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Marco Palombi @ocrampal.bsky.social · 21h

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

Marco Palombi @ocrampal.bsky.social · 21h

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

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Marco Palombi @ocrampal.bsky.social · 23h

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-...

How Solving the Concept Problem Unlocks Philosophy's Greatest Mysteries

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 ...

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Marco Palombi @ocrampal.bsky.social · 23h

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?

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Marco Palombi @ocrampal.bsky.social · 1d

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

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. It hides in plain sight, in something as simple as how we talk about feeling cold. The Col...

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Marco Palombi @ocrampal.bsky.social · 9d

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

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

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...

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Marco Palombi @ocrampal.bsky.social · 12d

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

How Solving the Concept Problem Unlocks Philosophy's Greatest Mysteries

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 ...

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Marco Palombi @ocrampal.bsky.social · 12d

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

How Solving the Concept Problem Unlocks Philosophy's Greatest Mysteries

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 ...

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Marco Palombi @ocrampal.bsky.social · 20d

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...

What is life? Can Science Tell the Whole Story?

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

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Marco Palombi @ocrampal.bsky.social · 20d

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 ...

www.ocrampal.com/how-solving-...

#philosophy
#science
#philosophyofscience
#mind
#consciousness

How Solving the Concept Problem Unlocks Philosophy's Greatest Mysteries

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 ...

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Marco Palombi @ocrampal.bsky.social · 28d

Philosophy of science promises to do something extraordinary: step outside the scientific enterprise to examine its foundations, methods, and assumptions with clear-eyed objectivity ...

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#philosophy #science #geneosophy #knowledge #truth

The Impossible Escape: Why Philosophy of Science Can't Step Outside Science

Philosophy of science promises to do something extraordinary: step outside the scientific enterprise to examine its foundations, methods, and assumptions with clear-eyed objectivity. From Thomas Kuhn'...

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Marco Palombi @ocrampal.bsky.social · Sep 11

Expert systems needed people to write rules. LLM need people to correct hallucinations. Nothing much has changed in terms of needing people...

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Marco Palombi @ocrampal.bsky.social · Sep 11

Agreed and more fundamentally the subjective/objective dichotomy is the consequence of our traditional assumption about the physical world:

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From Kant's Categories to Geneosophy: Solving the Reality Problem

Philosophy has been wrestling with a fundamental question for centuries: How do we bridge the gap between mind and world? Each major philosophical tradition has offered solutions, but each has also re...

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Marco Palombi @ocrampal.bsky.social · Sep 11

More on this: Philosophy has been wrestling with a fundamental question for centuries: How do we bridge the gap between mind and world? Each major philosophical tradition has offered solutions, but each has also revealed new problems. www.ocrampal.com/from-kants-c...

From Kant's Categories to Geneosophy: Solving the Reality Problem

Philosophy has been wrestling with a fundamental question for centuries: How do we bridge the gap between mind and world? Each major philosophical tradition has offered solutions, but each has also re...

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Marco Palombi @ocrampal.bsky.social · Sep 11

Agreed: Philosophy has been wrestling with a fundamental question for centuries: How do we bridge the gap between mind and world? Each major philosophical tradition has offered solutions, but each has also revealed new problems.

www.ocrampal.com/from-kants-c...

From Kant's Categories to Geneosophy: Solving the Reality Problem

Philosophy has been wrestling with a fundamental question for centuries: How do we bridge the gap between mind and world? Each major philosophical tradition has offered solutions, but each has also re...

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Marco Palombi @ocrampal.bsky.social · Sep 11

Philosophy has been wrestling with a fundamental question for centuries: How do we bridge the gap between mind and world? Each major philosophical tradition has offered solutions, but each has also revealed new problems

www.ocrampal.com/from-kants-c...

#philosophy #computation #technology #physics

From Kant's Categories to Geneosophy: Solving the Reality Problem

Philosophy has been wrestling with a fundamental question for centuries: How do we bridge the gap between mind and world? Each major philosophical tradition has offered solutions, but each has also re...

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Marco Palombi @ocrampal.bsky.social · Sep 5

The story of artificial intelligence is not just one of increasing computational power—it’s also a story about how meaning has been progressively sidelined in favor of statistical pattern manipulation.

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#AI #philosophy #programming #meaning #LLM

AI and the Neglect of Meaning: From Unlimited to Indefinite

The story of artificial intelligence is not just one of increasing computational power—it’s also a story about how machines relate to meaning. Or more precisely, how meaning has been progressively sid...

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Marco Palombi @ocrampal.bsky.social · Sep 1

We stand at a peculiar moment in human history. Our technical capabilities have never been more impressive—we can manipulate matter at the atomic level, build machines that mimic human conversation, and map the neural ..
#philosophy #science #AI #logic #programming

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