#philmind — Public Fediverse posts

Glad to see #pragmatism advancing arguments and evidence about #intuition and #reflection. I've applied it to
- #CogSci and #metaphilosophy broadly: https://doi.org/10.1111/meta.12534
- #AI and #PhilMind: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2505.22987

A new paper extends it to #Sociology: https://doi.org/10.1111/jtsb.70053

Are critical thinking and reflective thinking the same? Nope.

I've argued that not all reflective thinking is critical: https://doi.org/10.5840/resphilosophica2711

And Nadurak argues that not all critical thinking is reflective (Type 2): https://doi.org/10.22329/il.v46i2.10342

#cogSci #PhilMind #epistemology #AI

#PhilMind #neuroscience #consciousness

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How well can #AI judge reasoning quality?

Rewriting agents' chain-of-thought "style" to *appear* more reflective (without changing action or inference) increased an #LLM judge's false positive rate (by 3% absolute or 18% relative).

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2601.14691

#philMind #compSci

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

Professor James O’Shea, Head of #Philosophy at @[email protected], talking at the Robert Boyle Winter School at Dublin #RDS on the nature of mind and matter. #PhilMind

AI without meaning is not intelligence, it is mathematics

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

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

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/

#philosophy #AI #intelligence #biology #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky

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/

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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/

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

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/

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

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/

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

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/

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

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/

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

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/

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

“Brains don’t merely run a program. They are a particular kind of physical process that performs computation by unfolding in time.” #PhilMind #consciousness https://neurosciencenews.com/consciousness-computing-ai-30068/

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

Why we know everything and comprehend nothing

https://www.ocrampal.com/from-light-to-blindness-how-the-enlightenment-lost-its-way/

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

Does additional reflective thinking improve #AI reasoning models' math decisions?

Actually, additional reflection improved initial (more than final) answers: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2510.08308

More reason for #StrategicReflectivism: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2505.22987

#epistemology #cogSci #philMind

The #AI companies are onto me!

#OpenAI recently automated the process of identifying tasks worthy of "slow" #reasoning.

In "Strategic Reflectivism...", I showed how that's key to #intelligence (human or machine).

Now available via audiopaper! 👉 https://byrdnick.com/archives/29788/upon-reflection-ep-16-strategic-reflectivism

#podcast #cogSci #philSci #philMind #compSci #epistemology #psychology #dualProcessTheory

#PhilMind #CogSci

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#PhilMind #CogSci #PhilPublication

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👆In addition to the free audio paper and (corrected) #preprint above, this 2-factor account of reflection article now has a DOI. 👇

The journal's version: https://doi.org/10.5840/resphilosophica2711

The full issue: https://pdcnet.org/collection-anonymous/browse?fp=resphilosophica&fq=resphilosophica%2FVolume%2F8898%7C102%2F8997%7CIssue%3A+3%2F

#philosophy #epistemology #rationality #philMind #ethics

How are concepts like 'reasoning' and 'inference' defined?

#Philosophy has definitions that go way back (e.g., in #epistemology and #PhilMind). Now #computerScience are realizing a need for definitions.

This #openAccess #CS review takes a crack at them: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2504.15909 (corrected URL)

“To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail”… #CogSci #PhilMind #AI

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