Mastodawn

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

Hybridmind42 (@hybridmind42)

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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Becca 1d ago

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

Philosophics 2d ago

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

Peter Adamson 2d ago

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

Dr Mircea Zloteanu 🌺🌞🍃6d ago

#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

Emma Stamm 6d ago

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

Harald Klinke Apr 13

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 ...