https://gaiusbaltar.substack.com/p/is-consciousness-fading-in-modern

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5652911&forum_id=2#48475536)

to be fair, iirc, I once wrote a paper taking issue with Kant's distinction between synthetic and analytic truths – arguing that there's no difference at all – particularly the idea of distinguishing between them on the basis of the process of reasoning.  I remember my prof found one of my counterexamples very convincing, but I can't find the paper now. o__0 I think I showed how one of Kant's (or Quine's? or Chalmers'?) examples of inductive reasoning could be reduced to deductive reasoning.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5652911&forum_id=2#48475829)

I'll finish reading later

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5652911&forum_id=2#48475939)

I'd be interested in reading your thesis if you can somehow scrounge it up. Also I'm not so sure about it being useless. We're about to hit a very brave new world of induction-based artificial intelligence

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5652911&forum_id=2#48475951)

the poker example at the end of Page 3 is what my professor found convincing:

```Because Kant’s grammar is restricted to sentences of forms such as “All S are P” and “No S is Q” and his logic [is] restricted accordingly, conceptual analysis consists of the extremely trivial process alluded to thus far in this paper. (“Does the concept of S say anything about P?”)

    However, if Kant’s propositions and/or logical axioms were afforded some additional complexity, conceptual analysis would become much more involved (and much more useful!). For example, suppose Kant allowed for disjunctions and conditionals in his grammar. [...] [T]he evaluation of claims may start requiring complicated decision trees. [...] Consider an analytic statement about poker hands, in which one must use the (rather uncomplicated) concepts of the types of poker hands to evaluate the truth of: “A full house or a three of a kind is included in a hand composed of two of the cards A, B, and C; one of D or E; and one of F or G, if the fifth card is H, or in the hand consisting of I, J, K, L, M”. Imagine working through that on a chalkboard: the demonstration of such a claim may look a lot like the demonstration of a mathematical claim--like an example of conceptual synthesis. [B]ut it is clearly an analytic one, concerned only with the definitions of different kinds of poker hands.```

here's the paper as a docx: https://jmp.sh/s/T89RP9zoy0tMri05C1wA

or PDF if your device can't open that: https://jmp.sh/s/saVFU3u5SDMs2Ts031s8

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great point about AI – I hadn't thought about that – ofc phil/mind is more relevant than ever, but you're totally right about epistemology becoming increasingly significant too

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5652911&forum_id=2#48476541)

This concept doesn't even exist in other races

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5652911&forum_id=2#48475977)

THE MEMORY OF A GODS EXISTENCE BORN FROM THE CHAOS OF CREATION

IT IS VANISHING

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5652911&forum_id=2#48476218)