Author: Jan Höglund
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Playing with ChatGPT
I played with ChatGPT this morning (Nov 10, 2023). This is what happened: User (me): Please, make the language in the following paragraph simple, clear, and succinct: It is profoundly misleading to compare an organism to a machine. Machines do not create themselves. They have no own interests. They do not resist being switched off.…
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Neil Turok on Life
The following quote is from Brian Keating‘s interview with Neil Turok on October 2, 2022: I think, and it may sound strange from a physicist, but I think the most fascinating thing in the universe is Life, and how it’s organized… What is the law that governs life, that tells you that life will emerge?…
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Så småningom lär vi oss att gråta tyst
I dagens DN förklarar psykologen Malin Broberg vid Göteborgs universitet varför det är normalt att barn gråter när det lämnas på förskolan. Det finns inget som talar för att det på lång sikt skulle vara bättre eller sämre att göra det ena eller det andra, säger Malin Broberg. Så småningen lär vi oss att gråta…
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Iain McGilchrist on value-ception
If Iain McGilchrist is right, then values are part of a conscious cosmos. Value-ception is immediate.1 Whenever we perceive something, we perceive the unanalyzed whole, and in this whole its value.2 This does not negate an axiological3 analysis of the original value-ception. We depend, however, on our right hemisphere for it to be disclosed to…
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Iain McGilchrist on love
The following is from Nate Hagen’s interview with Iain McGilchrist on August 23, 2023. Nate Hagens: What do you care most about in the world, Iain? Iain McGilchrist: It’s a very difficult thing to say because I just care about the world, really. But I care about it under the aspect of love. I care…
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Choosing aliveness?
How might we go deeper choosing aliveness? “Love”, I wrote last year, “is the inside of aliveness”.1 But what does that mean? Being still for a moment I am simply experiencing the feeling of being alive. But what exactly is this? Not thoughts, but aliveness. It’s feelable, aliveable—not thinkable. I am pausing experiencing it. Notes1.…
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Iain McGilchrist on control
The following quote is from a conversation between Iain McGilchrist and Ameer Shaheed in May 2023. It is part of a series of conversations exploring McGilchrist’s philosophy as laid out in The Matter with Things. (My emphasis in italics.) I would go so far as to say that control, which is the single value of…
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Edward Frenkel on the first person perspective and computation
The following is from Lex Fridman’s interview with Edward Frenkel on April 10, 2023. Edward Frenkel is a mathematician and author of the bestselling book Love and Math. I’m starting to question, why I am not giving as much credibility to my subjective understanding of the world…, the first person perpective… The observer is always…
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A test of ChatGPT
Introduction I tested ChatGPT today (April 17, 2023). I checked what the ChatGPT Mar 23 Version knew about Robert S. Hartman and his work. Below is an excerpt of ChatGPT’s answers to my questions, together with my comments. The comments are based on my reading of Robert S. Hartman’s two books Freedom to Live and…
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Learning from Masanobu Fukuoka’s philosophy
Masanobu Fukuoka (1913–2008) pioneered natural farming. I think we have much to learn from Masanobu Fukuoka’s philosophy. Masanobu Fukuoka’s approach to natural farming entailed minimal human interference with nature. He saw nature as interconnected and resisted the urge to impose structure. Instead of action, he experimented with inaction. Instead of adding work, he attempted to…