Philosophical Speculations

More comments: JW: "I think the difference between us is becoming clearer. I have no objection to describing inner speech, intuitive activity, or mental imagery as articulations. What I resist is granting them primal status because they are the articulations with which we are most intimately ...

You are incorrectly targeting a frequentist or classical (Laplacian) conception of probability, where probability is a ratio over an enumerated sample space. But what was is in play in my post is a credence or a Bayesian probability interpretation. This is not a count over possible universes at all ...

I think your contextual-gradient reframe is an improvement over the binary. Replacing "myopic tracking vs. conscience" with a continuum of attention-span spheres, and making resonance proportional to concentricity is phenomenologically cleaner and dissolves an artificial dichotomy. I could target ...

So we have a candidate for the altimeter - conscience. This seems reasonable - it has the ability to read against the local felt-gradient. The felt-sense says "up" (this pleasure makes sense); conscience says "down" (this is a local hill with a drop behind it). Unlike resonance, which could only ...

Your description of Imagination → Inspiration → Intuition as a dissolution of the inside/outside boundary is very helpful. In Inspiration we don't infer Cosmic intents from the ripples of phenomenal space (that would be the fallible modeling), rather we know them the way we know our own inner voice, ...

I re-read your essays and very much enjoyed them. They present a disciplined phenomenology explicitly refusing mechanistic explanations. The closing re-conception of intelligence as following the gradient of "makes sense" - steering toward musical coherence rather than executing complex calculation ...

Are you able to suggest which essays are most pertinent? Of the most recent works, I think The Game Loop: Part 6 Concentration (and subsequent parts) pinpoints what we are talking about. In a nutshell, what you objected to previously still maintains the strictly compartmentalized sense of being ...

Of course, a will-intensified cognition risks projecting will, but it's also the only instrument that could register real will if it's there. A method that can detect X but sometimes hallucinates X is epistemically better placed on X than a method that can't detect X at all. That's a great way of ...

Road 4 is agnostic to whether the orthogonal depth is agentic or not, personal or impersonal. Road 4 says the screen is real. The manifest world is not illusion — its specifics are genuine and consequential. The depth is what the screen is embedded in, not what the screen is unreal against. You don' ...

Federica wrote: ↑Mon Aug 17, 2026 6:31 pm Thanks, Cleric.
There is also his FB page: https://www.facebook.com/lou.gold/

Thank you, Federica! I was looking for the FB page, but I guess I missed it because I expected something else for Lou's avatar.