In his analogy with icons on a computer screen, Hoffman explains how a low-resolution representation of Reality is good-enough to keep us alive long e...
Yes. (self-aggrandizement aside) I characterize the Enformationism thesis as a sort of Theory of Everything, because it reveals the foundations of bot...
I think Donald Hoffman's notion of our senses as an "interface" between us and the real world, may offer a clue to "what gives?" In The Case Against R...
Postscript to my previous post about the "self-organizing" function of Information. In the same book and chapter, philosopher Rolston mentions "autopo...
Speaking of "what is information?", which we were discussing way back in the beginning of this thread : I just came across -- in a book I read before ...
Perhaps not. That depends on who's pointing. And some modern philosophers have developed a case of Physics Envy, on the assumption that Philosophy is ...
FWIW, here's my attempt to define "philosophy", for the purposes of my personal worldview. : Philosophy : The ancient Greeks began to distinguish the ...
Yes. That's why theoretical Philosophy, as contrasted with empirical Science, has not made much measurable progress over the centuries. We still debat...
Another way to say it, is that "Wisdom is the practical application of Intelligence". For example, homo sapiens is noted for its Intelligence relative...
This is also the old Reductive versus Holistic refrain. If you look at particular things or events, each can be evaluated as Good or Bad, in the speci...
I doubt that Einstein himself made the distinction I was referring to. It was just my interpretation. I was extrapolating from the terms "Special Rela...
AFE, I generally agree with your position on the distinction between human intelligence (HI) and artificial intelligence (AI). But I just finished rea...
I agree. When I said that the physical world has a mathematical foundation, I was referring to the pattern of inter-relationships that the human mind ...
That's fine with me. But, if you are not interested in metaphysics, my views on Information won't interest you. That's because Enformationism is a phi...
Unless you are a professional philosopher, you may never have to use those technical terms for the fundamental distinction of Reality (quanta) and Ide...
That's because you are confusing two separate methodologies : Empirical Science and Theoretical Philosophy. Qualia and Quanta are not real things, but...
That dualistic Cartesian worldview -- mental Form vs physical Brain -- is a common stumbling block for discussions of Information : 1> the ideal essen...
That's an interesting observation. Which leads me to postulate that the Sixth Sense of Reason is also a sort of mathematical discrimination. Rational ...
Yes. EnFormAction causes changes in physical material, and in meta-physical states. It's the subsequent causation after the First Cause. That initial ...
Yes. That's why humans were forced by their internal rational conflicts to develop Laws, Ethics, and Morality : we worry too much about the unintended...
Absolute symmetry is perfect & changeless. Change requires asymmetry (difference) in order to allow room for something new to happen. :smile: Yes. Met...
Yes. EnFormAction causes changes in both physical material, and in meta-physical states. It's the subsequent chain-of-causation after the First Cause....
I'm not qualified to confirm or deny your concept that "information is the interaction of forms". But I tend to focus on information as meaning, which...
Landauer says that "erasing" information is equivalent to Entropy, which is the result of deleting Energy from a system. So, extracting Energy is also...
Some have noted that it's not the dumb measuring instrument, but the intelligent scientist who looks at the abstract read-out, and realizes what just ...
You may not get a lot of sympathy, on this forum, for your apostasy from atheism to deism. But I too, went from a Theistic childhood, to an Agnostic a...
Mythically, the root of human ethics is in the freedom to choose what seems to be in the ego's best interest, without regard for the interests of the ...
The links below compare the notion of the "neural correlates of Mind" with the filamentous structure of the material universe. Some others have propos...
The book I'm currently reading, about The Anthropic Principle, frequently uses the words "crux" and "crucial". The metaphorical reference is to the po...
Check-out this site : https://www.incrementalcompressionconjecture.com/summary The link is in the PF thread : https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussio...
That's similar to what I call "inter-relationships" Systems Theory : A system can be more than the sum of its parts if it expresses synergy or emergen...
OK. Apparently "dualism" means something different to you. You may be thinking in terms of Body/Soul Dualism, while I'm talking about Property Dualism...
Yes. I suspect that you envision that Fundamental Information in a form similar to Spinoza's Universal Substance, which is singular, but has "multiple...
Actually, Enformationism is dualist in the particular space-time setting, but monist in a holistic infinity-eternity context. It's obvious that the Re...
Is the "Enactivist fashion" a physical event, or meta-physical? How do both "aspects of reality" co-exist in a world where two real things cannot occu...
Yes. I'm obstinate in my belief that Generic Information is, not just "immaterial", but also "meta-physical". Yet I use that term in the Aristotelian ...
Yes. I am one of those obstinate "immaterial minds" disguised as a material body & brain. But that ideal ghostly metaphysical Me only exists as an abs...
What are the intrinsic physical properties of "pure energy" fields? As noted below, they are imaginary abstract models of hypothetical (immaterial) ma...
Do you think that Idealists are uninformed, irrational, or biased? :smile: Naïve realism : In social psychology, naïve realism is the human tendency t...
FreeWill is indeed the crux of the AI debate. And it's obvious to me, that current examples of AI are not free to defy their coding. But, I'm not so s...
Yes. The intuitive understanding of objects is that of naive Realism. And normally, it "bears fruit". But optical Illusions and drug-provoked Hallucin...
I was not familiar with the term "Enactivism", although I think you have referred to it before. To me, it seems to focus on the two-pronged Informativ...
I agree with your first statement. But not with the second. Can you give an example of an Energy "property" that is not known by its secondary "effect...
Certainly, Information has physical effects, but like Energy it has no detectable physical properties (color, size, density). Energy was originally de...
Yes. The physical "correlates" are visible & tangible. But what does the "meaning" look & feel like? Generic Information takes many different forms, s...
Yes. It's understandable that some might define Information in terms of Consciousness. But they are not the same. And the difference makes a differenc...
Claude Shannon narrowed his definition of "Information" down to one specific "practical consequence" : either a communication of Information conveys (...
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