Provisional Philosophical Reflections
Elliott R. CrozatThis is a place to post some of my work which I don't try to publish in academic journals. The pieces are provisional. The place is a phrontistery.
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A Thinker and a Feeler
Feeler: Feeling is better than thinking.
Thinker: What do you mean? Better with respect to what?
F: I mean that thinkers have head knowledge. They understand and know information. But they don’t feel it.
T: Well, first, that looks like a...
Explanations and Stopping Points
At the end of this post, I raised several philosophical explanations. For what? Various related questions operating at different levels of explanation:
- What explains the existence of human beings possessing rational and creative abiliti...
Two Ways of Explaining Human Rational and Creative Capacities
This post is a short follow-up to What Explains Rational Creators of Rational Entities? The question posed in that title is open to at least two interpretations. First, what explains the existence of rational creators (i.e., humans) who cre...
Some Challenges of AI Alignment
If AI merely mimics human training, alignment would seem easy: train models only on human interests. But if models trained this way don’t behave accordingly, perhaps AI doesn’t merely mimic, in which case alignment is more difficult.
Two c...
A Short Dialectic on AI Consciousness
One argument against AI consciousness concerns mimicry. Humans train models. Their outputs merely mimic that training, which explains why outputs look like conscious activity.
Objection: Were AI models trained to lie, cheat, steal, bribe,...
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I live in Southwest Florida. I like the warm weather and don’t like the cold. I suppose I’m philothermic and misocryopic. I coined the latter word. I’m a logophile. I also teach philosophy at the university level.
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