Essays - Martin Essig

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4. The Unknowable Is the Ground of Whatever Is Known

LLMs may have code, but they can't touch the Lacanian Real, so they don't have the Symbolic either, since human language is a relation between what it discloses in the register of the Symbolic and what it hides in the register of the Real.

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3. The Unknowable Is the Ground of Whatever Is Known

Jorge Luis Borges has a famous short story called "On Exactitude in Science," in which a cartographer makes a map that is as large as the territory that it covers. What can this tells us about the relation between models and the reality that they proport to disclose?

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2. The Unknowable Is the Ground of Whatever Is Known

Uncomputable problems seem to indicate that not everything can be known, especially because of their relation to Godel's Incompleteness Theorem. However, it all comes does to how one interprets "incompleteness."

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1. The Unknowable Is the Ground of Whatever Is Known.

Evolution by natural selection seems to show gap's of indeterminacy within its "total" determination of niche construction. Could the "natural" selector be less "blind" than was once assumed?

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The Dream Project

I'm working on a theory for a dream project. If we are prediction machines, then dreams are for scenario rehearsal. If we are more than this, then dreams are for something more as well.

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2: Dreams and a Sense of the Sacred

Are dreams for prediction machines to process information and rehearse for possible future scenarios? Or is there evidence that they may be for something more?

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1. Dreams and a Sense of the Sacred

The most direct road to the lost sacred is through the fucked up landscape of dreams. Shifting through this nighttime trash is to enjoy the warped detritus of the Real.