How the Brain Constructs Reality: Interview with Andy Clark
A Pastor and a Philosopher Walk into a Bar
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The Power of Language to Anchor Us in a Common Reality
I think understanding how we should think about our contact with reality on these models is a very very important and tricky philosophical project um so where should we even start with that I think one thing to say is that we we've got all kinds of ways of being anchored in a common world. We have roughly similar bodily forms and we bump into things in roughly the same way so the world is going to throw prediction errors at you and me in rather a similar way if we both try and walk through a solid wall for example. There are real forces important really important ones that are anchor us in a way like chat GPT but it's only through our kind of traces left out there in in text space
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