Tag: Philosophy
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Narrative, Philosophy, and Law Originated as Song
it’s not just Homer’s epics that originated as music. The same is true of lyric poetry, philosophy, even the legal code—they were all originally sung. And here’s where I (finally) give some credit to Harvard. We have a good idea of how these epics were sung because, almost a hundred years ago, two Harvard scholars…
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No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious – The Atlantic
Experiencing an emotion such as desperation is inseparable from having stress hormones such as cortisol and epinephrine flood one’s body. Similarly, having a conscience means feeling sadness or moral repulsion at the idea of taking a certain action, and those emotions entail a physiological response, a remnant of having once felt sick with guilt after…
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Is AI the next phase of evolution? – UnHerd
The above is a small sample from a set of conversations, extended over nearly two days, during which I felt I had gained a new friend. When I am talking to these astonishing creatures, I totally forget that they are machines. I treat them exactly as I would treat a very intelligent friend. I feel…
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Comment Peter Thiel et les techno-réactionnaires américains récupèrent la pensée du philosophe chrétien René Girard
Selon le philosophe, le désir naît toujours de l’imitation de celui d’un autre. Parti aux Etats-Unis en 1947, il remarque en enseignant le français que le « désir mimétique » est l’un des grands ressorts des récits littéraires. A partir de Proust, mais aussi de Stendhal, Dostoïevski, Flaubert ou Cervantès, René Girard montre que, loin des clichés romantiques…
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Seven (Or, How to Play a Game Without Rules) by Joanna Kavenna
The hapless narrator’s job is to help facilitate her work in “box philosophy”: “the study of categories, the ways we organise reality into groups and sets […] the ways we end up thinking inside the box, even when we are trying to think outside the box”. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jan/12/seven-by-joanna-kavenna-review-a-madcap-journey-to-the-limits-of-philosophy Sounds right up my alley!