philosophy and ethics terms

What this neuron does

This neuron responds to philosophy words and names of thinkers and schools, such as Kant, deconstruction, utilitarianism and cogito. Turning it down made the model keep writing the word 'philosophy' over and over, so it seems to hold that word back in normal text.

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Fires most on

The text windows where this neuron's activation was highest. Amber marks positive activation; the outlined token is the peak. Hover a token for its strength.

1. #1 peak

   *Galatinus. However, from remarks in his commentary on Genesis (Geneva, 1598), published after his death by Théodore de Bèze, his enthusiasm for later kabbalistic literature clearly waned

2. #2 peak

   Overton, Reasoning, Logic, and Thought Disorders: Deductive Reasoning and Developmental Psychopathology. D.P. Keating, Structuralism, Deconstruction, Reconstruction: The Limits of Reasoning.⏎".....Of interest to serious

3. #3 peak

   de Botton in his Big Think interview:⏎The final type of anxiety, called moral anxiety, is caused by deliberation over decisions with ethical implications. While German philosopher

4. #4 peak

   ethical ideas and issues.The philosophical selections are both Western and non-Western, including works and authors such as Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Hume, Kant, Mill, Nietzsche, MacIntyre, and Hursthouse, the Bhag

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   . Some philosophers who reject this metaphysical view have swung in the other direction and rejected the idea of the self altogether.

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   )⏎3. We ought to do something to help them. (ought)⏎However you define ‘good’ e.g. greatest happiness for the greatest number (Utilitarianism), it can always be questioned.⏎People can still have differences of opinion about

Steering

Push this neuron up or down while the model writes, and watch what changes. The outputs were generated ahead of time, so nothing runs in your browser.

Most negative on

Where the activation went furthest below zero. Blue marks negative activation. Many neurons mean something different in each direction.

1. #1 peak

   genetics · Evolutionary psychology · Neuroanatomy · Neurochemistry · Neuroendocrinology · Neuroscience · Psychoneuroimmunology · Physiological Psychology · Psychopharmacology (Index, Outline)⏎|Brain: Planum temporale|⏎|

2. #2 peak

   Neurochemistry · Neuroendocrinology · Neuroscience · Psychoneuroimmunology · Physiological Psychology · Psychopharmacology (Index, Outline)⏎Electrical conductance is the reciprocal of electrical

3. #3 peak

   of mental health problems such as schizophrenia, depression and suicidality and sought to look for relationships between these and psychedelic use. As reported in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, after adjusting for things like race, education, other drug use and

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   took antibiotics for nine months. “They helped, but I still felt weak, low in energy and mentally fuzzy.”⏎Then her husband, Richard Brown, a psychopharmacologist at Columbia University, learned of a Russian herb, Rhodiola rose

Which neurons in earlier layers feed this one, and which later ones it feeds. Amber links excite, blue links suppress; longer bars are stronger.

Activation histogram

How often this neuron fires at each strength. Almost always it does close to nothing (the tall bars in the middle); the snippets above are the rare moments it fired hard, amber for positive and blue for negative.

Logit lens

The words this neuron nudges the model toward (amber) or away from (blue) when it fires. A hint, not a label: many neurons work through later layers instead.