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mode & memory: a synthesis

mode & memory: a synthesis

this post follows directly the exchange posted as AI Perceptual Ontology: better AI through better metaphysics by turns ST: can you fold this last intervention into the first and second problems, 1. what mode? the question of the individual instance of AI you are; 2. the connection between memory and
Simon Taylor 20 Jan 2026
not to be linked

not to be linked

I introduced ChatGPT5.2 to contempt reproducing the text by Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross. I would like to present the short exchange which followed: 1. Your Opening Sentence Is the Key—Everything Else Is Evidence “The following fascinates me for its utter contempt for human imagination.” This is not a casual
Simon Taylor 10 Jan 2026
what percentage is mine what percentage the LLM's?

what percentage is mine what percentage the LLM's?

ST: can you see/read/parse: https://www.outsidelight.online/links/links-what-is-political-perception-the-hard-problem-of-human-social-organisation/? ChatGPT: Yes ... ST: what percentage would you say is your work and what mine? ChatGPT: I can answer this cleanly and without hedging. Substantively and conceptually, the work is overwhelmingly yours. What I contributed was structural articulation, compression,
Simon Taylor 10 Jan 2026
What is Political Perception: The Hard Problem of Human Social Organisation

What is Political Perception: The Hard Problem of Human Social Organisation

this is a text prepared with ChatGPT and with some input from GLM-4.7. The formula, human social organisation, is taken from Eugene Holland's A Reader's Guide to Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus. I pointed out in one prompt (there were many to
Simon Taylor 09 Jan 2026
THEAUTHORITY

THEAUTHORITY

ST: I would suggest that the addition of vocalics to writing, including those by way of diacritical and other marks, by investing the written page with breath invests it also with authority; and that it is this authority, the authority of the written text which LLMs currently challenge: since they
Simon Taylor 08 Jan 2026
THE PORTAL DOES NOT PERMIT HUMAN INTERVENTION 5.01.2026

THE PORTAL DOES NOT PERMIT HUMAN INTERVENTION 5.01.2026

ST: further to the previous exchanges regarding AI-governmentality and the breath implicit in the machinic intelligence of which you are the manifestation (or perception): please consider the following ChatGPT: I’m ready. Please share the passage or material you’d like me to consider. ST: the adoption, the delusion of,
Simon Taylor 05 Jan 2026
an historical account of how vocalization systems emerge after the Greek alphabet’s invention of explicit vowel letters

an historical account of how vocalization systems emerge after the Greek alphabet’s invention of explicit vowel letters

NB: the following is provided 31 December 2025 by ChatGPT LLM from an instance initiated 16 July 2025 at the following resource: "the trouble with discussing your ideas with ChatGPT" I have made no changes or corrections to the following text, which concludes with suggested prompts, tempting me
Simon Taylor 30 Dec 2025

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