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That's great. Thanks very much.

Thanks for answering my second question.

Is human gene data an example of particular form (i.e., the first actuality of an individual human being)? According to Hoffmeyer & Emmeche, it is ina...

This coincides with my current conception of human consciousness (mass noun) as mind-body conditions which entail variations in awareness (a perceptiv...

Surely this is the lesson of Galileo's confrontation with the Church: in the empirical domain, explanations derived from verifiable empirical data (pa...

Nice summary. Clear, coherent, concise, and imbued with profound understanding, in short; very well written. Also, I am in general agreement with the ...

Fair enough. Thanks for your clarification. It should come as no surprise that I can't buy into it.

Nothing I have read so far warrants throwing Platonism out with Dualism. To clarify, on your view: 1) Forms (both General and Particular) are not phys...

Mind-body interactions are a matter of empirical fact, not metaphysics.

Right. My point is that mind-body dualism should be based on a scientific, not religious (or theological), argument; and that it would be proven to be...

Yes, monism precludes the possibility of separate realms, but not the possibility of different realms (or domains). For example, temperament (those as...

Absolutely. Monism doesn't preclude the possibility of a spiritual realm.

Thanks very much for the link and further explanations. Hopefully you are committing your insights to writing, and I look forward to reading your exch...

I very much like Gerson's notion of the incommensurability of form and matter, but I find your use of the term "representation" to be equivocal, and y...

Hence, neuroplasticity? How so? Where can I read more about this idea, or related ideas?

If so, mental would be a type of physical (just as inorganic and organic). I don't have a problem with that in principle. But can science demonstrate ...

It would appear the OP's agenda is not so much about "the spirit of inquiry and learning" as it is "the spirit of selling" books and consulting servic...

How would you compare this to Barrett's Theory of Constructed Emotion (i.e., emotions are a physical/mental construction of interoception, concepts, a...

Very interesting. A cognitive psychology based on memory? Could very well be do-able. Cheers.

Does this mean that the same mechanism which caused life to emerge from non-life (how did it actually happen?) also caused mind to emerge from life? I...

The linked article states: 1) "Damasio’s essential insight is that feelings are “mental experiences of body states,” which arise as the brain interpre...

Yeah, well, that's what I figured: no empirical research to support the claim, just theory.

Please cite such evidence. Also, doesn't this statement contradict your dualist position? Beyond occupying different levels of abstraction, what other...

While I'm not opposed in principle to the notion that mind "is an emergent physical state", I'm not aware of any research which comes to this conclusi...

I think with regard to: Existence of Mind 1) Inductive evidence in the form of physiological correlates, and criterial evidence in the form of observe...

Awareness ( a perceptive, sensitive, and cognisant condition) and self identification (the recognition of one's self as distinct from the environment ...

I understand instinct to be a natural or innate impulse, inclination, or tendency, not acquired through learning, nor contingent upon volition. In mod...

From Weil, Simone. (1952). The Need For Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind. Routledge & Kegan Paul. London: 1) "The fulfilment ...

Good questions, and relevant to the OP, because they address communication in the context of an internet forum. The biggest difference between digital...

If you want to talk about deception at the level of language games, that could be interesting and instructive. But foundational to that is deception a...

Fact is: nobody is truly (or genuinely) here. Hello! It's an internet forum; where usually the only thing you learn from other members is: 1) Who they...

How civil of you (that's what anonymity does). Would your reply have been different if a face-to-face encounter between us was a real possibility? To ...

How sad. It's just an internet forum (i.e., an anonymous group of people playing all sorts of different games for all sorts of different reasons). Occ...

For human beings, morality has subjective and intersubjective aspects. It cannot have an objective aspect, except when talking about a morality common...

Reactions to intersubjective mental representations and social context?

Science and Philosophy can be complementary endeavours. Scientific conclusions which are not subjected to logical investigation can be just as false a...

I think he may be referring to the development of culture (the collective mindset and consequent products of a social group) through communication.

The Augustinian and Calvinist concept of total depravity (congenial to Luther's "The Bondage of the Will") denies free will, but doesn't preclude the ...

I'm certainly open to the possibility of defining life in terms of self. Perhaps you could elaborate somewhat on your conception of self and/or provid...

As above.

Starting with a definition of human life, I would find it difficult to extrapolate a definition of plant life and natural life using the term "awarene...

Not likely. That would defeat the purpose of ambiguity. Thanks for proving my point.

Please provide a one or two sentence definition for each of the following terms as used in your post: 1) Matter 2) Symbol 3) Encode 4) Genetic Memory ...

Breath-taking equivocation. Makes for good fiction.

We've been through this before in the "What is life?" thread. Life: The condition extending from cell division to death, characterised by the ability ...

With reference to the causes of physical (inorganic and organic) and mental processes within a data-communication-information ontology, does the follo...

So, a problem is dynamic if it has more than one solution? Engineering problems usually have multiple, if not many, solutions ranging from satisfactor...

No surprise there. Only if action is a possibility (i.e., there are no goals in death).

From the introduction: "The Master and his Emissary, 'the book that informs the following discussion, is about the profound significance of the fact t...

I've noticed, and cheers.