Noam Chomsky: Buddhism, Ai, ChatGPT, Mind-Body

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LINKS MENTIONED:

- Paper "refuting" Chomsky by Piantadosi: https://lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/007180

- Sabine Hossenfelder video on ChatGPT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP5zGh2fui0

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- Terrence Deacon on TOE (Symbol Grounding Problem): https://youtu.be/PqZp7MlRC5g

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00:00 Introduction

00:02:50 Artificially intelligence "world government"

00:06:23 Introspection for self-knowledge (limits and power)

00:09:02 Buddhism and Taoism (for language) + suffering

00:09:54 Will humans survive?

00:10:44 What progress has been made in the study of language rules

00:13:02 Recursive "merge"

00:26:08 Dolphin and sperm whale languages (complexity measure?)

00:29:32 Philosophy of science 

00:32:54 Symbol grounding problem and grounding moral philosophy

00:41:20 "Science is like a drunk at a lamppost"

00:42:36 Mind-body problem is misconceived 

00:51:21 Sabine Hossenfelder on "ChatGPT Understands Language"

00:55:00 Modern language models refute Chomsky's approach to language

00:58:56 Bare phrase structure theory (inclusiveness condition)

01:01:09 Intentionality and Searle's Chinese Room Experiment

01:05:45 Generative grammar and metaphysics (Langan's CTMU)

01:07:52 Consciousness creating reality?

01:11:59 Does Universal Grammar hold up to "Bayesian modeling"?

01:13:28 AGI Scaring Chomsky

01:14:56 Linguistic successors of Chomsky

01:16:11 Human language capacity vs. arithmetical capacity (is it related?)

01:20:23 "You can't know anything for certain" and Nihilism

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