If experience is truly private, than it is presumably impossible to even refer to someone else's experiences in the literal sense of "someone else". I...
Philosophical questions regarding consciousness concern, among a great number of other things, the semantics of neuroscience in relation to the first-...
Since GPT is a merely an auto-regressive model of corpora on which it is trained to perform "next word prediction", then it will certainly reproduce t...
You are implicitly referring to the logical paradox concerning the identity of indiscernibles. The potential existence of indiscernibles, e.g perfectl...
Agreed. Don't you mean to say that Wittgenstein's beetle in the box analogy justifies talk of indirect realism in relation to the third-personal publi...
As a practice, mathematics is a family-resemblance of language games, whose premises are usually in conflict, in part due to the fact that they do not...
If a 'person' is taken as referring to a brain, and only to a brain, then a person is by definition a homunculus , hence a forteriori, a subject of in...
People should stop conflating metaphysical, epistemological and psychological solipsism, as their premises and conclusions are very different. For exa...
If metaphysical solipsism is true, then it is tautologically true. This is why metaphysical solipsism (and realism) have no empirical content. People ...
You might be suffering more from the effects of social isolation and rumination than from a philosophical belief. Solipsism has no empirical consequen...
I presently use the predecessor for coding projects as a plugin to Visual Code Studio, for filling in "no brainer" project detail and for providing a ...
I just read in the news that GPT4 will be given internet access and the ability to run code. So it is clear that that it's role is ultimately to serve...
By definition, LLMs are only models of language and therefore shouldn't be confused with reasoners or domain experts. They should only be thought of a...
I guess that depends on what you mean by "tendency", and whether or not you include the "wizard of Oz" Open-AI team that continually patches it's erro...
The trouble with LLMs, is that they don't grasp the computational complexity of a question; they produce instant copy-pasta in the same amount of time...
Wittgenstein never said communication was the essence of language , neither did he equate in all cases, truth conditions with community agreement. Sur...
Truth and falsity are relative to convention. Truth values can also be eliminated from discourse, if one is willing to abandon the idea of shared beli...
All solipsism rejects is the idea of absolute reality, analogous to special relativity's rejection of absolute motion. Solipsists are able to reconcil...
That's why i suggested "two player" game semantics. The semantics of interaction isn't accommodated by the traditional conceptions of either computati...
There certainly are many scientists who offhandedly assume in an old-fashioned way that causality must be an "objective" notion. But as Bertrand Russe...
That depends on whether "God" is narrowly understood as referring to a specific type of causal explanation that rivals physical explanations as anothe...
The original conception of computation was of a "mechanical method" that is synonymous with a deterministic "winning" strategy with respect to a singl...
Firstly, what makes you think that there is an objective matter of fact as to whether an effect was intended or accidental? Secondly, if there are suc...
But "Final causes" are representable in terms of bog standard causation without invoking teleological purposes, as demonstrated by reinforcement-learn...
I think that's misleading and somewhat inaccurate. It is true that causation didn't undergo strict formalisation until the twenty first century, econo...
I understand Aristotle's definition of a 'final cause', but it makes no sense to me to muddle such "final causes" with the "causes" meant by the moder...
According to one of the two main accounts of causality, namely the perspectival "interventionist" interpretation, a causal model is a set of condition...
Direct realism can be thought of as absolutised idealism, to recall Berkeley's 'Master Argument' that all acts of measurement, thought and observation...
My understanding of indirect realism refers to my understanding of perception in relation to a third person subject, with respect to objects of my fir...
If you show me a tree and say "This is the one tree that stands before us", then I am in common-sense agreement. This generally means that I am automa...
First, it is necessary to distinguish the main types of solipsism and discuss their interrelations. 1) Metaphysical (M) 2) Epistemological (E) 3) Psyc...
In my opinion, the very meaning of a religion refers to it's psychological, economic and political causes and it's intended psychological, economic an...
If "Steel" is accepted as denoting a purely physical concept, then by definition "steel" cannot be semantically reduced to any individual's private th...
Anomalous Monism is only concerned with third-personal causal analysis of propositional attitudes, and so it isn't really relevant to the "hard proble...
There's a useful paper i'd recommend reading with regards to Wittgenstein's relation to Dennett's views: Consciousness demystified: A Wittgensteinian ...
S4 Modal logic (which lacks logical quantifiers) is best thought of as a weakening of first-order logic: Instead of having the particular comonad know...
Intentionality is a concept I use when I refer to other people's perspectives, whereas phenomenality is a concept i use exclusively with respect to my...
'Unconsciousness' is a deceptively named concept, given that its conditions of assertibility are identical to the empirical concept of amnesia. E.g, "...
The hard problem can be paraphrased by the following Wittgensteinian semantic problem "How are my perceptual and cognitive judgements that i express u...
Naturalised neurological theories are semantically deficient for tacking the hard problem, due to the fact their theoretical concepts are only publicl...
Nobody can agree upon what Kant really meant, even when Kant was still alive and responding to criticism. That said, If Kant is interpreted to be an i...
Asking for a scientific explanation of consciousness, is like asking an artist to paint a canvas into existence. Scientific explanations are grounded ...
The Hard "Problem" does exist, but only in the sense of a semantic issue. The Hard problem should not be regarded as a deficiency or bug of the natura...
The issues discussed in this thread primarily concern the necessity of complex valued integers and rationals in relation to entangled quantum states, ...
In PI Wittgenstein opined that a central phenomenological distinction between a voluntary action versus an involuntary action, is that in the latter c...
The assumption of static meanings is a foundational axiom of epistemology. If that axiom is rejected, then there cannot be a substantial and objective...
In science, and especially data science and machine learning, Occam's razor is often misunderstood to be an a priori principle. This can encourage bia...
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