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Metaphysics and modern AI: What is reality?

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In the first episode of our series on metaphysics, Michael Herman joins us from Episode #14 on “What is consciousness?” to discuss reality. More specifically, the question of objects in reality. The team explores Plato’s forms, Aristotle’s realism, emergence, and embodiment to determine whether AI models can approximate from what humans uniquely experience.

  • Defining objects via properties, perception, and persistence
  • Banana and circle examples for identity and ideals
  • Plato versus Aristotle on forms and realism
  • Ship of Theseus and continuity through change
  • Samples, complexes, and emergence in systems
  • Embodiment, consciousness, and why LLMs lack lived unity
  • Existentialist focus on subjective reality and meaning
  • Why metaphysics matters for AI governance and safety

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Chapters

1. Welcome and metaphysics mini-series (00:00:00)

2. Defining metaphysics and today’s focus (00:05:08)

3. What makes an object an object? (00:06:07)

4. Perception, properties, and persistence (00:09:20)

5. Plato’s Forms versus Aristotle’s Realism (00:12:20)

6. Identity through change and the Ship Paradox (00:17:15)

7. Simples, complexes, and emergence (00:21:07)

8. Consciousness, embodiment, and LLM limits (00:24:15)

9. Existentialism and subjective seality (00:28:00)

10. Why metaphysics still matters for AI (00:31:15)

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