I suppose the title of this thread is referring to the brief existence of the self-conscious Self : non-being . . . being . . . non-being. Which is a ...
Yes. In spoken or written language, Ellipsis is the intentional omission of information. But the intention is indicated by a series of dots, or perhap...
I had assumed that's the case, but wanted to get a second opinion. So my problem is not with the general concept, but with the specific terminology, s...
Yes. Our different attitudes towards opinions "may explain things". You seem motivated to avoid dogmatic positions, while I'm interested in discoverin...
Tom, your unwillingness to commit to at least a provisional position on the Random Chaos vs Rational Cosmos question is puzzling to me. Is it the "emo...
Sorry, "Kolmogorov Complexity"*1 is way over my little pointy head. And, while your comments in the quote may have something to do with the hypothesis...
What did you mean (intend) by that question? :joke: Courts of Law often spend thousands of attorney hours in trying to prove or deny Intention --- aft...
Sounds like you are being evasive. Barring divine revelation, how else would we know anything about the world, except as they "seem to us" : via our s...
I suppose, in order to avoid the historical slavery of political/religious Spiritualism (soul more important/essential than body, and ideals worth dyi...
I suppose you are referring to the problem of determining if a string of numbers is random. In judgments of randomness, there is always a degree of do...
On the TPF forum, this a no-win argument. Both Physicalists and Metaphysicalists typically agree on the details of physics, neuro-chemistry, and cosmo...
The causal role of information in the world is of interest to me, both scientifically and philosophically. Can you provide a link to a site or publica...
Granted. The word "Time" has many shaded meanings, depending on context. But they all seem to refer to discernible Change of some kind. So I was talki...
Since I have no formal training in Philosophy or higher Math, my comments on the notion that "deductive reasoning produces no information", may not be...
Yes. That's why, although I lost faith in the bible stories about a father-like Creator, I couldn't deny the reverse logic --- from effect to cause --...
A coy response. But not having empirical knowledge of the cosmic Agent hasn't stopped philosophers from describing its necessary properties, based on ...
Yes. His version of Panpsychism is Idealist, and assumes that Consciousness is fundamental to reality. My alternative version could be called Pan-Info...
I'm currently re-reading Peter Ells' 2010 book, Panpsychism, because he discusses in detail many controversial topics that arise in philosophical meta...
OK. Who or What is the bottom-line Agent/Agency? : Matter, Energy, Evolution, God, First Cause, "Idiosyncratic Causality", John Barrymore, Other? Agen...
Yes. The concept of "something from nothing" is radically counter-intuitive. But scientists, such as Gleiser seem to be using the word "nothing" with ...
I get the impression that is not a fan of Agency in any case, especially top-down agency. So, just for you, here's some ideas from a new biological mo...
Sounds like you've got it all figured-out, while I'm still working-out the bugs in my own little homely theory of causal information. Therefore, I bow...
Apparently, the status of Energy is still debated by physicists. For example a mathematician might assert that "Energy is a derived quantity, not a fu...
This thread --- on a philosophical question --- is beginning to devolve into a political or religious debate instead of a dispassionate dialog. Some i...
Although the basic idea of Positive vs Negative (absential)*1 Causation makes some abstract sense, I'm not familiar with the notion of active "Prevent...
This seems to be another one of those threads where posters, who are well read in certain areas of science & philosophy, end-up talking past each othe...
I see. My lack of authoritative credentials is a stumbling block for you. But that's why I link to people who have credentials in relevant areas. I ev...
Is it possible that your "understanding" is out of date? Not wrong, just outmoded. I expected posters on a philosophy forum to be well-informed about ...
I was hoping you would tell me where you got the idea of Causation without Energy : "Energy is not a cause". Philosopher David Hume discussed the myst...
You're not the only one having difficulty following the reasoning behind the emerging "Information-based worldview". But it's mainly the Quantum Physi...
Yes. What's logically missing from the Big Bang theory is a pre-existing Causal Agency of some kind. Most BB theorists just assume as an axiom (withou...
Apparently, something about my information-based worldview is discomfiting for you. Perhaps you feel that it denies a belief system that makes sense o...
From a Materialist perspective, the concept of "Potential"*1 is not just counterintuitive, but unreal : either a thing is real, or it's not. But Plato...
Good question! All of the examples gave in the OP are not real things, but ideal metaphors of a substance necessary to prevent particular atoms from m...
Apparently, you are talking about material Form (substance) that is visible to the eye, while I am referring to immaterial Form (meaning). The philoso...
You are talking about Physics, while I'm talking about Philosophy --- on a philosophy forum. That may be why we are not communicating. Physical Cosmol...
I suppose you are restricting the term "cause" to some particular traditional definition. But and Gnomon are simply including a modern term from physi...
Your snarky responses sound like you think Enformationism is contradictory to Biosemiotics or to Biophysics*1. But in my thesis & blog, I have referre...
Do you agree that, for pragmatic reasons, most humans act as-if Matter is Reality? If so, how do you explain the behavior of a few feckless philosophe...
Plato and Aristotle used the term "First Cause" to explain, without hard evidence, what causes a physical cause in the world. Apparently they simply t...
Yes, but for metaphysical (mental) questions, I prefer to use the more philosophical term "Cause" instead of the scientific notion of "Energy". While ...
No. Inches & miles are conventional measures of space, not space itself. If you want the details behind the Energy is Fundamental concept, you'll have...
Interesting post! But I apologize for ignoring your warning, and getting-in over my head. I'll only comment on the quoted line, which corresponds to m...
In my experience, most people act like Materialists in all practical phases of life. Only a few brain-washed nuts actually attempt to walk through wal...
That criticism may also accurately describe Panpsychism, which is a philosophical generalization, not a detailed scientific account of mind. It simply...
I didn't intend to get into a technical argument about Dialectics or Biosemiotics or Triadics. I have no expertise in those arcane fields. Following y...
Wolfgang seems to be talking about "self-organization" in a cosmic sense, to raise the question of how living creatures could be assembled out of non-...
Yes. "To Conflate" means to combine two or more separate things into one concept. That's the job description of philosophical inference and holistic t...
Ironically, a "holistic view of substance as the emergent product of a structure of relations"*1 *2 is a good summary of the Enformationism thesis. So...
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