u/whyynliterally

Just why?? It’s gonna make typing wayyy easier, and now with the smaller models it won’t even use many tokens?? All the input methods are terrible and always autocorrect last names and, as I also type Chinese, give horrible suggestions of words with the same spelling but different tones. Just why hasn’t anyone done this yet? Is there anything that makes this idea a bad one?
(You can totally run those smaller models locally and who cares about privacy anyways with companies like meta)

(I deleted this a posted this again because no one replied.)
I am reading two philosophy history books, and both of them are in my mother language, Chinese. They are all written by university professors and professional translators.

While reading the part about Thales and his theory on soul and the arkhe, one book split those two ideas and introduced his animism and water arche theory separately, but the second book —a rather shorter one — states that:

“However, the “soul” as understood by Thales was not something purely spiritual, but rather the moisture generated by water; this moisture permeates the cosmos and constitutes the cause of the motion of all things. In Thales’ thought, the material cause and the efficient cause of all things had not yet been differentiated. The view that regards the material principle as inert and passive, while attributing activity to some independent spiritual entity, only emerged in later Greek philosophy.”

Is this based on original sources, or is it just a guess? I’m confused about how psyche is not spiritual, and i didn’t find sources on this. Could anyone please explain Thales and his theory?

I am reading two philosophy history books, and both of them are in my mother language, Chinese. They are all written by university professors and professional translators.

While reading the part about Thales and his theory on soul and the arkhe, one book split those two ideas and introduced his animism and water arche theory separately, but the second book —a rather shorter one — states that:

“However, the “soul” as understood by Thales was not something purely spiritual, but rather the moisture generated by water; this moisture permeates the cosmos and constitutes the cause of the motion of all things. In Thales’ thought, the material cause and the efficient cause of all things had not yet been differentiated. The view that regards the material principle as inert and passive, while attributing activity to some independent spiritual entity, only emerged in later Greek philosophy.”

Is this based on original sources, or is it just a guess? I’m confused about how psyche is not spiritual, and i didn’t find sources on this. Could anyone please explain Thales and his theory?