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Why am I not surprised?

Then you should probably read this article.

Correlation. If it makes you feel better, substitute "dependence" for "effects".

Neuronal and mental activities have mutual effects, but are incommensurable because physiological activity is a correlate, not a cause, of mental acti...

Physical: Of, or pertaining to, particles. Mental: Of, or pertaining to, mind.

Artificial sentience and responsiveness are easy to achieve, but artificial self awareness is not. Rochat, Philippe (2003). "Five Levels of Self-Aware...

So, is describing human political economy in ecological terms a category error?

The largest and most complex type of human community is the stratified society, which is composed of nested complex systems (e.g., political, economic...

Thanks for that.

This requires extending the metaphor from ecology to biology to sociology with life and complexity being points in common. Individualism and collectiv...

I agree with these points previously made by others: 1) "Race" is a social, rather than genetic, construct. In any case, it is too narrow a term to be...

Does it stem from religious beliefs, or is it a fact? Human beings are natural organisms which are categorically different from all other natural orga...

It is the result of schema activation. In this case, context schemata. Nishida, H. (1999). Cultural Schema Theory: In W.B. Gudykunst (Ed.), Theorizing...

That is essentially my current view, crystallised after reading Luciano Floridi's, Information: A Very Short Introduction (2010) and this discussion o...

The notion of particular forms coincides with that of empirical data. For me, the discussion on the Platonic/Aristotelian forms has been essential in ...

Which ethical system(s) apply to finance, business, and politics?

Nice joint effort.

Snap! Modifying Floridi, I have: Dedomena (Pure Data) is that which is inferred from (contingent upon) physical experience (i.e., Universals), or requ...

I'll take that as a "no".

During the course of a 35 year long career in consulting engineering in four different countries, I've never met an engineer, technologist, or technic...

I agree. While it is true that artists tend to be creative, and engineers tend to be methodical, the best engineers are often forced to be creative wh...

Per Luciano Floridi, I don't see information as a distinction which makes a difference. That describes data. I describe data (in terms which currently...

It may be possible at some point in the future to establish causation between levels of abstraction, but third person observation/measurement of subje...

Sure. It would prove that psychology is reducible to biology, wouldn't it?

Feel free to cite research which establishes a causal relationship (not just a correlation) between neurophysiology and human learning.

I'm still waiting for citations of explanations of human learning written strictly in terms of Biology, Chemistry, and Physics. The reason why this is...

Such as immaterial explanations? I would be willing to consider such an explanation if you have one to offer (or refer to).

And the success of philosophy is found in exposing this intuition as nonsense. As for assumptions, I'm sure every scientist knows what they say about ...

Thanks, but let me know when you've found an explanation of human learning in strictly biological terms which starts (for example) with a desire to le...

As far as I know, the only level of abstraction which attempts to explain human learning (e.g., how to play a violin) is cognitive psychology. If mate...

And so?

Thanks for the partial answer to one of my questions, but I received much more semantic information from the answers you didn't provide.

Cheers. In other words, information is a lack of uniformity per Donald MacCrimmon MacKay and Gregory Bateson. Is information physical (meaningless), s...

Obviously, semiosis (in its various forms) doesn't preclude physicalism or idealism. Also, I am familiar with your version of semiosis, but what meani...

The human mind is immaterial and united with a material human body, comprising a psychophysical unity. So, I don't agree with Brennan that, "To unders...

According to Bennett & Hacker (Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience 12, 24): 1) "Aristotle ascribed to each living organism a psuche (soul). The ...

Great topic for another thread.

Can't live with them, can't live without them. I do despair of pointless word games.

Meaning is produced by categorisation (which presupposes conceptualisation), or it is assigned by interpretation (which presupposes a non-verbal and/o...

I agree. Also, the relationship between individual, environment, and group forms the basis of a continuous, circular, process of communication which p...

I agree. It is through the operation of empathy that ethical knowledge is acquired, and through the operation of conscience that moral conduct is main...

These are absurd statements for anyone who has even casually observed the behaviour of wolf packs, wildebeest herds, starling flocks, etc., or noticed...

I edited my comment after your reply.

After reading Edward O. Wilson's, On Human Nature, I adopted this definition of human nature: human genetic predispositions. These predispositions pro...

Moods and emotions are mental conditions produced by affect (a mind-body response to sensory stimulation and/or interoception). So, I don't have a pro...

Herein lies the essential difference in our positions on "meaning". I do not conceive of information as semantic only, but also physical. Thanks very ...

Thanks for the explanation. I am in general agreement.

Cheers!

A definition of information would be useful.

It makes sense to me that causality should be linked to notions of data and/or information origin and/or history. How would you include it in a defini...