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Exactly. Tyranny is a great word here. I'd like to explore that. What makes waking life tyrannical as opposed to the gentleness of the sleep-state (sa...

What does it say when sleep is preferred more than awake? An ever-vigilant entropic force which we are trying to keep at bay with ordering our lives, ...

What is doing the seeing? There is a ghost in your machine.. and its name is Decartes.

:lol: Yep, sounds about right! Again, what are we trying to get out of having more people, and so on and so on?

I did mention the lifestyle and economic reasons given. Being the New York Times they also wanted it to have a feminist bent: it is saying women have ...

See this article in the New York TImes: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/05/upshot/americans-are-having-fewer-babies-they-told-us-why.html. What's good...

Indeed everyone thinks they are going to be a good parent. One of the big problems is that hope is a nasty drug that deludes the reality of the day-to...

I don't know. I don't have a metaphysical scheme that fully answers this question. The best I can think of is that all natural processes have a point ...

Again this use of interpretance- what do you mean by this? What, metaphysically is going on when you say this? "Where" is this happening? From a first...

You have words but not really explanations. Modeling relations, interactions, organism..none of it makes sense unless there is already a first person ...

No, I don't mean "physical space" in this case. What I meant is more abstract.. If all this physical stuff is happening.. "where" is this modelling ha...

I guess I just don't understand this embodied physical process as much. I wouldn't mind if you told me more what that really means as opposed to elimi...

I mean come on.. Internalness of modelling of the brain and the world? There are so many steps there.. Yeah lets start with sight. Light hits the eye,...

I don't know but, that is definitely a sort of panpsychism that @"apokrisis" would deny. I think I've seen that posited by some philosophers though.

So we have degrees of freedom. Can you provide an example and then connect this with internalness?

No, it just doesn't make sense how behavior can have an internalness. Calling it "interpretive" is suspiciously pulling a pan-experiential move, as I ...

Okay, so explain what the difference is then? What is interpretation vs. mechanical?

I don't know. What does that mean?

O contrare, I like studying these concepts.. I just don't delude myself that this will get me closer to the problem.. Even you have to bring it from m...

Great, what does that mean?

Is he saying that? That would be pan-experientialism, something he vehemetly denies. But anyways, can you explain to me what you think the sign relati...

I have and nothing about it tells me that it reveals anything that sheds light on the problem. If anything, it is just a noisier version of the idea t...

What does that mean? "Self in it"? That makes no sense outside of already experiencing selfhood. And this I really don't understand, as you have selfh...

What are you defining as self-modelling then (without falling into the "just a synonym" trap. This time self-modelling= experiential process. Again th...

But what to do stats on? What counts as significant? What about necessity as opposed to contingency? What do the results mean? Why does it matter? And...

True, a lot of psychological bias' play a role in this. One point of the thread though is how "doing it right" is distributed unequally. Some people h...

But what is the reason for the imposition? Its the givens of life (survival, regulate comfort, regulate boredom..with emphasis on survival), through c...

I agree, fields like history, the hard sciences, the social sciences, etc. have similar system analysis. However, philosophy taught well teaches how t...

Neurons > Words? The functional aspect (in this case of the internal process) you are trying to explain is already a given. Your story is incomplete. ...

Ok, then replace state with experience or process. The question still stands.

Okay, so the I'm assuming the mind then is like an analogy with the proteins. I'd like to see where you go with that though without making category er...

So what was the interpretive context the protein was already situated in? Edit: I guess this article has something to do with it: https://www.quantama...

He seems to make a stark dichotomy between "physical laws" and "local constraints". So were local constraints always in the picture in his view or wer...

So I have some questions about the Pattee paper: 1. What is the main point between the physical laws and control constraints? When do the local constr...

Well if applied to antinatalism..you’ve said it’s not tenable because the majority will simply stampede over it with their preferences and thus can’t ...

Ok because in the past I’ve seen you defend a sort of ethics whereby the majority’s preferences as they are justified as right simply because it is wh...

I’m not even really referring to that in this case. I actually find the concepts in the paper very interesting and gives me a lot to think about in re...

I’m still digesting your biosemiotics paper. I’ll make some comments soon. I just thought I’d add my two cents that I find it harder to apply this pri...

When we are born, we are tasked with life. That is our job. Life. It is a mix between the individual and given- genetics, epigenetics, and inputs of t...

I've said it too many times for me to repeat it. We've even discussed this I think. Read some of my threads. No, fear of pain, death, and pain of deat...

Pfft :roll:

That is the only quote I find I want to comment on. I agree that there is a paradox of being whereby you cannot know non-being unless being- one impli...

Just showing a willingness to exchange ideas, that's all. How can you, of all the posters say that, when you posture almost all the time! Ironic. Pot ...

I'll be very charitable and try to digest this behemoth and get back to you. I know this is a primary source for some of your Peircean ideas, so I gue...

Yes, parallel with the antinatalism- non-being is only seen through being. The paradox. I also wrote about the "ever vigilant existence" (not literall...

Besides the point "Wouldn't modeling 'feel' like something". That isn't answering what "feels like something is, other than referencing a synonym or c...

So again, what is modeling in the physical world?

Your signs and interpretation takes place in the physical world. What is the physical interpreting?

I can then always say, that is because you have no good answer for it. That has been the main problem the whole time and why others keep on throwing W...

But you didn't address the other things in the post.. specifically baby and animal experiences, Peirce not accepted as THE theory but is overlayed on ...