In the absence of evidence, explanations come from imagination, creativity, and propositional attitude. If it's the concept of noumenal objectivity yo...
In choosing to use a particular definition for a word (and words do have different meanings, depending on context), I prefer to use a definition which...
Intersubjective: of, or pertaining to, the common interpretation of context which presupposes communication between individuals. Intersubjectivity is ...
This may be true as far as the inferences of human science (an intersubjective enterprise) are concerned, but it says nothing regarding the cause of l...
Jakob von Uexkull's Umwelt refers to an individual's model of reality, which is constructed by species-specific sentience and awareness. For human bei...
Thanks very much for your follow-up thoughts. I think if I leave the definitions as they now stand, the phrase "through semiosis" (i.e., information p...
In view of the above, it seems prudent that I elaborate upon my definitions of life to include (N.B. the following examples of definition, not argumen...
That's what comes from reading too much Pattee, and not enough Sebeok. It's disingenuous to tout pansemiosis while ignoring psychosemiosis and dispara...
Can you give me a general definition of "mind" which is consistent with "how the physical world is itself a mind" and the human mind? Presumably, this...
A definition of mind is required when it becomes necessary to differentiate between types of life. And different types of life have different types of...
It is accepting formal and final cause as real at the cosmological level. Even if that is just the general desire for entropification served by the fo...
"If we now want to answer scientific/metaphysical strength questions about natural kinds or essences - talk about the facts of the thing-in-itself, wi...
What is life? Life is different for each species, but generally, it is the condition extending from cell division to death, characterised by the abili...
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