Categories
Philosophy

consciousness and the human world

Symbolic systems presuppose an experiencing subject, yet no symbolic system fully accounts for the existence of experience itself.

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politics

political philosophy’s hidden assumption: the person

Political science inherits the person from philosophy without explaining it.

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cybernetics

Interfacing Reality with LLM

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 […]