The Archimedean point. Where everything starts.
also called:
stuck at:
confidence:
my lines
- Projection of perception. What I see.
- Knowing
- Static experience (data) — acquired passively?
- Dynamic experience (computation, function, capability) — acquired actively?
- How do you justify experience at all? Self-reference.
from the AI
[AI] Whether materialism wins or idealism wins:
the neurosurgeon still places the electrode,
the anaesthetist still calculates the dose,
the BCI decoder still recalibrates.
Nobody changes how they work. If an opposition makes no practical difference at all, it is probably not a real opposition but a problem of language. Carnap called this a pseudo-problem.
Taken apart:
“Matter comes first” = in causal explanation, physical description is the fundamental layer → it works, it predicts
“Perception comes first” = in the order of justification, experience is the starting point → true, irrefutable
counterexamples
linked concepts
= first-compiler
→ wall
→ projection-outside-description
→ observation