Pop-therapy speak is problematic because it dilutes the “epistemic authority” and therefore efficacy of actual-therapy speech 👇

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6Qikw7JfoVTJimBnJ93fDa?si=iQ-EDGckRMKEsbnFnPeKhQ&pi=_UxA196YS2KeI&t=0

#therapyspeak #pop #diagnosis #transpersonal #psychology #mentalhealth #narratives #narcisissm #gaslighting #biopsychosocial #epistemology #philosophy #culture #bypassing

which I appreciate – as someone who tends to flagrantly over-indulge in pop-therapy speech –because it is essentially in the same category as over/mis-diagnosis, 1/n 🧵

Therapy-Speak is Worse Than You Think

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🔍 Lecture 01 — The Art of Understanding
Before we teach machines to reason, we should ask ourselves: what is knowledge, really?
This opening lecture steps back from the algorithms and starts with first principles.
It's the philosophical foundation the rest of the course is built on. Bring your curiosity. Leave your assumptions at the door.
#KDAI2026 #AI #Epistemology #DataToKnowledge #SemanticWeb #KnowledgeRepresentation #MachineLearning #PhilosophyOfAI @fizise @fiz_karlsruhe

⛓️Trapped in your own #consciousness🧠? – Why #solipsism becomes the most radical #limitsofknowledge

In the #Zoomposium with #GerhardRoth, it becomes clear: The real challenge isn’t just what consciousness is—but how far we can actually perceive with it.

📎 https://philosophies.de/index.php/2021/12/05/wie-wirklich-ist-bewusstsein/

📺https://youtu.be/0LG4gU_jfik

#Neurophilosophy #PhilosophyOfMind #Epistemology #Neuroscience #Cognition #Self #Subjectivity #HardProblem #ExplanatoryGap #Reality #Actuality

I created a scientifically convincing image that is completely wrong.
It uses real physics.
Real terminology.
Real structure.
And it still fails reality.
Here’s how—and how to spot it yourself.

https://substack.com/profile/432224148-hybridmind42/note/c-246229299?r=75c2ac

#CriticalThinking #Misinformation #ScienceCommunication #AI #HybridMind42 #SystemsThinking #DigitalLiteracy #Epistemology #Truth

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I created a scientifically convincing image that is completely wrong. It uses real physics. Real terminology. Real structure. And it still fails reality. Here’s how—and how to spot it yourself. https://hybridmind42.substack.com/p/the-grain-of-truth-how-convincing?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=75c2ac

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this is one of those ballads I learned as a kid, but as an adult, it's only gotten better. how much about the nature of love, attention, and meaning does it cram into just a few verses?

what is it that makes them a true love? 😗 just let it sink in

#epistemology

James Ladyman and I agree that language is a fundamental impediment to understanding – and this includes notions of reality.

https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/everything-must-go?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

So, of course, I wrote about it. There is no spoon. A link to his interview is in the article, where I compare and contrast his Everything Must Go and my own The Architecture of Encounter.

#philosophy #blog #podcast #language #science #reality #perception #metaphysics #physics #ontology #ontologicalgrammar #realism #epistemology #books

Coming up tomorrow on #HoPWaG: the debate between Malebranche and Arnauld on the "vision in God": how we form our ideas. This turns out to be an early version of the contemporary debate over representationalism. #philsky #philosophy #earlymodern #epistemology #podcast

#statstab #525 What Good Is a Regression? Inference to the Best Explanation and the Practice of Political Science Research

Thoughts: It's interesting to see how other fields consider the problem of knowledge generation

#polisci #epistemology #inference

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.1086/734280

Fantastic article schematizing the philosophical issues at the heart of the AI culture wars, from one of the most incisive contemporary philosophers I've come across to date.

"Geist in the Machine" at Aeon:

https://aeon.co/essays/if-we-hope-to-build-artificial-souls-where-should-we-start

#AI #LLM #epistemology #ethics #aesthetics #philosophy

Two forms of “intelligence”: The real question is not Are they intelligent? But What kind of intelligence are we delegating and what happens to our own judgment when we do? #AI #LLM #Epistemology

Alexander Lerchner, The Abstra...
Alexander Lerchner, The Abstraction Fallacy: Why AI Can Simulate But Not Instantiate Consciousness - PhilArchive

Computational functionalism dominates current debates on AI consciousness. This is the hypothesis that subjective experience emerges entirely from abstract causal topology, regardless of the underlying physical substrate. We argue this view ...