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Marco Palombi
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Developing formal tools to express autonomy and creativity, inspired by http://geneosophy.com - a theoretical framework aimed at comprehending the concepts of life and intelligence.

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Is AI a kind of alchemy?

The Alchemist's Equivalence: a dialogue.

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Is AI a kind of alchemy?
The Alchemist's Equivalence: a dialogue. Dr. John Computationalist, a computer scientist, sits across from Dr. Marcus Doubtful, a physicist turned philosopher. John: Look, Marcus, I think you're bei...
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November 29, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Discourse surrounding “AI” these days often feels like a guy showing you his shovel and you say, “that’s a nice shovel” and he says “I am going to perform surgery on my mother with this shovel” and you say “Oh God please don’t that is not what a shovel is for.”
November 19, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Can AI Solve Itself? The Paradox of Self-Reference in Learning Systems

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Chasing Our Own Tail: Self-Reference and the Limits of any Academic Discipline
Marcus Doubtful, a physicist turned philosopher. Richard Trad, a mathematician turned philosopher. Both have spent decades thinking about the foundations of knowledge, but they've reached very differ...
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November 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Computation will not get us to true intelligence. Just simulation of some behaviors we assign to true intelligence.

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Computation is not the right framework to comprehend the concept of life and intelligence
We live in a computational age. When we want to formalize our thoughts—to express ideas precisely, to build models of intelligence, to create systems that reason—we almost instinctively reach for comp...
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November 26, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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"writing code to solve a problem" used to have "understanding the problem" as a prerequisite. but vibecoding allows solution-shaped objects to be produced without any of the hard-won understanding. beware of solution-shaped objects.
November 24, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Accepting that objects and concepts have the same nature solves the mind body problem.

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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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November 23, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Current Artificial Intelligence paradigms suffer from a historical amnesia concerning language: the original, embodied meaning of words has been forgotten.

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Your Words Know Something Your Mind Has Forgotten
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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November 22, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Today's AI, for all its power, is destined to fall short of solving the "intelligence and life problem"—at until we fundamentally redefine what "computation" and "existence" mean.

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#philosophy #AI #intelligence #philmind #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence
When Knowledge Fails: Beyond Science, Philosophy, and AI
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, a...
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November 21, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Are You Cold, or Do You Have Cold? The Answer Defines Your Identity and How You Perceive the World

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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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November 19, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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The belief that AI will achieve true intelligence is a myth. Intelligence cannot be fully comprehended within the computational framework; current AI only simulates specific behaviors of intelligence.

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#philosophy #AI #intelligence #philsci #neurosky #neuroskyence
November 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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No Intelligence until you define what a concept is.

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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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November 17, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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We will not comprehend the brain with neuroscience, but we still need it

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The Dead End of AI: What Neuroscience Reveals
Every year, thousands of bright minds enter neuroscience programs driven by a profound question: How does the brain work? They emerge years later with advanced degrees, sophisticated experimental tech...
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November 16, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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You cannot code for intelligence. AI is fundamentally an application of mathematics and statistics.

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The Code That Could Never Think
Dr. William Compute – CTO of a Fortune 100 company Dr. Marcus Doubtful – physicist turned philosopher William: Marcus, with all this talk about Artificial Intelligence, I’ve been rethinking what comp...
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November 16, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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AI without meaning is not intelligence, it is mathematics

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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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November 15, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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We do not know what life is, same for intelligence. We can recognize it when we see it, but building it requires understanding ...

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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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November 15, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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What AI has in common with Sophists and Alchemists.

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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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November 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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The deep emotional attachment to LLMs.

Why Criticizing AI Feels Like Criticizing Someone’s Child.

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Why Criticizing AI Feels Like Criticizing Someone’s Child
I’m not questioning the usefulness of LLMs and AI in general. What I am questioning is its ability to achieve intelligence. Large Language Models (LLMs) are remarkable tools—tools to augment one’s in...
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November 14, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Why we create paradoxes when we ask the wrong questions?

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How Asking the Wrong Question Creates Mysteries That Don't Exist
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...
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November 12, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Why we know everything and comprehend nothing

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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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November 8, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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The Question No One Asks: Investigating the Act of Conceptualizing Itself

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The Next Frontier: What Is the Act of Conceptualizing?
We live trapped in a circle of our own making. We reason with concepts about objects and other concepts. We understand objects through concepts. We create new concepts by combining existing objects an...
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October 29, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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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
Too Narrow to Be Wise: The Tunnel Vision Trap of Modern Expertise
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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October 21, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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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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October 19, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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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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September 17, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything
July 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Do we need to name a new type of bias for this? 👇
July 11, 2025 at 5:59 AM