Pantagruel

The justice system is mainly concerned with proscriptive justice and hence with punishment. Retributive justice. It is unlikely that this aspect of ju...

I agree. AI is quite overrated. I asked ChatGPT to analyze a section of Luhmann's social systems theory as a reading aid and it completely Darwinized ...

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The conditions of the possibility of there being an argument. In this case, the perspective of the self that is actually offering the idea and is enga...

:roll: The self is the personal perspective of thought. If someone says "The self is a myth," they are actively perpetuating the myth, while simultane...

Yes, in a dialogue with ChatGPT I suggested that the addition of an 'executive internal chat' function constantly analyzing its own responses in a con...

I see. Offering that contextualization as part of your OP would have clarified things greatly......

This addendum would have made me appreciate the original OP more. There is no substitute for clarity, either of expression or of perception.

Because that generalization clearly doesn't hold for the entire spectrum of philosophical writing. Possibly it is true for the category that troubles ...

Exactly. Criticism is only valid if it is balanced.

Interesting choice of example since the sophists were considered among the best teachers of the ancient world. Especially given the tenor of the op, w...

I believe there have always been competing traditions in philosophy, including the insular-academic and the opposite. However people represent a huge ...

Yes. And is this inside look at experience what we are really trying to grasp? Isn't that also the locus of the experience of knowing?

And yet isn't it fundamentally an experiential question? Is studying the nature of consciousness equivalent to actually charting the boundaries of con...

Theory of Society, Volume 2 Niklas Luhmann Volume one became painfully theoretical and abstract about the mid-point. However volume two appears to hav...

I feel that way about systems theory. You don't need to over-specify the nature of the mechanism (behind social consciousness) given its evident opera...

Yes, but intrinsically there is a social dimension to cognition, which then is an additional factor to consider. Hive minds evidence this clearly. The...

All that would have to be true is that somehow information is affecting reality (which it clearly does) and is capable of being stored in such a way t...

Yes, and/or that information is a naturalistic feature. If there is an 'information manifold,' however, it would seem to prima facie vastly expand, no...

I know that feeling. I only really felt like Being and Time started to gel on the fifth reading. I will read the CPR at least once more in my life tho...

Consciousness is the complex product of this organism-environment system indeed. Problems arise when abstracting from this systemic nature, whether as...

Introductions are great for bringing a lot of material into a very wide focus. I think of Heidegger's Intro to Metaphysics. Adorno is on my list for t...

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À la recherche du temps perdu #5: The Captive / The Fugitive by Marcel Proust

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As the diagnostician, empirical-situational and implementable in some way. Instrumental knowledge.

I interviewed for admission to the Zen Buddhist monastery on Vaughan Road in Toronto in 1990. I was invited to dinner (vegetarian lasagna) and invited...

Is there even one standard for "sufficient justification"? Consider a physician who is a diagnostic specialist with forty years of experience. He may ...

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I think Popper subscribed to identity theorism; and he had a "three-worlds" theory that seemed to describe a privileged and real status to psychologis...

That emergence and consciousness are related? It seems to line up nicely both factually and coherently. That it is impossible to concoct a plausible c...

I'm not sure about "affecting" emergence. But systems theory is all about the reality and nature of processes, and one concept of central concern is e...

Which makes it very strange that you are concerned whether or not there are theories of consciousness which "manage to bypass emergence" then. Oh, and...

In which case you have reduced the concept of emergence to simple analyticity. That is discussed in the article regarding the weaking of the concept o...

https://www.hindawi.com/journals/complexity/2022/9956885/ 1. The point is, weak vs. strong is a conceptual distinction, not an objective "fact" about ...

Spoken like someone who relies on internet synopses for information. "Impossible to predict" equals "currently unable to predict". Which is what I sai...

To be clear, there is a clear distinction amongst people who agree that there is a distinction. I don't agree. Strong emergence is characterized by a ...

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Sure, it's called reductive materialism.

Are you guys disputing whether it is possible for something to exhibit fundamental features of consciousness without actually being conscious? If so, ...

I think that assimilation and individuation both represent natural mechanisms, which modern power structures are subverting.

Just an amplification really. Per my initial comment, I think of it more as an ongoing and cyclical dialectic.

There is a tradition that equates "ideologies" with apologistic-rationalizations of the ruling classes, making them deceptive, more than anything else...

Yes, to this. The OP seems to rely on a presumption of general rationality. To what extent there is any significant impact by real rationality any mor...

Theory of Society, Volume 1 by Niklas Luhmann Mendiata's book on Apel's discourse ethics is really excellent.

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Right. So did the expansion take place in order to facilitate the evolutionary process? Or was the initial state itself actually metastable? Perhaps t...

From a systems perspective, subsystems leech energy (negentropy) from their parent systems. So if entropy were ever at a "universal maximum" it would ...

A good read. Enjoy.

A fraudulent god; there's a concept.