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Yes. This is roughly my intent. With types of data, communication, and information corresponding to types of ideas (ideals and abstractions) and objec...

Thanks for your input. My focus is the domain of cognitive psychology which partly consists of mental functions (i.e., psychosemiosis with semantic, s...

Thanks for your elaboration. My own elaboration: given that communication is the process of encoding, transmitting, conveying, receiving, and decoding...

So, would it be your position that communication is the process of encoding, transmitting, conveying, receiving, and decoding, only semantic data (for...

And yet, to say that homoeostasis, gene expression, neural stimulation, endocrine signalling, and immunomodulation are types of biocommunication, does...

This is an equivocation of "mind". It is also equivocation to mention "the world of Platonic form", and then use "reality" to primarily refer to exist...

Selfishness is concern only for self interests, and egoism is its morality. Only neural atypical human beings (e.g., psychopaths and high level narcis...

I have no problem with the notion of overarching concepts, viewing "data", "communication" and "information" to be such, applying to all types of obje...

Then, how do rocks reproduce themselves? By artificial population, I mean a population of artificial objects (e.g., French provincial tables).

Then: 1) Does natural selection also happen to populations of natural inorganic objects? 2) Is artificial selection something that happens to artifici...

I agree. Language is code as tool because it has functions. Don't organisms design themselves by engaging in natural selection?

I agree that language and technology evolve, and that a distinction between natural and artificial selection makes sense, understanding that natural s...

Photoelasticity provides a means of visualising stress (internal force) resulting from the application of a load (external force) to a body in static ...

The beams represented by shear and moment diagrams are actual bodies supporting actual loads (sustaining forces) in static equillibrium, hence; the ti...

Thanks for the link. The cited research is fascinating, but provides evidence of correlation between mental activity and neurophysiology, not of causa...

I'll consider that to be hypothetical fantasy until you cite credible research.

Decisions regarding the use of military equipment are made by government officials and/or heads of state, not by engineering designers. Has anyone bee...

It's the use of military equipment, not its design, which has ethical implications. In other words, military equipment may be used for moral or immora...

That would appear to be the case. Thanks for the gene expression example. Mention of developmental factors brought gene switching to mind. Since I'm c...

Perhaps you could clarify/answer the symbol grounding problem Floridi raises (i.e., "how data can come to have an assigned meaning and function in a s...

This agrees with: 1) Lower levels of description always underdetermine higher levels. Newell, A. (1990). Unified Theories of Cognition. Cambridge, MA:...

If communication is the process of transmitting, conveying, receiving, decoding, creating, and encoding data/information, does it necessarily have any...

It's basic neuroscience.

The fact of neuroplasticity provides sufficient reason to reject epiphenomenalism.

Language comprehension. The crow's behaviour provides criterial evidence of understanding (a mental faculty), not of verbal modelling. All about dissi...

I wrote, "...it is unlikely that animals have beliefs." Here

Yes. No, it is something human beings do.

I agree that belief is a propositional attitude, specifically; an attitude which accepts a proposition as true with insufficient evidence (i.e., havin...

I didn't propose a statement, I quoted Einstein. And in that quote, he is referring to the faculty of imagination, not reason, in arriving at (A).

Yes. In Einstein's epistemology..."the axiomatic structure (A) of a theory is built psychologically on the experiences (E) of the world of perceptions...

Your comments indicate a physicalist position. Given that, how does your notion of mind-body interaction differ from epiphenomenalism? As an aside, th...

Can you cite scientific research which establishes epiphenomenalism as fact? If not, all you have is belief.

If brain anatomy has been injured, or brain physiology is not functioning normally, mind condition and/or function will be abnormal, or lost. That is ...

Good point. Consciousness is a mind-body function. For this hypothetical to have a basis: 1) Consciousness also has to be a function of something othe...

According to the linked article: Challenging Chomsky and his Challengers: Brian Boyd Interviews Daniel Dor So, the (doubly circular) argument goes: ve...

Exactly. At the beginning of Wesleyan University's MOOC on Social Psychology, I asked for a conceptual framework of the field, and was met with silenc...

This is called good judgement, not mental illness.

Reading your OP, I have criterial evidence that your mind exists, but I do not have empirical evidence that it exists. So, does your mind exist?

It's important to recognise a distinction between nonverbal communication using vocalisations (i.e., signals) and verbal communication using language....

To state in my own words what has already been stated by others: Cogitation (thinking) is controlled problem-solving, decision-making, and planning us...

The Dor & Jablonka paper concludes: "We started out by characterizing language as a transparent mapping-system, dedicated to the expression of a const...

You made the claim; the burden of proof is on you.

I'm still waiting for a citation. It's relevant to the OP to determine whether this particular claim is based on empirical evidence or not (i.e., whet...

Apparently so.

Do you always write pure rubbish, or can you cite scientific research which establishes this fact? How were you made aware that the hard problem had b...

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Upon limited reflection, I am inclined to think of the human mind as more closely resembling an analog (i.e., continuously recording), as opposed to b...

Killer (i.e., military) robots could actually be safer than human military personnel if programmed to protect the life (viability) of non-combatant hu...

Include a Right Social Action-Behaviour program. This would only be possible given: 1) The ability to identify rational alternatives and assign each a...

This quote is why Imagery in Scientific Thought by Arthur I. Miller is on my reading list, and why I think that ideas may be nonverbal or verbal, even...