Gnomon

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Some thinkers assume that Nature is Mathematical (abstract values, sans meaning) while others believe that Nature is Mental (logic plus meaning). So, ...
August 03, 2022 at 17:02
Since I'm not a practicing scientist, I don't presume to provide "specific, credible, referenced, scientific information". So, as an amateur philosoph...
August 03, 2022 at 16:00
Ironically, the "scientific point of view" has changed since the 20th century, in order to grapple with the non-classical & counter-intuitive aspects ...
August 02, 2022 at 17:58
Yes. I think of Mind as the "function" of the brain : what it does instead of what it is. In that case, the "basic building block" of mind will be an ...
August 02, 2022 at 17:51
Oh, I see! You are interested in Neurobiology instead of Psychology -- neural nets & nodes instead of meanings & feelings. Apparently, you have a nove...
August 02, 2022 at 17:32
By "reductionism", I'm referring to the method of Atomism : dissect the material word far enough down to its foundations, and you will find atoms of M...
August 01, 2022 at 23:45
I parse "panprotopsychist" as : all + before + mind. But "proto" could also mean "earliest or most primitive form". If so, are you proposing some elem...
August 01, 2022 at 23:26
, in The Physics of Consciousness thread*1 is also pursuing a physical explanation for how the mind works, without assuming any non-physical contribut...
August 01, 2022 at 17:55
Oh, it definitely involves a physical process, but it also seems to require a mental action, such as Intention*1 (goal-setting ; aiming ; direction ; ...
July 31, 2022 at 23:52
A direct & succinct answer to the OP. However, both are unprovable inferences from Descartes' intuitive introspective "I am" argument. From that axiom...
July 31, 2022 at 17:49
Perhaps a "staunchly realistic" perspective would include both General (holistic) and Particular (reductive) facts. Shannon reduced Information theory...
July 31, 2022 at 17:04
I don't have the technical qualifications to follow your argument for a "Coherence Field". But in my own layman's musings, I have developed a philosop...
July 30, 2022 at 23:48
Some have expressed concern about using Reductive methods to study a Holistic phenomenon like Consciousness. But I notice that you refer to your CFT a...
July 30, 2022 at 16:55
The third law (T3) is universal, but there are local exceptions. If Entropy was as all-powerful as the thermodynamics law makes it seem, then you woul...
July 29, 2022 at 18:12
I can't speak for Enrique. but his Coherence Theory seems to be more Holistic than Reductive. Admittedly, that is more of a philosophical approach tha...
July 29, 2022 at 16:57
In my thesis, EnFormAction (generic information) is simply the causal-power-to-enform : to cause isolated unrelated things to cohere into a functional...
July 28, 2022 at 17:32
So to speak. I simply re-define some outdated notions, such as "Matter" & "Spirit", in terms of the Enformationism thesis. To wit, my "spiritual" fami...
July 27, 2022 at 16:59
Yes. But I have no formal training in those fields of philosophy. Enformationism is a sort of Cosmology, which generally explains the nature of Nature...
July 27, 2022 at 01:23
Yes. The coder's "virtual worlds" are simplified analogies to the Enformer's real world. Each imaginary world is conveyed from the coder's mind to the...
July 26, 2022 at 17:43
Actually, it was practicing scientists that "scientized" the intuitions of Holism & Information-as-causation (per my previous links). All I've done is...
July 25, 2022 at 18:34
I suspect that you still haven't grokked the central idea of Enformationism. That "failure to communicate" may be due to your trying to piece together...
July 24, 2022 at 18:04
Unfortunately, your articles are way over my head. So, I'm not able to evaluate their validity. But I have seen a variety of attempts by physicists to...
July 23, 2022 at 17:28
The gate to the Oracle at Delphi bore this inscription : "gnothi seauton" (know thyself). That kind of "direct" (introspective) gnosis is indeed neces...
July 23, 2022 at 16:56
He'll have to catch me first. :joke: Actually, the cooperative BothAnd philosophy "requires" us to avoid fighting, if possible. That's why I'm in the ...
July 23, 2022 at 16:29
OK. I accept that, in a YinYang world, the opposite of Good is Evil. But does that mean I should wallow in the evil, just for the sake of Holism? I'm ...
