than a single-direction process of input -> relational mapping -> next token prediction drawing directly from the input map -> output

Just read this. I'm not too familiar w/ semiotics but the language seems fairly directly translatable into vector space mapping. I disagree that qualia exists in the relational mapping itself, given that neuronal mappings represent a predictive model constantly integrating new neuronal inputs rather

I'm not deeply wedded to any particular causal explanation, but my first recommendation would be Hofstadter's work with pattern-identity theory

"shut up and calculate" is thought terminating, not examining the nature of phenomenal experience! I encourage you to look beyond wishy-washy idealists like Pollan or reductive anti-computationalists like Searle for works that seriously examine the intersection of neuroscience and philosophy of mind

What legacy institutions? What makes anything beyond hard physicality explanations the realm of "mystics and falsifiers"?

what?

If something is harmful to democracy, it should be explicitly disallowed in the framework of governance. If something is harmful to democracy and not explicitly disallowed, the framework should be amended!

Aside from destroying any sense of democratic life, it's arguably not even Liberal in the Enlightenment sense! Rousseau, Voltaire, and Toqueville are all too radical for the modern nightmare of liberal democracy.

Any liberal democratic (read: liberal, non-democratic) system operating on Popper's assumptions will in time slide towards a sort of necrotic liberal-centrist authoritarianism reliant on non-democratic sociocultural impositions to close the frontier of political thought. How thought terminating!

sorry for starting to post again, I'll do better

the key to building communism is B2B SaaS 🙏🙏🙏

Damn, I'll have to get back to you after finals then