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I agree, good book. Standard text in philosophy of science in years past.

From the abstract of the paper: This is very much a question about the ontological status of mathematical laws—whether they are conceptual tools impos...

Tried and failed. The maths was beyond me. I’ve often enjoyed Sir Roger’s talks on other topics. I’ve recently written a Medium essay about his views ...

I’ve learned that the principle is called ‘relevance realization’ or ‘the salience landscape.’ It’s a guiding principle for all organic life. But self...

By way of footnote, there is a sense in which that is true for Aristotelian and Thomist philosophy. It is because the forms or essences of particulars...

Or vice versa.

Possibly. I’m pretty confused about aspects of his theories. The reason I mentioned him was as a foil to the last paragraph of the OP that appeals to ...

A Zen Dialogue with ChatGPT.

Hey I did it https://i.postimg.cc/4xq55xTh/Day-Of-Love.webp :rofl: :lol: :rofl:

One thing for sure, the Master Propogandist has sure as hell put Jan 6 front and centre for the last three weeks of the run up, with his Day of Love s...

You're taking issue with it, saying he's mistaken, so don't be too polite about it. :wink: A lot is resting on 'aspect' there. You could mean panpsych...

I'd sign off on that as in interpretation of Chalmers. Another, from Bernardo Kastrup:

I generally resist posting partisan media here but this one I couldn't pass up. https://youtu.be/Q3CAm9CbQgQ?si=On-Lkk_PD4LiIlvk Responding to a quest...

But to me that requires the existence of the kind of agency that only begins to appear with organic life (by no means only conscious agency.) That is ...

With respect to the Evan Thompson quote, the way I interpret that is in line with phenomenology - it aims to avoid dualistic categorisation by avoidin...

I'll see your Thompson, and raise you one Pattee:

But he still differentiates living from non-living right at the outset. 'The living order is characterized by the emergence of a new kind of structure...

First up, great work reviewing those videos and taking it on. Right - and he says, straight out: He says 'there are properties of the world that go be...

Things that exist as phenomena. And recall, 'phenomena' means 'what appears'. Whereas what I'm calling attention to are what were understood to be 'in...

‘Whereas Barad dilutes the theoretical distinction between mind and matter as well as the distinction between animate and inanimate, the contention he...

I watched a few snippets of the Fox interview. Harris holds her ground as always. Baier had the temerity to play a Trump campaign advertisement during...

There are some posts I know better than to respond to ;-)

Right. I'm still apprehensively optimistic that Harris-Walz will win, but the fact that it's as close as it is, is a source of deep disquiet. He reall...

Quite agree! That's why biosemiotics and information biology is such a big deal.There's a biological theorist called Marcello Barbieri who addresses t...

There's a nice term you encounter in the writings of some of those who advocate for a philosophia perennis, the perennial philosophy. That is, sapient...

Hoffman's theory is that there's no plausible theory that links the physical causes with the experiential feeling. The 'unnecessary complexity' you're...

Quite! The sources I've been reading and listening to of late - these include Bernardo Kastrup, Evan Thompson and John Vervaeke - are open to perspect...

isn't that panpsychism?

There are many, many diverse voices in that 'systems science' and biosemiosis field, and not all of them are beholden to any kind of physicalism. As y...

It's not an error. The point being made in the argument is that the physical description doesn't account for the subjective experience, that it leaves...

Ah, I see. Somewhat similar to the fact that positivism fails according to the very criteria that it sets. Not a co-incidence. One of my lecturers use...

According to Buddhists, in reality, there are not two domains. Only from the perspective of the conventional domain is there considered to be a separa...

What gap?

Trump Escalates Threats to Political Opponents He Deems the ‘Enemy’ Of course, in all of this, he is describing his own actions, but projected on to T...

The Buddhist idea is not at all like that. With respect, I think this gives you a preconceived idea of what it means.

I think mechanistic analogies of organic life and nature are on the wane, not least because of emergence of movements like biosemiosis, previously men...

I've learned a lot about biosemiotics from Apokrisis (including that it exists!) and benefitted a lot from it, although I don't agree with his metaphy...

And you need to be open to hearing your interlocutor, and I don't believe that you've been doing that. Again, that is not the point of David Chalmer's...

What exists is what you can meaningfully encounter. But there are many things we take for granted as real which we can’t encounter and which don’t exi...

Don’t want to go there. I was just trying to think of some ‘edge cases’ where there might be actual metaphysical considerations.

Now I'm completely confused. Good night.

Well, the two are not necessarily linked. I'm sure the directors and architects of Open AI have a pretty good idea of how it works, but predicting wha...

Against better judgement, I will tackle some of these arguments. Firstly, your response begs the question of whether and in what sense physical matter...

I don't think anyone needs to say they're a methodological naturalist. It's basically an assumption, an implicit principle of natural science. For the...

Surely methodological naturalism - the setting aside of purportedly supernatural or occult explanations - was one of the hallmarks of the emergence of...

The 'Copenhagen interpretation' is not a scientific theory per se. It comprises philosophical reflections on what can and can't be said on the implica...

The only point I will add, is that this claim from your first post: Is factually incorrect. Chalmer’s argument is directed at the inadequacy of physic...

Because you could never arrive at an understanding of it through physics and chemistry, which is the analysis of matter and enegy. You do understand t...

Spot on. And further to which, FEMA workers are being threatened by MAGA conspiracy theorists who believe the guv'mint is 'controlling the weather', a...

You can trace the lineage of metaphysical naturalism through the Scholastic tradition in books such as Burtt's 'Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Sci...