Murray Shanahan keynotes ECogS2026 with forthcoming book on AI, subjectivity and silence
mpshanahan · x · 2026-11-09
Murray Shanahan opened ECogS2026 with the first keynote, quoting his forthcoming book on AI, subjectivity and silence. He argued the primordial rent in reality cannot be repaired by reason, and that we should work with uncertainty instead. His "post-reflective silence" argument draws on Wittgenstein and Buddhist philosophy (especially Nāgārjuna), tracing from Descartes' Cogito to a post-reflective stance where metaphysical speculation is met with silence.
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