We don't know if anything knows anything because we don't know what knowing is.

alamortsubite · 2025-12-10T15:00:21 1765378821

On the other hand, once you're operating under the model of not knowing if anything knows anything, there's really no point in posting about it here, is there?

stingraycharles · 2025-12-10T15:22:41 1765380161

This is just something that sounds profound but really isn’t.

Knowing is actually the easiest part to define and explain. Intelligence / understanding is much more difficult to define.

shagie · 2025-12-10T15:53:31 1765382011

I took a semester long 500 level class back in college on the theory of knowledge. It is not easy to define - the entire branch of epistemology in philosophy deals with that question.

... To that end, I'd love to be able to revisit my classes from back then (computer science, philosophy (two classes from a double major), and a smattering of linguistics) with the world state of today's technologies.