You quote the first line of a post and you ignore the rest. I see no point. Sorry to disillusion you Real Gone Cat, but this is a philosophy forum, no...
Now you contradict yourself. You said very distinctly and explicitly: "Everything within the cell membrane is the system, everything outside of it is ...
I have no doubt that such models may work. I've repeated that already, they are created for specific purposes, and are adequate for those purposes. Wh...
Two posts now I've attempted compromise, but you still haven't addressed my proposal. It appears very much like you are the one incapable of giving fa...
As I explained, I readily conceive of abstract objects, but I maintain a difference between abstract objects and physical objects, as necessitated by ...
Sure, you can talk about different systems in that way, and even "define" what would make one system distinct from another. But if in reality, there i...
Ha ha, nice try Tones. Ernst's proper reply would be: "I have no collection of rocks. I sold all my rocks". OED, collection: 1. the act or process of ...
When did I say systems have no definition? Right, therefore contrary to your claim, these supposed "open systems" are not subject to the laws of physi...
I cited the source, Ludwig von Bertalanffy. If you're into systems theory you ought to know him. Your claim was that neurological "systems" follow the...
This makes no sense. Do you propose that we hold the entire community to a vote every time we wonder whether language has been correctly used or not? ...
I told you, systems theory is very flimsy, and I explained why. The exact separation, or boundary, between what is internal and what is external is im...
This is what Plato pointed to years ago, and it is why there is no interaction problem for dualism. "Ideas" actually exist within the medium between s...
I cannot agree that abstractions are objects, unless we restrict "object" to refer only to abstractions. But then we could not use "object" to refer t...
Well, if you consider that each and every internal organ has its own purpose, function, relative to the existence of the whole, which is a living bein...
What about those "hidden states"? Those unknown aspects disqualify this conclusion. All you can say is that they act according to physical laws to an ...
The point was, that you haven't the premises required to logically conclude that there is no reason for the behaviour of neurons. We're back to the po...
Yes, in physics the way an object "can be divided" is highly dependent on the composition of the object, but sometimes this fact is ignored by physici...
The physical instantiation is the model. the thing represented by that model is neurons. The point being that we cannot determine the reason (why) for...
No the neural net is not the same as your mind seeing, because "seeing" obviously requires the activity of the eyes as well, the rods and cones for ex...
Sorry Banno, but you're not making any sense at all. There is a vast multitude of different ways of representing. That a process is not representation...
Knowledge of how neural nets work will not inform you as to whether or not they are representational. This would require knowledge of "why". Knowing h...
So the supposed 'external cause' of the sensation is not a cause at all, and cannot even be truthfully said to be a necessary condition. Therefore it ...
The sensation of colour is best described by reference to the activities of the "cones" and the "rods" of the eyes, rather than reference to some exte...
Why do you say that? Any pattern could symbolize something. And not all symbols necessarily appear like symbols to everyone. So I don't see any basis ...
It means that the concept of a rock falling through the event horizon, is incoherent. In other words, the theories applied, mathematics applied, or bo...
The problem though, is that the thing created by the mind, or brain, (I'll call it an image for now), need not even be at all similar to the supposed ...
Things are not so simple. We see the object as red, we do not see the radiation as red. The object interacts with radiation which is everywhere around...
What I think, is that we allow "infinite" so that we will always be able to measure anything. If our numbers were limited to the biggest thing we've c...
I guess that's why TIDF split the scene. But we were just playing, it's nothing harmful. Fractions are actually very tricky. The common approach is to...
An "object" is one. To allow that an object has members requires a special definition. We can say that this object is a set, and define a "set" as a c...
OK, Mathematics is allowed its own special definition of "contradiction", so that statements which would qualify as contradictory in a rational field ...
I've studied the law of identity for quite some time. It is rather perplexing, and requires a good deal of thought to properly understand. It is state...
Whether an expression is well formed or not is irrelevant to whether it is self-contradictory, because to determine contradiction we must analyze the ...
TIDF can be very entertaining that way, and also quite enlightening. But eventually it gets boring when TDIF refuses to divulge the secrets of the mat...
You're just restating the same point, that one ought not doubt everything, such a doubt is irrational, because "to doubt there must be one who doubts"...
Actually, it's what you posted which is beside the point. Look, Augustine demonstrates that one "ought not" doubt such things, just like Wittgenstein ...
It is a mistake to classify doubt as a type of knowing. Doubt is a form of uncertainty, and knowing is a form of certainty. So in relation to any part...
I don't see how infinity is relevant. Your proposed "infinity of doubts" is unwarranted, and a person's consciousness may simply be a doubtful, or unc...
:100: But when we say of the independent objects, that they exist, we use "exist" as a property. And, we've already said, that objects are a property ...
This is incorrect, and Wittgenstein was obviously wrong with this principle. In reality, we go ahead and act when we are still in doubt of the outcome...
Mathematicians do not have a resolution to Zeno's paradoxes, they just use a work around. And what modern physics says about subatomic particles, is t...
Temporality is often associated with change. If something changes, it is temporal, and if it is temporal, it must be generated and destroyed. These ar...
How would you separate the aspects of human thought which are innate and eternal, as platonic realism dictates, from the aspects which are constructed...
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