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Introduction "God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?" — Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, §125 In the first two essays of this series, we explored how Nietzsche's proclamation of God's death
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Introduction "I am afraid we are not getting rid of God because we still have faith in grammar." — Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §54 In "The Immortal Divine: Nietzsche's Paradox and the Structural Necessity of Transcendence," we explored how Nietzsche's proclamation
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Introduction "God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?" — Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, §125 Friedrich Nietzsche's proclamation in The Gay Science represents one of the most provocative philosophical assertions of the modern
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Introduction The ability of language to refer to itself creates a fundamental paradox that reverberates throughout philosophy, mathematics, logic, and our understanding of consciousness. This self-referential capacity—the ability to turn language upon itself—simultaneously enables our most profound insights and generates our most perplexing paradoxes. From Gödel's
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1. Introduction "A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably." — Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, §115 For three decades, the software industry has been periodically swept by waves of enthusiasm
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Abstract This essay critically examines anthropocentric limitations in traditional Western philosophical approaches to consciousness, particularly in existentialism, and proposes an adaptive framework that accommodates evolving forms of consciousness and human-technology integration. By analyzing the problem of other minds, the already extended nature of human consciousness, and insights from non-Western philosophical
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1. Introduction The advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) has prompted a reconsideration of fundamental philosophical questions concerning language, understanding, and consciousness. This essay examines the intersection of Wittgensteinian language philosophy, computational theories of mind, and emergent theories of consciousness to argue that the apparent distinction between human and artificial
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Introduction Martin Heidegger and Ludwig Wittgenstein represent two of the most influential philosophical voices of the 20th century, each offering profound insights into the nature of understanding, language, and human existence. While they share certain concerns—particularly a critique of traditional metaphysics and a focus on everyday practices—their approaches
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Introduction In our previous exploration of "The Illusion of Direct Experience," we examined how human perception is not the immediate access to reality it appears to be, but rather a sophisticated neural construction. We argued that the brain's interpretive processes—translating sensory signals into coherent experiences—
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Introduction The advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) has precipitated a fundamental reconsideration of what constitutes "understanding." A persistent critique of these systems centers on their lack of "direct sensory experience" of the world they describe through language. According to critics, LLMs merely process tokens—symbolic
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Introduction The advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) has precipitated a profound philosophical quandary regarding the nature of understanding itself. These systems—trained on vast corpora of human-written text—demonstrate capabilities that would unquestionably be labeled as "understanding" if exhibited by humans. They can interpret nuanced requests, recognize
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Introduction Modern thought in linguistics, philosophy, and computer science converges on a fundamental duality: syntax and semantics. Syntax refers to the formal structure or grammar of a language, while semantics concerns the meaning conveyed by that structure. In natural language, thinkers from Gottlob Frege to Ludwig Wittgenstein have grappled with