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I believe it’s an outdated term that relates to guilt, particularly in reference to Jewish Law. When you consider that to follow the Law was to ‘walk ...
November 16, 2020 at 16:39
Who decides that a caterpillar is ‘unmeaningful’? Or that he is an ‘ugly mutation’?
November 16, 2020 at 12:12
Meaning is often thought to be the same as definition, but I think this is a misunderstanding of how we use words. My understanding of the relational ...
November 16, 2020 at 12:02
I disagree that Matthew 7:3-5 suggests a time and place for judgement of others. Rather, it corresponds to the ‘slim’ allowance for judgement that he ...
November 16, 2020 at 10:21
If you consider what it is that classifies all of these examples as ‘evil’, you would find that it’s their relation to the human perspective. Without ...
November 16, 2020 at 06:53
It isn’t so much that we should have it - that’s the reality of our situation - it’s more that it’s not something we should be trying to avoid or deny...
November 16, 2020 at 06:23
Nothing - the conversation is very carefully free of judgement: “Where are you?” “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, so ...
November 16, 2020 at 04:39
I think our capacity to understand everything is currently dependent more upon our relation to reality than any physical evolution of the human brain....
November 16, 2020 at 04:12
What is innocence? If it’s a lack of experience or knowledge of the world and how everything relates to each other, then humans would gain this over t...
November 16, 2020 at 03:36
There is an assumption here that evil exists independent of human perspective. The way I see it, the dichotomy of good vs evil is an entirely human co...
November 16, 2020 at 02:06
Well of course the importance of ‘emotion’ is more evident in your understanding, because the only way to relate to it is to attribute your own subjec...
November 15, 2020 at 10:45
But your cascade is a process of self-consciousness (not consciousness), hypothetically re-organising concepts according to an arbitrary relation betw...
November 15, 2020 at 02:38
Feeling is unconsolidated relational information, so it’s different from ‘a feeling’ - which appears consolidated only within a relational structure o...
November 12, 2020 at 16:21
And I am arguing that your logical characterisation excludes key relational information that affects how we make these decisions and actions, renderin...
November 12, 2020 at 03:40
Yes - or more accurately, a feeling about a sense of feeling. This is what you’re referring to with emotion producing affect, not to feeling as it is ...
November 12, 2020 at 03:20
We mistake 30fps for continuous time, not because this is the rate of human consciousness, but because it is the rate of human apperception. This is a...
November 12, 2020 at 01:41
Your biased approach to dialogue between materialism and idealism doesn’t help your understanding. It’s clouding your judgement. You keep attributing ...
November 11, 2020 at 14:54
Let me clarify here. My description of affect as ‘continuous’ refers to its relational structure as an ongoing informative event. I don’t agree that c...
November 10, 2020 at 16:20
Sorry - your use of ‘experience’ and ‘yet’ implied an existing awareness of time. I know I’m being nit-picky, but I think awareness of time is a funct...
November 09, 2020 at 14:29
First of all, how do we define life? A mother determines if a human foetus lives or dies because for what she must undertake to maintain the quality o...
November 09, 2020 at 12:06
If X knows the green fruits will be good to eat in a few days, and that his supplies will last him roughly the same length of time, then doesn’t he al...
November 09, 2020 at 11:40
Consciousness is derived from an ongoing relation between external and internal sensory information, among other relations. I am not disputing that in...
November 09, 2020 at 04:18
Thanks for the article. I think it helps to recognise the broader potential of humanity: both the tendency towards ignorance, isolation and exclusion,...
November 05, 2020 at 14:31
Marcus Aurelius wrote: “Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All of t...
November 05, 2020 at 13:51
My experience of logic is similar to yours, so I can only offer my thoughts. The way I see it, logic is based on propositions, which are themselves ex...
November 05, 2020 at 10:22
Epigenetics is a relational event structure between the DNA molecule and the living system. Again, we are a long way from each other here. Before you ...
November 05, 2020 at 04:10
We are a long way from each other here. Your description suggests that sensory information is processed through reason before an experience of reason ...
November 05, 2020 at 03:25
I’ve sometimes been gently accused on this forum of ‘wandering’ into psychology, as if that’s not a place that philosophy should go. I disagree with t...
November 02, 2020 at 23:59
My two teenage children were initially resistant to philosophical questioning and discussion. My daughter saw the rabbit hole as an unending abyss of ...
November 02, 2020 at 16:16
No - you don’t HAVE to reduce this to a defined pinpoint on a constructed spectrum. Most humans and animals are more than capable of acting without th...
November 02, 2020 at 12:21
Only if you consider a DNA molecular structure, the various cell structures it manifests and maintains, the organism they form and sustain, and the co...
October 31, 2020 at 07:09
Whitehead’s process ontology is a first step - it regards existence as consisting of four-dimensional events, rather than the 3+1 (objects in time) vi...
October 29, 2020 at 03:26
Your first and last sentences here are examples of confusing dimensional levels. I recognise that you don’t see the world this way, but this is where ...
October 29, 2020 at 01:16
Are they the only two choices? Or do you think we can work instead towards maximising awareness, connection and collaboration? Of course, on the surfa...
October 27, 2020 at 15:32
Who said we were in charge? We are developing knowledge, but this knowledge consists of our relationship to information as part of information’s relat...
October 27, 2020 at 12:16
I’m not sure the analogy is accurate. We pay a mechanic to fix our car, but in all honesty most of us have no clue and no way of determining whether h...
October 26, 2020 at 02:40
A multi-cellular organism relies on a number of additional integrated system structures, within which DNA (as molecular-level information) is subject ...
October 26, 2020 at 01:52
The complexity of relationships between all information - this is the source of wisdom. We’re currently isolating and micro-managing edits to the envi...
October 24, 2020 at 23:52
This accounts for the quantitative aspects of knowledge, but not the qualitative aspects - the relational structure of knowledge. Science that acceler...
October 24, 2020 at 06:05
The DNA ‘in action’ is part of the relational structure in a living system. Without this relation, the process would not occur, and the DNA would meet...
October 24, 2020 at 03:47
Fair enough. I don’t recall you posing a question to me - did I miss something? I’m not all that capable of spotting incoherences, so you’ll have to h...
October 22, 2020 at 05:30
I think I’m starting get a picture of how you’re viewing this. It’s similar to the 3+1 dimensional perspective of the physical universe: consolidation...
October 22, 2020 at 04:36
Your definition seems circular to me, but I understand the language difficulty. Correlation, as I see it, is the process of establishing a mutual rela...
October 21, 2020 at 00:01
I think your first question about the organisation of our cells starts to approach the issue, but the second and third are limiting your scope. You ca...
October 20, 2020 at 23:25
No, DNA is information for living. There’s a difference. DNA by itself is a biochemical molecular structure - its capacity for life is purely relation...
October 20, 2020 at 16:16
To regulate them, yes. But systems don’t require input from the brain to start or stop functioning - they will continue to do so under suitable condit...
October 19, 2020 at 23:25
DNA is not alive. It is a molecular structure, organised in such a way that the potential of the information it contains renders a living system. Its ...
October 19, 2020 at 12:06
Causal physical systems/interactions ARE correlations. It seems to me that you’re conflating correlation and meaning. Pain is the result of correlatio...
October 19, 2020 at 07:43
Not the way I see it. Correlation is existentially dependent upon a physical system capable of structurally manifesting evidence of that correlation. ...
October 19, 2020 at 02:28
The capacity of a cell to be aware of surrounding cells in the organism is limited - most of our internal systems don’t require information directly f...
October 18, 2020 at 23:55