T_Clark

Those are all just conceptual overlays humans have placed over the world. At bottom, there is only the world doing it's thing. The rest is just our tr...

Except I do think biological processes are different in kind from physical or chemical processes in the same sense that mental processes are different...

I have no problem agreeing with this. I agree that it makes sense to recognize that living matter is fundamentally different from non-living matter. I...

Well, not really. It grew up from within itself in accordance with it's nature and then we called the pattern of that growth "laws." I don't think thi...

I don't see any reason to believe this is true. What makes you think it is? I don't understand. How is this different in my way of seeing things verse...

The universe wasn't constructed, it grew up from itself, from within. That's what reductionism misses.

You and I have been in similar discussions before and I've tried to make my attitude towards reductionism clear. See my previous post to @"Patterner".

If you are taking on the cheese beat, I'll keep on the lookout for interesting stories on Velveeta.

I'm still here because we've moved away from talking about consciousness and toward the nature of the hierarchy of scales, which I am really intereste...

Aren't we getting into Aristotelian causes? A building design could be considered a building without materials. A city plan could be considered a city...

Yes, I think I understand your position and it seems like you understand mine. And there we are.

Perhaps then you have found a new calling. My portfolio covers strictly truck- or at least transportation-related catastrophes.

No, biology can not be reduced to chemistry. That's not at all inconsistent with the argument I'm making. Now I really am done.

No, not at all. As I said to @"Patterner" and @"Quixodian", chemical processes manifest as biological processes, they are not the same thing.

I do recognize the difference in kind between neurological processes and mental experiences. I just don't think it matters. I don't think neurological...

No more than biological processes are identical to chemical processes.

It is the essence of a hierarchical view of scale that processes at one level must be completely consistent with the rules of all lower levels. Biolog...

Yes, I saw that but decided not to post. I stick to truck-related catastrophes.

In case you haven't been paying attention, I have been documenting an alarming series of "accidents" over the past year. Here are links to my previous...

I do think you're making too big a deal about this. I've read some of your comments on people's work. I was impressed by how thoughtful and generous t...

I recognize the distinction between mental and physical events and processes in the same sense that I recognize the distinction between chemical and b...

First off, I appreciate the clear, direct response. I've been in a lot of discussions about consciousness and it always comes down to this. I keep tel...

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As often is the case, you confuse your refusal to engage in discussion with making a coherent argument.

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As I pointed out, the relationship between chemistry and life is analogous to the relationship between neurology and mind. Are you saying there is a h...

For what it's worth, all the wild horses in the western hemisphere are feral, i.e. they are the descendants of domesticated horses that escaped. There...

I was making an analogy. Higher levels of organization, e.g. mental processes and life processes, are a mixture of higher level processes and processe...

How is that different from ADP chemically reacting (chemical process) to create ATP, which releases energy (chemical process) to power the reactions (...

Given the way things are going, I'm pretty sure those are AI generated chicken legs.

Ilestinephay.

I write all my poetry in pig Latin. Iay inkthey Iay illway evernay eesay aay oempay asay ovelyay asay aay reetay. Speaking of which, here's all of "Tr...

I remember the same things from school, but it hasn't been a problem since then. Maybe it's because since school I've only ever had to write about thi...

I agree. I am a perfectionist with my writing, but at the end, not the beginning. I tend to let things flow any old which way they want and then fix t...

I like this. I looked up Peter Zapffe. His ideas are interesting. I'll take a look.

I never have writer's block when I'm writing non-fiction, e.g. what I write here on the forum or the reports I used to write as an engineer. Poetry is...

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Yes, of course. I do think there is a scientific method, although it certainly isn't the simplistic one people often identify - hypothesis, experiment...

There certainly are a lot of never domesticated equines out there. Apparently Zebras, for example, are very difficult to domesticate.

Contemplation, worded thought, internal dialogue, modified and justified consciously, abstract thinking - we're using different words, is it clear we ...

American horses celebrate their Kazakh ancestry. https://i0.wp.com/themindcircle.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/04-horses-apples.jpg

I agree with @"I like sushi", although I guess it depends on what you mean by "contemplation." In my experience, most of my thinking, and just about a...

@"Hanover" I don't want you to jeopardize your anonymity here on the forum, but have you been asked to join the Trump team there in Georgia. Just base...

I used to go to Duke's barber and smoke shop in my home town. $1.00. Then my father discovered a place down the road that gave kids haircuts for $0.50...

So be it. Then let them decide who the other person will be while I'm unconscious.

Just plug it into Chat GPT and ask it to finish for you.

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/download/2705/YGID%20small.png I look forward to your input.

I think you're right, and I don't see that as necessarily a bad thing. As I kvetched earlier, the world's obsession with the US could use some whittli...

I don't think he will be able to delay the trial till after the election. He tried that in the documents case and it didn't work. On the other hand, i...

I think you're showing your anglophone bias. That's really an inverted question mark, which shows that God is Spanish.