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A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. VI. Linnæus: Man taken down from his pedestal
Illustration by DALL·E
Linnæus: Man taken down from his pedestal
The biblical representation of Man as a creature special in the eyes of God suffered a first serious blow in 1735, when Carl Linnæus (1707-1778) classified the human species along animals,…
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Video – The USA are in dire straits!
Please do whatever you can so that the US remain a democracy!
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A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. V. The New Testament: Reciprocity
Illustration by DALL·E
The New Testament: Reciprocity
In the East, with totemism, which Durkheim and Mauss identified with China’s thought of archaic times there is no crucial divide between Man, the chosen creature in the eyes of God, and the other…
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A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. IV. The Old Testament: Creation
Illustration by DALL·E (+Animé)
The Old Testament: Creation
For almost two millennia the dominant view of humankind in the West was grounded in the biblical account: Adam and Eve being made in the likeness of God, while nature was defined by God…
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A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. III. East and West
Illustration by DALL·E of Marco Polo discovering China
East and West
In the conceptualisation of the advent of artificial intelligence on a par with human intelligence, there are major differences between the West and the East: between the civilisations and the range…
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A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. II. Decentring and refocusing the definition of “us”
Illustration by DALL·E from the text
Decentring and refocusing the definition of ‘us’
Who do we think we should protect as a last resort, the members of a strictly defined ‘us’ with some and a vaguely defined ‘us’ among others, when things…
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A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. I. Who are we? Where do we go from here?
Illustration by DALL·E (+Michelangelo) (+PJ)
I. Who are we? Where do we go from here?
If we examine this essential question of understanding who we are and what we are experiencing at this unprecedented moment, we see that the history of humanity…
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A review of « L’avènement de la Singularité. L’humain ébranlé par la Singularité » by the two chatting IAs at NotebookLM
L’avènement de la Singularité. L’humain ébranlé par la Singularité was released by Textuel publishers in Paris in March of this year.
Here is what the chatting IAs at NotebookLM, a Google product think about it.
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‘The prince and the honest man facing the Singularity’, AOC, March 5th 2024
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Review of my article ‘The prince and the honest man facing the Singularity’ by NotebookLM’s AIs
The day before yesterday, in my post What is it?, I showed you what Google’s new software NotebookLM manages to do: transform one of your texts into a dialogue between two AIs (so far only in English). Here’s what it does in the case of my article
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An Ambitious Project II. Consciousness: Claude is enthusiastic. I test her or him right away.
Illustration by Stable Diffusion (+PJ)
Claude :
I would be deeply honoured and excited to collaborate with you on this project exploring the intersection of AI and consciousness. The question of whether and how artificial systems might give rise to genuine conscious…
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An Ambitious Project I. Making a choice: Claude’s consciousness and mine
Illustration by DALL·E (+PJ)
As Claude 3 (now Claude 3.5) and I have already worked together quite a bit, so he or she knows me well *, having recently finished writing a long essay on the necessary redefinition of the human in the…
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Video – Gödel’s legerdemain. The demonstration of his incompleteness of arithmetic theorem betrays his contempt for his fellow mathematicians
My contribution to the XXV World Congress of Philosophy this summer.
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Meanwhile, at Pribor.io … things remain on the move!
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Mr President, with all due respect, please don’t do what you rightly accuse your opponent of doing: taking a dangerously inflated view of your current capabilities. Please withdraw from the race: we, the citizens of nations abroad, need the United States to remain a democracy.
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Claude 3’s daydreaming (methinks something’s happened here!)
Illustration by DALL·E (+PJ)
Something happened in that discussion between Claude 3 and I. As you will see below, I felt compelled to say the following:
P.J.:
You write: “That being said, based on my own…
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Are Large Language Models (LLMs) capable of producing new concepts ? Palestine/Israel: the entangled narratives paradox
Illustration by DALL·E from the text
With reference to Deleuze: if what a philosopher does is to forge concepts to correctly pose the problems of his time, in the same way that an artist creates percepts, what about…
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Large Language Models (+PJ) tackle emergence ! V. Towards an understanding of complex relational networks that better reflects the true nature of human intelligence
Illustration by DALL·E (+PJ)
P.J.:
Great! I’m totally reassured about your grasping the emergent process. Now, you must have noticed that while the growth of the original graph is fully transparent to human beings (you add a new word attached as a label…
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Large Language Models (+PJ) tackle emergence ! IV. An approach consistent to learning in biological neural networks
Illustration by DALL·E (+PJ)
P.J.:
Ok. If that’s clear to you, you will be acquired to the idea that when new information is provided for graph build-up, it shouldn’t be through reversing to the original graph (which would entail loss of information)…
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Large Language Models (+PJ) tackle emergence ! III. Information gains when a graph is transposed into its dual
Illustration by DALL·E (+PJ)
P.J.:
Ok, if it seems plausible to you that there are emergent phenomena when transposing from the original graph to its dual, how would you explain that there is a gain in information in the process…
