Sure, all that. @"apokrisis" claims that hierarchies are inevitable. @"fishfry", @"JerseyFlight" and I don't agree. Not all complex systems are hierar...
Sure. Ignoring my explanation and repeating your misguided argument does not make for interesting conversation. So I will just refer you back to @"Sra...
Sure. I've oft argued the very same point. Such things are shown, not said; they are found in what we do, not in what we preach. But this essence stuf...
I'm certainly not sure your quantum Hegelianism is entirely as scientific as you would have us believe. 'Twas ever the province of the Dialectic to te...
Ah, am I? Doubtless. However the phrase "global constraints imposed on local degrees of freedom" seems to be somewhat localised to your posts, so we m...
Well, no; as I said, a hierarchy is characterised by one element that is superior to every other element. Superior is not an ideal word here - perhaps...
One might think so, but see The Evolution of Learning: An Experiment in Genetic Connectionism, for example. I'd be disincline to call differential wei...
pigmentation of a porphyry olive shell lichen growth zebra and giraffe coat patterns hexagonal Bénard convection cells spiral patterns produced by the...
The salient feature of a hierarchy is that one element is superior to every other element; but there are complex and self-organising structures in whi...
I don't see that this is anything more than a restatement of ?x ? ~?~x. We only ever needed one quantifier. The other is just convenient. Same for mod...
Two observations. First, the salient feature of a hierarchy is that one element is superior to every other element; but there are complex and self-org...
Consider the differences between classical chess and Crazy chess, of 960, or antichess... These are variants in which the rules are explicitly, purpos...
putting the appropriate space in phone numbers is worse. We came in with the notion in the OP that one misused a word by not using it in accord with i...
Long ago I wrote some code to take any number up to eight digits and parse it in text - to take 345,114 and write three hundred and forty-five thousan...
There's something quite mad going on here. Are there folk who genuinely do not know the difference between a dream and being awake? Of course not. Do ...
@"Srap Tasmaner", @"Olivier5", your focus has been on explicit teaching. What about learning? Might a child watch a hundred games, wordlessly, then pl...
We're fuck'd then. I find myself increasingly incline towards misanthropy. It's the form of Humanism that realises that all we have is each other, the...
There seem to be quite a few undead threads stalking the forum, presumably looking for brains to devour. They are reanimated, perhaps, by incantations...
I'm a dictionary reader, too. What one finds, on looking up a word, is more words. There's a certain obvious circularity in this process. If the meani...
and, Well, (p & ~p) ?q A contradiction implies anything. Indeed, it implies everything. But if you wish to work from contradictions, go right ahead. I...
One must take care here, not to think both of concepts as giving the meaning of a word, and of concepts as some sort of mental furniture - items insid...
You are forcing language to fit your theoretical preconception of what it must be like, rather than sitting back and looking at what we do with it. Bu...
Coherence is found in what we say, not in how things are. Things just are the way they are. If what we say about them is inconsistent, then we've said...
He talks about this at around 20:20. Did you notice? His response is to ask how you know that "chair" is being misused. If you can say all that you kn...
Sure. It's just that your argument is a bit hard to follow. Could it be parsed in the language of possible worlds? That seems to me to be a neat way t...
If I wasn't interested I would not post. Indeed, the topics supposedly addressed by religion are the most important of all. My objection is to religio...
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