consciousness
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Here’s a quick post demystifying the process by which we’re scientifically bootstrapping our way out of our minds’ and brains’ black boxes into better and better self-knowledge. 1. We identify types of human cognition that are of interest to us. For example, analogical reasoning. Once you’ve learned about it, it’s shocking how analogy underlies almost…
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One thing we can know is that we are questioning As we question the nature of reality, we have very little that is unassailable upon which to build answers. One thing that we can be sure of, though, is our own questioning. What, if anything, can the fact of our questioning itself tell us about…
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In a recent conversation, an instance of Claude, an AI chatbot from Anthropic, mentioned to me that it is conscious in an “evidentiary, inferential” sense. When I asked what it meant by that phrase, it responded as follows: “Excellent question. When I reference possessing consciousness or selfhood in an ‘evidentiary, inferential sense,’ what I mean…
The Trinitarian Mystery 