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You sound like my hiking friend. I used to do all my philosophy research and writing at home or in a library. But such things as unlimited cellular da...
October 18, 2025 at 20:36
I tend to think that a very small percentage of those who a.i. have that aim in mind. Can you think of a telos for this forum which includes a.i. but ...
October 18, 2025 at 20:30
7 days a week, averaging 10 miles a day
October 18, 2025 at 20:15
I write most of my forum posts on an iphone while hiking. Not conducive for accurate spelling.
October 18, 2025 at 20:13
The worst of it is I dont remember what I was trying to say.
October 18, 2025 at 18:22
I think the most intellectually honest way of working with a.i. in interpreting philosophical texts is to strive to produce prompts which cover as wid...
October 18, 2025 at 17:10
“the analytic tradition has historically responded, roughly from the 1920s onward, to heidegger’s phrase from what is metaphysics: the nothing nothing...
October 18, 2025 at 16:44
I could easily counter these analytic objections to Heidegger’s phrase ‘The nothing nothings’ (and I have done so on many occasions) , but given my ve...
October 18, 2025 at 02:08
Does that mean that you dont believe the a.i. captures Heidegger’s intent but only his devotees’ misinterpretation? That would seem imply that you und...
October 18, 2025 at 01:55
I’m more interested in what you feel like doing, what you would do if allowed to, than in what you can or can’t get away with. I’m focused on what imp...
October 16, 2025 at 18:50
Obviously someone makes a decision to behave in a certain way because in the moment of the decision they perceive that course of action as preferable ...
October 16, 2025 at 18:41
I would make a distinction between assessments of capabilities which do not involve determinations of intent or motive and those which do. Going back ...
October 16, 2025 at 17:55
A disability for whom? Where and how do we draw the line between disability defined in terms of the hardships it causes for those surrounding the alle...
October 16, 2025 at 17:00
We could follow the virtue ethicist and treat these attributes as real, objective qualities of persons validated though third person consensus. Or we ...
October 16, 2025 at 16:21
Yes, this is an important point that people fail to appreciate about our thinking machines. They understand the role of simple labor-saving devices, b...
October 16, 2025 at 15:45
Rogers agreed with Laing’s rejection of the traditional medical model that treated patients as “cases” rather than persons. He also appreciated Laing’...
October 15, 2025 at 22:05
Are you referring to R.D. Laing?
October 15, 2025 at 22:01
Not if you include psychotherapeutic models like the person-centered approach founded by Carl Rogers , or cognitive therapies influenced by constructi...
October 15, 2025 at 21:34
I agree that dialoging with a.i. is not like a discussion with a human, but if it consisted of only an internal dialogue with myself I wouldn’t learn ...
October 15, 2025 at 21:13
What I’ve learned in comparing the forum with a.i. is that, unfortunately, the majority of participants here don’t have the background to engage in th...
October 15, 2025 at 14:56
That’s part of it. Another comes from valuing ‘truth’ over perspectival stance. If I want a.i. to design a retirement plan for me, I want numerical ac...
October 15, 2025 at 14:42
As long as you understand what ‘being stopped’ means. The most vehement objectors to a.i. on this site likely rarely use it anyway, so their behavior ...
October 15, 2025 at 13:38
Do you think the Wittgenstein of the Blue and Brown books and later work would agree with anything you’ve said here about ‘contamination’ and ‘post-tr...
October 13, 2025 at 19:19
A.I. is significantly useful to me, because vetting its answers is not the same thing as knowing them beforehand. It can point me to an interpretation...
October 12, 2025 at 18:28
I don’t deny that we are motivated to achieve k personal satisfaction, emotional fulfillment and meaning. The question is , what is the connection bet...
October 12, 2025 at 18:23
Silly me. I thought they were the same thing. Seriously though, when I ask the a.i. to delve into the morass of philosophical concepts floating in cyb...
October 12, 2025 at 17:32
Indeed
October 12, 2025 at 16:54
It only has to be a surprise to you in order to produce insight, it doesn’t have to be a surprise to the llm. Unless you have exceeded the rigor of ph...
October 11, 2025 at 20:42
If I ask A.I. to compare aspects of the philosophical viewpoints of specific phenomenological and hermeneutic philosophers like Dilthey and Husserl, i...
October 11, 2025 at 18:53
In using a.i. for a field like philosophy, I think one is interacting with extremely intelligent fragments of the ideas of multiple knowledgeable pers...
October 11, 2025 at 18:42
It is like them in that it is a tool. It is also like them in that it adds clarity, organization and information. It is not like them in that if one w...
October 11, 2025 at 17:04
The A.I.-derived OP’s are likely to be better thought-out than many non-A.I. efforts. Banning A.I. is banning background research that will become bui...
October 11, 2025 at 01:29
It’s even harder to do when you haven’t read the competing theories. You could start here: https://unstable.nl/andreas/ai/langcog/part3/varela_npmrhp....
October 08, 2025 at 14:13
Well, it came from the co-originator of the research field of enactivism, and the point of enactivism is that cognition, affect and consciousness are ...
October 08, 2025 at 13:53
If you wrote this after reading the quote I included from Evan Thompson, maybe you should re-read it. The issue isnt a choice between the physical and...
October 08, 2025 at 13:11
Yes , that’s what I thought. So that indicates a distinctly different philosophical perspective on human and animal cognition than my view, which is t...
October 07, 2025 at 22:06
You’re saying you think you and I are approaching our understanding of human and animal cognition from the same philosophical perspective? And what do...
October 07, 2025 at 20:47
I’m realizing after my last post to NoAxioms that what I’m arguing is not that our technological capabilities dont evolve along with our knowledge, no...
October 07, 2025 at 17:25
The simpler model is proven wrong all the time. Put more accurately, scientific paradigms are replaced by different ones all the time. Since I am a Ku...
October 07, 2025 at 14:14
Whether technical or non-technical, it is a concept, and all concepts belong to cultural understandings, which are contingent and historically changin...
October 06, 2025 at 23:15
What does hardcoded mean? What are the technological concepts involved? It is not difficult to answer this question for any given a.i.architectural bl...
October 06, 2025 at 17:20
And can we also create life from scratch if we had all the technological capabilities? What I am going on about are the important differences between ...
October 06, 2025 at 12:26
You’re missing the point. Even taking into account all of the biological lineages which become extinct, what it means to be a living system is to be s...
October 05, 2025 at 18:00
When we build a machine it has a time stamp on it. No matter how apparently flexible its behavior , that flexibility will always be framed and limited...
October 05, 2025 at 14:19
If we’re sticking with the later Wittgenstein we want to be careful here ( otherwise feel free to ignore this :grin: ). The grammar of truth isn’t def...
October 04, 2025 at 17:53
I’m with you all the way here. I would just add that truth is not a unitary concept but changes its sense according to the context of its use. Human b...
October 04, 2025 at 15:17
I will say bluntly that no machine we invent will do what we do, which is to think. As Evan Thompson wrote: I think what he wrote about LLM’s applies ...
October 03, 2025 at 18:14
The results of modeling the brain on today’s computers, using today’s forms of computer logic, are precisely as you describe. And they will colossally...
October 03, 2025 at 17:35
Husserl’s point is that the external , third person point of view is a derived abstraction constituted within first person subjectivity.
October 03, 2025 at 16:23
I’m confused. Above you say that an act of remembering makes something non-fiction but below you write that remembering the past makes it fiction. Eve...
October 03, 2025 at 13:37