You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay at the bottom of this post, directly below the REFERENCES. It’s All Done With Mirrors: A New Argument That Strong AI is Impossible The strong thesis of artificial intelligence, aka strong AI, is the two-part thesis which says … [continue reading]
Author Archives: Robert Hanna
How and Why ChatGPT Failed The Turing Test.
You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay HERE. How and Why ChatGPT Failed The Turing Test As everyone who’s interested in higher education knows, there’s been a recent brouhaha about ChatGPT (see, e.g., Boethius, 2022). But here I’m concerned with important issues in the philosophy … [continue reading]
Merleau-Ponty Meets The Kripke Monster Redux, #4–One Cheer, But Only One, For Analytic Panpsychism.
TABLE OF CONTENTS 0. Introduction 1. The Essential Embodiment Theory Briefly and Compactly Re-Presented and Re-Motivated 2. Three Later Significant Elaborations and Extensions of The Essential Embodiment Theory: Natural Libertarianism, The Neo-Organicist Worldview, and The Metaphysics of Liberal Naturalism 3. One Cheer, But Only One, For Analytic Panpsychism 00. Concluding Semi-Autobiographical Quasi-Whiteheadian Postscript This essay … [continue reading]
Merleau-Ponty Meets The Kripke Monster Redux: The Essential Embodiment Theory Now, #3.
TABLE OF CONTENTS 0. Introduction 1. The Essential Embodiment Theory Briefly and Compactly Re-Presented and Re-Motivated 2. Three Later Significant Elaborations and Extensions of The Essential Embodiment Theory: Natural Libertarianism, The Neo-Organicist Worldview, and The Metaphysics of Liberal Naturalism 3. One Cheer, But Only One, For Analytic Panpsychism 00. Concluding Semi-Autobiographical Quasi-Whiteheadian Postscript This essay … [continue reading]
THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE, #54–The Thin Logic and the Thick Semantics of Moral Principles in Broadly Kantian Nonideal Dignitarian Moral Theory.
This book, THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE: Uniscience and the Modern World, by Robert Hanna, presents and defends a critical philosophy of science and digital technology, and a new and prescient philosophy of nature and human thinking. It is being made available here in serial format, but you can also download and read or share … [continue reading]
WTFU: The Manifesto of The Nobodies.
You can also download and read or share a complete .pdf of this essay HERE. WTFU: The Manifesto of The Nobodies “WTFU,” pronounced “what-foo,” means wake the fuck up:[i] and that’s what I’m urging us all to do. Kantians and others will have already recognized that WTFU is a pithy, pungent contemporary equivalent of Immanuel … [continue reading]
THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE, #53–Nonideal Dignitarian Moral Theory.
This book, THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE: Uniscience and the Modern World, by Robert Hanna, presents and defends a critical philosophy of science and digital technology, and a new and prescient philosophy of nature and human thinking. It is being made available here in serial format, but you can also download and read or share … [continue reading]
Merleau-Ponty Meets The Kripke Monster Redux: The Essential Embodiment Theory Now, #2.
TABLE OF CONTENTS 0. Introduction 1. The Essential Embodiment Theory Briefly and Compactly Re-Presented and Re-Motivated 2. Three Later Significant Elaborations and Extensions of The Essential Embodiment Theory: Natural Libertarianism, The Neo-Organicist Worldview, and The Metaphysics of Liberal Naturalism 3. One Cheer, But Only One, For Analytic Panpsychism 00. Concluding Semi-Autobiographical Quasi-Whiteheadian Postscript This essay … [continue reading]
THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE, #52–The Metaphysical Ground of Human Dignity: Human Real Personhood.
This book, THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE: Uniscience and the Modern World, by Robert Hanna, presents and defends a critical philosophy of science and digital technology, and a new and prescient philosophy of nature and human thinking. It is being made available here in serial format, but you can also download and read or share … [continue reading]
Merleau-Ponty Meets The Kripke Monster Redux: The Essential Embodiment Theory Now, #1.
TABLE OF CONTENTS 0. Introduction 1. The Essential Embodiment Theory Briefly and Compactly Re-Presented and Re-Motivated 2. Three Later Significant Elaborations and Extensions of The Essential Embodiment Theory: Natural Libertarianism, The Neo-Organicist Worldview, and The Metaphysics of Liberal Naturalism 3. One Cheer, But Only One, For Analytic Panpsychism 00. Concluding Semi-Autobiographical Quasi-Whiteheadian Postscript This essay … [continue reading]