AI won't reduce the number of programmers. It will create millions more, because running code you cannot understand is not programming. It is faith. www.ocrampal.com/there-will-b... #programming #psychology #AI #intelligence #cogsci #philpsy #neurosky #philosophy

Society has lost its direction. We are now driving blind, and the reason is reductionism. We’ve become so obsessed with breaking the world into tiny parts that we’ve forgotten how the whole thing actually hangs together. www.ocrampal.com/too-narrow-t... #SystemsThinking #Reductionism #Holism

In the rush to scale neural networks, we have fallen into a category error: believing that a perfect simulation of an intelligent behavior is the same thing as the existence of intelligence itself. www.ocrampal.com/chasing-our-... #ArtificialIntelligence #PhilosophyOfAI #CognitiveScience

LLMs hallucinate? Groundbreaking discovery: a statistical model works statistically. 😉 It’s the ultimate tech irony. We abandoned GOFAI because manual rules couldn't handle the messiness of reality.

Word and Excel vs LLMs. Secretaries became executive assistants, their role evolved to higher-level coordination, communication, and decision support. Accountants gained the ability to do far more analysis, strategic planning, and advisory work.

AGI is Our Generation's Alchemy, And We're Too Arrogant to Admit It The AI industry has a dirty secret: we're building toward Artificial General Intelligence without the faintest consensus on what intelligence actually is. ocrampal.com/from-sophist...

LLMs are masters of the "Understood"—the vast library of human output. But they lack "Understanding"—the creative spark that generates those concepts in the first place. www.ocrampal.com/the-understo... #philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #cogsci #philpsy #neurosky

Excel didn’t kill accountants; it gave them better tools. Yet, with AI, we’ve abandoned this logic in favor of a collective fantasy. We’re treating a sophisticated calculator as a human replacement rather than a human multiplier. www.ocrampal.com/the-shared-d... #philosophy #AI #intelligence

Why Computation Can’t Create—And Where It Hits the Logic Ceiling. While logic can rearrange the pieces of an existing puzzle, it cannot explain the spark that creates the pieces themselves. ocrampal.com/the-scope-of... #philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #cogsci #philpsy #neurosky

The Enlightenment was meant to be a lighthouse, its beam of reason guiding humanity out of superstition's dark waters. But what if the beam grew too focused, too bright? www.ocrampal.com/from-light-t... #philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #cogsci #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence

We have spent centuries perfecting the art of mapping the "streams" of knowledge—science, mathematics, and logic—while ignoring the river’s source. www.ocrampal.com/the-source-o... #philosophy #AI #intelligence #physics #biology #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence

When Excel became mainstream, it accelerated accountants' work. Companies needed fewer number-crunching positions. You could accomplish more with fewer people, but you still needed the experienced accountant. Think of LLMs as a tool to increase efficiency, not one to replace the accountant.

AI is like an automobile. It amplifies our mobility and lets us go faster and farther, but it doesn't decide the destination, and it certainly doesn't navigate the ethics of the journey. www.ocrampal.com/stop-treatin... #ArtificialIntelligence

Why does calling out a hallucination feel like calling someone’s kid "ugly"? We’ve stopped treating AI like software and started treating it like a protégé. Here’s why criticizing an algorithm has suddenly become so personal. www.ocrampal.com/why-criticiz... #ArtificialIntelligence

The Circularity of Conceptual Analysis and the Search for a New Foundation ocrampal.com/the-impossib... #philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #physics #biology #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence

The Thing Trap: How Language Locked Us Into the Wrong Model of Mind ocrampal.com/things-to-be... #philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #physics #biology #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence

Neuroscience produces more data every year: more neurons mapped, more proteins identified. Yet the fundamental questions remain unanswered. We're creating puzzle pieces without knowing what image they're meant to form. ocrampal.com/the-puzzle-i... #philosophy #psychology #AI #intelligence #physics

The quest to understand consciousness often feels like searching for an elephant in a room—we're certain it's there because we feel it, yet it remains stubbornly hidden from our scientific and philosophical grasp. geneosophy.com/consciousnes... #philosophy psychology #AI #intelligence #physics

Michel Bitbol expresses many Geneosophic intuitions in this video. However, the distinction between possibilities and actualities (or probabilities) is still not articulated convincingly. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5STU...

