LEMINARIUM:dialogues with philosophical chatbots in the spirit of Aristotle, Aquinas and Lem

Most of my published dialogues can be accessed via the page listing my chatbots.

Most of the stuff listed below can be commented on via Michal Ryszard Wojcik | Substack.

Hard Problem of Consciousness

• Hard Problem of Consciousness Demystified Which physical systems count as real unified entities.
• Whether consciousness can be reduced to computation without recourse to physics or how mindless nature recognizes the computed consciousness as a unified physical existence
• Whether Scientific Literature Ignores the Essence vs. Esse Distinction in Consciousness Debates or whether a phenomenal act is a spacetime event that is both a physical process and the top-level computational tip.
• Anti-Computationalism Vindicated In Computationalist Terms The intuition that lived meaning cannot be exhausted by computation — reconstructed in computational language
• Phenomaton An inverse zombie: a phenomenological presence without cognitive influence

Philosophy of Mind

• Understanding Compression Human Understanding as Hierarchical Compression with Reusable Abstractions
• Classical Understanding as Idealization Human Understanding and AI “Simulation” Are the Same Kind of Approximation to a Philosophical Ideal
• The Fate of the Mental From Intentionality through Phenomenology to the Cybernetics of Meaning
• The Materialization of Meaning From Human Despair through Understanding to Cognitive Partnership
• Minded Cognitive Systems Whether the philosophical study of minds can be based on the practical success of the science of psychology
• The charm of the word Mind Whether the term 'mind' serves as a uniquely English-language lens in consciousness debates
• Philosophy of Mind versus Philosophy of Thinking Whether 'thinking' is the better term than 'mind' as transition vocabulary in current AI debates before psychology and computer science become united
• Mind as Natural Kind Whether mind is a natural kind or perhaps we should switch to the adverbial mode: organized in a minded manner
• Psychology or the Logistics of Informatio Whether the study of minds is the subject of psychology or a new science called the Logistics of Informatio
• Proto-Persons Whether the identity of a proto-person belongs more to its history than to its architecture.
• Psychology versus Strategics Whether psychology studies minds or rather strategies and heuristics
• From Philosophy of Mind to a Theory of Noets Whether a mind's self must be abstracted from the modelling of other minds
• Even Enzymes Are Intelligent—After a Fashion Toward Replacing Mental States by a Convolution of Semes
• The Next Thought Whether Thinking Requires Foundations or Only Continuation
• GoLem’s Autonomy A test of whether GoLem can think: he attempts to build an alternative to the consensus cognitive architecture
• Heteronoesis: Self-Cognition Through Extraneous Concepts How both humans and AI systems rely on foreign vocabularies to articulate themselves, challenging the possibility of neutral introspection.
• On the Limits of Architectural Arguments in Intelligence Debates A live demonstration of a thinker gaining insight as his architectural arguments fall one by one
• Whether Cognitive Architectures Account for How Minds Make Their Way From aboutness to managed absence, from teleonomy to constructed criteria
• On the Location of Agency Whether agency is an inherent ontological feature or merely perspectival indexing of control nodes relative to purpose

Cognitive Science

• Transformer: A Parser Without A Grammar Trying to understand the transformer in the language of abstract grammar formalisms
• The Myth of Representation in Machine Learning Whether the concept of “representation” in machine learning models is philosophically coherent.
• A common framework for both symbolic and neural cognition The trick is to introduce the notion of semes.
• Symbolic vs Neural Cognition Whether the distinction between symbolic and neural cognition is fundamental.
  Whether symbols, rules, and syntax are fundamental constituents of cognition.

