Language and Experience, with Isabela Granic

Clerestory (Bryan Kam)

Part 4 in a series of interviews on the book I'm working on, Neither/Nor. In this episode, ⁠Isabela Granic⁠ and I discuss how AI technologies like ChatGPT relate to experience. We move into Schopenhauer's distinction between rationality and the intuition in The World as Will and Representation.

Topics discussed:

  • Previous podcast episode: ⁠The AI and Dark Forest, with Maggie Appleton⁠
  • The explicit versus implicit in text
  • Philosophy is about changing your mind and life
  • Opportunity costs of reading
  • Brian Magee article on clarity in philosophical texts: Sense and Nonsense
  • My thread on Shklovsky and defamiliarization
  • Tolstoy's Hadji Murat
  • My thread on Janus words, Freud's (un)heimlich
  • Richard Wilhelm's I Ching
  • Graham: Zhuangzi's reaction against logic for ends in life (as opposed to means): aphorism, example, parable, and poetry
  • We'll come back to mathematics at some point
  • We'll come back to language models as averages
  • Dependent Origination article

Previous episodes:

  • Part 3 of this series: AI and Pyrrhonism
  • Part 2 of this series: ⁠A Philosophical Journey
  • Part 1 of this series: Causality and Conditionality

Clerestory by ⁠Bryan Kam⁠ • Infrequent updates at ⁠Substack⁠ • All my work plus exclusive content at ⁠Patreon⁠

Show notes https://pod.fo/e/16f7ac

To listen to explicit episodes, sign in.

Stay up to date with this show

Sign in or sign up to follow shows, save episodes and get the latest updates.

Select a country or region

Africa, Middle East, and India

Asia Pacific

Europe

Latin America and the Caribbean

The United States and Canada