Reclaiming Sovereignty from the Causal Inversion: Tool Reification, Token Fallacies, and the True Ground of Thought
Why does intellectual discourse constantly mistake the instrument of thinking for the thinker? In this episode, we unpack The Causal Inversion of Philosophical Agency, exposing the critical conceptual error of attributing philosophical capability to language models and ultimate validation to institutional panels.
We dissect how this inversion operates across modern culture, beginning with ordinary language: when we say an essay is "written by AI," we commit a category error, assigning agency to an instrument. A computational model merely generates sequences based on historical statistical…
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