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16 So I was struck when I wrote the postscript note to our last |
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21 Maybe I should take a look at it. |
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29 All right. So yeah, I've got it. Right: |
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31 [Email sent 2024-06-08 |
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32 A quick thought about what I said in our last conversation. |
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34 I described my imagination of a “machinic person” by comparison with |
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35 current ideas … the pure mechanism of classical science, then “rationality” |
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36 with reference to Frege and logic etc., then normativity and the current |
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37 paradigm of deriving it from evolutionary fit, etc. |
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40 different. They start with (my version of) the blooming buzzing confusion, |
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41 and talk about the emergence of creatures from that. S-region and O-region |
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42 stuff from the Objects book (though I no longer like those names), deixis |
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43 from the differential equations, etc. |
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45 For short, call these the *historical* and *metaphysical* approaches. What |
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47 historical story. When I re-read the G,A drafts, I am going to see whether |
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48 they fit neatly into either of these two categories, or a mixture, or |
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49 something else, or what.. |
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53 So as in the first [sic] paragraph, I say, call these the "historical" |
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56 And what I have not done is read any [earlier versions of the |
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58 is something like version 11. Is that right? |
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73 "In previous versions of this, I tried to produce a metaphysics, which |
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74 would underpin what I'm talking about, but didn't get far enough to |
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75 make it worth reproducing or something like that." |
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86 the last 15 years. Right. This one lacks any sketch of a worldview |
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100 Bob @?, thank you for finding that. Yes, I think that longer monograph, |
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169 tenable version of the metaphysical approach, well, sorry, the only | |
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217 fact... Well, as I put it, which is transparent to nobody, the | |
218 ontological warrant for the epistemic fact that we use differential | |
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8 | 250 interesting, this is going to sound a little bit like a non-sequitur, |
251 but I think it's not for obvious reasons. The fact that LLMs are based | |
252 on language is, I think, possibly consequential, but possibly not the | |
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256 relationality that they encode is so stupefyingly huge that all the | |
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