He was not discussing how the information propagates. Just that "two's an interaction, three's an observation". :joke: If you are asking about a fluid...
Good point!. I haven't ever come across a philosophical argument to conclude that Logic is physical. Of course, logical thinking is always "correlated...
It's true that Mind and Matter are merely different aspects of one reality, just as heads & tails are different aspects (views) of a single coin. But,...
I beg to differ with your over-simplified religion-versus-science characterization of this perennial Mind-Matter "debate". For those who are not inter...
You seem to have strong opinions about a thesis you know only from a few forum posts. Obviously, you still don't understand what my thesis is really p...
Perhaps. But I was replying to Tim's implication that "balance" must be static. It's true that perfect balance would be "static" and frozen due to the...
That's why the Yin/Yang concept describes a dynamic balance. Even the symbol looks like it's whirling around. The complementary oppositions of our uni...
The variables I referred to are "powerless, ignorant, and bad" and "all-powerful, all-knowing, all-good". These attributed qualities exist only in the...
What do you think my "anachronistic, neo/faux-Aristotlean interpretation" is all about? Please, be constructive. Name-calling, and expressions of disg...
This is very similar to my own BothAnd worldview, in which all parts of the world have balancing counterparts. Hence logically & necessarily, Dualism ...
OK. But, I must object to your interpretation of Rovelli's interpretation of Aristotle. It's true that Aristotelian physics and metaphysics were rejec...
You've made it clear that, for you, Metaphysics is anti-scientific. But, how did you arrive at the conclusion that Aristotle's "First Principles" is a...
I feel the need to clarify that, in our discussions, I am not arguing in favor of Pseudoscience or against Science. Instead, I'm trying to make 21st c...
By now, you may have noticed that I am an equal-opportunity Skeptic. I can doubt the confident positive assertions of both Theists and Atheists. I was...
FWIW, I consider myself to be a "secular freethinker". but I do have epistemic, ontological, and metaphysical "concern" for unorthodox truth claims. M...
For black & white thinkers, bolstered by the feeling of certainty, "truth-values are what they are", and anything else is false-values and illusions. ...
The point of my previous post was that "truth values" are ultimately evaluated in terms of emotions and feelings, or the lack thereof. The technical d...
If you will read the post slowly, you might catch the point of putting "problem" in quotes. Here's a hint : every generation has faced the same genera...
Back in the hippie sixties, the prophecy of a new awakening was called the Age of Aquarius : a new astrological cycle of peace & love. Thus began a lo...
That's why I think quantitative IIT is a step in the right direction for reductive Science, but still can't account for the holistic aspects of the wo...
I suspect that most of the Atheists on this forum do have logical reasons for being skeptical of other people's belief in invisible deities. Their log...
"Communication" was my term, not Rovelli's. And it was used deliberately, even though Rovelli specifically excludes the definition of "Information" th...
The laws & constants of our world do indeed seem to be "arbitrary" to us, because they boil-down to a sequence of numbers that have no meaning for us ...
Rovelli uses Planck's Proportionality Constant ( ? ) as a symbol of quantum level "communication" in the form of Information or Energy. The constant d...
The logic of un-belief may be based on the old adage : "seeing is believing". Anything that I can't see, or otherwise verify for myself, is subjective...
FWIW, here's my personal definition of holistic BEING, as contrasted with any particular being. Is that close to your understanding? Eternal BEING loo...
I think your intuition has some validity, But, in what sense could "two integers collide"? In order to literally bump into each other, mathematical va...
Yes. That too. IIT may be useful for the current application of computers in the search for hidden signs of consciousness in people that outwardly app...
All those guys had different definitions of the apex (God), but most took the existence of pyramidal Natural Hierarchy for granted. The notion of a no...
IIT seems to be intended as a step toward computerizing Consciousness. If you can quantify mental qualities, then you can conceivably construct a Star...
Nothing you said "got to me", and nothing "triggered my anger". To the contrary, I got the impression that you were offended by my reference to the "G...
Actually, as I noted in my last reply to Fishfry, the nonperson (g/G) is a metaphor that philosophers have used for millennia in reference to holistic...
Some mathematicians & physicists, have advocated the "new science" of Cellular Automata, as a way to go beyond Analytic and Algorithmic methods in the...
That's why we don't really have much to talk about. I responded to your original post, because it seemed to have something to do with the OP. But sinc...
The terminology I'm using here comes from my personal worldview, as expressed in the Enformationism thesis, in which everything in this world is one f...
Yes. But I prefer the term "Information", because it exists in two basic forms in the real world. The original meaning of the term, referred to meanin...
That's the crux of the Black Hole Information paradox. Everything that exists in reality is ultimately a form of quantum information, sometimes called...
The technical mathematical calculations of IIT are way over my head. But, I think 's wording of the relationship -- seeming to identify Consciousness ...
The reference was not to bio-chemical DNA, but to the non-physical "instructions" encoded in the chemical structure. The distinction is between the "c...
I suspect that Descarte's duality was a philosophical compromise to allow Materialist Science to do its thing, without stepping on the toes of Spiritu...
Yes. According the the Big Bang theory, All Energy, Matter, Intelligence, and Consciousness in the universe came from the same source, called "The Sin...
Your question describes universal "Intelligence" as-if it is something "out there in Nature", like Energy, except that, instead of converting Cold to ...
What did you interpret as an ad hominem? Is "missed the distinction" a personal attack? I'll have to be more careful in stating any disagreement, to a...
Apparently, you missed the distinction between a random accidental event as the beginning of our world, and a programmed intentional act of creation. ...
I often refer to Spinoza's theory of Universal Substance as a forerunner of my own Enformationism thesis. But, I also note that Spinoza lived long bef...
Before the Big Bang theory became accepted by physicists and cosmologists -- including Einstein -- their unproven assumption was that the physical wor...
That is a typical short-sighted Materialist response to any notion of Transcendence. It assumes that the Programmer is a player in his own program, an...
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