https://www.prosoundweb.com/images/uploads/polarity_phase_07.gif If the frequency of the pendulums is regular and one is, for example, phase shifted b...
Er, all you need are two measures you think are regular in relation to each other. If one, or both are not in fact regular, at some point they will go...
Perhaps it can be put this way; questions of perception bear upon what one sees, not what one sees (or, in modality-neutral language: not what manifes...
“Is it the same tree we are looking at, even though our visual perceptions are wildly different?” “Is it the same song we are listening to even though...
I don’t think the passage is necessarily blaming neoliberalism for Trump so much as noting that both policy and person are simply cut from the exact s...
Incidentally here is Brown writing on Trump as well: "We’re seeing mass thuggery, contempt for the rule of law, equality, civil liberties, and univers...
The most coherent and well formulated definition of neoliberalism I know comes from the political philosopher Wendy Brown, who refers to it as the "wi...
No, no, no. The tree we see is not 'an appearance'. It doesn't make sense to say something 'is' an appearance. That's grammatical garble. The tree its...
No, I think we neither see 'directly' nor 'indirectly'. We simply see the trees: which is not to say we see them 'directly' because it's not even in p...
Surprisingly yes, lol. She's basically using information theory to look at the differing distributions of DNA bases across different subphyla in order...
Exactly. As if one could talk about perception in the absence of... perception. And then think one has some kind of genuine mystery on hand. To conjur...
No. I said: appearance is the result of a perceptual process, not 'the world around us'. It's nothing but a petitio principii to assume that the one i...
Scott Aaronson has a wonderful essay detailing why the P = NP problem has all sorts of ramifications for philosophy, well worth reading, incidentally:...
But we're not taking about 'properties' in the abstract. We're talking about perceptual properties, which, by definition, are related to a perceiver. ...
Make up your mind: does science 'extract properties which aren't creature dependant' or is science 'creature dependent'. You can't have you cake and e...
And if I were to grant that this is what science does, what would this have to do with perception? If 'science says': here are some properties of the ...
But looking provides us with information about how a thing looks to that which looks at it. If this has a ring of tautology to it, it should. But the ...
What would it mean for something to be 'unlike' what it appears? Would it appear differently? But appearance is just a function of a perceptual proces...
It only supports 'indirect realism' if the very distinction between direct and indirect realism makes sense. But of course, the point is that it doesn...
Those 'sensory experiences' are precisely what happens when the the vast physiological and psychological machinery that regulates our perception are n...
It dissolves it because it puts to ground the untenable, philosophically atrophied distinction between the 'mental' and the 'thing itself'; the very q...
As long as 'perception' continues to be spoken about as a 'mental', imagistic phenomenon - and not the bodily/physinomic, interactive, environmental, ...
Luciano Floridi - Information: A Very Short Introduction (this was so incredibly average) Lila Gatlin - Information Theory and the Living System Dorio...
One thing to note here is that contradiction is not inconsistency. Or, as a matter of terminological precision: inconsistency is a function of contrad...
Granting that one can make any sense of the murky and loaded idea of 'correspondence', you've just made a claim about 'statements' - about what we can...
You misunderstand. I do not think that there may be balls that are not balls. I think that this is a non-issue. To say that contradictions do not appl...
In other words, contradiction is not something that could even in principle apply - or not - to things in the world; you 'can't imagine that reality w...
What does this even mean? Is this a state of affairs that can obtain in reality? No, but then, that's because it's your description that is absurd. It...
But this is the wrong question. It's a question of grammar and sense, not 'being' (what 'is'...?). It makes perfect sense to say that proposition X an...
It's worth noting the distinction between saying that 'there are no contradictions in nature' (implying that, at least in principle, there could be) a...
I don't think I've ever felt alienated doing philosophy; if anything, philosophy is 'home' for me; it's in its world that I feel challenged, comforted...
Cool. To provoke/frame a little more, I guess part of what's at stake is an 'anti-descriptivist' approach to 'life'. In fact I'd suggest the kinds of ...
To try and square the circle you’ve pointed out: one thing that I wanted to bring out with the focus on gene expression is that, to the degree that we...
Random furious thought scribble: the whole idea of both memetics and most of what passes for evolutionary psycology is so absurdly unscientific and so...
But I am talking about life, and quite specifically the question of 'what does and does not count as 'alive'. The emphasis is on the counting-as: a qu...
But this is the first time you've mentioned metabolism or reproduction. You previously spoke simply of hierarchical networked systems, that were, in a...
But this is just circular then: biological systems are systems with biological constituents... I don't understand what you're asking with these questi...
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