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And correlation occurs all the way down. What is referred to as ‘consciousness’ or ‘experience’ at the level of inanimate matter such as rocks is the ...
October 18, 2020 at 23:12
Well, I think your emphasis on the ‘individual’ as a consolidated invariant is going to complicate things, but basically, yes. I don’t think we simply...
October 18, 2020 at 01:54
I think the relational structure exists, but it would be difficult to conceptualise or even manifest personhood without some sort of relation to anoth...
October 17, 2020 at 10:59
Who said life was meant to be easy? Pain is prediction error: there is a discrepancy between our conception of reality and our interaction with it. It...
October 17, 2020 at 09:49
I’m thinking perhaps you misunderstand what I mean by a ‘fingerprint’ here. The classical claim is that each instance of emotion is identifiable as a ...
October 17, 2020 at 08:54
Emotions are part of our ‘constructed conceptual reality’. Within an amorphous system of information in the brain, concepts and objects make sense of ...
October 15, 2020 at 03:12
I disagree - If you read what I wrote, I mentioned that Barrett uses the term ‘affect’ to distinguish between ‘emotions’ of everyday language, as conc...
October 13, 2020 at 16:25
I find it interesting that you make a distinction between moral/immoral outcomes, actions and intentions, but not persons. I don’t consider an ‘outcom...
October 12, 2020 at 12:42
Just wanted to let you know that I am reading along with great interest here. There is something about your theory that always captures my interest, b...
October 12, 2020 at 11:06
Barrett’s theory is constructionist - she successfully refutes essentialist assumptions made in classical emotion theory, which claim from intuitive a...
October 12, 2020 at 05:33
In hindsight, this was poorly worded, sorry. We can determine an action to have a good/bad effect only in relation to an observer; we judge the act to...
October 12, 2020 at 01:22
I agree that idealisation is the main hallmark of romantic love - in my experience, though, lust is not a necessary aspect, nor friendship, nor any co...
October 11, 2020 at 08:12
It only appears to disagree because you assume the bias has a linear structure at the level of life, and a binary structure at the level of DNA, but t...
October 11, 2020 at 07:06
The idea is that we can determine a moral judgement on the action by evaluating the most probable intentional state - but we need to recognise that th...
October 11, 2020 at 05:09
So, the fact that common understanding is riddled with prediction errors, which results in a high instance of suffering, is not an issue for you?
October 11, 2020 at 02:40
Your classic ‘trinity’ explanation fits the common understanding, but I think it is misunderstood in relation to this notion of love, which developed ...
October 11, 2020 at 01:16
Self-interest is NOT central to consciousness. This is a misunderstanding of consciousness - from a limited perspective of self-consciousness, reduced...
October 10, 2020 at 15:47
When you do ‘grow the system in complexity’, you need to be conscious of the overwhelming urge to consolidate through ignoring, isolating or excluding...
October 08, 2020 at 05:45
The answer is only biased to be for those who are. The proportion of living to non-living matter in the universe is staggeringly small. Likewise, the ...
October 08, 2020 at 05:12
What about Red vs Blue?
October 08, 2020 at 02:34
The idea of life after death seems to have developed from a vague awareness, and attempts to make sense of, a very real capacity to interact with the ...
October 08, 2020 at 02:12
My point is that ‘pleasure or pain’ is insufficient, because pain is something else. Differentiated how? Would the 2D structure of affect - as valence...
October 07, 2020 at 09:09
Your first explanation is circular. You’ve been arguing that the pain-pleasure spectrum is the impetus for behaviour, and yet here you’re saying that ...
October 06, 2020 at 03:56
I don’t object to reductionist methodology per se - I think it’s a necessary process from imagination and understanding to interaction, particularly f...
October 05, 2020 at 00:33
Regardless whether or not we refer to it as ‘consciousness’, matter is, to some limited extent, interacting with its surroundings, and susceptible to ...
