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Marco Palombi
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Developing formal tools to express autonomy and creativity, inspired by http://geneosophy.com - a theoretical framework aimed at comprehending the concepts of life and intelligence.

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Why we know everything and comprehend nothing

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From Light to Blindness: How the Enlightenment Lost Its Way
We live in an age of breathtaking technical sophistication and profound existential confusion. We can manipulate matter at the atomic level but can't agree on what makes life worth living. We've mappe...
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November 8, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Are You Cold, or Do You Have Cold? The Answer Changes Everything And Defines Your Identity

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#philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #physics #biology #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence
I Am Cold vs. I Have Cold: A Philosophy in Two Words
There's a curious linguistic asymmetry that might explain one of the deepest divides in Western philosophy. It hides in plain sight, in something as simple as how we talk about feeling cold. The Col...
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November 4, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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The Secret Language of Your Soul: What Your Words Know That You Don't

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Your Words Know Something Your Mind Has Forgotten
Something extraordinary hides in plain sight beneath our modern academic landscape. Physics, mathematics, biology, psychology, philosophy—these impressive disciplines that organize our understanding o...
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November 1, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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The Question No One Asks: Investigating the Act of Conceptualizing Itself

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#philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #physics #biology #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence
The Next Frontier: What Is the Act of Conceptualizing?
We live trapped in a circle of our own making. We reason with concepts about objects and other concepts. We understand objects through concepts. We create new concepts by combining existing objects an...
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October 29, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Why we know everything and comprehend nothing

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#philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #physics #biology #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence
From Light to Blindness: How the Enlightenment Lost Its Way
We live in an age of breathtaking technical sophistication and profound existential confusion. We can manipulate matter at the atomic level but can't agree on what makes life worth living. We've mappe...
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October 25, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Stop Debating, Start Defining: The One Thing Philosophers Got Wrong

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#philosophy #science #psychology #AI #physics #biology
#philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence
How Solving the Concept Problem Unlocks Philosophy's Greatest Mysteries
Philosophy has wrestled with seemingly intractable problems for millennia: How does mind relate to body? What makes knowledge objective rather than merely subjective? How do we bridge the gap between ...
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October 23, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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We live in a Kafkaesque paradox: the very people we turn to for wisdom about life’s biggest questions are systematically selected for their inability to think about such things.

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#philosophy #science #philsci #psychology #AI #physics #biology #society #politics
Too Narrow to Be Wise: The Tunnel Vision Trap of Modern Expertise
We live in a Kafkaesque paradox: the very people we turn to for wisdom about life’s biggest questions—meaning, society, the future of humanity—are systematically selected for their inability to think ...
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October 21, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Consciousness emerging from matter, the mind-body problem, infinite regress ... —aren't profound features of reality waiting to be solved, but artifacts of a particular way of asking questions?

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#philosophy #science #philsci #psychology #AI #physics #biology
How Asking the Wrong Question Creates Mysteries That Don't Exist
What if I told you that the deepest mysteries plaguing human knowledge—consciousness emerging from matter, the mind-body problem, infinite regress, self-reference paradoxes—aren't profound features of...
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October 21, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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The 500-Million-Year-Old Refutation of Artificial Intelligence
A brain structure has persisted for 500 million years across fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. The basal ganglia should tell us something fundamental about intelligence itself. Yet when ...
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October 19, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Philosophy has wrestled with seemingly intractable problems for millennia: How does mind relate to body? What makes knowledge objective rather than merely subjective? How do we bridge the gap ...

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#philosophy
#science
#philosophyofscience
#mind
#consciousness
How Solving the Concept Problem Unlocks Philosophy's Greatest Mysteries
Philosophy has wrestled with seemingly intractable problems for millennia: How does mind relate to body? What makes knowledge objective rather than merely subjective? How do we bridge the gap between ...
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September 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Philosophy of science promises to do something extraordinary: step outside the scientific enterprise to examine its foundations, methods, and assumptions with clear-eyed objectivity ...

