I think it's a quite nice paradox. It exemplifies that we can conceive of counting from 1 to infinity in a finite amount of time by halving the time i...
I quite agree with your characterisation of the difference between LLM cognitive abilities and the mindedness of living human beings. I situate myself...
I haven't read Anscombe's paper. I have read Austin's Sense and Sensibilia and was very impressed by it. The active character of perception that you r...
This aligns your conception with mine and puts it at odds with Searle's. Searle rejects representationalism (which puts him at odds with AI-LLM-skepti...
The tendency to thank and praise their user is being reinforced in LLMs when the base models (that are merely trained in completing texts) are being f...
Why is it, then, that you can't focus your attention on the proximal mental image and reinterpret it? Isn't it because this "mental image" already is ...
Yes, interpretation is a mental act. The things that you perceive can (and must) be interpreted in this or that way to be perceived as such. There is ...
I quite like your strategy of planting subconscious hooks in people's minds and aiming for the long game. I also appreciated how @Srap Tasmaner expand...
When human beings experience features of the world by means of sense perception, the things that they experience cause them to experience them in some...
It will not point out reasoning or attribution mistakes that you made unless you explicitly prompt it to do so. And then, it will also tend to provide...
Thanks for mentioning the SEP article on the problem of perception. Tim Crane, who authored it, was the perfect person for the job. What feature of in...
Searle believes that brain matter has some special biological property that enables mental states to have intrinsic intentionality as opposed to the m...
Four o'clock in the afternoon, the time when you begin broiling things for dinner! Here is what Claude 3 Sonnet had to add to the conversation: USER: ...
A Birthday Conversation - What is it that LLMs remember from their training and how do they remember it? USER: Hi Claude 3, It's always nice talking t...
Last month, I had a conversation with Claude 3 regarding the phenomenology of dreaming experiences. We drew some implications from Hobson's AIM model....
Consider the system reply and the robot reply to Searle's Chinese Room argument. Before GPT-4 was released, I was an advocate of the robot reply, myse...
Yes, I have indeed been arguing that the grounding of the words used by LLMs when they respond to user queries is indirect. That was the point of my c...
The Harvard psychologist Edwin B. Holt, who taught J. J. Gibson and Edward C. Tolman, made the same point in 1914 regarding the performative contradic...
I appreciate you sharing this figure from the Leknes and Tracey paper. However, I think a closer look at the paper's main thesis and arguments suggest...
The worst case scenario is that they would become blind. The best case scenario is that they would experience no change at all in the way they see col...
Yes, we can make sense of this. I think the fact that some people's visual systems cause them to stubbornly see it as gold and white while other peopl...
Thinking back to my answer to @"Michael" above regarding the objective purport of perceptual judgement about colors, I was reminded of a similar discu...
I don't think a realist about the colors of objects would say material objects have "real looks." Realists about colors acknowledge that colored objec...
I am going to respond to this separately here, and respond to your comments about projecting appearances on distal objects (and the naïve theory of co...
Remember that you responded to an argument that I (and Claude 3) had crafted in response to @"Michael". He may have refined his position since we bega...
I am saying that if you are an indirect realist, then what stands between you and the distal cause of your perceptions should be identified with the a...
The neural processing performed by the brain on raw sensory inputs like retinal images plays an important causal role in enabling human perception of ...
I think the idea that one must start with "atomic" concepts isn't wholly inconsistent with the sort of holism Wittgenstein advocated. My former philos...
It is true that our pre-intentional abilities enable us to have an active role in the formative process by means of which, beginning as non-linguistic...
That's an excellent question that demonstrates that you have been paying attention! My guess is that, in both cases, the internal cues provided in the...
Here is a relevant extract from an ongoing conversation that I intend to post at a later time in my Claude 3 thread. I think this illustrates a bit ho...
For sure, but most people equate intelligence and understanding. Hence, AI-skeptics don't merely deny that current LLM based AI systems genuinely unde...
I think this is what happens whenever people listen to a conference by an articulate, charismatic and eloquent teacher or lecturer. (Think of a TED ta...
I think psychology and cognitive neuroscience already are well underway along this holistic revolution. Robert A. Wilson chronicled some of the advanc...
An actor on a theater stage can imitate (or enact the role of) someone who has stubbed their toe on a bed post and jumps up and down while screaming i...
This was the line of argument that my first philosophical mentor, Anders Weinstein, was advanding on the comp.ai.philosophy Usenet newsgroup in the mi...
Your view strikes me as being rather close to the structural realism of Ross and Ladyman. Alan Chalmers (not to be confused with David) compared their...
That's indeed a very important and significant difference between humans and AI conversational assistants. We have endogenous drives tied to biologica...
Do you think the roundness of the apple merely is a mental property of the human beings (or of their brains) who feel it to be round in their hand? Th...
I think you could use this excellent question from your OP and add (or substitute) the last line "As an LLM-based AI assistant yourself, do you agree ...
I don't think that it's science's job to either establish or disconfirm this thesis. I think the mind/body problem, the so-called hard-problem of cons...
Here is a response that I have asked Claude 3 to address to @"Michael". I'm also posting below, hidden behind a spoiler, how I have prompted Claude 3 ...
While it's true that the environmental feedback we receive during our active explorations of the world must ultimately impact our brains via our bodie...
Regarding the issue of the metaphysics of colors and the visual principle of color constancy, consider this variation on the checker shadow illusion o...
The issue of the metaphysics of colors (and other secondary qualities) has come up in this thread, but the concept of color constancy has not been dis...
This is an exchange I have had with Claude 3 Sonnet regarding the reason why shadows of people on white snow covers, and shadows of airplanes on the w...
Sorry, I wasn't using the term "narrow" pejoratively as a in "narrow minded" but rather as in "narrow supervenience" as this concept is usually unders...
This is a great example. I agree that in such circumstances both external behaviors of the circles are likely to generate the same phenomenological ex...
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