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Marco Palombi @ocrampal.bsky.social · 13h

Unfortunately I know from experience that some people would say that the generative AI model understands! :-(

When we show the first implementation of a Geneosophic comprehension they might see the difference between generative AI simulation and real conceptual understanding. Until then ...

Marco Palombi @ocrampal.bsky.social · 13h

... ingesting millions of videos of humans walking. The AI model can spit out videos of walking humans when prompted. The question is: do you think the AI model understands the concept of walking, or is it just "simulating" a walking human?

Marco Palombi @ocrampal.bsky.social · 13h

It is a really difficult thing to do because most people are convinced that the brain can be explained in terms of computation, so they cannot see what "simulation of intelligence" even means.
I use walking as an example. You can train a generative AI model to generate walking humans by ...

Marco Palombi @ocrampal.bsky.social · 14h

It is a different worldview, one can achieve through introspection. It has monetary implications because it can be used to achieve real intelligence, not AGI (which is a simulation of intelligence). But in the end it will allow for an holistic view of our existence.

Marco Palombi @ocrampal.bsky.social · 14h

We need a different paradigm to get a unified view. The traditional approach is fine for technology, but not for a unified view. We need something like www.geneosophy.com

Too Narrow to Be Wise: The Tunnel Vision Trap of Modern Expertise

Marco Palombi @ocrampal.bsky.social · 17h

Yes. That's what Geneosophy is about. Publishing step by step.

Marco Palombi @ocrampal.bsky.social · 20h

We live in a Kafkaesque paradox: the very people we turn to for wisdom about life’s biggest questions are systematically selected for their inability to think about such things.

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#philosophy #science #philsci #psychology #AI #physics #biology #society #politics

We live in a Kafkaesque paradox: the very people we turn to for wisdom about life’s biggest questions—meaning, society, the future of humanity—are systematically selected for their inability to think ...

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Marco Palombi @ocrampal.bsky.social · 1d

Understand.

Marco Palombi @ocrampal.bsky.social · 1d

@s33light.bsky.social In other words, I feel/sense before I reason about feelings/sense impressions

How Asking the Wrong Question Creates Mysteries That Don't Exist

Marco Palombi @ocrampal.bsky.social · 1d

Consciousness emerging from matter, the mind-body problem, infinite regress ... —aren't profound features of reality waiting to be solved, but artifacts of a particular way of asking questions?

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#philosophy #science #philsci #psychology #AI #physics #biology

What if I told you that the deepest mysteries plaguing human knowledge—consciousness emerging from matter, the mind-body problem, infinite regress, self-reference paradoxes—aren't profound features of...

From Sophists to Alchemists to AI Coders: The Technique Without Understanding

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Marco Palombi @ocrampal.bsky.social · 1d

We definitely need a definition of intelligence before we can devise a test. Right now we are in the Sophist/Alchemist like era of AI. www.ocrampal.com/from-sophist...

Dr. Marcus Doubtful, former quantum physicist turned philosopher of science. Dr. Andrew Sofist, a computational physicist and AI researcher who has just delivered a triumphant presentation on large la...

Your Words Know Something Your Mind Has Forgotten

Marco Palombi @ocrampal.bsky.social · 1d

Physics, mathematics, biology, psychology, philosophy—these impressive disciplines that organize our understanding of the world—all rest upon a foundation they can no longer see.

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#philosophy #science #philsci #psychology #AI #Physics #mathematics #biology

Something extraordinary hides in plain sight beneath our modern academic landscape. Physics, mathematics, biology, psychology, philosophy—these impressive disciplines that organize our understanding o...

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Marco Palombi @ocrampal.bsky.social · 2d

@jasonlee.adichotomy.com yes, we should not think in terms of "view from nowhere"

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#philosophy #science #philsci #philosophyofscience #AI

Marco Palombi @ocrampal.bsky.social · 2d

From Light to Blindness: How the Enlightenment Lost Its Way

We live in an age of breathtaking technical sophistication and profound existential confusion. We can manipulate matter at the atomic level but can't agree on what makes life worth living. We've mappe...

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Marco Palombi @ocrampal.bsky.social · 3d

The 500-Million-Year-Old Refutation of Artificial Intelligence

A brain structure has persisted for 500 million years across fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. The basal ganglia should tell us something fundamental about intelligence itself. Yet when ...

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Marco Palombi @ocrampal.bsky.social · 8d

And how do you think the gap between durée and objective time can be filled ...

Marco Palombi @ocrampal.bsky.social · 8d

Interesting. Thanks. I wonder what your philosophical position is. Are you a materialist or ...

How Solving the Concept Problem Unlocks Philosophy's Greatest Mysteries

Marco Palombi @ocrampal.bsky.social · 8d

If you start from the concept of determinacy you must posit the concept of randomness. But if you start from potentiality, you can explain determinacy and randomness. www.ocrampal.com/how-solving-...

Philosophy has wrestled with seemingly intractable problems for millennia: How does mind relate to body? What makes knowledge objective rather than merely subjective? How do we bridge the gap between ...

Marco Palombi @ocrampal.bsky.social · 8d

Very interesting. How do see subjective time relate to objective time? Are you familiar with Bergson's Duree and his debate on time with Einstein?

I Am Cold vs. I Have Cold: A Philosophy in Two Words

Marco Palombi @ocrampal.bsky.social · 8d

I Am Cold vs. I Have Cold: A Philosophy in Two Words

There's a curious linguistic asymmetry that might explain one of the deepest divides in Western philosophy.

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#philosophy #science #philsci #philosophyofscience #linguistic #AI

There's a curious linguistic asymmetry that might explain one of the deepest divides in Western philosophy. It hides in plain sight, in something as simple as how we talk about feeling cold. The Col...

From Sophists to Alchemists to AI Coders: The Technique Without Understanding

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Marco Palombi @ocrampal.bsky.social · 16d

Phlogiston is nice. Another characterization could be modern sophists and alchemist: www.ocrampal.com/from-sophist...

Dr. Marcus Doubtful, former quantum physicist turned philosopher of science. Dr. Andrew Sofist, a computational physicist and AI researcher who has just delivered a triumphant presentation on large la...

How Solving the Concept Problem Unlocks Philosophy's Greatest Mysteries

Marco Palombi @ocrampal.bsky.social · 19d

first understand concepts: www.ocrampal.com/how-solving-...

Philosophy has wrestled with seemingly intractable problems for millennia: How does mind relate to body? What makes knowledge objective rather than merely subjective? How do we bridge the gap between ...

How Solving the Concept Problem Unlocks Philosophy's Greatest Mysteries

Marco Palombi @ocrampal.bsky.social · 19d

Interesting echo of this: www.ocrampal.com/how-solving-...

Philosophy has wrestled with seemingly intractable problems for millennia: How does mind relate to body? What makes knowledge objective rather than merely subjective? How do we bridge the gap between ...

What is life? Can Science Tell the Whole Story?

Marco Palombi @ocrampal.bsky.social · 27d

Unfortunately they capture the headlines. Here is a dialogue to illustrate that computation cannot capture the concept of life for non technical people: www.ocrampal.com/what-is-life...

A debate between two scientists about whether traditional science can truly capture the concept of life.