The problem with traditional logic and a logical approach to AI is that logic is inherently reductive. This was a theme in postmodern philosophy and the connectionism movement in AI research. Basically we don’t really make decisions through logic but through contextual mediation. (see Jeremy Campbell’s Impossible Machine and Paul Cilliers’ Complexity and Postmodernism). All […]
(extracted from a conversation with Gregory Desilet): People are funny. They seem to evaluate more on surface language than what is actually being communicated. Deleuze gives a bunch of fancy materialist terms to his mysticism and all the atheistic academics thinks it is great. Well not everyone. But everyone has their own metaphysics and the
A couple of my favorite contemporary thinkers, Alexander Galloway and Rocco Gangle both wrote books on Laruelle and he keeps coming up in recent discourse, so I thought I would take a look. Galloway frames Laruelle within his digital/analog motif which is a deep interest of mine. Laruelle seems like the end of the line
