Is Kripke right about posteriori necessity? Do you agree finding out molecular structure of a substance gives us metaphysical knowledge and allows us to make modal claims about this substance?
Sounds like an expensive idealism)
Actually there was a mistake: we should rather say what makes a proposition true.
I this case what you mentioned are procedures of truth making. But what makes it true?
What does make a fact true?
Actually I like that we have nonphysicalists of all types. These people remind me of the beginning of philosophy. Especially when they are very smart people! It is very fascinating to see what tricky and picturesque things they built!
I think Kripke just chooses the essences of things pointing to a secondary intension. If you are ready for primary intension (or a particular property) to become an essence, anything can be rigid designator.
If you were offered a world in which no one would ever commit crimes from this moment on, but those who have already done so would remain unpunished, would you regard the latter as a loss and moral cost?
This is how boredom looks like
2/ we can face controversial social consequences cause I see it as a problem now when people think AI is conscious/agent/subject etc. And quasi strategy makes this more relevant.
1.I think such starting point can be problematic. Quasi notions here are inclusive enough to take even a robovacuum cleaner as quasi agent. This is pragmatically doubtful and does no ontological work in terms of subjectivity problem. What is may be more important — if we really adopt such a strategy
In his recent paper @davidchalmers.bsky.social introduced a first step strategy for AI agency assessment. He suggests that we can at least use the notions of quasi beliefs, desires and agency. These are AI behavior interpretable as having beliefs, desires and agency.
bsky.app/profile/davi...
a new paper on mind, computation, and identity in large language models. with inspiration from raymond carver (title) and severance (thought experiments).
i'll be talking about this on saturday at the eleos AI conference on AI consciousness and welfare in berkeley.
philpapers.org/rec/CHAWWT-8
The Persuaders will be live again tomorrow at 1pm EST, 6pm GMT, when they will asking if our beliefs are formed by rational processes and if it matters. The Truth Demon may also put in an appearance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=duI3... @petemandik.bsky.social
How would you define “rule” for a language rule? It seems like Kripke had a very weird one that has to determine our usage in a strong (mb even ontologically strong) sense.
Do you know this is your hand or you are sure it is?
Ethically or epistemically controversial?
I’m slowpoke then) But I was thinking about many episodes of continuous story!
This is map of a fruit-fly brain neurons. Imagine a human brain complexity. Is there still anything in your experience you think cannot be explained without postulating something nonphysical?
The more I look at @petemandik.bsky.social‘s comics (dailynous.com/tag/mind-chu...) the more I want to watch a cartoon visualized by him.
Good answer! But this might be ok for someone.
Pete and I discuss Jonathan Birch's book on sentience. Featuring a special guest appearance by Indi! www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9ue...
@birchlse.bsky.social
Join us in 60 minutes! It'll be *bona* (despite my lack of riah)
New in draft with Susan Schneider, David Sahner, Robert Lawrence Kuhn & Mark Bailey - a primer on central ideas and concepts in the AI consciousness debate. If you're looking for a toehold in the sea of jargon, this might help.
philpapers.org/rec/SCHIAC-22
Starting in under an hour! Some preparatory reading here petemandik.substack.com/p/you-dont-k...
What’s your answer to the question “Why do we need to study philosophy?”?
I realized that I rather try to defend philosophy than to explain why it’s important.
The Persuaders, Episode 2. Pete tries to persuade us that all conscious content is conceptual. www.youtube.com/live/S7FjpEH...
@petemandik.bsky.social
This is exactly why sometimes people think Humphrey’s surrealism is a realist approach.
