Again, I agree - our uncertainty is based on information we may have beyond the information that determines our actions, which draws our attention to ...
Exactly, which precludes objectivity. I’m not after a definition as such - which assumes only one definition is the ‘correct’ one - just a discussion ...
A truth value is binary concept, either true or false and nothing in between, WITHIN the limited perspective and value system of propositional logic. ...
Not that weird. He’s implying more information or ‘knowledge’ than is necessary to form a tine. The brain doesn’t interact with the world directly, ra...
I agree that we’ll never reach complete certainty, and that what will be is not included in what is when considered as facts. But I will argue that po...
These are great! I love the first two, I’d argue on the third, but I do get where you’re coming from. I guess I’m referring to an essence and a basic ...
Only if you’re looking for a definition in terms of what it is that everything else isn’t. But if information is fundamental, then everything IS infor...
I’m here to test and adjust my philosophy in relation to the tougher questions and most recent answers. I have no formal education in philosophy, so I...
Just because we have no way to structure that information in relation to our limited perception of the cosmos, doesn’t mean the information doesn’t ex...
Objectivity is a relation beyond the subject, not in spite of it. Uncertainty and error from noise is a given in relation to actual information. We go...
What’s with the distinction from information ABOUT? That’s essentially what information does - it informs one system about another system. But the inf...
The problem with IIT (IMHO) is that it defines both conscious experience and information as actual - consisting of a cause-effect relationship. But th...
I agree with @"unenlightened" - the third image potentially has the most information, but we just can’t understand how any of it would matter or mean ...
As I understand it, information is the capacity to distinguish between possible alternatives. One bit of Shannon information is fundamentally a relati...
Well, I mentioned that binary truth relates to quantum mechanics, anyway. I agree that quantum physics increases the notion of objectivity - it does s...
As I mentioned, this idea is based on an intuitive understanding of quantum mechanics, which necessitates interaction for all our essential perception...
I’m not changing the definition, I’m clarifying it. ‘Something that actually exists’ must be real and it must be true; but all truth is not necessaril...
Yes, it sounds like we’re on the same page here. I want to thank you for your patience and generosity throughout this discussion. I’m not always commu...
It’s not about feeling offended - it’s about how you respond to it. I tend to view ‘feeling offended’ as a general recognition that someone doesn’t pe...
This is the problem with ideology: there is an assumption of the eternal. I want to be very clear that I’m not advocating tolerance as an ideal or ete...
The distinction of ‘theoretical knowing’ that you refer to here, for me, is between what is potentially knowable and what is possibly knowable, object...
I agree that these terms are generally interchangeable, so it gets very confusing. In my view, ‘awareness’ refers to informative interaction as a gene...
I understand the will to be informed directly by an organism’s overall relational structure (not necessarily an awareness of that structure), includin...
I think you might be making assumptions here regarding my relative affluence and social position - perhaps to justify our difference in perspective? I...
Not replacing, but collaborating with, yes. From an American perspective, yes, I suppose the American Revolution was about that. I wonder if you’ve ev...
Can I take this as an agreement that what you refer to as ‘truth value’ is a binary true/false? If so, then at no point can we objectively know this ‘...
‘Envy’ in relation to core affect has an unpleasant valence and is distinguished from ‘jealousy’ by a relatively low arousal. It is distinguished from...
‘To be aware of’ is not the same as ‘to experience’. Often what we experience, we are aware of only as sensory events - even though we integrate the i...
No. I said that I think this is a gross misunderstanding of what it means to raise a child - it teaches them that they must choose a side in all ongoi...
Barrett refers in her book to ‘the illusion of a two-system brain’: with an emotional, instinctive side kept in check or controlled by a rational, thi...
I believe the universe is the result of pure possibility trying to understand itself, manifesting the difference that makes a difference: from the ene...
But if we only obey policy, then we can’t really BE as different as the aliens of outer space. Our capacity for diversity is then limited by policy. I...
Potential: the capacity to develop, achieve or succeed, that has not yet been realised. Information: what is conveyed by a particular arrangement or s...
But truth isn’t just about the human understanding of information as ‘knowledge’. It’s about information in general, regardless of life. Life without ...
That’s kind of like saying those that don’t survive don’t survive. My view is that we’ve got the cart before the horse. It only seems like knowing and...
What if it is evolutionary theory - the notion that whatever emerges from the process of natural selection is advantageous to survival - that is misgu...
Again with the old and the new... My personal perspective certainly doesn’t value individuality - not sure where you got that from... The ant colony a...
The way I see it, man transcends his own subjectivity by constructing value and meaning beyond his own experience, from the interrelated uncertainty o...
But I may have potential information related to how Peter will feel tomorrow that enables me to make a prediction, however uncertain, and act on that ...
No. Affect is a constant current. To have consciousness is to be affected. Even a completely neutral feeling is affect. Emotion is how you interpret t...
Feldman Barrett refers to a ‘classical’ view of emotions: . The new paradigm shows that emotions are not universal or instinctive in themselves, but a...
Potential information is still information, so you cannot say that I ‘no longer have any information’. What I don’t have is sufficient potential infor...
Being predisposed to her view makes it easier to follow - it’s a paradigm shift, in many ways. We’ve always ‘known’ that emotions are ‘inherently’ und...
I wonder sometimes if you’re reading posts to understand the information they contain, or in order to personally respond. I am NOT your sister, and I ...
This is where the language can get confusing. We say that we ‘feel’ the affect as well as the emotion, but they’re not identical - we interact with th...
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