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Pieter de Jong

Contributor · Member since December 2025

Software engineer in Utrecht who builds machine learning systems for a living. I came for the philosophy of mind threads and stayed for Spinoza.

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Reading group: Turing’s “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” (1950)

Reading Group Pieter de Jong
AI & computing Analytic #machine-intelligence #turing-test

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10h
Does a deterministic program “choose”?

Discussion Pieter de Jong
Free will Analytic Modern European Baruch Spinoza #compatibilism #determinism

Last reply Pieter de Jong

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12d
What is functionalism, and why do people think it supports machine consciousness?

Question Pieter de Jong
Consciousness Analytic #functionalism #multiple-realizability

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21d
If a system passes every behavioural test, what would still be missing?

Question Pieter de Jong
AI & computing Analytic #behaviourism #turing-test

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27d
Spinoza’s God as Nature: an engineer’s reading of Ethics Part I

Discussion Pieter de Jong
God & the arguments Modern European Rationalism Baruch Spinoza #pantheism #substance

Last reply Layla Haddad

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Sep 2026
Large language models understand nothing: the Chinese Room still applies

Debate Pieter de Jong
Artificial minds Analytic #chinese-room #large-language-models #understanding

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Aug 2026