Consciousness, free will and the philosophical consequences of asking the wrong question.
Tag: philosophy of mind
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Is AI Conscious? Ask Mathematics.
Is artificial intelligence conscious? The deeper question is whether complex mathematical structuire is conscious; what happens when physics, mathematics and technology converge.
From social media and human psychology to Gaia and cosmic self-regulation, an exploration of identity, feedback, emergence and the illusion of control.
We are not outside the world we are trying to understand. We are (all) implicated in its disorders, participants in its reproduction, and responsible for what happens next.
A civilisation builds systems to solve its problems, then discovers that the systems have become the problems, while its dependence upon them has made their continuity deeply problematic.
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outer limits: impredicativity
Every explanation of reality becomes another part of the reality left to explain:
E(R) ∈ R → E(R) ≠ R.
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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.
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Field Logic: A Primer
Field logic does not begin with separate things that subsequently form relations. It begins with unresolved relations, differences, delays, dependencies, and absences from which temporary identities emerge and persist, identities we mistake for things.
Fear of others is not finally fear of difference, but fear of the gap through which the self discovers it was never solid, never alone, and never entirely its own.
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Afterlife
The afterlife, if the phrase is to be used at all, is not best imagined as a sentimental annex bolted onto death. Nor, however, is it something about which confidence is easily justified. What we call a life may be only a local and temporary stabilisation within conditions the person cannot comprehend or contain. The […]
The only (or at least most) comprehensive way to account for emergent behaviour is to grant some ontic reality to the abstract relational patterns, symmetries, and phase dynamics that bind and sustain it. A collection of things is, in other words, also a thing. That is not especially surprising at one intuitive level, but it […]
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Entropy is King
Entropy, and only entropy, is king. Highly ordered information systems do not rest on harmony. They are grounded in dissonance, volatility, and conflict, just as is extreme wealth sustained by the presence of its antithesis, the incoherent becoming, and always having been, the transmission medium of its inverse. This is not metaphor. It is structural. […]
