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Every major intellectual revolution has a Galileo moment: when the object of inquiry becomes clear, the method takes shape, and the formal language is still being forged. www.ocrampal.com/the-galileo-... #programming #psychology #AI #intelligence #cogsci #philpsy #neurosky #philosophy

The Galileo Moment

Every major intellectual revolution has a Galileo moment: when the object of inquiry becomes clear, the method takes shape, and the formal language adequate to carry the new questions is still being f...

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There is an I you feel. Located, bounded, looking out at the world from somewhere behind your eyes. Geneosophy is not interested in that I. www.ocrampal.com/the-ground-b... #programming #psychology #AI #intelligence #cogsci #philpsy #neurosky #philosophy

The Ground Beneath the "I"

There is an I you feel. Located, bounded, looking out at the world from somewhere behind your eyes. Geneosophy is not interested in that I. It is interested in what makes that I possible, the generati...

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We have become master cartographers of the "given." By scaling computation, we have built maps so vast and detailed that we often mistake the territory for the grid. www.ocrampal.com/the-question... #programming #psychology #AI #intelligence #cogsci #philpsy #neurosky #philosophy

The Question AI Will Never Ask

We have become master cartographers of the "given." By scaling computation, we have built maps so vast and detailed that we often mistake the territory for the grid. But as the dialogue between the AI...

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Marco Palombi @ocrampal.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We talk endlessly about what AI can and cannot do. We talk very little about the assumptions built into the question itself. This dialogue follows a philosopher and an AI practitioner. ocrampal.com/from-plato-t... #programming #psychology #AI #intelligence #cogsci #philpsy #neurosky #philosophy

From Plato to Gradient Descent: The Frame We Forgot We Chose

Practitioner: I’ll be honest—I find the "philosophy of AI" a bit indulgent. We aren’t guessing anymore. We’re building systems that work. GPT, AlphaFold, Sora... these aren't accidents. We’ve clearly ...

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AI won't reduce the number of programmers. It will create millions more, because running code you cannot understand is not programming. It is faith. www.ocrampal.com/there-will-b... #programming #psychology #AI #intelligence #cogsci #philpsy #neurosky #philosophy

There Will Be More Programmers, Not Fewer

AI won't reduce the number of programmers. It will create millions more, because running code you cannot understand is not programming. It is faith. Part I — The Hypothesis The Democratization Arc,...

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Society has lost its direction. We are now driving blind, and the reason is reductionism. We’ve become so obsessed with breaking the world into tiny parts that we’ve forgotten how the whole thing actually hangs together. www.ocrampal.com/too-narrow-t... #SystemsThinking #Reductionism #Holism

Too Narrow to Be Wise: The Tunnel Vision Trap of Modern Expertise

We live in a Kafkaesque paradox: the very people we turn to for wisdom about life’s biggest questions—meaning, society, the future of humanity—are systematically selected for their inability to think ...

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In the rush to scale neural networks, we have fallen into a category error: believing that a perfect simulation of an intelligent behavior is the same thing as the existence of intelligence itself. www.ocrampal.com/chasing-our-... #ArtificialIntelligence #PhilosophyOfAI #CognitiveScience

Chasing Our Own Tail: Self-Reference and the Limits of any Academic Discipline

Marcus Doubtful, a physicist turned philosopher. Richard Trad, a mathematician turned philosopher. Both have spent decades thinking about the foundations of knowledge, but they've reached very differ...

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LLMs hallucinate? Groundbreaking discovery: a statistical model works statistically. 😉 It’s the ultimate tech irony. We abandoned GOFAI because manual rules couldn't handle the messiness of reality.

Word and Excel vs LLMs. Secretaries became executive assistants, their role evolved to higher-level coordination, communication, and decision support. Accountants gained the ability to do far more analysis, strategic planning, and advisory work.

AGI is Our Generation's Alchemy, And We're Too Arrogant to Admit It The AI industry has a dirty secret: we're building toward Artificial General Intelligence without the faintest consensus on what intelligence actually is. ocrampal.com/from-sophist...

From Sophists to Alchemists to AI Coders: The Technique Without Understanding

We believe we are at the cutting edge of history, but we may just be repeating its oldest mistakes. From the Sophists’ empty rhetoric to the Alchemists’ blind experimentation, humanity has a long hist...

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LLMs are masters of the "Understood"—the vast library of human output. But they lack "Understanding"—the creative spark that generates those concepts in the first place. www.ocrampal.com/the-understo... #philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #cogsci #philpsy #neurosky

The Understood-Understanding Gap: Why LLMs Hit a Wall

Large Language Models have become ubiquitous in knowledge work, yet a curious pattern has emerged. Talk to consultants at McKinsey, BCG, Bain, and you'll hear the same refrain: "I don't really know ho...

