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Yes, it is different because insensate nature acts deterministically, while free-will creatures do not. Still, the new purpose also instantiates final...
February 08, 2019 at 18:02
No, I am deducing attributes from the little that the proof shows us about the end of the line. We know that it is, In Aristotle's proof, the ultimate...
February 08, 2019 at 16:48
It is quite true that, when there is a final cause, it is, as the Scholastics insist, the cause of causes. If I chose to build a house, all of the oth...
February 08, 2019 at 16:19
That is the stance that behaviorists took. It shows the limits imposed on natural science by its Fundamental Abstraction. I discussed the FA in detail...
February 07, 2019 at 22:28
Obviously, Carlo Rovelli is not very familiar with Aristotle. Aristotle explicitly states that not everything that happens, happens for an end. Rather...
February 07, 2019 at 22:03
Not if you are logical. To be the end of the line of explanation, something must be self-explaining. That means that what it is entails that it is. Co...
February 07, 2019 at 21:52
Each formulation projects the same fact set into a different conceptual subspace. As these conceptualizations do not contradict each other, there is n...
February 07, 2019 at 18:12
There is a difference between the epistemological and ontological orders. We need make no assumption that God exists in order to understand that agent...
February 07, 2019 at 17:55
You are welcome. I don't think that the idea that agents act for ends requires that they only act for one end. Also, I think part being a free agent i...
February 07, 2019 at 17:10
As the unmoved mover, uncaused cause, ultimate meta-law, etc., philosophically, God is the-end-of-the-line of explanation. To be the-end-of-the-line, ...
February 07, 2019 at 16:52
This is the well-known generate and test strategy of AI, which I discuss in my paper. The problem is that physics tells us that there are no random pr...
February 05, 2019 at 17:35
You are still confused about the nature of teleology. First, teleology does not assume the existence of God, though it can be used as evidence for the...
February 05, 2019 at 16:30
I discuss the evidence for the existence of goals in evolution in my paper. There is no claim that the goal of the cosmos is a single species.
February 05, 2019 at 09:41
Here you are: https://www.academia.edu/27797943/Mind_or_Randomness_in_Evolution
January 31, 2019 at 17:52
Yes. To be precise, the principle is that no signal can travel faster than the speed of light in a vacuum. The term "speed of light" means speed of li...
January 29, 2019 at 18:52
I do not see that I have. No one else seems confused. Is there some specific thing I said that you think confuses the two?
January 29, 2019 at 15:22
No, it does not. The concept of teleology is that agents act for ends. It does not presuppose any specific mechanisms (say classical or modern physics...
January 28, 2019 at 17:43
This is like responding to Goedel's proof that arithmetic cannot be proven consistent by means formalizable in arithmetic, by saying we have not forma...
January 28, 2019 at 17:33
Teleology does not entail mechanism. Given an end, there are a whole range of means (mechanisms) available. That is one reason free will is possible.
January 28, 2019 at 16:22
I think you do have to be very skeptical indeed to deny that some things are done for the sake of other things. Trump shut down the government for the...
January 27, 2019 at 23:04
We are speaking of existence in a metaphysical, not an intentional or fictional context. Yes, "existence" can be applied analogically in non-metaphysi...
January 27, 2019 at 22:00
Really? How?
January 27, 2019 at 15:29
Taking my lead from Plato in the Sophist, I understand "to exist" as convertible with "to be able to act.". If "pure concepts of understanding" do not...
January 25, 2019 at 18:52
The more general question is why have any explanations at all? Aristotle is on the right track in beginning his Metaphysics by observing that "All hum...
January 25, 2019 at 17:23
This question seems to assume what I deny, i,e, that mechanical explanations are opposed to teleological explanations. So, in employing teleological r...
January 24, 2019 at 17:07
If there were "pure concepts of understanding," then synthesizing them with what is sensed before we are aware of it would leave us confused as to wha...
January 24, 2019 at 15:51
Of course it is. That is why we have general relativity. Newton's theory assumes instantaneous action at a distance, because it has two masses attract...
January 22, 2019 at 17:25
In the sense that both are equally true, they are as "good." But, being equally true does not mean that they provide us with the same information. So,...
January 22, 2019 at 16:29
Yes. The application of Ockham's razor would only apply if mechanism and teleology were alternate, incompatible views. One of my main points is that t...
January 22, 2019 at 15:26
Thank you for your suggested corrections. Do you have any texts to support them?
January 22, 2019 at 15:17
OK. I misunderstood what you were saying. To me there is data, and the data might show that there is intentionality in the neurons, and there is theor...
January 21, 2019 at 19:54
I am not sure what, operationally, it would mean to find intentional reality "in the neurons." If intentions are to be effective, if I am actually abl...
January 21, 2019 at 17:05
No, my claim is that the Hard Problem is a chimera based on the fallacious assumption that intentional reality can be reduced to a material phenomenon...
January 20, 2019 at 19:09
I've read you post several times and am at a loss. As I intend "ultimately a posteriori," it means that the principles in question are learned from ex...
January 14, 2019 at 23:22
As I tried to explain in my last response, the kind of "emergence" viscosity and surface tension and surface tension illustrate is not the kind of "em...
January 14, 2019 at 16:20
Thank you for your comments. My background, while fairly broad, is quite limited with respect to contemporary European philosophy. I do think that eac...
January 14, 2019 at 02:04
Of course other methods are available and useful. I was only taking about how we come to know so-called "a priori" truths. We agree.
January 14, 2019 at 00:01
I agree that there is question begging here, but it occurs when you equate, without supporting argument, "the pure" with "a priori" concepts. We know ...
January 12, 2019 at 22:42
Yes, but I was also trying to say how insights based on the nature of being may appear to be a priori. I was not trying to define "empiricism" at all....
January 12, 2019 at 18:24
Aquinas took the position on existence long before Sartre was a twinkle. I don't see Material and Intentional as on the same order of abstraction as E...
January 12, 2019 at 18:01
I wanted to add that the reason sensible representations cannot make themselves known is that they are not operation in the intentional theater. Sensi...
January 12, 2019 at 17:09
As we have no reason to think that babies understand counting, the understanding of counting found in older children comes to be. The coming to be of ...
January 12, 2019 at 16:59
Please excuse the delay, I've had some sort of a tiring "bug." Exactly. You might think of an object's notes of intelligibility as things that can be ...
January 10, 2019 at 22:33
We learn by abstraction from experience. What the child learns in the first instance is sequence of words ("one," "two," "three," etc.) In the second ...
January 09, 2019 at 17:58
Yes, I think it is an error to see sensory (purely physical) and intellectual representations as separate. They are the same physical state considered...
January 09, 2019 at 17:40
Since we have to teach children to count by counting specific kinds of things, I see no reason to think that there is any a priori component to counti...
January 05, 2019 at 15:47
I agree that these physical states are not efficient causes of thought; however, as bearing intelligibility, they can inform awareness and so may be s...
January 05, 2019 at 15:35
Excuse me, I misunderstood you. First, because counting is an intellectual operation, while seeing is a physical operation,. Second, because counting ...
January 04, 2019 at 16:36
If you mean that they are irreducible to neural processes, alone, I agree. But, if you mean that they are unrelated to neurophysical processes, I cann...
January 04, 2019 at 15:50
We agree: they are correlated. I cannot agree that they are unintelligible in terms of each other. If they were, we would not recognize that they are ...
January 04, 2019 at 00:54