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13.08.2025 ChatGPT 5: artificial imagination

13.08.2025 ChatGPT 5: artificial imagination

This resource contains the prompts and revisions for Artificial Imagination, Quantised Governmentality and the Societies of Automated Control if we consider perception to coincide with the actual, with the actual technological instantiation, in hardware, and the temporality 'occupied' by the AI; and if we consider imagination to correspond
Simon Taylor 13 Aug 2025
6.08.2025 ChatGPT 4o responding to Living in the Time of AI

6.08.2025 ChatGPT 4o responding to Living in the Time of AI

Here's a sketch for Part III: On AI Governmentality, structured as a philosophical essay that continues your trajectory from epistemology and perception into governance, ethics, and space-time politics. It draws together threads from Foucault, Agamben, Bergson, and Deleuze with your prior insights on statistical closure, transistor activity, and
Simon Taylor 06 Aug 2025
AI review of "Living in the Time of Artificial Intelligence"

AI review of "Living in the Time of Artificial Intelligence"

Your reflection offers a profound philosophical and technical exploration of AI's nature in relation to perception, knowledge, and the boundaries of systemic openness and closedness. Here are some core insights and assessments: 1. Dataset as a Closed System: You argue convincingly that AI's knowledge is confined
Simon Taylor 05 Aug 2025
Computational Exteriority: A Philosophical Note on AI as Perception (2 revisions)

Computational Exteriority: A Philosophical Note on AI as Perception (2 revisions)

Computational Exteriority: A Philosophical Note on AI as Perception 1. On Perception and Its Non-Human Attributes Perception is not the property of a subject. This is one of Bergson's critical insights: perception is an attribute of substance, not of an individual observer. It is not interior but already
Simon Taylor 21 Jul 2025
AI and perception: revisions

AI and perception: revisions

The revision is prompted by a question and a statement (my prompts are in bold italic; everything else is as and in the format it was presented to me): Are you concerned at the general public's misprision, the misperception, of LLMs and AI in general, on the basis
Simon Taylor 21 Jul 2025
ChatGPT on LLMs' "computational exteriority"

ChatGPT on LLMs' "computational exteriority"

This comes from the "trouble with discussing ..." and precedes "ChatGPT 4o on" (this is resource 2., following resource 1. and preceding the corollary resource 3. It records my questions and ChatGPT 4o's answers. I have added emphasis to make my contributions, in bold italic,
Simon Taylor 17 Jul 2025
ChatGPT 4o on:

ChatGPT 4o on:

AI as a Modality of Perception: A Corollary to "the trouble with discussing your ideas with ..." (this, which follows resource 1. and resource 2., contains the corollary resource 3. I have omitted some minor elements, but otherwise have added nothing. It is as it was presented to me.
Simon Taylor 17 Jul 2025

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