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Excel didn’t kill accountants; it gave them better tools. Yet, with AI, we’ve abandoned this logic in favor of a collective fantasy. We’re treating a sophisticated calculator as a human replacement rather than a human multiplier. www.ocrampal.com/the-shared-d... #philosophy #AI #intelligence

The Shared Delusion: Both doomers and dreamers assume current technology leads to AGI. They’re both wrong

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Why Computation Can’t Create—And Where It Hits the Logic Ceiling. While logic can rearrange the pieces of an existing puzzle, it cannot explain the spark that creates the pieces themselves. ocrampal.com/the-scope-of... #philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #cogsci #philpsy #neurosky

The Scope of Geneosophy: Where Concept-Creation Matters

Not every domain of inquiry requires genosophical investigation. Understanding when geneosophy applies—and when traditional approaches suffice—clarifies both its potential and its proper limits. The...

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The Enlightenment was meant to be a lighthouse, its beam of reason guiding humanity out of superstition's dark waters. But what if the beam grew too focused, too bright? www.ocrampal.com/from-light-t... #philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #cogsci #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence

From Light to Blindness: How the Enlightenment Lost Its Way

We live in an age of breathtaking technical sophistication and profound existential confusion. We can manipulate matter at the atomic level but can't agree on what makes life worth living. We've mappe...

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We have spent centuries perfecting the art of mapping the "streams" of knowledge—science, mathematics, and logic—while ignoring the river’s source. www.ocrampal.com/the-source-o... #philosophy #AI #intelligence #physics #biology #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence

Breaking the Circle: Comprehending the Act of Understanding

We live trapped in a circle of our own making. We reason with concepts about objects and other concepts. We understand objects through concepts. We create new concepts by combining existing objects an...

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When Excel became mainstream, it accelerated accountants' work. Companies needed fewer number-crunching positions. You could accomplish more with fewer people, but you still needed the experienced accountant. Think of LLMs as a tool to increase efficiency, not one to replace the accountant.

AI is like an automobile. It amplifies our mobility and lets us go faster and farther, but it doesn't decide the destination, and it certainly doesn't navigate the ethics of the journey. www.ocrampal.com/stop-treatin... #ArtificialIntelligence

Stop treating AI like a person. Start treating it like a tool.

We often hear that AI is on the verge of doing "every job that requires intelligence." But what if we’re fundamentally misunderstanding what "intelligence" actually is? Here is a debate between Marcu...

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Why does calling out a hallucination feel like calling someone’s kid "ugly"? We’ve stopped treating AI like software and started treating it like a protégé. Here’s why criticizing an algorithm has suddenly become so personal. www.ocrampal.com/why-criticiz... #ArtificialIntelligence

Why Criticizing AI Feels Like Criticizing Someone’s Child

I’m not questioning the usefulness of LLMs and AI in general. What I am questioning is its ability to achieve intelligence. Large Language Models (LLMs) are remarkable tools—tools to augment one’s in...

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The Circularity of Conceptual Analysis and the Search for a New Foundation ocrampal.com/the-impossib... #philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #physics #biology #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence

Can Philosophy of Science Really Stand Outside Science?

Philosophy of science promises to do something extraordinary: step outside the scientific enterprise to examine its foundations, methods, and assumptions with clear-eyed objectivity. From Thomas Kuhn'...

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The Thing Trap: How Language Locked Us Into the Wrong Model of Mind ocrampal.com/things-to-be... #philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #physics #biology #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence

Things, to be and the computer metaphor

From birth, we learn to communicate through language—but language misleads us. It convinces us that we truly know what things are, that we comprehend the abstract essence of a thing. This illusion sha...

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Neuroscience produces more data every year: more neurons mapped, more proteins identified. Yet the fundamental questions remain unanswered. We're creating puzzle pieces without knowing what image they're meant to form. ocrampal.com/the-puzzle-i... #philosophy #psychology #AI #intelligence #physics

The Puzzle Without a Picture: Why Geneosophy is Needed

The metaphor of the puzzle can be applied to any science, though it becomes particularly vivid in neuroscience. In neuroscience, we work with a multitude of objects considered central to the field: n...

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The quest to understand consciousness often feels like searching for an elephant in a room—we're certain it's there because we feel it, yet it remains stubbornly hidden from our scientific and philosophical grasp. geneosophy.com/consciousnes... #philosophy psychology #AI #intelligence #physics

Consciousness, the elephant in the room

Consciousness is the holy grail of our quest to comprehend who we are. We feel conscious, there is no doubt about it. But understanding consciousness has been outside our reach so far. It is a strange...

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Michel Bitbol expresses many Geneosophic intuitions in this video. However, the distinction between possibilities and actualities (or probabilities) is still not articulated convincingly. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5STU...

CEFISES Seminar: Michel Bitbol, “Transcendental epistemologies and probabilism”

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AI without meaning is not intelligence, it is mathematics ocrampal.com/ai-and-the-n... #philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #physics #biology #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence

AI and the Neglect of Meaning: From Unlimited to Indefinite

The story of artificial intelligence is not just one of increasing computational power—it’s also a story about how machines relate to meaning. Or more precisely, how meaning has been progressively sid...

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