R.P. @ResonantPyre
R.P. @ResonantPyre · 18h
Very poignant phrase in Husserl's essay 'The Origin of Geometry' where Husserl says that people fall victim to the "seduction of language", in which they parrot words and understand them in a merely associative way, without connecting them to original personal insight, experience
[Embedded image: scanned book page excerpt reading: "It is easy to see that even in [ordinary] human life, and first of all in every individual life from childhood up to maturity, the originally intuitive life which creates its originally self-evident structures through activities on the basis of sense-experience very quickly and in increasing measure falls victim to the seduction of language. Greater and greater segments of this life lapse into a kind of talking and reading that is dominated purely by association; and often enough, in respect to the validities arrived at in this way, it is disappointed by subsequent experience."]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
A tweet quoting Husserl on the "seduction of language" — using words associatively/parroting without grounding in original insight or experience. Directly relevant to Nathan's interest in LLM introspection and whether model self-reports are genuine self-knowledge versus associative/confabulated language use — a philosophical precedent for the substrate-vs-character distinction in his notes.
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