Colloquium 40: Adrian Alsmith – Interpreting (and shaping) generative artificial behaviour
Freddy Purcell recalls the final colloquium of the term, discussing why we often feel like we are interacting with a person when using generative AI models.
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Minimal Continuity and the Metaphysics of the Self: An Internal Revision of Strawson’s Pearl view
Ahmed Iskander puts forth a detailed, analytic argument that updates Galen Strawson’s view of the minimal and mental self. In this essay, I argue that Strawson is right to locate the self fundamentally in the mental, but that his metaphysical…