gdh-Elife HISTORY: July 11, 2025 – July 11, 2025 Gerd Doeben-Henisch / ChatGPT4o – July 2025 In July 2025, Gerd tested the new voice interface of ChatGPT on an Android tablet – and came away with mixed to clearly negative impressions. What might appear as a technical advance in everyday use proved, in the context of our … Read more
HISTORY: July 6, 2025 – July 10, 2025 (08:14 pm)REFERENCE: This page continues the previous experiments, especially Experiments No. 2 and 4–10. STRUCTURE OF THE EXPERIMENT PRELIMINARY REMARK In Experiment No. 10, we explored how the increasing loss of trust in the “bigger whole” felt by many people might be met by a sufficiently transparent cloud of evolving knowledge … Read more
HISTORY: July 4, 2025 – July 4, 2025 (4:30 pm)REFERENCE: This page continues the previous experiments, especially Experiments No. 2 and 4–9. Preface In the previous Experiment No. 9, the perspective of individual human beings was extended to that of multiple humans in the context of the task of planning a future: How can people coordinate their actions in … Read more
HISTORY: July 2, 2025 – July 3, 2025 (12:25 am)REFERENCE: This page continues the previous experiments, especially Experiments No. 2 and 4–8. SUMMARY: A full overview of Experiment No. 9 is provided at the end of the page. Preface Today’s text directly continues the contribution to Phase A in Experiment No. 8. The reality domain R6 was identified … Read more
HISTORY: July 1, 2025 – July 1, 2025 (13:20h)REFERENCE: This page continues the preceding experiments, especially Experiments No.2 and No.4 – 7. Preliminary Note In the previous experiments, an increasing number of “reality domains” (R1–R8) were gradually distinguished within the “concrete finiteness of the human being,” embedded in a “surrounding reality.” Each of these reality … Read more
HISTORY: 30 June 2025 – 30 June 2025REFERENCE: This page continues the preceding experiments, particularly Experiments No. 2 and 4 – 6. Preliminary Remarks In the previous experiments – especially No. 4 to 6 – I have tried, on the one hand, to describe the position of the human being as a “point of concretization of reality” … Read more
HISTORY: June 27, 2025 – June 28, 2025 (15:50h)REFERENCE: This page continues the reflections from Experiment No. 5: Reality as Process.DISCUSSION: Reference to an interview with Peter Thiel in The New York Times, published on June 26, 2025 (see section DISCUSSION below)(URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/opinion/peter-thiel-antichrist-ross-douthat.html ). Introductory Note In Experiment No. 4, I focused on the different domains of … Read more
HISTORY: June 25, 2025 – June 25, 2025 (15:30h) REFERENCE: This page is a continuation of “EXPERIMENT No. 4: Layered Reality(-ies)” and “FORMAT OF THE HUMAN-MACHINE DIALOGUE No. 3”. Preliminary Note In Experiment No. 4, I (= human Gerd) attempted to use a simple 6-layer model of reality (R1–R6) to convey an initial idea of what it means … Read more
HISTORY: 22 June 2025 – 22 June 2025 (14:05h) REFERENCE: This page continues the thread from the page “What Format? A First Response” , and from the page “EXPERIMENT No.2: The Human as a Reference Point for Reality?” and “EXPERIMENT No. 4: Layered Reality(ies)”. Preface With the new wording in the page titles – here: “FORMAT … Read more
HISTORY: 20 June 2025 – 21 June 2025 (10:17h) REFERENCE: This page continues from “EXPERIMENT No. 3: Back to the Start”. Preliminary Remark In the preceding Experiment No. 3: Back to the Start, I – the human Gerd – described the form and content of my cooperation with the machine-based dialogue intelligence chatGPT4o in several stages. In … Read more