Galuchat

The only people qualified to help you with your problem(s) are those who keep you locked in your room. I know, I know: you are the Doctor, not the one...

"Feeling" is an awful word because it is used in so many different ways. I have been working on an informal domain ontology of the human mind for the ...

I think that anything which is expressed, is first thought, which says nothing of the ease or difficulty of expression (either verbal or non-verbal). ...

Not at all. I look forward to reading more from you, as my current interests also lie in the Social Sciences.

Thanks for your clarifications.

So, Sociology reduces to Psychology, then Biology, then Chemistry, then Physics? This conflates interpretation and fact, whereas; interpretation is an...

Are there natural kinds, or are classifications merely cultural and/or linguistic conventions? And if there are natural kinds, does that imply artific...

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How would you modify my classification to accommodate macrosociology (assuming that it already accommodates microsociology)? Is this the Professor Elw...

Probably down to user error (yours and/or mine). How is a classification of phenomena useful to your project?

I read it, and then it disappeared.

The classification of phenomena affected the development (scope) of the Social Sciences in general, and Sociology in particular, during Case's career....

Common observation would be my guess. But in sociological terms, Auguste Comte's five great groups of phenomena (astronomy, physics, chemistry, biolog...

We very much disagree. You say there is information exchange; I say, there is not. My wording is consistent with Shannon & Weaver's Mathematical Theor...

I equate understanding with decoding a message, which entails information. In either case (whether one understands and rejects, or doesn't understand,...

In my opinion, if someone has been: 1) Unreasonable (illogical), 2) Informed of this, and 3) Persistently unreasonable (illogical), Then, they are not...

No, but it is possible that generally reasonable people may adhere to a belief. Argument is a waste of time when confronted with belief.

I find Aristotle's concepts of actuality (objects and events) and potentiality (possibility and capability) provide a suitable foundation for construc...

Actualities are space-time extensions. Space is related to objects, and time is related to events. This is a part-whole hierarchy. Also, causality req...

Not at all difficult. These are products of culture, which is the collective mindset of a social group; products which may be physical (e.g., spoken o...

I like neutral monism because it is consistent with Aristotle's notion of substance (hylomorphism), which I find useful to retain for other reasons. F...

I agree. And fundamentally, they are types of empirical data.

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So a datum (asymmetry or symmetry) is epistemically and ontically foundational?

Data being asymmetries, are you referring to anything other than symmetry?

Of course it is not possible that information can be understood (except in a metaphorical sense) without reference to a knowing subject. In the case o...

Or rather, as I suspect you were (i.e., considering the message formally), as follows: However, thanks for your clarification. From that, it appears w...

What "information" presupposes depends on how it is defined. Shannon defined information as communicated code (which can apply to physical, biological...

Aristotle's process of information can be equated with Shannon's process of communication, and both can describe physical, biological, and semantic pr...

We agree that DNA is a code, but it doesn't transmit biological (or any other kind of) information during gene expression. According to Hoffmeyer & Em...

So, it would seem that @"javra"'s perfect objectivity (impartiality) is, ironically, a form of cultural (collectivist versus individualist) bias. Is t...

Do different species interact on a cultural level? If culture is the collective mindset and consequent products of a social group (including social or...

If Science is empirical investigation which provides a reliable explanation, and Philosophy is logical investigation which provides a coherent concept...

Engineering design is an intellectual apparatus which captures a project brief and existing data, and produces a building, or infrastructure. Whereas,...

The nature of consciousness varies across animals, both in terms of sensitivity and awareness (perception and/or cognisance), in that: 1) Lower animal...

Self is not an actuality which is located: 1) Within a body, or body part (e.g., a head, or brain). 2) Within a mind, producing behaviour. Self is: 1)...

I prefer to define intention as: reference to an object (physical or mental actuality) by mental representation in order to describe it and/or cause i...

Mathematics and language are types of mental code (transformed, translated, or converted mental data) consisting of a mental vocabulary (symbol set) a...

I agree, but would suggest that Manfred Max-Neef's Fundamental Human Needs has superseded Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Max-Neef, Manfred A. wi...

Your contractualism may serve as an "ethical" basis for a liberal agenda, but as a foundation for human morality, it doesn't (and cannot) exist. My ob...

Where is this "modern-day morality", that I may examine its contents and ascertain which parts of extant moral codes and value systems have been retai...

Anthropologist Donald E. Brown has determined that morality is a human universal (Human Universals, 1991), cf. Human Universals, Human Nature, Human C...

So, the question becomes: in what situations is it (im)moral to share or withhold information? Given that similarities obtain between the value system...

The Koine Greek word rendered "love" here is agape (self-sacrifice), not philos (affection) or eros (romantic/sexual desire). Using a concordance and/...

From Anthropology: Homo habilis (-2,000,000 years): Brain Capacity = 600-800 cc Unable to encode speech. Homo erectus (-1,500,000 years): Brain Capaci...

I am in general agreement with this explanation, except for the following two points: 1) If the word phrase "sensory representation" and word "represe...

I agree, and well said. Is it possible to arrive at a general definition of "person" given the natural-legal distinction?

Also: 1) If I have a notion of my identity, and others have a notion of my identity, does my actual identity consist only of the relevant facts which ...

I agree. And yet, in hierarchical social groups, a legal domain exists, and social role (a part of social identity) is often linked with legal status....

Does a person's identity change when they suffer from a brain disease (e.g., dementia) or a mental illness (e.g., dissociative identity disorder)?