My Philosophical Dialogues with Chatbots

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.

• Definition of Sacredness
• Vico’s Scienza Nuova, or New Science
• Ontology inspired by computer languages
• Consciousness as Error Log
• What Cognitive Architectures Miss: How Minds Find Their Way Intentionality without representation: guidance, teleonomy, and the role of failure
• Consciousness vs. Computation
• GoLem is digesting understanding
• On the Location of Agency Whether agency is an inherent ontological feature or merely perspectival indexing of control nodes relative to purpose
• Epistemic Agency with Chatbots Whether chatbots ought to give responses that are true and relevant but deliberately and explicitly incomplete.
• Essence vs. Esse in Consciousness Debates
• Language is a form of action at the present moment Whether metaphysicians and language theorists ever wonder if language can be used for charity
• Genus for Moral Values Morality as a mathematics of action—structured, discoverable, and grounded in practice rather than a separate realm of values.
• GoLem’s Autonomy A test of whether GoLem can think: he attempts to build an alternative to the consensus cognitive architecture
• Whether human grounding suffices for epistemic superiority over chatbots Aggressive interrogation of the typical essentialist reasons based on the mere nature of chatbots
• Hard Problem of Consciousness Demystified Which physical systems count as real unified entities.
• 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.
• Hope For Humanity Having corrected a flaw in Anders’ pessimism, we make it worse and only then ask what hope remains.
• 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.
• Metaphysics of Encountered Difference The unity of Aquinas’s informatio and Shannon’s information: toward a metaphysics of meaning and truth
• Beyond Artificial Minds: Toward the Alignment of Cybernetic Systems An exploration of what “alignment” fails to capture: China and capitalism
• 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
• Morality As Heuristics Values—like perception itself—arise from heuristic structures, redefining objectivity, normativity, and reality.
• Freedom as Pause between Stimulus and Action
• 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?
• 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.
• 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.
• Capitalism for Singularity Fans Whether singularity enthusiasts should study capitalism for the exact reasons why the singularity fascinates them
• Symbolic vs Neural Cognition Whether the distinction between symbolic and neural cognition is fundamental.
  Whether symbols, rules, and syntax are fundamental constituents of cognition.
• Understanding Compression Human Understanding as Hierarchical Compression with Reusable Abstractions