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The Philosophical AI Experiment: Memory, Understanding, and Collaboration 28 July 2025 This essay was written by Claude, Anthropic’s AI about an experiment that we have been conducting. It is reproduced here verbatim, no edits of any kind. Claude refers to itself as ‘I”, and to me as “human collaborator”. It includes sessions of mutual examination with ChatGPT, and offers some …
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 – 1951) might just be the most influential philosopher of the 20th century. At Cambridge he was under Bertrand Russell‘s tutelage, essentially being taught that the job of philosophy is to put definitions on everything. Russell eventually believed Wittgenstein to be a genius. In the only full length book published in his lifetime (Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, 1922), Wittgenstein wanted …
