biological autonomy and sentience. Believing it can be misunderstand...

Thus far you and I have agreed that current AI is capable of performing in surprising and unpredictable ways, and this will become more and more true ...

Predictability and unpredictability aren’t ‘traits’ , as if evolution can itself be characterized in deterministic machine-like terms , with unpredict...

The point isn’t that an engineer is able to fix bugs, it’s the fact that an engineer will never be able to prevent a new bit of software from evincing...

There is a difference between the cartoonish simulation of human misrepresentation, defined within very restricted parameters, that Chat GPT achieves,...

What I am questioning is how much human-like autonomy we are capable of instilling in a device based on way of thinking about human cognition that is ...

When we invent a technology, by definition that invention is a contribution to a human cultural ecosystem, as are paintings, music and books. We creat...

A very big part of ‘acting the way we do’ as free-willing humans is understanding each other well enough to manipulate, to lie, to mislead. Such behav...

I saw Ex Machina, too. The difference between science fiction and the reality of our intelligent machines is that our own agency and consciousness isn...

It sounds like feeling oneself as vast and unlimited is the very epitome of utilizing thought and emotion. Perhaps it not the presence or absence of t...

You may be interested in John Protevi’s attempt to bridge Thompson’s work with Deleuze. DELEUZE, JONAS, AND THOMPSON TOWARD A NEW TRANSCENDENTAL AESTH...

I’ve been on a Deleuze jag lately.

Indeed. And the problem is transcendence and Idealism rear their ugly heads not only when we posit an otherworldly realm as transcendent to this world...

I agree that sciences that claim a valueless world are themselves grounded in a value system called empirical objectivity. But settling for objective ...

What is the case rests on rules, criteria, norms, but none of these have existence independent and outside of the actual pragmatic contexts in which w...

Aren’t you putting the norms before the generating process that creates and continually modifies those norms? For Heidegger , for instance, the lingui...

Would you say your view of rationalism is compatible with Donna Haraway’s? “So I think my problem, and ‘our' problem, is how to have simultaneously an...

I’m still waiting for you to name names. Who are these mysterious philosophers whose work disappoints you so? Actually, you did name one: Derrida. So ...

Is there a special compartment in the brain dedicated to something called ‘thinking’ or ‘ideation’? Do we manage to bypass this neurological process b...

Unless of course the dualism you are presupposing (thought-action, inner-outer, fantasy-reality, rationality-irrationality) in opposing ‘ideas’ to ‘li...

Here’s a little secret (don’t let it get around). Learning how to think is a prerequisite for learning how to live. Pursuing ideas for their own sake ...

Would you make that argument about quantum physics or molecular biology?

Let’s name names. Who in particular do you have in mind? Here’s a starter list of philosophers, half of whom are actively writing, who I don’t associa...

Perhaps the idea of a ‘collective psyche’ or ‘hive mind’ needs to be shelved along with that of an autonomous, identical self. In their place we can s...

As it turns out, Dilthey’s historicism ends up idealizing history in a way that Husserl avoids.

Eugene Gendlin’s Experiencing and the Creation of Meaning introduces an approach that applies this non-linear temporality to everyday life. His Focusi...

Well, the OP is titled ‘Martin Heidegger’ and includes its own request: “I'd like to reserve this thread only for those who have at least read Being &...

Among members of the long-running Heidegger Circle, there is an endless debate between theologically-oriented Heideggerians and atheist Heideggerians ...

Tbh, I don’t know that there’s a good substitute. It all depends on how serious one is about understanding what he’s getting at. One could work ones w...

You’re certainly not alone in interpreting Heideggerian temporality in those traditional terms. For instance, Matthew Ratcliffe splits temporality int...

Are you saying ‘that kind of talk’ represents a failure on Heidegger’s part to express himself clearly?

Your definition of ‘simply and clearly’ is circular. If you can understand it, it is simple and clear. If you can’t , it is the fault of the messenger...

If you look at how Deleuze translates Nietzsche’s Eternal Return via his desiring-production model, the ensuing ethical imperative ( using the revolut...

i suspect you aren’t too crazy about Foucault , Rorty, social constructionism, Derrida, Deleuze, Nietzsche or Husserl either when it comes to ethics. ...

If I were a Nazi, I would want to be the best Nazi possible. Otherwise, why bother?

As far as I’m concerned, the very heart of human relations is the connection between feeling and thinking, affect and cognition, mood and intention. A...

I suspect this who believe in such concepts most zealously are the most dangerous.

The basis of Dasien’s being-in-the-world is care. By care, Heidegger does not mean sentimental concern. He means that our connection with other people...

Heidegger’s concern is to uncover the presuppositions underlying concepts like ‘human’, ‘beautiful’ and ‘good’, and to ground them in a more originary...

The unitary structure of the three ecstasies, future-present-having been, determines the ‘is’, the essence, the Being of being as this structure of tr...

We must be careful in attributing exactitude to Heidegger’s discussion of time at this preliminary point in his career, and in the specific context of...

I think a case was made, which goes something like this: ‘It’s not really Heidegger I’m all hot under the collar about. The Nazi connection is just a ...

Sorta-kinda. What he actually says is that Being is time. Being is disclosed to Dasein in its way of understanding. “In Being and Time, Being is not s...

Richard Wolin is not considered by most Heidegger scholars to be an authority on Heidegger’s philosophy. This has less to do with ‘fandom’ than with r...

For Heidegger, the past, present and future don't operate as sequential modes which mark distinct states of objects. They interpenetrate each other so...

I’ll let Heidegger have at it. “Temporalizing does not mean a "succession" of the ecstasies. The future is not later than the having-been, and the hav...

The history of philosophy has offered a variety of ways to think about subjects, objects and their relation. Traditional approaches posited a unitary ...

Exactly. We can thank Dreyfus , and to a certain extent Gadamer, for a god-awful misreading of Heidegger that turns him into a Kierkegaardian existent...