"Maybe we can talk about LLMs and transformer models: they train on orders of magnitude more text than any human could read, yet people conflate statistical word prediction with thinking. Bergson distinguishes between thinking activity and language as the result of that activity. How does that disabuse us of the idea that ChatGPT will wake up next month?"
MS
"The conflation stems from cognitive science and analytic philosophy, which take language as the best we can know and the paradigm of thought. Thought is assumed to be symbolic and grammar-like. Bergson escapes this trap by viewing mind dynamically—as activities, directions, tendencies. If you look back at the original movement of consciousness, it’s pre-linguistic. Language marks the termination of thought, grasping at what was fluid. Bergson surely drew on Plotinus, who spoke of nous and logos. What happens psychologically mirrors cosmological procession. Seeing mind as movement lets Bergson treat words as solidifications that emerge afterward, not the thinking itself—a process found throughout nature".
VT
[ LIFE ]
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[ INTUITION ] [ INTELLECT ]
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continuity, flow division, utility
sympathy mechanism
rhythm language
time space
duration simultaneity
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memory calculation
(pure memory as soul) (habit memory as reflex)
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creation repetition
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