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Behaviorism was once a popular opposing view, but Chomsky squashed it. It still lingers in various forms.

Hmm. Cool.

It would be contrasted with behaviorism and probably non-reductive. The idea is that thought takes place in the domain of mental representations. Inte...

Yep. Without some sort of non-idea, it wouldn't make much sense to talk about ideas.

I don't quite understand the question, hunter.

No, I don't think so. It's just that if you agree that anytime we respond and interact with the world, ideas are attached to what we respond to, then ...

Cool... where is that?

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Holy Guacamole!

The forms I referred to were candles and puddles. But if you like molecules better.. the hydrocarbons can take the form of a number of molecules. And....

Starvation is likely to intensify self-consciousness because it's a crisis. It's something that will be remembered. Myths will be told about it... how...

Oh, cool. Thanks!

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Well what's your ontological view then? Are you an idealist?

I think to some extent it's neither. There's a problem with oppressed people agreeing with their oppressors...like a giant case of Stockholm syndrome....

I think it's natural for the oppressed to feel angry and full of hatred. Those are potentially toxic emotions. I don't mean to sniff at the psychologi...

Thanks for that, mcdoodle. Author is a god's-eye-view.... or is it? You're saying the objective picture can be populated with noise. The author does t...

You can add in a somersault if you want.

Digital model. Hmm. Different tack: I think we can discover whether the categories we're talking about are apriori or aposteriori using the Locke/Hume...

You're saying the primal distinction is between the cake and the not-cake. You can't digitize the Continuum Cake. It has a high glue content and it ju...

It can be a matter of temperament (so relying heavily on emotional bias). It's also possible to accept and reject it at the same time (as in the case ...

You can't take it up with math. You can ask a phil-o-math person... which would obviously be Nagase, but he's busy writing some thesis. To review.. th...

"And that's how we make the golf ball go into the hole!" -Zeno That's my Zeno impression. Later, I'll do my Aristotle explains what all of this has to...

Not for me. I've never had a particularly clear sense of identity. Being somewhat amorphous is my homebase. The OP came from a passage in a book: Phil...

I think this passage is explaining what I was trying to say... that if you have a cake for which the law of excluded middle fails, you can't just slic...

To remember is literally to re-present... or try to, anyway. Yep... I'm more and more convinced that it has to do with time.

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Leak?

Candle melts into a puddle. The wax in the candle is now in the puddle. It's definitely the same wax.

Yep.. we all have an amazing digitizer. We call it a mind. :) I don't like that smiley face. Can't we get different ones?

It's also appealing because scientists note that humans are distinct from chimps because we look into each others' eyes a lot. In the ongoing quest to...

Think about the notion that the digital is a subset of the analog.... as if the analog is made up of discrete points and the digital is just some of t...

So.. that was what you meant in the OP?

That form and material are distinct was all the point I was making to Terrapin.

In that case, the thesis would be that nature is fundamentally digital. . The same information can be transmitted digitally or by analog means. So.......

Kind of... in electronics, we think of ideal square waves, knowing that in the real world, instantaneous changes of that kind don't happen. As TGW men...

This has been pointed out to you before: if there's some base level of granularity in your analog, then you're dealing with something that's fundament...

Everybody else would say it's the same wax. Candle melts, we're left with a puddle. Its the same wax. Therefore, the wax is not identical to any parti...

Say you encounter some music. Later on, you remember the sounds. You aren't hearing the music now, you're remembering it. Form is what you're left wit...

I read the OP, thanks Michael. My point is that claims have been made regarding the relationship between analog and digital that are not true of the c...

So the form only appears as distinct when we're looking at events over time. Whoa. It has to do with becoming.

Analog and digital are properties of data. The terms are also used to describe electronic design formats. Analog data is continuous like a sine wave. ...

So whatever exists is formed. I think that's true. And yet: Imagine a candle melting. The wax had the form of a candle, and now it has the form of a p...

I agree with that. So you never sense the uninterpreted or unrepresented. Right?

I could take a stab at the question about how the issue bears on formal logic. Logicians get by with very low ambitions. Ontology tends to be in the b...

I was talking about representation. How do you see that being related to randomness?

I don't think uninterpreted means random.

I think you're agreeing that everything we encounter has some kind of form. We never encounter anything that's entirely formless. One way to put it wo...

The idea of fate is pretty common. I don't think education would increase the ranks of determinists because people mainly avoid determinism by means o...