July 22, 2022 at 17:34
I have been exposing my thesis to unsympathetic comments for years, and usually get good "well-considered opposition" (feedback) from other posters on...
July 22, 2022 at 17:00
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I have read most of Davies' books. His Information-centric worldview seems to be very similar to my own. And Terrance Deacon has offered a novel way t...
July 21, 2022 at 16:39
The BothAnd philosophy doesn't legitimize one side or the other of any opposition. Instead, it allows each person to cross philosophical-political div...
July 21, 2022 at 16:26
Oui-oui. It's mostly "attacked" emotionally (good vs evil) & politically (us vs them), instead of "critiqued" rationally & philosophically. For exampl...
July 20, 2022 at 18:02
Take your time. I've been working on the Enformationism thesis for about 14 years. It had been simmering for a while in the background. But I finally ...
July 18, 2022 at 18:01
Yes. Like Energy, EnFormAction, can have both positive and negative effects. For example, Lightning splits air molecules into Nitrogen & Oxygen, both ...
July 18, 2022 at 16:37
Yes, the role of EnFormAction (energy, causation) in physics is to cause change-of-form (geometry, interrelationships). However, perhaps due to the cu...
July 17, 2022 at 17:08
Good summary! You are open-minded and reasonable enough to entertain unfamiliar (weird) ideas, and attempt to make sense of them, in order to learn ne...
July 16, 2022 at 17:25
The BothAnd principle is Holistic. It assumes that all apparent oppositions in the natural world are ultimately complementary. For example, Matter & A...
July 15, 2022 at 18:26
Yes. Philosophy is all about generalizing Principles from specific Instances. The operative Variable "X" is the shape-shifting power to enform, that w...
July 15, 2022 at 17:36
In accordance with the BothAnd philosophy, Enformationism is both Reductive (it all boils down to Information Bits as the atoms of reality), but it's ...
July 15, 2022 at 01:01
Are you familiar with the Enlightenment era philosophy of Deism? They were Agnostic about the G*D of Theism, specifically Judeo-Christianity, but they...
July 13, 2022 at 22:59
The core idea of Enformationism is simple : everything in the world is a form of Generic Information. That's illustrated most succinctly in Einstein's...
July 13, 2022 at 17:19
That's a bold statement, even on a philosophical forum. But, I think I see how you equate Materialism and Temporalism as subjective beliefs. For examp...
July 12, 2022 at 18:13
Most of the economic math and speculative predictions are way over my head. But "information-theoretic" is right down my philosophical alley. What doe...
July 12, 2022 at 17:06
Yes. That's what I'm doing in the BothAnd Blog. I now take the necessity for a First Cause (Enformer) for granted. Beyond that axiom, I don't concern ...
July 09, 2022 at 17:54
Actually, I didn't reinvent the wheel --- and I didn't find a full-size spare tire in the trunk of my new worldview. Instead, I have merely patched ti...
July 08, 2022 at 23:45
I abandoned the Theistic religion of my childhood long ago. But I was never able to become an assured Atheist, because that theory-of-absence offered ...
July 08, 2022 at 17:51
Unfortunately, relying on standard dictionary definitions ignores the distinction between Semantics (literal meaning) and Semiotics (emotional or cont...
July 07, 2022 at 17:19
Of course. That's why the first rule of philosophical dialog is "define your terms". Otherwise, each participant may make unwarranted assumptions that...
July 06, 2022 at 16:53
Nice story. Reminds me of Borges. Why banned? Did it violate some written rule?
July 05, 2022 at 18:11
Apparently. Bartricks prefers a very narrow exclusive definition of "holism", whereas I favor a broader, more inclusive, interpretation. Historically,...
July 05, 2022 at 17:33
Remember that the discipline we now call "Science" is what Aristotle called "Natural Philosophy" or "physis" (growth or nature). As as the name implie...
July 05, 2022 at 01:00
Good comparison. The key distinction here is that Reductionism deals with Quanta (discrete isolated objects) while Holism deals with Qualia (continuou...
July 04, 2022 at 18:09
"Enformy" is my own term for what physicists refer to as "Negentropy". But that scientific nomenclature, taking Entropy as primary, makes it sound lik...
July 02, 2022 at 23:11