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I agree with the active role of the interpreter in communication. But I would also add an active role of the interpreted. Here it can be said that the...
April 14, 2025 at 01:10
Yes, You are right.
April 13, 2025 at 20:46
I agree only if we take into account that the shape of the object is distinguished from the information that will be created later. Since nothing is t...
April 13, 2025 at 20:42
In that case, as I understand it, the bulk of clay is informed, but no longer in the sense of the result but in the sense of the act. The result is a ...
April 13, 2025 at 19:51
I cannot say that information is the form in a substance. Information as I conceive it is the act of informing. That is, to cause significant effects ...
April 13, 2025 at 19:25
1. I cannot speak of information as something that is interpreted because that makes us speak of it as a substance. But there is interpretation as the...
April 13, 2025 at 19:14
In this case it is not so much the properties of the document if is the same for both, as the conditions imposed by the interpreters. Both have the sa...
April 13, 2025 at 18:57
I would not reduce the interpreter to a mind for all cases. A computer can in-form itself by acting as an interpreter as soon as there is a process le...
April 13, 2025 at 18:22
In both cases the information is presupposed on the side of the interpreted. A correct expression according to my theory would be, "In-form me!" In th...
April 13, 2025 at 17:06
I have no idea of what This possible means.
April 13, 2025 at 16:10
Imagine that you use that USB flash drive to access a Paper you have composed. Now think about the memory itself, do you really see the Paper (the sup...
April 13, 2025 at 15:58
The principle of reason.
April 11, 2025 at 02:42
There is a text by Heidegger in which he speaks of the principle of reason and criticizes it in a certain sense. In the text he speaks of something mo...
April 11, 2025 at 02:12
If we accept the scissors argument, we accept the idea of a universe that is out of the hands of a supposed creator and designer. In other words, God ...
April 10, 2025 at 06:37
I claim that it is an argument against intelligent design. We can talk about the creator of the scissors or the creator of the universe. In both cases...
April 09, 2025 at 22:47
So you are not talking about scissors determined by the external agent, the great creator of scissors. You are talking about self-organizing systems. ...
April 09, 2025 at 11:13
Well, that's a concept. But I'm afraid experience contradicts it. We can give many uses to a scissors, why discriminate between one and another more t...
April 09, 2025 at 10:05
Ok lets talk about scissors. What I'm saying is actually quite simple. Think of other uses we can put those scissors to - which indeed it has. Those d...
April 09, 2025 at 09:49
In reality what happens is that we introduce intentions into the events. But what we introduce (an intention) is never proven, not even a posteriori. ...
April 08, 2025 at 23:14
And yet we can build a whole body of knowledge, neurology, from the conscious study of what we call the brain. This implies, by right, an epistemologi...
April 08, 2025 at 02:43
In your example of iron, a path of decomposition, reduction and reconstruction is still possible. In these paths you find the parts that constitute th...
April 04, 2025 at 22:56
For me it is simply necessary to accept that irreducibility is a fact. The contents of consciousness are not reducible to the contents of physics, but...
April 03, 2025 at 23:37
When you speak of principle it reminds me a little of Hegel for whom the spirit is an active principle or process of reality as opposed to the concept...
April 02, 2025 at 07:12
The question is whether the banana event repeats itself we always have a causal explanation. Hume would say yes. Another thing is to try to know the d...
March 30, 2025 at 23:34
Then you are contradicting yourself. Since before you had said that the brain, the subject, the experience made of what the senses give us something c...
March 29, 2025 at 15:10
Don't bother. You really believe that thoughts, feelings, intentions and purposes travel through the air when two people talk to each other. Imagine a...
March 29, 2025 at 14:53
If you look closely at what you have said, in no case is there a transmission of something. You speak of indirect relations as that of an agent presup...
March 29, 2025 at 06:19
From my point of view even the notion of transmission is problematic. Intentions and thoughts do not travel through the air. The only thing we have at...
March 29, 2025 at 05:39
I have no problem with an intention being the cause of the characteristics of something written in ink. But it is one thing to be the cause and anothe...
March 29, 2025 at 05:15
End of discussion. :meh:
March 29, 2025 at 05:00
Yes, it would. But that is precisely what does not hold. If intentions and purposes were somehow in the ink (for me that is pure fantasy) there would ...
March 29, 2025 at 04:49
In fact the purpose is absent in the note. I repeat, this is because if it were not absent we would be talking about something similar to the ghost in...
March 29, 2025 at 03:55
The purpose here is absent because the absent of the autor and is partly a cause for misunderstanding. Because the interpretative power of a note by i...
March 29, 2025 at 03:06
You are doing nothing other than categorically denying what I state. But without argument. That language we share is actively exposed in the note, but...
March 29, 2025 at 02:29
Then it is like when we say that from a given neuronal synapse we cannot deduce a thought. If so, then there is no reduction and we must say that the ...
March 29, 2025 at 01:40
That is in fact false. Because the mental contents are not in the note as a ghost in the letters. The note is alone and it is exerting a constraint on...
March 29, 2025 at 01:33
But can you deduce a specific sentence from a given entropy value?
March 29, 2025 at 01:20
You are ignoring that the use we think we can make of the note is delimited by the note itself. It is like a command that interacts with us. And above...
March 29, 2025 at 01:12
If we see a note on a refrigerator according to our use of words we can understand what it says. However it should be noted that the note has an activ...
March 28, 2025 at 23:36
You say that experience is coherent because the object is coherent, but at the same time you accept that coherence is given from the subject. Which im...
March 28, 2025 at 23:07
But that is really the question. How can you talk about constituents without that being more than a naive intuition that cannot be carried out in scie...
March 28, 2025 at 09:18
Well, then it does not explain this specific set of abstract principles. But don't you think that a fundamental and general ontology should explain th...
March 28, 2025 at 08:57
I doubt it. You have said: "you'll never be able to understand the abstract principles and general patterns of human psychology by speaking in terms o...
March 28, 2025 at 08:50
I didn't say you said that. Rather, I inferred it
March 28, 2025 at 08:45
The fundamental (foundationalism) is precisely what should be criticized if it is not an explanatory ontology. It would be better to maintain a plural...
March 28, 2025 at 08:44
But Then this ontology is not an explanatory ontology. So if this ontology does not explain, I don't know what is the point of maintaining it.
March 28, 2025 at 08:37
I'm curious, what is the difference between physics and a physical ontology? And also, doesn't thermodynamics work with the heat produced by a system?...
March 28, 2025 at 07:50
I think you refer to experience as a tabula rasa. But haven't you read Kant? the subject structures that which provides us with the senses. In that se...
March 27, 2025 at 23:34
This reminds me of Kant's critique of the Cartesian cogito. Kant said that we cannot perceive ourselves except as phenomena and not as things in thems...
March 27, 2025 at 00:53
I agree. Consciousness does not fit into what Aristotle called Ousia. In fact in his writings on time Aristotle stated that beings (Ousia) are not in ...
March 26, 2025 at 23:41