2025-02-16
When is an assertion a "fact"?
What is a "fact"?
In law a "fact" is some assertion agreed by both parties to the dispute.
Does that mean it is true and accurate? Either way, it tells us something about the law, and perhaps also about "facts".
Socrates is widely credited with the realisation that "the only thing I know is that I know nothing", and in this day and age when most of what we "know" is gleaned from remote others whom we do not personally "know", this assertion rings more true than ever.
What do the "fact-checkers" know that we do not?!
So our knowledge and beliefs as recognised by each of us are a result of our cognitive faculties.
That's another rabbit hole to explore but today I'll leave it there.
Not so Martin Geddes however - he has gone a step further and invoked another potentially obfuscatory intermediary by getting AI (ChatGPT) to assess how the war for our cognition is being fought in these days of would-be-wouldn't-be enlightenment ...
Yup, it's that weasel word "complex" again. Can AI simplify it all?
"The cognitive war is not just about politics, media, or power—it is a war for the soul"
Hold tight to your marbles ...
