Re: [FRIAM] Radical Empiricism

2023-06-04 Thread Marcus Daniels
I don't mean "we" as in FRIAM, I mean "we" as in nations. A benefit of capturing knowledge with LLMs, or similar technology, is that people wouldn't need to be educated about the same material over and over, especially if these systems are integrated into our neural systems. Why not have

Re: [FRIAM] Radical Empiricism

2023-06-04 Thread Frank Wimberly
As one of the few, if not the only, person who has been a full time employee of a philosophy department for multiple years, I am quick to defend my former colleagues. Read "Actual Causation and Thought Experiments" by Glymour and Wimberly in J. K. Campbell, M. O'Rourke & H. S. Silverstein (eds.),

Re: [FRIAM] Radical Empiricism

2023-06-04 Thread David Eric Smith
So there’s a rather concrete way in which one can imagine ChatGPT’s being particularly useful as a time-saver. I have heard it said (and find it persuasive), that philosophy is different from physics because what philosophers want to do and settle for being is different from that for

Re: [FRIAM] Radical Empiricism

2023-06-04 Thread Steve Smith
All art is derivative, so why bother... really? On 6/4/23 1:53 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: The conclusion I draw is that these conversations have all occurred before.  So I wonder, why have them? *From:* Friam *On Behalf Of *Jochen Fromm *Sent:* Sunday, June 4, 2023 10:44 AM *To:* The

Re: [FRIAM] Radical Empiricism

2023-06-04 Thread Jochen Fromm
Discussions with large language models are new. But you are right, we had discussions of similar topics before. Maybe I was hoping I could inspire Nick and/or Eric to write a summary of their ideas and what we have discussed before ( such as the solution to the hard problem of consciousness,

Re: [FRIAM] Radical Empiricism

2023-06-04 Thread Marcus Daniels
The conclusion I draw is that these conversations have all occurred before. So I wonder, why have them? From: Friam On Behalf Of Jochen Fromm Sent: Sunday, June 4, 2023 10:44 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: [FRIAM] Radical Empiricism ChatGPT now allows

[FRIAM] Radical Empiricism

2023-06-04 Thread Jochen Fromm
ChatGPT now allows sharing conversations. I've asked it about William James book "Essays in Radical Empiricism"https://chat.openai.com/share/375aef4e-a8d6-467e-8061-bd85b341c46b-J.-. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays