Philosophy informs and grounds science, they're perfectly complimentary. A lot of Wittgensteins work, Heideggers work, and later philosophy of mind underlies current neuroscience. You can't really investigate the nature…
I have to say my memory on the exact beliefs of Hume are murky. IIRC he did still think that human cognition starts with neutral input data and processes its way to the most abstract concepts. Heidegger inverts this.…
>Maybe I need to reread his book, but I think of System 1 as "fast, reflexive, instinctive" mental activity, and System 2 as "slow, deliberative, rational, verbal" thought. Current LLMs are the opposite of slow and…
Heideggers "ready-to-hand" more or less says that we use things first and understand them later. We experience a hammer first as "thing you hit nails with" and later abstract to "object with these particular…
Excellent article, I really enjoyed it. I especially enjoyed this subtle joke: "We think the weak activations usually don’t matter, but the strong positives and negatives matter a lot. For instance, Santa lives on the…
Philosophy informs and grounds science, they're perfectly complimentary. A lot of Wittgensteins work, Heideggers work, and later philosophy of mind underlies current neuroscience. You can't really investigate the nature…
I have to say my memory on the exact beliefs of Hume are murky. IIRC he did still think that human cognition starts with neutral input data and processes its way to the most abstract concepts. Heidegger inverts this.…
>Maybe I need to reread his book, but I think of System 1 as "fast, reflexive, instinctive" mental activity, and System 2 as "slow, deliberative, rational, verbal" thought. Current LLMs are the opposite of slow and…
Heideggers "ready-to-hand" more or less says that we use things first and understand them later. We experience a hammer first as "thing you hit nails with" and later abstract to "object with these particular…
Excellent article, I really enjoyed it. I especially enjoyed this subtle joke: "We think the weak activations usually don’t matter, but the strong positives and negatives matter a lot. For instance, Santa lives on the…