Corpus evidence — top 10 passages

Most-relevant passages from the entire indexed corpus (67,286 paragraph chunks across YouTube transcripts, PubMed, arXiv, archive.org, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, OpenAlex, and more) ranked by semantic similarity (bge-small-en-v1.5).

1. 01 · yt0.780

   And if you take a random pattern in nature, you can always say, I can compile this pattern into what I want it to be. You see a bunch of say leaves tumbling or you see a bunch of molecules in brownian motion in the surface of your table. Uh couldn't we compile this interpret it as a sequence of mental states? And the thing is every compilation step would require a new function. >> And if you see these leaves then one state and the tumbling of the leaves is now compiled into one thought.

   yt/IzbtOzXMLOo-joscha-bach-anders-sandberg-ai-consciousness-and-the-cyborg-/transcript.txt

2. 02 · yt0.769

   The sonnet I think we'd all agree is a human construct. Y the description that you gave in terms of capital letters, small letters, periods,amic, pentameter, those are all human inventions. You can use the word that you did use discovering these patterns. You are discovering them, but the patterns were human inventions. And I think that what we're doing in mathematics is really just inventing human inventions a language that's really good at encapsulating the patterns not found in a sonnet but the patterns found in nature. And so I don't think that we are discovering laws even though in loose …

   yt/o9z5il_FQUw-string-theory-multiverse-and-divine-design-brian-greene/transcript.txt

3. 03 · blog0.763

   The complexity and continuity of the real world is made to seem more precise and concrete by turning it into rules and numbers. Around the same time, I found that some people dream in vivid images, while others describe dreams as �listening to someone tell a story.� Several years later, a graduate student of �language philosophy� from MIT told me that I was just confused if I believed that I had mental images that I could use in thinking. His attitude was that language, in its forms and in the ways it could convey meaning, was governed by rules. He was part of an effort to define consciousness…

   blog/raypeat-com/academic-authoritarians-language-metaphor-animals-science.md

4. 04 · yt0.761

   If there is a tree to the left of  a house in reality, the photo shows this same   spatial relationship. Wittgenstein argued that  meaningful sentences work exactly the same way.  Take the sentence, "The cat is on the  mat." For this sentence to be meaningful,   it must picture a possible state of  affairs. The structure of the sentence,   with "cat" related to "mat" by "on", mirrors the  structure of reality where a cat relates to a mat   by being on top of it. The sentence shares  a logical form with the fact it repre…

   yt/epzlGsgbVS8-he-changed-everything-twice-ludwig-wittgenstein-s-complete-p/transcript.txt

5. 05 · yt0.760

   Very  nicely one can check off in a bunch of these kinds   of systems, yup, that theoretical prediction  is satisfied. Took a lot of work to prove it,   but yes, it's satisfied. You can keep poking in  at different features of this overall intellectual   framework and seems to keep on doing very  well. But it is a conceptually complicated   thing because it is all tied up with what  you even mean by computation and so on.   It's not something where you can say, we'll do an  experiment and we'll just prove this prin…

   yt/yAJTctpzp5w-can-space-and-time-emerge-from-simple-rules-stephen-wolfram-/transcript.txt

6. 06 · yt0.759

   In other words, all of them are modes of communication with which we function, the intelligibility of which allows us to negotiate the world around us. Semiotics has expanded into every imaginable aspect of thought. There is a Darwinian semiotics, understanding the relationships among species in semiotic terms. There is, in other words, a semiotics of virtually every imaginable thing understood as a language made up of a system of signs-- signs we'll be getting to in a minute-- but in the meantime, it's important to understand what semiology actually is. That's what it is. Oh, I meant to ask y…

   yt/VsMfaIOsT3M-8-semiotics-and-structuralism/transcript.txt

7. 07 · yt0.755

   You you set these are the rules that we are we adopt to prove things. Then you what Gödel shows is an amazing thing. I always thought it was amazing. There is a statement which you by virtue of your trust in these rules, you can see that it's true. Yet, you can't prove it by the rules. Now, I found this absolutely amazing because it means you're you don't use the rules to to understand things because how do you know this thing is true? Well, you know it's true but because you trust the rules. Well, it's you're you're if you're using the rules, then how do you know that using the rules only giv…

   yt/OoDi856wLPM-sir-roger-penrose-stuart-hameroff-collapsing-a-theory-of-qua/transcript.txt

8. 08 · blog0.754

   To summarize stage one, we could say that language can serve as a guide to ontology in a certain way; setting aside the passage of time and the occurrence of motion – think of an ‘ontological snapshot’, if you like – and given a true proposition \(p\), we can investigate systematically the question of what kinds of things (what kind of ontological snapshot) are necessary to make \(p\) true, and hence we can conclude from \(p\)’s truth that those kinds things must exist. The question at stake here is truth-makers . What this first part of the Chatton Principle says is (1) that the truth-makers …

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/walter-chatton.md

9. 09 · yt0.751

   Yes, that to me is is the foundational question in the sense that it's really kind of naive and simple like a kid can ask it but it's also like the most profound philosophical question that you come back to regardless of how much study you do. I am suspicious about the extent to which science can inform a question like that. An analogy that I've given before is a bit like discovering a book. There are some books on the table uh which are also available on Amazon.com and reputable book sellers everywhere. Um but suppose it were a a book of poetry on the table. I use the example of a Shakespeare…

   yt/o9z5il_FQUw-string-theory-multiverse-and-divine-design-brian-greene/transcript.txt

10. 10 · openalex0.750

    - **Logical Foundations of Probability.** (1951) — cited 2383x · https://doi.org/10.2307/2021419 - **Testability and Meaning** (1936) — cited 1289x · https://doi.org/10.1086/286432 - **Meaning and Necessity** (1947) — cited 1105x · https://openalex.org/W2798598542 - **Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology** (2011) — cited 820x · https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400838684-018 - **International Encyclopedia of Unified Science.** (1939) — cited 769x · https://doi.org/10.2307/2302467 - **Logische Syntax der Sprache** (1934) — cited 644x · https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-25375-5 - **Überwindung der Meta…

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