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AI without meaning is not intelligence, it is mathematics
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AI and the Neglect of Meaning: From Unlimited to Indefinite
The story of artificial intelligence is not just one of increasing computational power—it’s also a story about how machines relate to meaning. Or more precisely, how meaning has been progressively sidelined in favor of statistical pattern manipulation. To understand this, we can trace AI’s evolution through a

Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous #philosophy #Texas

Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University, was told by university officials today about his upcoming "Contemporary Moral Problems" course, due to start next

The Ghost in the Silicon: Why Code Is Not Cognition.
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Code is Not Thought
If a machine can mimic a thought, does it mean it is thinking? This dialogue strips away the hype of modern AI to reveal the "Code That Could Never Think." By examining the structural limitations of computation, we explore the difference between a system that follows rules and a system

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?

The Life Paradox: Why Your DNA Isn’t a Blueprint
A debate between two scientists about whether traditional science can truly capture the concept of life.

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Qualified for Nothing: The Kafkaesque Selection of Our Thought Leaders
https://ocrampal.com/too-narrow-to-be-wise-the-tunnel-vision-trap-of-modern-expertise/

Too Narrow to Be Wise: The Tunnel Vision Trap of Modern Expertise
We live in a Kafkaesque paradox: the very people we turn to for wisdom about life’s biggest questions—meaning, society, the future of humanity—are systematically selected for their inability to think about such things. Consider this absurd pattern: A tech entrepreneur optimizes engagement algorithms for maximum user addiction,

The God’s Eye Fallacy: Why Computation Fails Biology
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The 500-Million-Year-Old Refutation of Artificial Intelligence
A brain structure has persisted for 500 million years across fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. The basal ganglia should tell us something fundamental about intelligence itself. Yet when viewed through the computational lens, it makes no sense at all. The problem isn't the basal ganglia. The problem is that