Start with Shannon entropy. Information about X reduces it by reducing the range of expected states of X. But we can reduce Shannon entropy by barking...
Why are we talking about realism, when we don't even know what realism is? Is it a direct relationship to reality? But we don't know what reality is. ...
The inquiry should begin with "what special characteristic of animals/humans enables them to be sentient?" The whys and hows of conscious experience c...
"S="What I am holding now in my hand is an apple." Is S philosophy?" The logical positivists argued over just such statements, but I suppose they woul...
To hark back to Socrates and Plato is to exhume the epistemological transition from oral to written "truth", during which we realize that written stat...
By "perspective", I meant the narrative and experiential perspective that is me. I agree that we can take various positions on ideas and beliefs, but ...
It cannot be denied that there IS only one of YOUR perspective. It requires a leap of faith to believe that there are other perspectives. OK. But ever...
An organism is not an assembly of independent parts. An assembly does not contain the history of its development. But an organism evolves by modificat...
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