TL;DR Four insightful words during this age of AI that many use interchangeably: Inference is how intelligence moves beyond what is immediately known. Three types of inference: Induction learns rules from repeated experience. Deduction applies rules to particular cases. Abduction invents rules or hypotheses that could explain what we observe. These three forms of inference … Continue reading Four Words for Reasoning in the Age of AI
Month: October 2026
Symbolic Thinking is the Obfuscator of Dependent Origination
It has been about 2500 years since the basis of Buddhism was pointed at. Dependent origination. Emptiness. The claim that what we take to be a thing does not carry, inside itself, what makes it that thing. But people still struggle to get it. Society isn't filled with enlightened Buddhas. It's hard when the underlying … Continue reading Symbolic Thinking is the Obfuscator of Dependent Origination
