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Bryan
June 17, 2026 at 11:05 AM Reacted withReaction (Post)
to Don’s post in the thread Updated FAQ Entry: Why Should I Care About Epicurean Physics When So Much Science Has Changed In The Last 2000 Years?.There's a lot of philosophical jargon flying through this thread, and I'll freely admit some of it is going over my head. For y'all's consideration:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/incompatibilism-theories/
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Peter Konstans
PostJune 17, 2026 at 10:12 AM The notion of moral responsibility is not the same as the notion that human behavior is (to some degree) reformable. Moral responsibility implies that humans are rational agents endowed with free will. If one accepts physicalism, that is just false, an… -
Cassius
PostJune 17, 2026 at 10:12 AM In my view everything posted in the thread so far has been valuable for setting the stage of the debate. It is good for people to know where Tim O'Keefe stands and how he disagrees with Sedley on emergence.
Also, Don has focused on some very important… -
Bryan
Reaction (Post)June 17, 2026 at 9:40 AM […]
i agree with Peter K's post and "liked it." I singled out this sentense only because I don't think he meant to imply that animals are not conscious, or only a "human" brain can be conscious. If you did mean that Peter please correct me, but I took… -
Titus
Reaction (Post)June 17, 2026 at 9:14 AM […]
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I do see an analogy between prolepsis and LLMs. In both cases, pattern recognition built on past input is applied to new input to generate a response. This analogy may be weaker for ancient Epicurean prolepsis than for what prolepsis updated with… -
Titus
Reaction (Post)June 17, 2026 at 9:14 AM If prolepsis is roughly equivalent to the notion of pattern recognition that our cognition relies on, then AI is just the collective pool of human prolepsis, a machine packed with enormous quantities of information that humans use as an auxiliary for… -
Cassius
June 17, 2026 at 7:08 AM Replied to the thread Relationship between AI/LLMs and prolepsis.Post[…]
i agree with Peter K's post and "liked it." I singled out this sentense only because I don't think he meant to imply that animals are not conscious, or only a "human" brain can be conscious. If you did mean that Peter please correct me, but I took… -
Cassius
Reaction (Post)June 17, 2026 at 7:04 AM If prolepsis is roughly equivalent to the notion of pattern recognition that our cognition relies on, then AI is just the collective pool of human prolepsis, a machine packed with enormous quantities of information that humans use as an auxiliary for… -
Kalosyni
Reaction (Post)June 17, 2026 at 7:03 AM […]
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I do see an analogy between prolepsis and LLMs. In both cases, pattern recognition built on past input is applied to new input to generate a response. This analogy may be weaker for ancient Epicurean prolepsis than for what prolepsis updated with… -
Cassius
June 17, 2026 at 7:02 AM Replied to the thread Relationship between AI/LLMs and prolepsis.Post[…]
At least at present that's the way I am seeing a relationship that is productive to discuss.
No doubt there are many differences, but i would not underestimate the significance of even this short part of Martin's statement.
When the major other…
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