Possibility

Yes! The description is false - or at least ambiguous and prone to inaccuracy in relation to reality. Our description of reality is never accurate in ...

Do you recognise a distinction between observation, perception and apperception? Observation is unconscious sensory interaction, perception is a proce...

The way I see it, this notion of ‘thrown-ness’ assumes the ‘self’ or ‘individual’ as a prime substance in relation to ‘here’. It’s a matter of perspec...

Well, the first question would be, how would they communicate? The human organism is structured in a way that relies on communication to balance its r...

Still, life is not necessarily about survival, or comfort or entertainment - that’s a matter of perspective, one that prioritises the individual. When...

Creativity is increasing awareness, connection and collaboration.

Agreed. Nor does it have to be about survival.

An observation is a process of relating one 4D structure to another; what has been observed is a 4D structure of difference between them. A descriptio...

It was not my intention to patronise, or to suggest that you specifically lacked the courage to experience boredom, discomfort or risk. The argument p...

You’re missing my point here, which is about describing an event, as opposed to observing it. ‘The present’ is not a universal perspective, but a subj...

It isn’t that the individual doesn’t ‘count’, but rather isn’t necessary. And it isn’t necessary to live our life as if we are individuals, but the fa...

Prediction error is an interpretation of experiencing pain, humiliation, loss and lack - suffering. It describes the extent to which a prediction of r...

When you describe an event in the past, this is relative to a fixed point of observation: a relating event in itself. So the ‘actual relations’ you’re...

I don’t see facing the possibility that life is meaningless as such a battle - unless this conflict is with your own terms, that you are necessarily m...

Process philosophy is a starting point - I don’t see ‘events’ as fundamental, rather I see the capacity to describe reality in terms of a variability ...

Your evaluation of the ‘wrong’ thing to do is based on your priority of individual capacity, and the assumption that this is the ONLY capacity with an...

What are ‘things’? This is where the assumption of a self-conscious system, in recognising concepts or things, distorts the way we understand the stru...

I agree. It’s a matter of perspective. If (for argument’s sake) existence was about increasing awareness, connection and collaboration, then ‘survival...

This could also be understood as life being about passing on knowledge, with survival a strategy.

Sure - in the scientific sense that it shows the ‘rule’ needs to be clarified, or understood more precisely.

A ‘form’ is a consolidated arrangement, whereas ‘relation’ refers to the variability in arrangement: the structural potential that informs any consoli...

I can’t say that I do want to survive in every circumstance, though. As a parent, I know there would be circumstances where I would not hesitate to ch...

You don’t think that ideas can be proven in an environment that is insecure or unhealthy? Victor Frankl, for instance? Perhaps I am splitting hairs, b...

Any number of reasons, really - from a paycheck to personal development. I’m not saying their reason isn’t to win, but it should not be assumed as suc...

My intention is not to play games, but to point out the assumptions in your thinking. An imprisoned or threatened being would be ‘insecure’ as such. T...

Are you certain of this? What if they know that their injuries and ability are such that there is little to no chance of winning? Do they give up? Do ...

That may be your reasoning, but it’s a matter of perspective. The criteria by which you define ‘survival’ is limited to the transmission of genetic co...

Sport need not be only about competition, though. It is competition only because we collaborate to arbitrarily limit access to a certain resource, cap...

You’re basing your reasoning upon an assumption that life is all about survival. You presume it’s why we carry out our collaborative efforts. I disagr...

Kant’s aesthetics suggest that the noumena does not consist only of independent, intelligible forms but of qualitative relations that transcend logica...

Agreed. Yes. My point being that competition is only an arbitrary perspective of interaction, not ‘what life is all about’. Two people enter a discuss...

So what is compete? It’s a quantitative perception of our existence as ‘the only one’, and therefore all resources, capacity and value we perceive bey...

Personally, I think the claim that features of organisms evolved because they served some particular function attributes more intentionality to natura...

Perceived by the observer, and potential of their relation to the observed. Given that it will always be relative in this sense, does it need to be su...

‘Success’ is a realisation of perceived potential.

Life is not all about competition, although it can seem that way. People see what they want to see. Human achievement is not an individual effort - ev...

I have been reading through this thread, trying to keep up (I keep running out of time and falling behind). Despite the tendency so far to ignore my q...

What would you say is the distinction between the ability to have an experience and the ability to experience?

This is where Chalmers has looked to IIT: a camera detects light and dark, but photo-receptors experience it, in their own way. That is, they are re-s...

When is there complete knowledge of the components without structure, and what would the predictive powers be in that case? Structure is not a simplif...

For me to even attempt a critique on what you’ve written here would be a bit like the blind leading the blind, I’m afraid. In many ways, I can relate ...

I would have thought the structure adds predictive power where knowledge of the components may be incomplete.

Well, I’m under the impression that science, mainly physics, has always been in the realm of philosophy, at least as a way to test hypotheses and ther...

How do you represent spacetime as three-dimensional? An old Forbes article about gravity says: “You can talk about space as a fabric, but if you do, b...

Well, gravity as ‘a force pulling mass towards the surface of the planet’ is a decidedly Newtonian description, a 3+1 interpretation. Three-dimensiona...

Firstly, my use of ‘intentionality’ was in reference to ‘will’ as the unconscious intentionality of action, not to the will itself being intentional -...

I think history warns us against jumping straight to an assumption of infinite structure. Wave structure seems to me a predicted correlation of quanti...

That you argue this statement to be ‘illogical’ is what points to the problem with logic. ‘X is the necessary ingredient that enables Y’ only fails lo...

No, it’s all about restructuring information. Understanding is the accuracy of a restructuring methodology in relation to reality. I should clarify: I...

I have the same basic idea - it’s understanding, rather than a particular ‘definition/knowledge’, that we can arrive at. Any definition/knowledge woul...