Got that, I was joking, but also kind of highlighting the contrastive character of causal explanation. Claims that event A caused event B always are a...
They're most definitely causing the trains to show up. The proof of that if that if those people would stop showing up, the trains would eventually al...
No. I just mean that when she awakens she isn't able to tell if she's in a T-run anymore than she can tell if she's in a T-Monday-awakening or any oth...
I’m fine with predictive coding together with precision-weighting as a story about the neural implementation of selective attention. But that's a sub-...
SB doesn't have the magical power to make the other awakenings, or their mutual causal relationships, drop out of existence on the occasion where she ...
You are nitpicking. I am happy to grant that there may be torrents of vitality in Plato's dialogues. Maybe my use of "traces" was misleading, but the ...
Much hangs on what one means to be the sort of necessity (conceptual, logical, evidential, etc.?) that connects mentalistic concepts to the normal man...
The sensorimotor + interoceptive/endocrine integrations I mentioned weren’t meant as logical entailments from physiology to mentality, but as constitu...
Remember that it's indeed my view that they should feel alive. My Wittgensteinian take was meant more as a gloss than as a reduction or subordination....
On transgender rights, positivism and recognition. (@"Ciceronianus" and @"Hanover") In its response, GPT-5 refers to John Searle, who I didn't know wr...
(This might also interest @"Joshs") Your comment (that I read in full) very usefully characterises the loci of integration (that I had myself gestured...
I think it was fine for you and Joshs to explore this relevant tangent, but I feared my jumping in would have definitely inflected the conversation aw...
I was not arguing that this was impossible. I was sort of cataloguing all of the different ways in which the organism and its natural and social envir...
In their book The Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience (that has no less than five chapters on consciousness!), Peter Hacker and Maxwell Bennett ...
This is a very interesting discussion that @"Joshs" and you are having, but would it not be more on topic in this thread, or a new one if you wish to ...
There remains accessibility through empathy. The act of demonstrative reference works for reference fixing because, in a sense, it points both in the ...
A couple weeks ago, I had initiated a conversation with GPT-5 prompting it to relate three features of the use of "I" by LLM-based agents (self-refere...
Yes, I did a bit of covert reframing, sorry for that. That's because when we consider the process of next-token generation by LLMs, at such a fine gra...
You can point me to specific reports that would suggest this. Those that I've dug into, such as this recent study published by Anthropic, are generall...
I very mush share this general sentiment but I'd like to highlight also one commonality and one difference between the AI tech and the Trump. (Artific...
...also a bit overblown and misrepresented in the media, since when you dig into the primary reports it's generally the case that the LLMs didn't deci...
I don't agree that beliefs and intentions lack content. Believing is believing that P and intending is intending to phi, although those contents need ...
If the chatbot tells you who the murderer might be, and explains to you what the clues are that led it to this conclusion, and the clues are being exp...
My own view is that what's overlooked by many who contemplate the mystery of human consciousness is precisely the piece LLMs miss. But this overlooked...
This is redirected from this post in the thread Banning AI Altogether. Regarding the issue of hidden (private) intents, and them being presupposed in ...
An argument has been made, though, by researchers like Ilya Sutskever and Geoffrey Hinton, that in order to do so much as predict the word that is mos...
I was actually also thinking of Plato when I mentioned the anecdote about Wittgenstein! First, I must point out that unlike Wittgenstein's lecture not...
I expect that, just like the Dot-Com bubble, the AI bubble is likely to burst. But this is mainly a market phenomenon that results from a race for dom...
I was musing today about creating a new AI thread devoted specifically to discussing how LLM-based chatbots work and in what respects their cognitive ...
When Wittgenstein was giving lectures in Cambridge in 1930-1933, he was unwilling to write any lecture notes for his own use. He claimed that after he...
I fully agree that there is this important disanalogy between the two cases, but I think this difference, coupled with what we do know about the histo...
I've just had with GPT-5 the most interesting conversation I've had with a LLM so far. We revisited the process of exaptation whereby the emergent con...
@"Sam26" So sad to hear you're leaving! I sincerely hope you'll change your mind again in the future. In any case, I wish you the best of luck with yo...
You'll more easily wrap your head around the problem if you don't overcomplicate things (even though it will remain a tough problem). The purpose of t...
The three sorts of examples that you give lay on a spectrum. I would also feel bad posting as my own AI content that I have merely paraphrased, even i...
It's also part of the protocol that although SB knows that she is being awakened a second time on Tuesday if and only if the coin landed tails, on eac...
In the classic Monty Hall problem, since the three doors hide one prize and two goats, there is a 1/3 chance that the initially randomly selected door...
The Halfer's run-centered measure just is a way to measure the space of probabilities by partitioning the events that Sleeping Beauty's credence (unde...
It's been a while since I've experienced a LLM losing coherence. It used to happen often in the early days of GPT-4 when the rolling context window wa...
I formulated my own question to GPT-5 thus. I was impressed by the intelligence of its commentary, even though (rather ironically in the present conte...
@"Banno" I submitted my tentative diagnosis of this cognitive limitation exhibited by LLMs to GPT-5 who proposed a clever workaround* in the form of a...
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