Do you dispute that a photon with rest mass entails infinite quantities, and that equations describing practical situations break down upon approach t...
Why do you not say a first cause is Y & ~Y in superposition? I ask this particular question with the assumption that a first cause must instantiate mo...
Are you sure duplicating doesn't entail splitting? If you duplicate a man without simultaneously splitting him, in the Newtonian scenario you have ide...
I say that mind in philosophical thought exists emergent from brain-body. I think this position lies closer to the truth than the position claiming mi...
or I see online that photons are paradoxical with regard to their wave/particle status. Speaking paradoxically, photons are matter without mass. As yo...
So, you think materialism is objectively non-sensical. Since we both agree on the material relevance of thought, again I say we're not far apart in ou...
Consider the modulated EM-field that populates your tv screen with audio-visual phenomena. Does the EM-field have presence within your den? How about ...
In a functional relationship, there's an operator that transforms input into output. For sentients with minds generating abstractions, they, no less t...
If end-oriented constraints compel self-organizing reciprocal processes, with constraint bottom-up and supervenience top-down, then the physical produ...
A visual artist walks a country road early morning one day. Through the light, blue-gray fog he sees the dark-spotted, white "blanket" at the center f...
The curious villager comes forward. "It's you duty to tell what you believe about mind." "Narrative holds up a mirror to nature." -- Shakespeare Choru...
Seeds for the crop were planted on the island. Shortly thereafter, the local volcano erupted, sending great spews of lava high into the air accompanie...
Here's Robert Lawrence Kuhn interviewing David Chalmers on Closer To Truth. The Australian mathematician, physicist, philosopher runs through a list o...
Mental functions are dependent on material things because they too are material things, albeit absentially. Let me make a distinction between material...
You say the mind must have a referent it is referring to? And if it doesn't? You say when you are blocked off from the world you are mindless? You say...
The boy returned to the old man. He was always sitting under the baobab tree. It was during the highest heat of the day when young Jabari would go to ...
If it walks like a duck and squawks like a duck it must be a duck. The new born pup lost its bitch getting born, but the little girl took the dying wh...
You’re driving in your car. You suddenly stop at a green lit intersection where you see a blind man in dark glasses slowly making his way through the ...
When I awoke this morning, looking up through my concave skylight, I saw a palette of swirling, subtle grays hovering like thought-balloons with glowi...
You’re claiming the mind cannot perceive itself? Must I conclude you’ve never examined your own thoughts? If you counter by saying, “I’m talking about...
Since you agree concepts do not exist independent of the minds contemplating them, I now know we agree on something important to both of us. My use of...
Do you think causation as a concept separable from interactions between physical and material things? Do you make your claim of causation being primar...
Here’s how I turn the question around and then pair it with the first form of the question: Do minds contemplating abstract concepts exist independent...
This claim begs the question: Do abstract concepts exist independent of minds contemplating them? As I’ve suggestd already, I think metaphysics (as ex...
Can you elaborate further your insightful characterization of energy as causation? Mass-energy changing form under conservation - definitely a physica...
Does Deacon teach us that metaphysical principles are logically but not temporally prior to the natural world? Should we understand that spirit and na...
If I read you correctly, you say you’re in the direction of a Cartesian substance dualist; you say matter exists as material substance and mind exists...
You perceive kinship between spirit and probable particles neighboring about a cloud of positions? Does the nature of spirit insist it be not too hard...
*Parenthetical clarification inserted by ucarr. Deacon makes it clear beyond doubt he endorses bottom-up causation from the material to the absentiall...
As a favor to me, can you respond to this post by talking about the operations of mind as they relate to brain as a precondition of mind? Immediately ...
I think you give an excellent summary of Deacon’s purpose in Incomplete Mind. I disagree somewhat with your characterization of bottom-up, physicalist...
The main issue in this conversation is whether these ententionals have reality and meaning because they’re bound together with phenomenal existents as...
You know I know this. You’ve told me repeatedly that you’re invested in the material, the physical, the in-between and the meta-physical. Am I mistake...
I think this is a simplification. Constraints that create absences that, in turn, strategically constrain forward towards emergent properties, such as...
Let me read carefully what you’ve written: a) “…you misunderstand me…” So, I get your intended meaning wrong; b) “… by confusing ‘void…’” So, I blend ...
If your brain were removed from your cranium, would you be using your hands to type messages to me? Our conversation here is specifically concerned wi...
Suppose I amend my claim: ententional things, such as computation, “reference to” and meaning emerge from and remain grounded in lower-order, dynamica...
We don’t experience mass by seeing matter. We experience mass as momentum, the tendency of material objects to either remain at rest or remain in moti...
Is the following narrative something you can accept? Higher Teleodynamics of Mind - Incomplete Mind, Terrence W. Deacon The locus of self-perspective ...
Do you think mind holds causal force over material things? Is so, can you articulate the structure of the handshake linking immaterial to material? If...
In saying void is both physical and meta-physical, are you saying it has a higher-order dimension lying beyond the scope of the physical in the form o...
Does anyone think these dueling bookends, who end in stalemate, make a sound argument for the equal truth of each bookend? Goethe said something about...
Describe how immaterial energy connects with the material things it changes. For example, explain how, when lightning strikes a person and kills them,...
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