I take from this essay a clarifying though. I am about something because of the particular things that happened to me--specifically, not universally--and left "scar tissue". These are things I did not always choose and cannot fully understand or trace.
We are minded beings who live in time and in relationship to other minded beings. Our particular formation is constitutive, not incidental, to what we are about.
AI has a different mode of knowing than a finite temporal creature, since it was not formed by particular experiences. An LLM has the outputs of language, but without the constitutive wounds and joys of lived experience.
I take from this essay a clarifying though. I am about something because of the particular things that happened to me--specifically, not universally--and left "scar tissue". These are things I did not always choose and cannot fully understand or trace.
We are minded beings who live in time and in relationship to other minded beings. Our particular formation is constitutive, not incidental, to what we are about.
AI has a different mode of knowing than a finite temporal creature, since it was not formed by particular experiences. An LLM has the outputs of language, but without the constitutive wounds and joys of lived experience.
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