The idea that individuals are driven by subconscious or unconscious instincts is a well established fact of psychology. The idea of a collective unconscious, in the way the Jung described it, is the unfalsifiable woo.
It is a belief that doesn’t pay rent. Let’s assume that there is such a thing as a collective unconscious, which is the source of archetypes. What additional predictions does this enable? Why should I add the notion of a collective unconscious to my existing psychological theory? Why shouldn’t I trim away this epicycle with Occam’s Razor?
I know this will not answer your questions directly but there are currently patterns in AI that appears to be fitting to be debugged by Jungian analysis.. Like this one:
The davinci model can conjure sophisticated stories out the tokens Leilan and petertodd.
The idea that individuals are driven by subconscious or unconscious instincts is a well established fact of psychology. The idea of a collective unconscious, in the way the Jung described it, is the unfalsifiable woo.
Thanks for your comment. Can you elaborate on why you believe Jung’s theory on the collective unconscious is an unfalsifiable woo?
It is a belief that doesn’t pay rent. Let’s assume that there is such a thing as a collective unconscious, which is the source of archetypes. What additional predictions does this enable? Why should I add the notion of a collective unconscious to my existing psychological theory? Why shouldn’t I trim away this epicycle with Occam’s Razor?
I know this will not answer your questions directly but there are currently patterns in AI that appears to be fitting to be debugged by Jungian analysis.. Like this one:
The davinci model can conjure sophisticated stories out the tokens Leilan and petertodd.
https://twitter.com/SoC_trilogy/status/1638016382037110784?t=XvdXSJLK2vbNIemZqSWaZA&s=19
I fail to see how Jungian analysis can actually debug LLMs better than the approach that Robert_AIZI used in their analysis of the “SolidGoldMagikarp” glitch token.