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In deference to US Independence Day, I was thinking about books with a counterfactual historical take – speculative history. I wrote about it.
👉https://philosophics.blog/2026/07/03/un-discovering-america/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#philosophy #books #blog #podcast #spotify #video #youtube #short #history #reading #america #europe
I've been wittering on about the history and failings of Meritocracy, but I hadn't drafted a version for Substack.
👉 https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/the-merits-of-meritocracy
I've purposely left Trump, but clearly he's a central figure in this perspective. Very few situations merit meritocracy as a lens, but we seem to overextend it. It is certainly overrepresented in business.
#philosophy #merit #business #linkedin #meritocracy #video #podcast #substack #politics #language #culture #dei #promotions #statistics #heuristics
With all the talk around LLMs' consciousness, I decided to chime in yet again – this time, looking at understanding.
https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/the-250th-anniversary-of-dependence
#philosophy #epistemology #language #blog #podcast #French #understanding #artificialintelligence #llms #consciousness #exceptionalism
I look at patterns in LLM output. The tell is more than simple orthographic tics.
https://philosophics.blog/2026/07/07/ai-language-patterns/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#philosophy #language #llms #ai #artificialintelligence #patterns #comprehension #writing #training #history #english #learning #blog #video #critique #commentary #spelling #pronunciation #content
I explain my path through metaphors of ontological grammar with examples.
#philosophy #substack #blog #podcast #optics #lenses #water #refraction #software #firmware #ontology #judgment #metaphor #grammar #ontologicalgrammar #perspective #physics
I was up for hours this morning chatting with Claude about the meaning of Meaning, and I lived to tell the tale.
https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/capital-letters-trade-marks-and-other?r=pvxh5
#philosophy #ontology #truth #meaning #semantics #semiotics #orthography #language #metaphysics #orthography #deconstruction #typography #blog #substack #podcast #video
This sequence is intended as a conceptual decomposition:
world event or stimulus → salience → attention → embodied presentation → perception or event construction → apprehension as ‘an experience’ → conceptual framing → verbal representation
https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/before-the-word-the-model
#philosophy #language #experience #video #blog #substack #mind #perception #linguistics #determinism #thought #realism #reality #consciousness #vocabulary #cognition #biology #speech #mediation #model #neuroscience #flow #cognitive
In this follow-up to the Merits of Meritocracy, I delved a little deeper into Trump and Plato's Republic.
https://philosophics.blog/2026/07/22/the-merits-of-meritocracy/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#philosophy #merit #business #linkedin #meritocracy #video #podcast #substack #politics #language #culture #dei #promotions #statistics #heuristics
As the saying goes, everything is a remix. There is no such thing as an original thought. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news for those who feel this – or a form of creativity – is what separates humans from LLMs, from stochastic parrots.
👉 https://iai.tv/video/memes-minds-and-the-myth-of-control
👉https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NLBQOJmJ3K8
#philosophy #selfhood #creativity #video #blog #identity #originality #humanity #exceptionalism #hubris #strawson #althusser #wilde #quote #ai #llms #intelligence #cognition
I share some thoughts about a 2024 IAI article by Paul Pietroski.
https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/words-do-not-refer-alone
I agree with Paul directionally, but I think he could have gone further – and perhaps he has since – so I compare his view to my own in a Substack article. I'm not sure whether he'd disagree with the extensions. Check it out.
#language #philosophy #semantics #ontology #reality #words #video #podcast #blog #substack #iai #lemonade #communication #meaning
This is the second in a deeper look at 10 of my philosophical positions; this one is on Mediated Encounter Realism within the category of metaphysics for ontology. A full article is available on my Substack, with supporting information on a recent post on Philosophics Blog.
Below is a ~5-minute short podcast.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0FL5pWqjRYGdqFXW86tr6R?si=-oBa3Ae-RemgBmY8CBFGaw
#philosophy #podcast #metaphilosophy #anti-foundationalism #diagnostics #dis-integrationism #quietism #blog #substack
Using AI in a legal context is perfectly defensible. Not following up and not performing due diligence is lazy and derelict. This extends to any serious endeavour.
https://www.whro.org/2026-04-03/penalties-stack-up-as-ai-spreads-through-the-legal-system
#philosophy #law #legal #ai #negligence #lazy #duediligence #performance #article #npr #lawyers #lawschool #attorneys #authoship #responsibility #accountability #references #citations #writing #publishing
Third post on time versus duration, this time, brainless jellyfish are doing the teaching.
