07 / October 27
Eliminative Materialism and Neurophilosophy
“If you look at the monopolistic firm as an example of a maximum system, you can connect up its structural relations with those that prevail for an entropy-maximizing thermodynamic system.”
— Paul A. Samuelson
Topics
Patricia and Paul Churchland, Sellars, Chalmers; p-zombies, sentience, sapience, geist; Hoffman’s Interface Theory of Perception; Addictionmaxxing — hypocognition v. hypercognition; attention capture, audience capture, addiction maximizers; Bossware v. Chickenized Reverse Centaurs; extractive data labor
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Additional Reading
Lab
Generative AI imagemaking, photobashing, improving prompted imagery