5 days agoAre There Some Legible Texts That Even The World’s Most Sophisticated Robot Can’t Read?, #1–Introduction, & and The Logic of Legibility.By Robert Hanna For us it is the circumstances under which he had such an experience that justify him in saying in such a case that he understands, that he knows how to go on….This will become clearer if we interpolate the consideration of another word, namely “reading.”… The use of this word…Philosophy8 min readPhilosophy8 min read
5 days agoMerleau-Ponty Meets The Kripke Monster Redux, #5–Concluding Semi-Autobiographical Quasi-Whiteheadian Postscript.By Robert Hanna *** TABLE OF CONTENTS 0. Introduction 1. The Essential Embodiment Theory Briefly and Compactly Re-Presented and Re-Motivated 2. Three Later Significant Elaborations and Extensions of The Essential Embodiment Theory: Natural Libertarianism, The Neo-Organicist Worldview, and The Metaphysics of Liberal Naturalism 3. One Cheer, But Only One, For Analytic Panpsychism 00. Concluding Semi-Autobiographical Quasi-Whiteheadian PostscriptPhilosophy4 min readPhilosophy4 min read
Jan 23It’s All Done With Mirrors: A New Argument That Strong AI is Impossible.By Robert Hanna *** You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay at the bottom of this post, directly below the REFERENCES. *** It’s All Done With Mirrors: A New Argument That Strong AI is Impossible The strong thesis of artificial intelligence, aka strong AI, is the two-part thesis which says (i) that rational human minded animal intelligence can…Philosophy6 min readPhilosophy6 min read
Jan 23Old Empires Die Hard: Some Notes on The Second Cold War. (A Postscript to “2022: The Polycrisis So Far.”)An edgy essay by Otto Paans In response to my recent edgy essay, “2022: The Polycrisis So Far,”[i] we received an interesting question from a reader, Nathan Fifield, asking us whether or not we thought that this complex of crises had the potential to develop into a new Cold War? However, this new Cold War would…Philosophy5 min readPhilosophy5 min read
Jan 16How and Why ChatGPT Failed The Turing Test.By Robert Hanna *** You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay HERE. *** How and Why ChatGPT Failed The Turing Test As everyone who’s interested in higher education knows, there’s been a recent brouhaha about ChatGPT (see, e.g., Boethius, 2022). …Philosophy16 min readPhilosophy16 min read
Jan 16Merleau-Ponty Meets The Kripke Monster Redux, #4–One Cheer, But Only One, For Analytic Panpsychism.By Robert Hanna *** TABLE OF CONTENTS 0. Introduction 1. The Essential Embodiment Theory Briefly and Compactly Re-Presented and Re-Motivated 2. Three Later Significant Elaborations and Extensions of The Essential Embodiment Theory: Natural Libertarianism, The Neo-Organicist Worldview, and The Metaphysics of Liberal Naturalism 3. One Cheer, But Only One, For Analytic Panpsychism 00. Concluding Semi-Autobiographical Quasi-Whiteheadian PostscriptPhilosophy5 min readPhilosophy5 min read
Jan 10Merleau-Ponty Meets The Kripke Monster Redux: The Essential Embodiment Theory Now, #3.By Robert Hanna *** TABLE OF CONTENTS 0. Introduction 1. The Essential Embodiment Theory Briefly and Compactly Re-Presented and Re-Motivated 2. Three Later Significant Elaborations and Extensions of The Essential Embodiment Theory: Natural Libertarianism, The Neo-Organicist Worldview, and The Metaphysics of Liberal Naturalism 3. One Cheer, But Only One, For Analytic Panpsychism 00. Concluding Semi-Autobiographical Quasi-Whiteheadian PostscriptPhilosophy14 min readPhilosophy14 min read
Jan 10THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE, #54–The Thin Logic and the Thick Semantics of Moral Principles in Broadly Kantian Nonideal Dignitarian Moral Theory.By Robert Hanna *** This book, THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE: Uniscience and the Modern World, by Robert Hanna, presents and defends a critical philosophy of science and digital technology, and a new and prescient philosophy of nature and human thinking. It is being made available here in serial format, but you can also…Philosophy18 min readPhilosophy18 min read
Jan 2WTFU: The Manifesto of The Nobodies.An edgy essay by Robert Hanna *** You can also download and read or share a complete .pdf of this essay HERE. *** WTFU: The Manifesto of The Nobodies “WTFU,” pronounced “what-foo,” means wake the fuck up:[i] and that’s what I’m urging us all to do. Kantians and others will have already recognized that WTFU is a pithy, pungent contemporary equivalent of Immanuel Kant’s…Philosophy12 min readPhilosophy12 min read
Jan 22022: The Polycrisis So Far.An edgy essay by Otto Paans The last 20-odd years of the EU are informally known as “the polycrisis.” If we take a brief look at the past decades, we can clearly see why this is so. In the tense aftermath of the 9/11 attacks in 2001, the Iraq and Afghan conflicts, as well as numerous…Philosophy10 min readPhilosophy10 min read
