@Inframethod

Resident writing consultant at the Copenhagen Business School Library.

 Copenhagen, Denmark
inframethodology.cbs.dk/
Joined August 2017
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"I get up in the morning and I get my brief, then I go out and stare at the world in complete disbelief." (Van Morrison)
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Art should not make you recoil from some new terror but help you face it.
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Andy Masley
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Replying to @Inframethod @eschwitz @rinireg @MCoeckelbergh @dioscuri @danwilliamsphil @jeffrsebo
What specifically is the strong evidence we have that machines can never be conscious?
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My point with this remark is that to think that AI somehow approaches "our" (humanity's) "theory of consciousness" requires you to ignore, inter alia, Augustine and Rousseau, and Derrida's reading of de Man's reading of the second alongside his own reading of the first.
Thomas Basbøll@Inframethod9h
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"...and a wide range of sensory, emotional, and cognitive experiences." To think they might (or that we don't know that they won't) is to ignore the rich tradition of "consciousness studies" (our whole literary canon) *and* our engineering knowldege, which is supposedly 2/n
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Bryan Caplan
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Disaster will not happen, but whatever happens will be called "disaster."
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East London Group@EastLndonGroup8h
Good evening, Lin @lou_chatfield & how interesting, thank you. I'm not entirely sure but it is my belief that this little pencil sketch by Walter Steggles was of the office that he worked in at Furness Withy c.1926-27, but I can't be sure. #WalterSteggles #EastLondonGroup
Lin Chatfield@lou_chatfield18h
Replying to @EastLndonGroup
He worked for a firm of builders merchants. I remember the offices as wood panelled cubicles
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"The thesis of this [book] is that we don’t know." My view is that we *do* that machines cannot be conscious. We know enough about consciousness and machines (including computers) to know that our AI systems will never be "capable of genuine feeling, real self-knowledge..." 1/n
Eric Schwitzgebel@eschwitzOct 18
My recent book AI and Consciousness: A Skeptical Overview is free online today and tomorrow (through Oct 19, presumably UK time). I don't think the hard copy is available yet. Get it while it's free! cambridge.org/core/elements/…

AI and Consciousness

Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - AI and Consciousness

cambridge.org
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This "thesis" (skepticism about AI consciousness) brings together a selected, narrow set of "sciences" and a particularly promising new technology and says that one is "outsprinting" the other. But, I warrant, "we" know where it's all going. It's our Tower of Babel. 5/5
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cc @rinireg @AndyMasley @MCoeckelbergh @dioscuri @danwilliamsphil @jeffrsebo inframethodology.cbs.dk/?p=5…
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"Welcome to All the Pleasures" (Purcell, Z. 339) is surely the best name for a piece of music ever?
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This tracks. I always tell students that to think is to open yourself to the possibility that you are wrong.
Hema Vraman, Ph.D.@contxt_mattersOct 15
"...what Descartes actually says is: Dubito ergo cogito ergo sum. *I doubt*, *therefore I think* and *that's why I exist*..."
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"the sadness is subjective. the truth is not." Wise words!
Crispin Sartwell
@CrispinSartwellOct 15
Replying to @ArneEichberg @Inframethod
it's 'true for me' in the sense that if i deny it, i'm saying something false. if you deny of yourself that you are sad, you are also saying something false. of course, *if it's true that you are sad.* the sadness is subjective. the truth is not.
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Good to see so many people here taking this post as an invitation to philosophize. I'm happy to keep the symposium going. Thanks to @PAHoyeck for suggesting the topic.
Thomas Basbøll@InframethodOct 14
"Objective truth" is a pleonasm. This confusion can be avoided by not using "objective" as some sort of honorific. There is no other kind of truth. "It's just true, right?" can be challenged (for it can be wrong). "Objectively" doesn't add anything to the claim.
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Quine had me at "Henry Aiken and I were with our wives in a Greenwich Village nightspot when I told him of the plan..."
Phil Hoyeck
@PAHoyeckOct 13
You can spend ONE afternoon with: • Gottlob Frege • Bertrand Russel • Ludwig Wittgenstein • W.V.O. Quine Who are you choosing?
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Quine is the obvious choice.
Phil Hoyeck
@PAHoyeckOct 13
You can spend ONE afternoon with: • Gottlob Frege • Bertrand Russel • Ludwig Wittgenstein • W.V.O. Quine Who are you choosing?
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"Objective truth" is a pleonasm. This confusion can be avoided by not using "objective" as some sort of honorific. There is no other kind of truth. "It's just true, right?" can be challenged (for it can be wrong). "Objectively" doesn't add anything to the claim.
Phil Hoyeck
@PAHoyeckOct 13
An anecdote: When I was a philosophy grad student, I worked at a small grocery store. One time, I was talking to a coworker and said something like, “Well, that’s just objectively true, right?” She replied sarcastically: “You study philosophy and you believe in objective truth? Good luck with that!” She really seemed to think I couldn’t possibly believe in something so outlandish as objective truth. The moral of this story is that I have no idea what the average person thinks philosophy is.
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Kafka?
Regina Rini@riniregOct 13
long after the machines have taken over, they will carry legends of the Old World Humans, a race of petty gods prone to demanding answers to pointless riddles
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