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Language and Experience, with Isabela Granic

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Part 4 in a series of interviews on the book I'm working on, Neither/Nor. In this episode, ⁠Isabela Granic⁠ and I discuss how AI technologies like ChatGPT relate to experience. We move into Schopenhauer's distinction between rationality and the intuition in The World as Will and Representation.

Topics discussed:

  • Previous podcast episode: ⁠The AI and Dark Forest, with Maggie Appleton⁠
  • The explicit versus implicit in text
  • Philosophy is about changing your mind and life
  • Opportunity costs of reading
  • Brian Magee article on clarity in philosophical texts: Sense and Nonsense
  • My thread on Shklovsky and defamiliarization
  • Tolstoy's Hadji Murat
  • My thread on Janus words, Freud's (un)heimlich
  • Richard Wilhelm's I Ching
  • Graham: Zhuangzi's reaction against logic for ends in life (as opposed to means): aphorism, example, parable, and poetry
  • We'll come back to mathematics at some point
  • We'll come back to language models as averages
  • Dependent Origination article

    • Previous episodes:

    • Part 3 of this series: AI and Pyrrhonism
    • Part 2 of this series: ⁠A Philosophical Journey
    • Part 1 of this series: Causality and Conditionality

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