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#philosophy #science #geneosophy #knowledge #truth
The Impossible Escape: Why Philosophy of Science Can't Step Outside Science
Philosophy of science promises to do something extraordinary: step outside the scientific enterprise to examine its foundations, methods, and assumptions with clear-eyed objectivity. From Thomas Kuhn'...
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September 17, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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The story of artificial intelligence is not just one of increasing computational power—it’s also a story about how meaning has been progressively sidelined in favor of statistical pattern manipulation.

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#AI #philosophy #programming #meaning #LLM
AI and the Neglect of Meaning: From Unlimited to Indefinite
The story of artificial intelligence is not just one of increasing computational power—it’s also a story about how machines relate to meaning. Or more precisely, how meaning has been progressively sid...
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September 5, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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We stand at a peculiar moment in human history. Our technical capabilities have never been more impressive—we can manipulate matter at the atomic level, build machines that mimic human conversation, and map the neural ..
#philosophy #science #AI #logic #programming

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When Knowledge Fails: Beyond Science, Philosophy, and AI
We stand at a peculiar moment in human history. Our technical capabilities have never been more impressive—we can manipulate matter at the atomic level, build machines that mimic human conversation, a...
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September 1, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Biologists rarely ask "What is life?" directly—they assume they know what living things are and proceed to study them. Mathematicians rarely ask "What is mathematical truth?"—they assume they know what mathematical validity means and proceed to prove theorems.

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Chasing Our Own Tail: Self-Reference, Infinite Regress and the Limits of any Academic Discipline
Marcus Doubtful, a physicist turned philosopher. Richard Trad, a mathematician turned philosopher. Both have spent decades thinking about the foundations of knowledge, but they've reached very differ...
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August 15, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Why Criticizing AI Feels Like Criticizing Someone’s Child

I’m not questioning the usefulness of LLMs and AI in general.
What I am questioning is its ability to achieve intelligence.

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August 10, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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From Sophists to Alchemists to AI Coders: The Technique Without Understanding
Dr. Marcus Doubtful, former quantum physicist turned philosopher of science. Dr. Andrew Sofist, a computational physicist and AI researcher who has just delivered a triumphant presentation on large la...
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August 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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The Code That Could Never Think
Dr. William Compute – CTO of a Fortune 100 company Dr. Marcus Doubtful – physicist turned philosopher William: Marcus, with all this talk about Artificial Intelligence, I’ve been rethinking what comp...
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August 5, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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What is life?
A debate between two scientists about whether traditional science can truly capture the concept of life.
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July 30, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything
July 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Do we need to name a new type of bias for this? 👇
July 11, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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"LLMs are okay at coding, but at scale they build jumbled messes. I’ve scaled back my use of AI when coding and gone back to using my brain and pen and paper."

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July 3, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Understanding the Brain and the limitations of AI.
Every year, thousands of bright minds enter neuroscience programs driven by a profound question: How does the brain work? They emerge years later with advanced degrees, sophisticated experimental tech...
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July 2, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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The Alchemist's Equivalence: A Dialogue on AI and the Progress of Knowledge
Using AI to Critique AI Here we encounter a delicious irony: I used ChatGPT and Claude to help write a dialogue that questions the very foundations of artificial intelligence. LLMs proved invaluable ...
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June 16, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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In that last entry, I mentioned that theoretical Geneosophy was complete and that I had begun developing its first application: the comprehension of a neuron. I was working on a syntax to express impossibilities*—constraints—and building an interpreter in Python ...

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Time Flies
You check your blog and realize it's been eleven months since your last post—ironically, that post was itself a reassurance that you were still around after a previous silence. Time has a peculiar way...
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June 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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A much needed update
The truth is, I've been busy with a significant breakthrough: the first implementation of a Geneosophic expression. Specifically, I've been working on the conceptual expression of a neuron, which can ...
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December 7, 2024 at 2:40 PM