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A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. XI. Why were we caught off-guard by AI?
A portrait of Tycho Brahe, Royal Astrologist of Danemark, by Stable Diffusion
Why were we caught off-guard by AI?
Despite artificial intelligence having been a field of research since…
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Video – Gödel’s legerdemain. The demonstration of his incompleteness of arithmetic theorem betrays his contempt for his fellow mathematicians
My contribution to the XXV World Congress of Philosophy this summer.
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Video – Thought as Word Dynamics #17 – What is Objective Reality?
Plato and Aristotle invent the notion of “truth”
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Video – Thought as Word Dynamics #16 – How do we link word-pairs?
The ancient Greek could use the syllogism, the ancient Chinese could not
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Video – Thought as Word Dynamics #13 – Logic is inherent to our memory network
We produce logical statements because of the way our natural neural network is organised
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Video – Thought as Word Dynamics #10 – Word-pairs are either “A is a B” or “A has a B”
The relationship between the two words in a pair stored in memory is that one of the two “is” an instance of the other or “has” an instance of the other.
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Video – Thought as Word Dynamics #9 – “Penetrable” vs “impenetrable”
In the word-pairs stored in memory, one of the two words generally refers to a material substrate
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Unilog 2022 – What makes a demonstration worthy of the name? by Paul Jorion
What makes a demonstration worthy of the name?
Paul Jorion *
* ETHICS – EA 7446, Université catholique de Lille, 60 Bd Vauban, 59800 Lille, FranceSubject: Foundations of mathematics
Cite as: https://www.pauljorion.com/blog_en/2022/04/09/unilog-2022-what-makes-a-demonstration-worthy-of-the-name-by-paul-jorion/ -
VUB, “Stewardship of Finance” Chair, eighth lecture, 20th December 2012
Aistotle’s theory of price formation. His chrematistics: the role of money in society.
I start with a brief recap of my seventh lecture on Lord Adair Turner’s distinction between “useful” and “useless” financial activities.