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We are part of nature, but the only ones who can see what is going on as well, so it is not as cut as dry. We live out the cycle, yet see that it is a...

It is kind of like t0m's philosophy if you look at his responses. He is trying to out Schopenhauer Schopenhauer by embracing the instrumental nature o...

The meaning is in the hope. Hope is long-lasting as it never stops. Achieving a goal is fleeting as it simply leads to more goals, and more. We are ne...

Again, this just reiterates the point. I don't disagree this is what we do. You can't see the light for too long, as you implied, it will just burn. I...

Well, there is the aesthetic of seeing the "what actually is going on here", which can be said to be the instrumentality of things. I don't mean aesth...

But then, this just belies the instrumental nature of existence. If we cut the bullshit out of most ethical systems- it is based on helping others who...

True. This is in fact the insatiable will, Schopenhauer describes. There is an aesthetic beauty in understanding this. I've always claimed that there ...

Gotta have hope. Indeed. Upgrade the opium.

Yeah, even worse than Schopenhauer's negation of Will is Nietzsche's eternal recurrence. That truly is a horror. One is quiescence, the other is manic...

If by telos you mean purpose, I'd have to know what more you mean. It's a way we get through the day. There is some goal, outcome, event, that will ta...

So what do you think that means?

By trapped, I mean, it narrows the focus- like opium. So you are just reiterating what I said. Hope moves us along through the instrumental nature of ...

Indeed, Marx was pedelling a new opiate of hope in Communism. Same bullshit, different name. A better state will come.

How is that relevant to the claim that hope is the opiate of the masses? You assume I have a way out of it or something. This is not meant to fully mi...

As I said, no one escapes hope. That's also part of the theory. Those who do are are probably no longer here or in paralyzing depression. Also, Schope...

Haha, was it that or schopenhauer1 that tipped you off ;).

As I said, the pessimist is just as hopeful as the next guy.

Pessimists have hope just as much. No one is excluded. Well, what does an opiate do? It dulls the mind. It makes one not see the bigger picture. One i...

But then another goal takes its place. And another. It is not whether you achieve the goal that I'm getting at, but the insatiableness of goals, the n...

Yet that is the driver of our continuance on the cycle. No one can really avoid it. The strain of the instrumental nature of existence would be too mu...

How about those with mental disorders or way out of the ordinary experiences that cannot be reconciled with the rest of the group? These are the isola...

Good points. Don't take the epistemology for the metaphysics. What is, what is being, what are beings, what is a process in itself, etc. may not be ga...

So what would you say are some consequences of this idea that what matters in biology is the situatedness of the molecules and the environment in its ...

The problem I have is with the idea of "biology alone". Biology is not a self-contained set of substrates, but a fluid dynamic between certain macromo...

Doesn't it have to do with something like negentropy? Life appears to go against the Second Law of Thermodynamics, but it really isn't because its an ...

Have you not heard of biosemiosis yet? I am sure @"apokrisis" can explain this. I am not even being facetious here, this seems like a great example of...

I don't see how this is justified. Other than saying metaphysics is process-based and not substance ontology, that is not well developed. It's okay to...

I can accept pansemiosis as an overriding philosophy of science, but does it really solve the larger metaphysical problems? Does it, for example, solv...

Would you say that pansemiosis may suffer from being too elegant? What of the idea that the universe is simply messy? Quantum mechanics is probabilist...

I see how this can possibly lead from chemical to biophysical, but how is it semiotic?

I don't really. I like the elegance of it like I told you. Does it have predictive value or only explanatory value? Can it be tested for, or is it som...

Well, I may well accept it, but then, if this is THE way to look at nature, why is science itself not really concerned with it? If it is so thoroughly...

My question is what are we doing by continuing this whole community thing in the first place? If I am duty-bound to help others (something I nominally...

Yes, but what of the problem I mentioned? What is it that we need to perpetuate the help-cycle to begin with? In other words, why do we keep the whole...

To deflate this a bit, all you're really saying is that helping others in need is moral. What if no one ever needs help. Does morality need to exist? ...

Okay, but this theory still seems non-standard. It is an overriding framework that is not assented (or probably known) by most scientists in their res...

Split, cut, yadayada. It all amounts to there being something that is interpreting and something that is interpreted. This is where you bring in the i...

Here, I'm willing to go along with the theory for arguments sake- there is a subject/object split that happens between interpreter and what is interpr...

You are funny. I must have unwittingly drank the Koolaid of the non-Peircean brand of panexperiential process theory at some point and must be deprogr...

I don't know why you persist in thinking that I don't trust in the empirical sciences or that I don't get the general gist of how complex systems aris...

A lot of it is language I don't usually work in, but the general theory seems to be how physical systems turn into symbolic representations that store...

Clearly there is something novel going on- despite it all being pan-semiotic though. This self/world modelling is very different than other modelling ...

How does that emerging look? And what is the nature of this event that is emerging?

Is there a difference in aspect when we discuss semiotic world modelling on one hand and minding on the other?

In other words.. process is process is process.. experiential process is experiential process is experiential process.

But how is seeing, hearing, feeling a reification? I simply call that experience and more specifically "qualia". How is that reification when there is...

But we agree there is a "what it's like aspect" going on right? Whether we call it brute fact or whatever else. It is an event happening in the univer...

You realize this comes off as a lot of "don't look at the man behind the curtain".. So here we have limit- a very deep problem and you are saying simp...

What is this "feel" qua feeling? If you are going to say it is a metaphysical limit that cannot be answered, then does that qualify "feel" as a basic ...

The World as Will and Representation by Arthur Schopenhauer. It's imaginative if nothing else. He understands the constraints of human will and freedo...