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SUMMARY:Language and Mind Seminar: Yair Pinto (University of Amsterdam)
DESCRIPTION:Title: The grounding problem in language and reality \nAbstract: Philosophy of language has long struggled with the symbol-grounding problem of meaning. If symbols are only defined relationally\, that is\, in terms of each other\, then how do they ever mean something? Learning that ∫ connects ∩ to ₺ seems to say little about the meaning of ∫\, ∩ and ₺. \nA similar grounding problem exists for algorithms. Searle highlighted this in the Chinese Room thought experiment. Computationally transforming meaningless input (0’s and 1’s) into meaningless output (other 0’s and 1’s) seems insufficient to generate meaning. \nFor both symbols and algorithms it could be argued that consciousness is needed to infuse grounding into the system. Recent evidence suggests that these issues may not be entirely philosophical. Surprisingly\, in the context of quantum physics\, it has recently been shown that the description of unmeasured reality always requires complex numbers – complex numbers contain the square root of -1 and must be transformed to become a real number. Yet\, observables\, such as mass\, charge and position\, can be described entirely with real numbers. This suggests that unobserved reality is “pre-real” and needs the infusion of an observation to become actual. \nIn the current talk I will discuss how the seemingly unrelated grounding problems between language\, algorithms and reality may\, in fact\, be related. Moreover\, I will outline how this may lead to testable predictions in these domains. This may have empirical consequences for the seemingly unrelated fields of quantum physics and large language models. \nBio: Yair Pinto is an assistant Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Amsterdam with a background in Physics (MSc) and Cognitive Psychology (PhD). He has received several high-profile grants both European (a Dutch Rubicon grant\, a European Marie-Curie grant) and American (a large Templeton grant). He has published his work in many prestigious journals\, among them JEP:General\, Psychological Science and Brain. His main interests are visual perception\, consciousness\, split-brain patients and free will.
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SUMMARY:FPST Seminar
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LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
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SUMMARY:FPST Seminar: Emilia Wilson (58�Թ�)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Activist Slogans and ‘Reframing the Debate’ \nAbstract: This talk will examine the role of slogans in social justice movements and how we should understand their meaning. Social justice movements often utilise slogans and claims which putatively clash with received common sense. One way of understanding these claims is as what Cantalamessa terms ‘conceptual activism’: the role of claims like ‘disability pride’ is to challenge and destabilise the hegemonic common sense\, for strategic political ends\, rather than to be descriptively accurate. On such views\, these campaigns have pragmatic political goals rather than epistemic/descriptive goals. I will argue against these views. Drawing on analyses of ideology as both epistemically and politically pernicious\, I contend that such campaigns have both political and epistemic aims. I aim to show that this better captures the role of these slogans by attending to historical case studies. 
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