Can a chatbot “understand”?
According to some researchers, the largest chatbots somehow “understand” the texts they handle. What exactly does this mean?
3 February 2024
Tagged: cognitivism
Cognitivism, mind as information processing…
Hubert L. Dreyfus, Martin Heidegger and the Others
Hubert L. Dreyfus was the first to criticize cognitivist and computationalist AI by invoking phenomenology, from Husserl to Heidegger.
15 January 2022
The black hole Pōwehi and the Mathematics
The image unveiled to the world in 2019 once again validates Einstein’s theory and wonderfully illustrates the awesome power of mathematics.
18 December 2021
The « Individual » in the light of information theories
Researchers in information science seek to grasp the concept of “individual”. Decryption of their usual methods…
8 August 2020
The Brain is an Edge (not a Center)
The technological regime produces this “computationalist” doxa which considers the brain as a Center for information processing. Really?
11 July 2020
Body and Language Games
Mathematical activity is an excellent illustration of the coupling of the body and language games, i.e. their reciprocal modifications when they “dialogue”.
7 March 2020
Following Julian Jaynes: comeback of the Bicameral Mind?
While the theories of “consciousness” are progressing, isn’t the human of the 21st century (re)engaged towards a form of “non-consciousness”?
21 August 2019
The Mirrors of the “I”
In 2001, philosopher Francisco Varela underwent a transplant and meditated on identity. Body, technique and identity: a very contemporary triptych.
28 April 2019
Francisco Varela, the Heterodox
Autopoiesis, enaction and possibility of an artificial life … The lessons of the philosopher and neurobiologist Francisco Varela.
18 February 2018
Turing’s Body
The “body” of Alan Turing, precursor of computer science and artificial intelligence, has been “invited” in his research, even the most abstract
1 July 2017