October 04, 2020 at 04:50
Nope - it is a specific fact of American history. The rest of the West (for the most part) have recognised (some more recently than others) that the f...
October 04, 2020 at 04:11
Steady on - my point is that our affective state is NOT reducible to ‘a feeling’ or resolved to a point on a pain-pleasure spectrum, except through ig...
October 04, 2020 at 02:41
Ha - You obviously don’t know me very well, then. Being able to repeat the formula does not mean you’ve learnt anything about it. For most people, all...
October 02, 2020 at 14:58
Yeah, not many people think like me, I’m afraid. The way I see it, reductionism seeks accurate methodologies to render the world into more efficient f...
October 02, 2020 at 09:20
True. It may not even be ‘pain’, and the ‘emotion’ may be misinterpreted, as well as the cause. It is, however, a negative value affect perceived in t...
October 02, 2020 at 01:27
Perhaps we rely too much on certainty and logic to determine our relation to the universe. It’s not as if I exist as a singular, fixed central perspec...
October 01, 2020 at 03:00
So we call it ‘painful’ because the behaviour response is generally repellent. I’m not suggesting it’s something other than pain, I’m just making sure...
October 01, 2020 at 01:36
Who’s we?
September 30, 2020 at 10:14
How do you know if the stimuli is ‘painful’? Is it because it would be painful to you? Or is it assumed from the microorganism’s repellent reaction?
September 30, 2020 at 10:14
What you’re missing is the integration level of the system. If you remove the cover, it makes no difference to the system. No doubt there are a number...
September 30, 2020 at 10:02
Not sure if that’s really a technique, as such. How would you ‘make’ someone learn something? By employing persuasion and rhetoric? The way I see it, ...
September 30, 2020 at 07:37
Post quantum era science can no longer afford to simply dismiss the systemic errors in its computations. Electromagnetism and gravity cannot be reconc...
September 30, 2020 at 06:10
The aim is not to cast it aside, but to recognise it and account for it in our interaction with the world. If we would relate to an aspect of reality ...
September 30, 2020 at 01:31
Unfortunately, your website does not lend itself to being studied at length. Breaking your theory up into bite-size chunks addressing particular quest...
September 30, 2020 at 01:26
Sure - but it’s only a life altering experience because it changes one’s approach, etc. What you wrote in response to my post was not. I presented my ...
September 29, 2020 at 10:02
Quantifying or qualifying life makes no difference to death - regardless of how long or well one lives, we ALL die. It certainly appears to those of u...
September 28, 2020 at 11:29
With all due respect, this is the main problem I have with your theory - by excluding what transcends this ‘boundary of life and death’, your understa...
September 28, 2020 at 08:13
If you are saying here that all inanimate matter falls to zero point energy without resistance, then we may struggle to reach an understanding. In my ...
September 27, 2020 at 14:07
I can relate to your frustration - I think you explain your ideas clearly, though, and while I can see that it’s condensed, I’m not left wondering wha...
September 27, 2020 at 04:16
Only because the limited allocation of effort and attention in the body in that moment is more efficiently and effectively applied to repairing the da...
September 27, 2020 at 01:51
Mathematical ‘facts’ rely on our emotional response to them in application. ‘Two friends plus two friends equals four friends’ has a different qualita...
September 26, 2020 at 16:19
I like where you’re going with emotion-information, but I think your reliance on an essentialist view of emotions in relation to reason could be overs...
September 26, 2020 at 06:59
It’s not about the process of forming or acquiring the javelin that gives it value. Neither is the potential of the javelin necessarily a property of ...
September 26, 2020 at 05:43
Your ‘state of pleasure’ is not a fact - it’s a subjective relation. Value in its simplest form has three categories: positive, negative and infinite....
September 26, 2020 at 04:26
Nothing to do with ‘things’ - they’re heuristic devices only. How should you be defined? By all the cells in your body? By all your bodily functions? ...
September 26, 2020 at 02:14