Symbolic systems presuppose an experiencing subject, yet no symbolic system fully accounts for the existence of experience itself.
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consciousness and the human world
Symbolic systems presuppose an experiencing subject, yet no symbolic system fully accounts for the existence of experience itself.
Political science inherits the person from philosophy without explaining it.
The rise of large language models has revived old questions about intelligence, utility, and personhood, but under altered conditions. From early ideas like the Turing test onward, personhood has been framed less as inner depth than as sufficient performance. What feels newly consequential is that systems designed to model, explain, and assist human experience increasingly […]