John Barresi
jbarresi.bsky.social
John Barresi
@jbarresi.bsky.social
Retired but still active; psychology & neuroscience; philosophy; Dalhousie University; Interests in consciousness, self, personhood, evolution; AI; personology (studies of individual lives).
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/John-Barresi/research
@franz-kafka.bsky.social

I tried to post on this website before, but I can't find it on there now. Maybe it was deleted.

I'm hoping to engage in discussion with other people interested in Kafka's life and works.

Here is my first attempted post. I answer it later on.

bsky.app/profile/jbar...
@franz-kafka.bsky.social

What do you think Kafka meant by this Jan 1920 Diary entry that was included in the “He” aphorisms?
 
“He has found the Archimedean point, but has used it against himself. Evidently it was only on this condition that he was allowed to find it.” (Crick, Hunger Artist 201).
May 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Through experiments examining ... preferences of leading LLMs, we find a high level of instability..., incoherence , and erratic behavior...These inconsistencies can cause the results of an evaluation to be very sensitive to minor variations in methodology.

arXiv:2503.08688v2 [cs.CY] 8 Apr 2025
April 10, 2025 at 11:38 AM
@franz-kafka.bsky.social

What do you think Kafka meant by this Jan 1920 Diary entry that was included in the “He” aphorisms?
 
“He has found the Archimedean point, but has used it against himself. Evidently it was only on this condition that he was allowed to find it.” (Crick, Hunger Artist 201).
March 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
My latest publication just came out:
Barresi, J. (2025). “Types of Intentionality in Humans vs. AI Systems and Robots: Implications for AI and Robotic Personhood.” Samantha-Kaye Johnston, David J Gunkel (Eds.), Oxford Intersections: AI and Society; Personhood, March 20, 2025. doi.org/10.1093/9780...
March 24, 2025 at 12:34 PM