
The Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #402 - 17SEP22
The Mystical Positivist
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Is There a Motivation in Ontology?
i think one of the things that is often overlooked with respect to ontology, and i didn't appreciate until i was doing some reading in a artificial intelligence. And from this, theyre quickly discovered when, for instance, darpas contest to make a car that could guide itself over certain distance,. but it's what gave rise to actually self drving cars. A researcher named donald hoffman has written a book very recently, the last two years, alled the case against reality. The first part touches on what you're saying, which is that perceptual systems a, what we see as real, is completely tuned by meeting the needs of the organism.
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