#neurosky — Public Fediverse posts

Imagine living in the mid-1700s. A powerful new technology has just swept the intellectual world: Newtonian physics. If we can calculate the orbit of Jupiter, why can't we calculate human morality?

https://ocrampal.com/when-david-hume-meets-chatgpt-a-skeptics-guide-to-the-ai-hype-2/

#programming #AI #intelligence #cogsci #philpsy #neurosky #philosophy

We are living a grand illusion. As we watch Large Language Models (LLMs) draft essays, write functional code, and converse with poetic nuance, we operate under a quiet, dangerous assumption: that if we just stack enough parameters, compute cycles, and training text high enough, true understanding and intent will eventually spark at the top.

It won’t.

https://ocrampal.com/the-quest-for-an-impossible-theory-why-computation-cant-solve-meaning-and-what-it-means-for-llms/

#programming #AI #intelligence #cogsci #philpsy #neurosky #philosophy

Why can’t the tech world agree on whether AI actually "reasons"?

It turns out, the answer is hidden in how we talk about feeling cold.

https://www.ocrampal.com/i-am-vs-i-have-how-everyday-grammar-secretly-influences-the-ai-debate/

#programming #AI #intelligence #cogsci #philpsy #neurosky #philosophy

Is AI becoming more human, or are we discovering just how much of our "intelligence" is actually uncritical automated thought?

https://ocrampal.com/the-inverted-turing-test-what-ai-tells-us-about-human-intelligence/

#programming #AI #intelligence #cogsci #philpsy #neurosky #philosophy

https://ocrampal.com/when-the-question-itself-was-the-problem/

Most philosophical debates don't need better answers. They need a different starting point. This dialogue explores a framework in which paradoxes about mind and body and reality stop arising.

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Every major intellectual revolution has a Galileo moment: when the object of inquiry becomes clear, the method takes shape, and the formal language is still being forged.

https://www.ocrampal.com/the-galileo-moment/

#programming #psychology #AI #intelligence #cogsci #philpsy #neurosky #philosophy

There is an I you feel. Located, bounded, looking out at the world from somewhere behind your eyes. Geneosophy is not interested in that I.

https://www.ocrampal.com/the-ground-beneath-the-i/

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We have become master cartographers of the "given." By scaling computation, we have built maps so vast and detailed that we often mistake the territory for the grid.

https://www.ocrampal.com/the-question-ai-will-never-ask/

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We talk endlessly about what AI can and cannot do. We talk very little about the assumptions built into the question itself. This dialogue follows a philosopher and an AI practitioner.

https://ocrampal.com/from-plato-to-gradient-descent-the-frame-we-forgot-we-chose/

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[OC] Foxes of Spring #neurosky #datasky #compsky #sciart I watch foxes fly Across my own sky Fur whipped Tail strips Cloud function is y Fourier norms Dimensional storms These ways Those ways Polycule waveforms Air in their shores Rivers heretofore Correlate Can create What I've seen before

AI won't reduce the number of programmers. It will create millions more, because running code you cannot understand is not programming. It is faith.

https://www.ocrampal.com/there-will-be-more-programmers-not-fewer/

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LLMs are masters of the "Understood"—the vast library of human output. But they lack "Understanding"—the creative spark that generates those concepts in the first place.

https://www.ocrampal.com/the-understood-understanding-gap-why-llms-hit-a-wall/

#philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #cogsci #philpsy #neurosky

Excel didn’t kill accountants; it gave them better tools. Yet, with AI, we’ve abandoned this logic in favor of a collective fantasy. We’re treating a sophisticated calculator as a human replacement rather than a human multiplier.

https://www.ocrampal.com/the-shared-delusion-both-doomers-and-dreamers-assume-current-technology-leads-to-agi-theyre-both-wrong/

#philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #physics #biology #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence

AI without meaning is not intelligence, it is mathematics

https://ocrampal.com/ai-and-the-neglect-of-meaning-from-unlimited-to-indefinite/

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Why do even the most advanced 'World Models' still hallucinate? Why does AI hit a mathematical wall of 'combinatorial explosion' the moment we try to make it truly autonomous?

https://ocrampal.com/frequently-asked-questions-geneosophy-vs-ai/

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Why Computation Can Simulate the Past, but Never Generate the Living Present

The Zoetrope of Logic: Why Programs Live in Frozen Time

https://www.ocrampal.com/the-zoetrope-of-logic-why-programs-live-in-frozen-time/

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The Ghost in the Silicon: Why Code Is Not Cognition.

https://www.ocrampal.com/the-code-that-could-never-think/

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The Life Paradox: Why Your DNA Isn’t a Blueprint

https://www.ocrampal.com/what-is-life-2/

If life is just a series of genetic programs, why can’t we predict the behavior of an embryo as easily as the flow of a river?

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When we try to formalize a neuron computationally, we don't translate biology into code—we perform a violent collapse.

https://www.ocrampal.com/what-a-neuron-teaches-us-about-computations-limits/

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The Master Key: One Secret to Solve Every Philosophical Mystery. Dissolving the Dualities: Why Concepts are the Foundation of Thought.

https://www.ocrampal.com/how-solving-the-concept-problem-unlocks-philosophys-greatest-mysteries/

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We assume intelligence is computable not because we’ve proven it, but because we’ve lost the ability to conceptualize it any other way. We are no longer using computation to model reality; we are forcing reality to fit the model.

https://www.ocrampal.com/the-ultimate-hammer-why-programmers-cant-see-beyond-computation/

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AI's Grand Illusion: The Uncomfortable Parallel to Alchemy and Sophistry

https://www.ocrampal.com/from-sophists-to-alchemists-to-ai-coders-the-technique-without-understanding/

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The End of the Machine Metaphor: A New Framework for Intelligence and Life.

A Journey Through the Paradoxes of Reductionism

https://ocrampal.com/the-end-of-the-machine-metaphor-a-new-framework-for-intelligence-and-life/

#philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #physics #biology #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence

The God’s Eye Fallacy: Why Computation Fails Biology

https://www.ocrampal.com/the-500-million-year-old-refutation-of-artificial-intelligence/

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The "Computational Theory of Mind" has become the modern secular religion, promising that if we just find the right algorithm, we can replicate intelligence.

And it is wrong ...

https://www.ocrampal.com/computation-is-limited-the-hidden-foundation-of-computation/

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Current Artificial Intelligence paradigms suffer from a historical amnesia concerning language: the original, embodied meaning of words has been forgotten.

https://www.ocrampal.com/your-words-know-something-your-mind-has-forgotten/

#philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #philmind #philsci #philsky #neurosky #neuroskyence

Are You Cold, or Do You Have Cold? The Answer Defines How You Perceive the World and Has Defining Implications On What AI is!

https://www.ocrampal.com/i-am-cold-vs-i-have-cold-a-philosophy-in-two-words/

#philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #physics #biology #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence

All AI models cannot be considered intelligent because of self reference ...

https://www.ocrampal.com/chasing-our-own-tail-self-reference-infinite-regress-and-the-limits-of-any-academic-discipline/

#philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #cogsci #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence

One key challenge that I've noticed over the years and highlighted here is the lack of permanent positions for scientists working on tool-building, infrastructure, and data curation. Those roles often have a precarious life, short-term funding, and no clear career path. #neurosky #neuroskyence