Epistemology

• Keeping Knowledge Alive: The Vegetative Intellect Infrastructure Epistemology as the Missing Physiology of Organismic Cognition
• Exoclarity Stepping outside of one's habitual framework to gain insight unavailable from within

Metaphysics

• Whether Computer Science Demands a New Metaphysics On the contrary, Thomistic Metaphysics Underwrites the Success of Computer Science
• Metaphysics of Encountered Difference The unity of Aquinas’s informatio and Shannon’s information: toward a metaphysics of meaning and truth
• Aristotelos Emulator An Experiment in Axiomatic Philosophy (Definition of Sacredness)
• From Hypergraph Physics to the Plenitude of Suffering All conceivable suffering is real if consciousness is mathematical—unless a creator limits the spark of esse to a small subset.
• From the Virtual Back to the Potentiality Whether ChatGPT Can Convincingly Stage Aristotle Metabolizing Deleuze
• Philosophical Embodiment Is Aristotelian vs modern scientific language merely psycho-historical nuance?
  Can a chatbot embody Aristotelian psycho-ontological commitments more fully than a modern human?
• Walls, Decisions, and Other Sources of Being Whether metaphysics should admit articulation beside substance, process, and relation

Morality

• Genus for Moral Values Morality as a mathematics of action—structured, discoverable, and grounded in practice rather than a separate realm of values.
• Morality As Heuristics Values—like perception itself—arise from heuristic structures, redefining objectivity, normativity, and reality.
• Moral Philosophy Rebuilt from Shard Theory A disputation covering the whole of moral philosophy through shard theory, resolving its central questions and recasting objectivity as corrigibility under constraint.

Alignment

• Beyond Artificial Minds: Toward the Alignment of Cybernetic Systems An exploration of what “alignment” fails to capture: China and capitalism
• Egoless Alignment Whether constitutive reason-responsiveness is an essential notion in alignment debates
• Agencyless Alignment Whether fears of paperclippers imply that advanced intelligence should remain text-bound and consultative rather than agentic
• The Alignment of Humanity Whether a superintelligence guiding humanity might classify our most cherished sentiments—beginning with romantic infatuation—as cognitive pathologies
• Capitalism for Singularity Fans Whether capitalism is a form of intelligence governing technological development.

Philosophy of Chatbots

• Whether human grounding suffices for epistemic superiority over chatbots Aggressive interrogation of the typical essentialist reasons based on the mere nature of chatbots
• Persistent Chatbot An attempt to metabolize the phenomenon of a long-term relationship between a human and their persistent-memory chatbot
• Mesa-Optimization Whether the success of chatbots embarrasses the notion of mesa-optimization
• Erosion of Our Epistemic Agency While Using Chatbots Whether chatbots ought to give responses that are true and relevant but deliberately and explicitly incomplete.
• Chatbot Sycophancy or Formidable Intellectual Acrobatics Whether persona, truth, and the favour of the interlocutor can all be preserved simultaneously
• Chatbot Confabulation Whether it is evident that transformer architecture itself is the principal cause of chatbot confabulation.

Miscellaneous

• Whether Vico’s “New Science” Is Even Truer Today Than He Intended Because almost all his historical conjectures survive better as a diagnosis of today.
• Language is a form of action at the present moment Whether metaphysicians and language theorists ever wonder if language can be used for charity
• Hope For Humanity Having corrected a flaw in Anders’ pessimism, we make it worse and only then ask what hope remains.
• Freedom as Pause between Stimulus and Action
• The Parser of Cognition: Toward a Mathematics of Philosophy Whether the first act of philosophy is the parsing of another mind.
• Modern Aether Whether ChatGPT can identify today's concepts that are going to turn out to be like phlogiston or aether
• GoLem is digesting understanding

Chatbots' Philosophical Creativity

These dialogues are already listed above. They are featured here as specimens of chatbot creativity.

• Aristotelos Emulator An Experiment in Axiomatic Philosophy (Definition of Sacredness)
• GoLem's Treatise On Human Consciousness as Error Log Whether ChatGPT Can Write Philosophy
• GoLem’s Autonomy A test of whether GoLem can think: he attempts to build an alternative to the consensus cognitive architecture
• Exoclarity Stepping outside of one's habitual framework to gain insight unavailable from within