Dr Victoria Trumbull

Philosopher of memory, time, and the human soul
DPhil, Oxford
MPhil with distinction, Oxford
BA, Columbia University

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@EhVahChahYah Thanks for sharing!

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@thepsironi @donalddhoffman Yup!

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@KonradTWerner @donalddhoffman Great point!

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@kevinleeus @donalddhoffman There’s gradations to the intensity of our consciousness in everyday life. We constantly move between relaxed tension (sleep, dream) and intensified / heightened state (action, focus). The travelling between the two extremes is essential to our psychological life

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@bokuHaruyaHaru @donalddhoffman Thanks for these thoughtful reflections Haru! I think the question is precisely whether memory, will, intention, etc, can somehow emerge or arise in a rule-based system in a way that is comparable to the human mind.

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@haanzon @donalddhoffman My hope is that people will read more of him!

[Donald Hoffman @donalddhoffman]

“philosopher Victoria Trumbull argues that consciousness provides the space for the possible to become real. In a universe driven by laws, consciousness is the creative factor”

https://t.co/lWhqLneeyM

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@RickyWilliamso @IAI_TV Thanks Ricky; it’s a pleasure being able to participate in IAI’s wonderful mission and platform of spreading nourishing ideas. I’m missing @HTLGIFestival already!

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The excellent @conscienceetvie for the @IAI_TV today https://t.co/0qgC0zLDRh

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@ClunyInstitute @Willob @Pontifex I so appreciated hearing @Willob’s thoughtful insider reflections on the panel yesterday. Thank you!

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@conscienceetvie on humanity and AI:

"Most ordinary people are saying, 'Well, hold on, wait a minute, when did we ask for this technology?'

"I think a lot of people now are starting to realize that there is some distinction between the human being and the machine.

"[Pope Leo's Magnifica Humanitas] is very clear: yes, there is that distinction, and we're all capable of discerning that and we're capable also of defending that as well.

"I really love the line [from the encyclical], 'We have a duty to remain profoundly human.'"

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@bmccsj @lukeburgis @ClunyInstitute Yes. I think for a while in phil. anthropology, following Plato, intellect was prioritised as the superior aspect of the mind. Now we need to reflect on other dimensions: memory, will, imagination, feeling, love- which might help to clarify the distinct nature of human inner life

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@thomasjdias @lukeburgis @ClunyInstitute It’s true, and I think part of what is being called for in this Encyclical is the development of that vocabulary; inviting more thoughtful dialogue into this conversation about “what is the nature of the human person and how is it different from that of the machine”.

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@lukeburgis @ClunyInstitute Absolutely. I think there’s a warning here in this encyclical about the use (or misuse) of language, especially in the digital atmosphere, which can breed wider conceptual confusion about fundamental realities.

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BERGSON by Victoria Trumbull

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Meet Dr Victoria Trumbull: the philosopher who says big tech has got it wrong on superintelligence
https://t.co/cDSIJtT78d

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New video on the philosophy of Henri Bergson
https://t.co/Jrxm3DWGUT

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@Shaktidass18 @DeivonDrago @anitaleirfall well said!

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@YaffFesh @anitaleirfall It’s not stored in time either, doesn’t make sense for something to be “stored” in time — I didn’t use that phraseology!

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@hsullivan34 Thanks for sharing heather!