AI without meaning is not intelligence, it is mathematics ocrampal.com/ai-and-the-n... #philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #physics #biology #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence

Why do even the most advanced 'World Models' still hallucinate? Why does AI hit a mathematical wall of 'combinatorial explosion' the moment we try to make it truly autonomous? ocrampal.com/frequently-a... #philosophy #AI #intelligence #biology #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky

Why Computation Can Simulate the Past, but Never Generate the Living Present www.ocrampal.com/the-zoetrope... #philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #physics #biology #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence

The Ghost in the Silicon: Why Code Is Not Cognition. www.ocrampal.com/the-code-tha... #philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #physics #biology #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence

The Life Paradox: Why Your DNA Isn’t a Blueprint www.ocrampal.com/what-is-life... #philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #physics #biology #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence

The Brain is Not a Computer: A Neuroscientist’s Crisis www.ocrampal.com/the-dead-end... #philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #physics #biology #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence

AI's Grand Illusion: The Uncomfortable Parallel to Alchemy and Sophistry www.ocrampal.com/from-sophist... #philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #physics #biology #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence

When we try to formalize a neuron computationally, we don't translate biology into code—we perform a violent collapse. www.ocrampal.com/what-a-neuro... #philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #physics #biology #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence

The Master Key: One Secret to Solve Every Philosophical Mystery. Dissolving the Dualities: Why Concepts are the Foundation of Thought. www.ocrampal.com/how-solving-... #philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #physics #biology #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence

We assume intelligence is computable not because we’ve proven it, but because we’ve lost the ability to conceptualize it any other way. www.ocrampal.com/the-ultimate... #philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #physics #biology #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence

The End of the Machine Metaphor: A New Framework for Intelligence and Life. A Journey Through the Paradoxes of Reductionism ocrampal.com/the-end-of-t... #philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #physics #biology #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence

The God’s Eye Fallacy: Why Computation Fails Biology www.ocrampal.com/the-500-mill... #philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #physics #biology #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence

The "Computational Theory of Mind" has become the modern secular religion, promising that if we just find the right algorithm, we can replicate intelligence. www.ocrampal.com/computation-... #philosophy #science #AI #intelligence #cogsci #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence

philosophics.blog/2025/12/18/c... ‪Are You Cold, or Do You Have Cold? The Answer Defines How You Perceive the World and Has Defining Implications On What AI is! #philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #physics #biology #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence

Are You Cold, or Do You Have Cold? The Answer Defines How You Perceive the World and Has Defining Implications On What AI is! www.ocrampal.com/i-am-cold-vs... #philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #physics #biology #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence

True intelligence, not AI, will be achieved by thinking outside the box. ocrampal.com/the-esoteric... #philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #cogsci #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence

Current Artificial Intelligence paradigms suffer from a historical amnesia concerning language: the original, embodied meaning of words has been forgotten. www.ocrampal.com/your-words-k... #philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #philmind #philsci #philsky #neurosky #neuroskyence

I find it useful to be able to compare Geneosophy with the thought of other thinkers. It is a bit like being able to discuss with Bergson. www.ocrampal.com/geneosophy-a... #philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #cogsci #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence

Is AI a kind of alchemy? The Alchemist's Equivalence: a dialogue. www.ocrampal.com/the-alchemis... #philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #cogsci #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence

Discourse surrounding “AI” these days often feels like a guy showing you his shovel and you say, “that’s a nice shovel” and he says “I am going to perform surgery on my mother with this shovel” and you say “Oh God please don’t that is not what a shovel is for.”

"writing code to solve a problem" used to have "understanding the problem" as a prerequisite. but vibecoding allows solution-shaped objects to be produced without any of the hard-won understanding. beware of solution-shaped objects.

Why we create paradoxes when we ask the wrong questions? www.ocrampal.com/how-asking-t... #philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #physics #biology #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence

A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything

Do we need to name a new type of bias for this? 👇

"LLMs are okay at coding, but at scale they build jumbled messes. I’ve scaled back my use of AI when coding and gone back to using my brain and pen and paper." https://albertofortin.com/writing/coding-with-ai

In that last entry, I mentioned that theoretical Geneosophy was complete and that I had begun developing its first application: the comprehension of a neuron. I was working on a syntax to express impossibilities*—constraints—and building an interpreter in Python ... www.ocrampal.com/time-flies/