intelligence
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There is an inherent limitation in how we conceptualize and make sense of the nature of reality. Our minds are meaning-making machines, constantly spinning webs of concepts, beliefs and symbolic representations to map the ultimate territory of existence. Yet no matter how intricate or sophisticated our conceptual models become, they can never fully capture or…
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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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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 