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Worldly Indeterminacy, by Chien-hsing Ho, at Oxford University Press. Available at: https://academic.oup.com/book/63418. Description The book provides a framework to support…
This is exactly right. I’m a writer, and this is already accepted by the literary reading public: the human origin…
Dear Robert of Invisible America, Having read your outstandingly interesting comments here, I would now very much like to have…
Mark, in my view, the article is stronger historically than philosophically precisely because it conflates three distinct questions: whether a…
Chat GPT generated comment on this discussion. I believe in a detente with AI This is a particularly interesting discussion…
References: https://explainx.ai/blog/china-robot-lightning-100m-usain-bolt-record-august-2026 https://theawesomer.com/robots-humans-perform-martial-arts/796716/ https://www.aiplusinfo.com/blog/robot-learns-badminton-via-ai-simulation/
To be completely explicit: this refutes the statement that “The field, he argued, had succeeded precisely where knowing-that applied: formal…
This is a brilliant and illuminating essay, I don't agree with all of it by any means, but it has real insight and a synoptic vision of the "big picture." He doesn't miss the forest for the trees (or the trees for the twigs, the specialty of the New York Times).
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