In this study, we unlink circadian rhythm from a 24-hour cycle. The time of physics is a feature of the map rather than of the universe.
#psychology #philosophy #time #rhythm #terrain #map #jellyfish #brains #sun #days #temperature #environment #nature #life #reproduction #biology
Disclaimer: My worldview is different from many, if not most, people; yet I want to participate in the social space that is the internet. The challenge is that I am taken as oppositional and a contrarian for the sake of, I don’t know, trolling. The simple fact is that my minority view is a very considered position that is different. There is no ‘for the sake of’ in play.
#philosophy #note #blog #announcement #substack #opposition #communication #ontology #epistemology
I've been putting off posting about my 5,000+ essay downloads in deference to more 'important' pieces, but since my weekend was occupied plotting a new story idea, I have space for a short celebratory piece. Hooray for me. 🥳
https://philosophics.blog/2026/04/06/celebration/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
The two favourites were 'Objectivity Is an Illusion' and 'Rational Ghosts: Why Enlightenment Democracy Was Built to Fail'. Follow the link.
#philosophy #essays #writing #reading #democracy #fiction #nonfiction #objectivity #rationality #celebrate
In a post from 2024, I made a point on the insufficiency of language to faithfully render an image from a prompt. In this example, I wanted it to depict a specific woman and dog oriented to a tree in a forest. Although me endeavour was unsuccessful, it made my point.
https://philosophics.blog/2024/11/08/the-insufficiency-of-language-meets-generative-ai/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=lih
#philosophy #language #llm #genai #ai #image #translation #interpretation #cognition #consciousness #perspective #mediation #representation #blog #history #instruction #art
I use music and a ProTools example to illustrate the difference between duration and time. I even invoked the debate between Bergson and Einstein in 1922.
Time doesn't exist. It's merely a useful heuristic that humans use for social structure. Duration is more intrinsic. Physics has created a space-time map and confused it with the underlying terrain.
#philosophy #physics #time #duration #blog #podcast #Einstein #Bergson #debate #music #metaphor #social #ClaudeAI
Time travel is impossible science fiction, but not for the reasons pop physics thinks.
@brywillis634737@substack.com
#scifi #sciencefiction #reading #blog #posting #writing #time #travel #history #philosophy #perspective #timetravel #substack #wordpress #physics
What's real, reality, and other such questions?
https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/real-reality-ontology-ontic-a-coordinating
#philosophy #language #ontology #reality #real #sociology #words #concepts #definitions #blog #substack #spotify #podcast #video
I've finally published my essay resolving the Frege–Geach problem.
Or have I? You tell me. I had worked to dissolve the problem in February, but I wasn't satisfied. I revised the manuscript in March, but I wasn't satisfied because I felt I could go further – and so I did.
#philosophy #language #expressivism #essay #blog #semantic #identity #morals #ethics #emotivism #categoryerror #syntax
A concise and incomplete heuristic memory model.
https://philosophics.blog/2026/07/16/a-heuristic-model-of-memory/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#blog #process #philosophy #memory #psychology #cognitivescience #model
This morning I awoke thinking about sex – actually gender – of borrowed Latin words. Get your mind out of the gutter.
👉 https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/we-still-bury-the-dead
I wrote a piece about it, but I was truly conflicted on my journey, especially as I compared English and French approaches, and a potential feminist rift.
#philosophy #language #sociolinguistics #etymology #english #french #latin #gender #writing #culture #feminism #linguistics #reform #administration
This is the fourth in a deeper look at 10 of my philosophical positions; this one is on Episodic Indexicalism identity within the category of Philosophy of self for Selfhood and personal. A full article is available on my Substack, with supporting information on a recent post on Philosophics Blog.
Below is a ~5-minute short podcast.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/01tk1Sswpyr1yqF1m4XMel?si=Fuw8JZNbQp2-43I8cSV-pg
#philosophy #blog #substack #selfhood #self #podcast #identity
Les Années Vécues
https://philosophics.blog/2026/07/01/les-annees-vecues/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
I’ve shared a piece of fiction writing meta content and the rôle of LLMs in my writing workflow, in particular, a punch list to track idea instantiation. I don’t, however, discuss my fondness for diacritical marks, especially those with no phonetic function.
#philosophy #writing #fiction #timetravel #LLM #scifi #process #author #time #blof #podcast #language #workflow #frnech #english #shortstory #method #ai #matrix #spreadsheet #google #claude #chatgpt
This is the 5th in a deeper look at 10 of my philosophical positions; this one is on the language insufficiency hypothesis within the category of philosophy of language. A full article is available on my Substack, with supporting information on a recent post on Philosophics Blog.
