Esoteric

On the very auspicious occasion of the th Buddha Jayanti it is good to show that his teaching – to see things as they are – still cuts through and illuminates the darkness of ignorance. The praise of an intuitive knowledge, which is based on attentive observations with a quiet mind, to capture the common and recurring patterns, properly generalize them and abstract away the irrelevant details by capturing the “essence” as an abstraction and then to give such abstraction a name. This is not just how mathematics “works” (came to be), but it is a more general and universal process, which is behind not only a human language (which is prior to any math), but how the brain structures has been shaped (trained) to match some aspects and constraints of the shared environment in which it happen to evolve. ...

What is so “natural” about Gentzen’s “Natural Deduction”? It is that our brains are conditioned by the Environment In Which We Happen To Evolve, and the environment is governed by what we call the Law of Causality, which has been captured in the East by the Buddha’s “Dependent Origination principle” and even more precisely by Modus Ponens in the West. When this exists, that comes to be; with the arising of this, that arises. When this does not exist, that does not come to be; with the cessation of this, that ceases. ...

There is a typical quote from some random Chud on the internet: The location within the [high-dimensional hyper-] space represents the semantic meaning of the content, according to the embedding model’s weird, mostly incomprehensible understanding of the world. This is bullshit at so many levels, and in a such “lecturing” tone. First of all, there is no “understanding” whatsoever and it is not “of the world”. “The world” is at a fundamentally different level of abstraction from what has been used as “inputs” to a language model. ...