Dani Díaz

Super weird to contemplate the possibility of some future TAOCP supplement mentioning Claude. It's as if some cuneiform tablet mentioned Excel or something.

Clemente Susini (1754-1814).

Clemente Susini (1754-1814).

Clemente Susini (1754-1814).

Clemente Susini (1754-1814).

Qué peculiares y qué curiosidad me despiertan los modelos anatómicos de época victoriana del artista Clemente Susini (1754-1814).

Me han recordado mucho a la imaginería religiosa española, sobre todo a la relacionada con la Semana Santa.

#art #sculpture #victorian

fuck playstation 5 this is what im playing

"Wonderful young man, very talented, very handsome, unlike that nasty Pedro Sánchez. Made a movie about some hippies. They go to a music festival and then drive into the desert. And then some things happen, I'm not gonna tell you, I could, but some things happen. You'll have to see it [laughs]"

Teño a intuición de que a Trump caeríalle ben Óliver Laxe, un pouco coma lle pasa con Mamdani.

Pedro Sánchez, lembra esta información, podería chegar a ser útil.

Einstein en Vigo, por @bretemas.bsky.social

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Book cover of “Temporal Cognition in Animals” by Angelica Kaufmann in the Cambridge Elements: The Philosophy of Biology series. Against a black background, the title is surrounded by Ernst Haeckel’s illustrations of marine organisms—radial, symmetrical forms in vivid blues, oranges, reds, and greens.

Do non-human animals represent time? New Element in the #PhilBio series by Angelica Kaufmann—free to download until March 16! Kaufmann argues that temporal cognition is widespread across many animal species & advances comparative analyses 👇📕 www.cambridge.org/core/element... #evosky #HPS #cogsci

For this architectural interpretation, a challenge immediately arises: the Problem of Minimal Instantiation.119 This problem arises for most functionalist theories of consciousness – compare Dehaene’s self-driving car – but it’s especially acute here. Any machine that can read the contents of its own registers and memory stores can arguably, in some sense, represent its own cognitive processing. If this counts as higher order representation and if higher order representation suffices for consciousness, then most of our computers are already conscious!

"the Problem of Minimal Instantiation: It seems easy to create simple AI systems that meet the minimal criteria of these theories but which most theorists would hesitate to regard as conscious"

*Caroline Murat never paid the artist for this terrific portrait of herself, she just commissioned it from a major talent and then chiselled him out of the fee, Trump-style

*What goes around comes around #historicalparallels

159. i love basically everything by goya, but this image, 'fight with cudgels,' has always felt especially poignant to me. two fucking idiots drowning in the muck trying to murder each other.

There doesn't seem to be a level of abstraction at which human brains and LLMs are roughly "similar". We have more in common with octopuses (in particular, our manner of arising) even as LLMs speak our language.

This makes a (generalized, substrate-independent) argument from analogy more dicey.

LLMs have an inner structure very different from human brains (leaving aside the difference in substrate). Out brains don't seem to learn using anything like backpropagation. They manage to learn without ingesting the whole of the Internet.

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Xa ameaza a primavera

Of course there is a lengthy philosophical history of plant sentience, that stretches all the way back to Plato and Aristotle who stated that plants have souls, of the appetitive or desirous variety (Timaeus 77b), and that plants have a nutritive soul (De anima 411b27), respectively. Leibniz wrote, ‘I do not dare assert that plants have no soul, life, or substantial form’ (1687/1989, p. 82) — see also his (1690/1989). In his Man, A Plant (1748), La Mettrie noted many similarities between humans and plants, suggesting that plants have minds, if only ‘infinitely smaller’ than the human.

