Cambridge Element on Teleology (free download until September 24)
Teleology
Cambridge Core - Epistemology and Metaphysics - Teleology
Cambridge Core (www.cambridge.org)
Cambridge Element on Teleology (free download until September 24)
Cambridge Core - Epistemology and Metaphysics - Teleology
Cambridge Core (www.cambridge.org)
@UlrikeHahn yes, but is it what brings "aboutness"? If so, what's the relation between this feature and being about something else (in a more relevant sense than maps)?
@UlrikeHahn @philosophy yes it's important *whether* it could do it. In the kind of view I present, it couldn't really do it, deceiving us would be more of a side effect of a malfunction. To put it differently, I take LLM to be very similar to maps: a map is *about* a city or country, but it's not a mental state. A map can deceive us but not intentionally (unless its maker has this purpose)
@UlrikeHahn @philosophy yes, I don't deny any of this, I just think these differences in complexity are irrelevant in so far the LLM wouldn't have intentionality without us using it in some way for some purpose, whereas it seems to me that to the intentionality of a mental state is more constitutive of it. It's a vague intuition, not sure how to express well. Maybe the intentionality is merely metaphorical in the case of tools? Not sure what you mean about what's not expressed in the definition
@UlrikeHahn @philosophy I take it that an LLM identifying tables is about tables in the same sense that a thermostat is about temperature, the intentionality is somehow borrowed from us or derives from ours when we use it for some purpose
So, I was bored and I made that. It's a tree of life with emojis. It took much more time than I expected... Feel free to share!