DEBRA: On the Unsupervised Learning of Concept Hierarchies from (Literary) Text
With this work, we introduce a novel method for the unsupervised learning of conceptual hierarchies, or concept maps as they are sometimes called, which is aimed specifically for use with literary texts...
ChatGPT Code Generation Capabilities: a case study of topic modeling in python
Introduction
What follows is a description of a few weeks interaction with ChatGPT using it as a sort of coding assistant for a research project in Topic Modeling that I am currently working on. Topic Modeling is in and of itself a semi-advanced…
Semantic Spaces and Word Embeddings
Just released, see full paper here.
Abstract
One of the critical hurdles, and breakthroughs, in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) in the last two decades has been the development of techniques for text representation…
Idealogical Reference Architecture (IRA), abridged version published in Open Journal of Philosophy (OJPP)
Abridged version available in the latest issue (Vol.12 No.3 2022) of Open Journal of Philosophy (OJPP), accessible here.
Complete text available online here.
Abstract
With this work we introduce a system of idealogical metaphysics which…
The Tree of Life
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
And…
Hesiod’s Theogony: Chaos, Chronos and Eros
One of the nice things that you found as you studied more advanced civilizations, as you got further into the first millennium BCE, you had better material and source texts to work with. You no longer had to rely on texts and tablets that…
On Qualified Dualism, (the) Intellect & (the) Psyche
So let us have a look at the metaphysical architecture of IRA and contextualize it, primarily within the philosophical traditions, but this will invariably blend into theology and psychology as well, for at its core, philosophy - which in this…
On IRA, Kant, Bohm and the I Ching
With IRA, we introduce an expansion of Kant’s transcendental metaphysics to include not just time, space and causality (the categories more specifically) but also as a landscape of what we might call, using Aristotelian terminology (and Manousakis…
On Idealogical Mechanics
With respect to defining the notion of an idea (i) within the context of our idealogical mechanics, we start with the very basic premise that what we are describing is reflective of a certain aspect of a complex system, not a physical system…
On the Universal Mind
When we pivot our notion of reality (physics really as we define it herein - physis, or nature more broadly), away from objective reality as the benchmark of truth toward an epistemic, process-based model, we end up with a view of the world…
On Digital vs. Biological Information Processing (IRA Excerpt)
We now look to more formally address the definition of this theoretical idealogical information processing (Turning) machine as a system of idealogical state configuration(s) in its own, abstract (really transcendent), “space”, or spatial…
On Mind, Matter & Meaning (IRA Excerpt)
If we take this epistemic bent then, presume that knowledge, really information, is the most basic structure of the universe, our epistemological ontology as we’re calling it, we end up with a very different picture of the universe than say…