On the other hand, there are hundreds of thousands of living green plant species. Thus, to draw the parallel more precisely, the proper question to be posed should be: ‘What is it like to be a rose?’ (or a thistle, for that matter!). Of course, were panpsychism to be correct, then all green plants, being so high up the phylogenetic chain, would uncontroversially be minded. But my main thesis does not rest upon the truth of panpsychism, however strong the arguments in its favour may turn out to be. In what follows, I shall ignore subtleties along these lines for ease of exposition, although we should bear in mind that some plant species might well have evolved consciousness, whereas others may have not. Last, a word on terminology. Despite the emphasis on ‘consciousness’, the ensuing discussion is to be understood in a wider context in so far as various aspects of mentality, including subjective experience, awareness, inner representation, central coordination, goal-directedness, memory, self-awareness, and qualia are discussed. These concepts may be clustered separately as qualitative and intentional aspects of mentality, respectively. This article is primarily about qualitative aspects of the experiences of plants, although in order to elaborate on such subjective character, intentional aspects will be incorporated into the discussion as we proceed. Let us first step down the tree of life in our quest for other forms of experiencing the world, and see what invertebrates are up to, in order to pave the way for a better understanding of plant life.

apparently there's an actual "What Is It Like
to Be a Plant" article lol www.esalq.usp.br/lepse/imgs/p... and a corresponding "Planta Sapiens" book www.goodreads.com/book/show/61... a review in Spanish turia.uv.es/index.php/qf...

Augustus is granted a very Christian vision by the Tiburtine Sibyl. As imagined in the 1570s by Antoine Caron, whose day is today.

IA, more sfnal riverine landscapes at dusk but not set in hell plz. Taek this

Laxe debería dirixir unha peli da saga Transformers.

Tamén de Mad Max, inda que Sirat xa é prácticamente unha precuela así que sería redundante.

After an encounter with a genie, a soldier from the Ozymandian army believes that he has been transported to a faraway kingdom, and tries to find his way home, only to realize, upon encountering the now-famous ruins, that he was in Ozy's kingdom all along, but in the future. NOW THAT'S A TWIST.

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Cambridge Core - History of Philosophy - Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

New Element on Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, free to download for the next couple of weeks

A Special issue of Philosophy and the Mind Sciences on Representation in the Neurosciences and AI has just come out and it's full of cool papers: philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph...

Editorial cartoon — “Give Her the Right Weapon and She Will Kill the Beast” — by Nelson Greene (1869-1955), published in PUCK, May 22, 1915. The weapon is suffrage; the beast is war.

Obgleich nun das Wesen an sich jedes Daseienden in seinem Willen besteht, und die Erkenntniß, nebst dem Bewußtseyn, nur als ein Sekundäres, auf den höheren Stufen der Erscheinung hinzukommt; so finden wir doch, daß der Unterschied, den die Anwesenheit und der verschiedene Grad des Bewußtseyns und Intellekts zwischen Wesen und Wesen setzt, überaus groß und folgenreich ist. Das subjektive Daseyn der Pflanze müssen wir uns denken als ein schwaches Analogon, einen bloßen Schatten von Behagen und Unbehagen: und selbst in diesem äußerst schwachen Grade weiß die Pflanze allein von sich, nicht von irgend etwas außer ihr.

Nagel: "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?"
Schopenhauer: "What Is It Like to Be a Plant?"

Two bookshelves with many hardback and some softback books

Today's DP (Distributed Proofreaders) blog, "My 25 Years at Distributed Proofreaders", is about one DP volunteer's experience.

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#dp #dpblog

encountering a new word, the ideal: "wonderful! a new window into the multifaceted web of Meaning, a new magic spell I can use"

the reality: "what the FUCK is this fucking word on which the whole meaning of the passage hinges. Do I have to look in the dictionary, to forget it 5 seconds later? Fuck"

Chinese landscape painting with a sage

It's #HoPWaG time again! Today we look at the theme of "wandering" in the Zhuangzi, comparing this to Thomas Nagel's idea of "philosophical absurdity."

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#philsky #philosophy #podcasts #daoism #zhuangzi

Tengo préstamos no renovables que me vencen el lunes en distintas bibliotecas a tomar por culo la una de la otra 😭

Woman with black hair lying on a cot while wearing a wide green coat

Woman reading (c.1912). Karl Alexander Wilke (1879 Leipzig - 1954 Wien).