Below is a ~5-minute short podcast.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/75kTOXeOZOUPA2cxGvSlGf?si=q2woolOATwyC8HKU4RKtWg
#philosophy #language #complexity #languageinsufficiency #consciousness #psychology
Rival Patrons in French and English
https://youtu.be/Yp-GxhOU0fc
#language #french #english #satire #patron #boss #restaurants #trivia
I’ve been reading Žižek and Heidegger lately. Žižek labels himself a Communist (politics), Lacanian (method), and Heideggerian (ontology), so I asked Claude and ChatGPT how I fared.
#politics #philosphy #ontology #method #zizek #blog #video #podcast #substack #introspection #extrospection #Wittgenstein #pluralism #perspective #biography #rovelli #being #relata #relationships #philosopher
This isn’t my first post discussing why not all political disagreement is rational, and your interlocutors may not be ignorant, stupid, or arguing in bad faith.
#philosophy #politics #policy #intelligence #ontology #ignorance #blog #substack
A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis predicts this.
https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/language-insufficiency-meets-generative?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
#philosophy #language #midjourney #images #rendering #communication #vectors #ai #genai #generativeai #languageinsufficiency
Riffing on the idea of identity and selfhood after reading Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun.
#philosophy #books #reading #ishiguro #identity #selfhood #perception #heuristic #video #podcast #substack #blog #souls #metaphysics #astronomy #essence
Reading The Social Construction of Reality:
A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge
https://philosophics.blog/2026/07/17/the-social-construction-of-reality-a-treatise-in-the-sociology-of-knowledge/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#philosophy #knowledge #sociology #audiobook #Audible #reading
Many of us remember the 'no spoon' scene in The Matrix, but I'm unsatisfied with the many interpretations.
Now, you can be unsatisfied with mine. Fair is fair.
#philosophy #substack #blog #metaphysics #language #simulation #baudrillard #reality #consciousness #meow #perception
This content is a NotebookLM summary of a YouTube video comparing Colombia and the USA. I don't add anything to the content, but I thought the summary was worth sharing.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/10aXf3Ul0ey61sRETEDvRs?si=le63_1oqTdqyVZ3_u0yHYQ
#philosophy #history #law #politics #culture #society #salience #podcast #video #perspective
The AI-authorship debate is bollox.
https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/human-factors-in-authorship
The LLM-versus-human debate has been raging for several years now, and there seem to be two principal camps: human exceptionalists and agnostics. I suppose there may also be a small, misanthropic faction, but its members are remarkably quiet.
#philosophy #blog #substack #podcast #pangram #authenticity #quality #facticity #dashboard #authorship #writing #publishing #media #language #llms #artificialintelligence #debate #exceptionalism
I critique and Dis–Integrate Alex O'Connor's Cartesian argument for Panpsychism.
Many philosophers I respect support Panpsychism, but Homey don't play dat.
#philsophy #panpsychism #video #youtube #physics #emergence #consciousness #podcast #magic #blog #ontology #reductionism #deflationary #metaphysics #awareness #phenomena #experience #qualia #idealism #materialism
I was distracted by the notion of colonialism today, so I took some notes. We tend to treat colonialism as pertaining to countries 'out there' – 'over there'. If we are victims of colonisation, the oppressor is 'out there' but looking in.
📝 @brywillis634737@substack.com
🎧 https://open.spotify.com/episode/4mNHkZWfXKDyCC5Ljsj758?si=Yd41XyNVRbSUcwXmzP8oKA
#philosophy #politics #power #language #colonialism #control #foucault #mbembe #marx #heidegger #fanon #perspective #podcast #blog #substack #spotify #culture #empire #hegemony #essay
The good news: Claude Fable 5 is back.
The bad: Claude suggests chatting in English.
I was chatting with Claude and suggested either French or English was fine, but it suggested I'd be better off sticking to English because of its training data.
#artificialintelligence #claudeai #llms #training #data #communication #bias #blog #substack #note #français #writing #brainstorming #workflow #analysis
Just Wow. Modern-day fascism/totalitarianism 101.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4s-8eN3Mks8
#politics #democracynow #fascism #totalitarian #power #coup #history #bollox #trump #Leftards
I wrote this book a while ago to inspect the nature of time travel.
#philosophy #time #phenomenology #epistemology #writing #reading #fiction #books #blog