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

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