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concept:machine-like-view-of-phenomenaMachine-Like View of Phenomena
The Cartesian epistemological assumption Alexander critiques: treating all phenomena as machines excludes the observer's self and cannot perceive living structure
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- The dominant scientific paradigm Alexander seeks to supplement: observation of limited machine-like events from an external, self-excluded standpoint
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- The 19th-20th century scientific view that nature is a value-free mechanism, contrasted with Alexander's living-structure perspective.
- Emerging field studying psychological properties of LLMs; the paper aims to bridge psychometric methodology with this field
- Perception that is smooth and can be evaluated at any point, like a differentiable field; Antra's functionalist interpretation.
- The state of having subjective experiences; there is something it is like to be the subject.
- Central research domain of the paper's literature search; explores formal approaches to developing consciousness in artificial systems.
- The primary research question animating CIMC's entire program
- The dominant model of space as neutral, mechanistic, and composed of independent parts; critiqued throughout.