Gert @Gert@qoto.org

«It is by avoiding the rapid decay into the inert state of 'equilibrium' that an organism appears so enigmatic.»
—[Erwin Schrödinger, What is Life? 1944]
@scienze
#science #philosophy
https://books.tarbaweya.org/static/documents/uploads/pdf/Erwin%20Schr%C3%B6dinger-What%20Is%20Life__%20with%20Mind%20and%20Matter%20and%20Autobiographical%20Sketches-Cambridge%20University%20Press%20(1992).pdf

"Mechanism is a common and powerful concept, invoked in grant calls and publication guidelines. But scientists use it in different ways, making it difficult to clarify standards in the field. We asked nine scientists to weigh in."
@scienze
#science #philosophy #epistemology
https://www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-picture/what-are-mechanisms-unpacking-the-term-is-key-to-progress-in-neuroscience/

La funzione epistemica della narrazione
#letteratura #filosofia #philosophy #narrative
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ejop.12994

#philosophy
https://aeon.co/essays/how-prairie-philosophy-democratised-thought-in-19th-century-america

In an increasingly secular world, AI can fill a gap in our longing for something greater. While religious belief is declining, robots and AI are uniquely positioned to take on the role of religion. Meanwhile, believers in AGI claim it will have god-like powers.
@scienze
#ai #philosophy
https://jurgengravestein.substack.com/p/religion-20

Objective reality exists, but what can you know about it that isn’t subjective. According to some neuroscientists, not much.
#neuroscience #philosophy
https://bigthink.com/thinking/objective-reality-2/

Come due studiosi di sinistra salvarono l'archivio di Nietzsche
#philosophy
https://jacobin.com/2024/08/nietzsche-marx-fascism-felsch-review

#art #books #films #cinema #philosophy
https://newrepublic.com/article/183138/breaking-and-making-up-stanley-cavell.

Beyond Binaries: Prof. Klaus-Dieter Mathes’ Non-Dual Legacy
#dharma #philosophy #art
http://tinyurl.com/5x66kvj6

Byung-Chul Han, in treatises such as “The Burnout Society” and his latest, “The Crisis of Narration,” diagnoses the frenetic aimlessness of the digital age.
#philosophy #internet
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/the-internets-new-favorite-philosopher

Aby Warburg, Ernst Cassirer e l'importanza simbolica della ellisse.
#philosophy #math
https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/blog/one-hundred-years-warburgs-discovery-ellipse

#philosophy
https://aeon.co/essays/philosophical-theories-are-like-good-stories-margaret-macdonald

"Han diagnosed what he called “the violence of positivity,” deriving from “overproduction, overachievement, and overcommunication.” We are so stimulated, chiefly by the Internet, that we paradoxically cannot feel or comprehend much of anything."
#philosophy #internet
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/the-internets-new-favorite-philosopher

The Backus-Naur form had already been formulated by the Indian pandit Pāṇini, four centuries BC, in his formalization of Sanskrit grammar. Aristotle was more or less contemporary with him. As the first phenomenologist in history, his perspective is still the foundation of modern thought. He glimpsed what modern neuroscience demonstrated 2,400 years later. In the technical field, nothing truly new has ever been done or said in relation to the human.
«Was bleibet aber, stiften die Dichter»
#history #computation #science #philosophy
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220423897_Panini-Backus_Form_suggested

We tend to think of delusions as factually inaccurate. However, we don’t often consider how, by invalidating them, we also undermine the agency of those who hold them. This is a mistake, argues philosopher Lisa Bortolotti. If we examine the content of our delusions against the environment which influenced them, they reveal the very ways humans engage in active meaning-making, the ultimate mark of human agency.
#psychology #neuroscience #philosophy
https://iai.tv/articles/delusions-shape-our-reality-auid-2772

Richard Cytowic, a pioneering researcher who returned synesthesia to mainstream science, traces the historical evolution of our understanding of the phenomenon.
#neuroscience #art #philosophy
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/a-brief-200-year-history-of-synesthesia/

A Philosophical History of Transhumanism
#philosophy #transhumanism
https://philosophynow.org/issues/160/A_Philosophical_History_of_Transhumanism

Generative agents will change our society in weird, wonderful and worrying ways. Can philosophy help us get a grip on them?
#ai #philosophy
https://aeon.co/essays/can-philosophy-help-us-get-a-grip-on-the-consequences-of-ai

Is Deep Learning rubbish?... Yes, It Is.
#deeplearning #ai #neuroscience #philosophy
https://i.devol.it/watch?v=SYQ8Siwy8Ic

Robert Musil as a Philosopher
#philosophy #literature
https://manwithoutqualities.com/2014/02/24/the-philosophy-of-robert-musil/