Let’s try and understand Brian Cantwell Smith again – drossbucket

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This is mainly a review of Brian Cantwell Smith’s latest book, The Promise of Artificial Intelligence: Reckoning and Judgment. But it’s also a second attempt to understand more of his o…

This is mainly a review of Brian Cantwell Smith’s latest book, The Promise of Artificial Intelligence: Reckoning and Judgment . But it’s also a second attempt to understand more of his overall project and worldview, after struggling through On the Origin of Objects a few years ago. I got a lot out of reading that, and wrote up what I did understand in my post on his idea of representations happening in the ‘middle distance’ between direct causal coupling and total irrelevance. But somehow the whole thing never cohered for me at the level I wanted to and I felt like I wa

Let’s try and understand Brian Cantwell Smith again – drossbucket

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