It might also be that we can create states that are sensitive to hidden states outside of our Markov blanket! So there might not just be "one blanket"...
I think this is about right, but I think it misses an elegant bit about the argument. We don't need to know precisely how conceptual schemes work so l...
Not( Paper => (C) ) out of garbled logic is The paper doesn't impact the question: Are there hidden states which we don't access through the sensorium...
I do think we agree on most things here. I think we have differences in intuition on the relevance of structure on the hidden causal states; I think w...
Broadly "biology" would have something to do with it, probably. Gender nonconformity in children is a thing. It spans cultures and epochs. There are p...
All societies of humans have humans with sex characteristics in them. This is because humans obviously have human sex characteristics. This makes sex ...
I really like the value form bit. Chapter 2: Exchange Preparatory note: Chapter 1 dealt with commodities and how they have value. They have value beca...
Hume would probably doubt he'd been teleported to the future. Zeno would wonder how he got here when he'd have to go through some of the past first. S...
Gonna get back to this. Chapter 1: Summary. (1) Commodities are things that have a use value ( a use ) and an exchange value ( they're worth something...
That it seems human at all sounds tragic to me. That people need to turn to it to find support is even worse. But: It's still an algorithm. Being able...
It doesn't seem very human unfortunately, nor particularly therapeutic. It's quite good at providing warm sounding stock responses for short statement...
What's a conceptual scheme in the paper? What distinctive properties are relevant to the paper? So he cares about, given two conceptual schemes C and ...
I think so? I'm imagining f as causal indicators under some model. Let's say that we have, like in one of Friston's talks (the one you linked me?), a ...
This would probably derail us, but I can't help but indulge. As if any approach to conceptualising anything was not a 'theoretic attitude'. Assuming y...
OK, rephrase it: "How do we account for the presence of a modelling process that samples our environment and our actions based on causal stuff that's ...
This comment is discussing box 1 and 2 in the linked paper. Aye, I agree with this! It even looks like something of a category error in terms of the i...
It's like y = mx + c + e, the independent variable x doesn't have a model. It's playing the part of data in the model. Like when an error is observed ...
I mean it might be? To my mind there are two types of comparisons. Model output comparisons, like predictions or parameter estimates to other predicti...
I did write a little bit about what assuming the boundary of the coral is a fractal would entail, but decided it wasn't relevant. The fractal dimensio...
There are lots of ways coral size could be measured. We fixed a concept for what it means to measure the perimeter of the coral; a photograph of it fr...
I wanna throw this into the arena because it looks like a good test case @"creativesoul" @"Isaac" @"Terrapin Station". Say you measure the perimeter o...
(1) "People without a stable family environment in their childhood generally do worse in their later lives (as measured in income)" is exactly the sam...
In terms of the long effort post vs point counterpoint format in arguments, especially on here: One advantage of long form responses over point by poi...
Dude. a construct in that sense isn't just a mental thing. It's a way of splitting up a phenomenon into components that have measurable aspects. I lin...
Atheism precludes any good approach to ethics because of an imminent, but unspecified in timing and nature, debt based economic crisis. And the only w...
I love that we have ethical standards for applying surgical procedures to children's genitals within some ethical systems, and deciding whether people...
Being from a place isn't a matter of biology is it. It's a matter of geography and culture. And Asia is huge. There's a lot of cultural variation in i...
So the metaphysics of possibility is some other thing. The different modal logics specify certain conditions on the accessibility relation or certain ...
Let's take a moment to reflect on what's gone on the the thread. There used to be an argument about new pronouns and free speech and stuff. Now there'...
It is improbable for it to change a lot, but not improbable that racial disparities in US poverty rates would decrease (rather than stay constant) if ...
Right. What's sex? Sexes are summaries of presence/absence of sexual characteristics. The sexes male and female correspond to typical configurations o...
Was that the claim? No. Was the claim "Blacks are worse off now than they were in 1964 in the US"? No. Let's grant your claim that all policies are co...
I brought up hermaphrodites. You didn't say anything about hermaphrodites, and they were not part of your argument. To my understanding, you were sugg...
That's interesting. The analytic tradition studying knowledge (at least from what I've read) usually looks at how statements are justified and how we ...
Let's look at the post in question, and see if it supports the idea that there's no systemic injustice now. "Do not have" - we don't have equality of ...
These are the racial demographics and localisations in Detroit. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/Racial_Divide_Detroit_MI.png (Red ...
You're making it appear that the grouping mechanism is just conceptual, like it occurs in ideas and expectations alone. You already know it doesn't, s...
Class and race are conceptually independent - they don't logically imply each other. You can be a black president or white trailer trash. But they're ...
The people who are disenfranchised or adversely effected as a demographic aren't, like, demanding stuff because they're black or trans or whatever. Th...
I don't think that's true. The value of framing things systemically is precisely to highlight that such issues should also be addressed through polici...
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