The Obfuscation of Intelligence - Part 5

Modernity, Post-Modernity and the Tower of Babel

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“We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first”…


― Charles MacKay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

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“My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business”…

— John Searle

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Please read:

• “If it quacks like a duck… AI has captured the semantic of language, but does it have a mind?” [LINK ][ LINK];

• AI’s Reliability Crisis [ LINK] [LINK];

• AI’s Biggest Threat: Young People Who Can’t Think [LINK];

• The Ouroboros - The Snake is eating its Tail [LINK];

• Intelligence is not Computation - The Ghost in the Machine [LINK];

• Your Brain is not a Computer [LINK];

• Your Brain does not process Information [LINK];

• The Mechanisation of the Human Mind [LINK];

• Failed Models of the World [LINK];

• Is Machine Learning akin to a Washing Machine? [LINK];

• How your Cheese - Powered Baby Trounces AI [LINK];

• What would Hayek think of AI? [LINK] - please read - The Knowledge Society— The Network Topology of Knowledge [LINK];

• Researchers argue fundamental flaws in reasoning models [LINK];

• The core idea of common sense realism is that self-evident truths exist and can be known through common sense [LINK] - Is the endemic erosion in Education and the endemic embracement of AI both reflecting the same Modern and Post-Modern philosophical metaphysical crisis? [LINK];

• Peire’s Semiotic Triadic [ LINK] - and - Peirce’s Pragmatic Maxim [LINK]; and

• A Serious Education requires God [LINK].

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“Supposing there was no intelligence behind the universe, no creative mind. In that case, nobody designed my brain for the purpose of thinking. It is merely that when the atoms inside my skull happen, for physical or chemical reasons, to arrange themselves in a certain way, this gives me, as a by-product, the sensation I call thought. But, if so, how can I trust my own thinking to be true? It's like upsetting a milk jug and hoping that the way it splashes itself will give you a map of London. But if I can't trust my own thinking, of course I can't trust the arguments leading to Atheism, and therefore have no reason to be an Atheist, or anything else. Unless I believe in God, I cannot believe in thought: so I can never use thought to disbelieve in God”…

―C S Lewis

Please read - A Serious Education requires God [LINK]

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