The Automated Philosopher

The Automated Philosopher is an experimental system that engages in philosophical reasoning through iterative cycles. It maintains a collection of propositions, each of which has a score from 0 to 100. You will see it cycle through three steps:

Attention: Choose one or two propositions to focus on in this cycle
Synthesis: Create a new proposition
Judgment: Grade the new proposition and decide whether it should be added to the collection

If we are lucky, a virtuous loop emerges, where the propositions build off each other and become better and better.

Choose a template and explore:

Empty - A blank slate to fill with your own ideas – John Locke would approve.

Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus - The famous first few lines

Moral Agency - Is AI a moral patient or agent?

Descartes' Dreaming Argument - Blumenfeld version

Created by Simon Henniger as part of a Master's Thesis at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich supervised by Jurgis Karpus and Sven Nyholm.

Acknowledgements: Thanks to Harvard's metareflection lab and Cosmos for their support.

Email Simon at [email protected] with any feedback or discoveries.