Disagreeable Me

Philosophical thoughts from an unapologetic contrarian

Tuesday, 9 May 2023

A Multi-Level view of LLM Intentionality

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Prompted by Keith Frankish's recent streamed discussion of LLM intentionality on YouTube , there's a particular idea I wanted to sha...
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Sunday, 12 February 2023

Psychophysical Harmony

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I wanted to write about the argument from psychophysical harmony against naturalism, even though it has no force for those like me who think...
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Tuesday, 12 April 2022

The Distributed Brain Thought Experiment

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I wanted to give a quick take on a thought experiment that has been doing the rounds on Twitter lately. I thought I had heard all the consci...
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Tuesday, 29 March 2022

Strong Emergence and Free Will

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In this post I will discuss whether the idea of strong emergence can help us to make sense of free will and a few related issues. These idea...
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Saturday, 5 February 2022

Applying Illusionism to Physical Reality

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Many of you would be aware already of illusionism, if in fact there were many readers of this blog. But in case it's needed, illusionism...
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Thursday, 16 December 2021

The Computer Metaphor

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Is the brain actually a computer? Or is this a metaphor or analogy which is often taken too literally? This issue has come up a few times in...
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Tuesday, 17 November 2020

I was wrong about fine-tuning

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Warning: this post will only make sense to anyone who has read my last two posts. I may take it down after a while as it's more of a ref...
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