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Galuchat

['Member']Joined: April 28, 2017 at 15:43Last active: April 02, 2024 at 11:56None discussions809 comments
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Which religion of human origin condemns all human beings from birth? I suspect that most people have the same mindset as a friend of mine who died two...
April 02, 2024 at 11:34
cf. Plato's Intelligible World (Being), consisting of: 1) First Principle (The Demiurge), having Intellect (Absolute Knowledge). 2) External Personhoo...
April 03, 2022 at 09:28
My current thinking, derived from Plato/Aristotle: 1) Scientific investigation is a function of metacognition (active intellect), which is caused by i...
April 02, 2022 at 08:44
Awareness: factually informed condition; cognizance.
March 19, 2022 at 09:35
In my Egyptian hieroglyph example, I was thinking more of the symbols used rather than the text they composed. But your question is an interesting one...
March 19, 2022 at 09:20
I consider these to be true descriptions of basic ontological distinctions: I) Inorganic A) Physical II) Organic A) Physical 1) Body 2) Population B) ...
March 18, 2022 at 11:04
Nice segue to equivocation and metaphor; the great hope of a new physicalism. Well stated, and I agree.
March 18, 2022 at 09:02
That was a good (articulate) summary.
March 17, 2022 at 08:55
No. Observations and unproven assertions are not explanations. I've concluded that you are more interested in protecting your position, than in: 1) Ac...
March 16, 2022 at 15:49
Further to this: A human author encodes semantic data (thoughts and/or emotions) in their mind into a physical form (linguistic code), such as speech ...
March 16, 2022 at 11:43
Correct. So, please explain sign evaluation in terms of electrochemical impulses.
March 15, 2022 at 18:20
Upon perception and/or intent, by evaluation of a sign.
March 15, 2022 at 17:59
In our minds, semantic information affects behaviour (e.g., modelling and communication).
March 15, 2022 at 17:32
Peirce was an objective idealist, so invoking his name (ad nauseam) in support of any kind of physicalism is misrepresentation. A symbol is a particul...
March 15, 2022 at 09:46
Science may be true or false (just because that's the nature of verbal and mathematical language), whereas; awareness is always true.
March 14, 2022 at 10:11
Inductive evidence in terms of physiological correlates, and criterial evidence in terms of observed behaviour, establish that mind exists, and the re...
March 13, 2022 at 18:59
I think that the: 1) Process of informing, is becoming (particular definition acquisition). 2) Product of informing, is information (particular defini...
March 13, 2022 at 16:38
Correct. To attribute semiosis to anything other than a mind is category error. So, terms like "biosemiosis" are misnomers. And using the word "inform...
March 13, 2022 at 10:41
I don't think information does something in addition to what any physical or mental process does. I think information is the process and/or product of...
March 12, 2022 at 13:18
Fair enough. Being concerned with science fact (as opposed to science fiction), you will no doubt be interested in the comments of these 12 experts fr...
March 29, 2020 at 09:50
Perhaps you could you explain to me how these medical experts (commenting four days ago) have it so wrong?
March 28, 2020 at 23:45
Compelling argument if you're stupid.
March 28, 2020 at 13:55
If you say so.
March 28, 2020 at 12:56
Which is another reason why I'm voting for Gordon Brown, and not you: he's much more subtle.
March 28, 2020 at 12:52
And he's historically wrong. Emergency powers are never rescinded. @"NOS4A2" is correct: you bought it, you own it.
March 28, 2020 at 12:43
More of the same; impressive.
March 28, 2020 at 10:46
Compelling argument if you're an idiot.
March 28, 2020 at 10:41
If you don't know, I'm definitely not voting for you. At least Gordon knows who profits.
March 27, 2020 at 13:24
Who profits? Most of us have been played.
March 27, 2020 at 12:55
Sorry, I'm voting for Gordon Brown. Former UK Prime Minister Calls For Global Government to Fight Coronavirus
March 27, 2020 at 11:07
With such types (i.e., head in the sand, ignorance is bliss, fragile psyche, don't confuse me with the facts, snowflake, conspiracy denier, etc.), it'...
March 27, 2020 at 08:46
Too late; I did that here. Read some of these and try to come up with some intelligent questions.
March 26, 2020 at 16:45
Successful psyop. Legislation granting emergency powers. Currency reset. Most people are slow on the uptake.
March 26, 2020 at 14:43
Right. There is no compelling medical case for taking extraordinary public measures. So, what is the political agenda?
March 26, 2020 at 09:35
This is Theology, not Ethics. The application of the Golden Rule becomes an automatic process, arising from empathy, which begins to develop at 3 year...
March 26, 2020 at 08:26
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nonsense
March 25, 2020 at 12:44
According to The Lost Teachings of Atlantis? Nonsense.
March 25, 2020 at 12:30
If psychopaths love themselves, how do they implement the Golden Rule?
March 25, 2020 at 09:59
"And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'" Matthew 22.39 "Love" translated from Koine Greek agapao(v): to regard the welfare of.
March 24, 2020 at 13:49
What prevents self-haters from treating others as themselves? Consistent with regard to what? Self-esteem, as in: favourable regard of self, self-resp...
March 24, 2020 at 08:44
Nevertheless, functional neuroimaging links the spatiotemporal properties of neural response and the cognitive state of a subject. So, neural signals ...
March 09, 2020 at 09:15
I don't know what the link is between neural signals and various types of perception. And I don't think current neuroscience has explained it. Current...
March 08, 2020 at 22:33
Two different signals are involved in the process of sensation. Light (one type of signal) changes retinal states. Photoreceptors (rods and cones) in ...
March 08, 2020 at 11:16
Do you mean rather, how does this allow us to distinguish body states from the states of other objects?
March 05, 2020 at 22:25
I think that mind is an integrated set of organism events which produce an individual's automatic and controlled acts, so; an open sub-system of (at l...
March 05, 2020 at 21:53
Signals are not only transmitted from environment to body to mind, but also from mind to body, causing change in the environment. The capacity for mot...
March 05, 2020 at 12:56
Object and subject are an ontological unity, having epistemological distinctions. From a Cognitive viewpoint: A neural message is a function of sensat...
March 04, 2020 at 13:44
The boundary between "learned" and "innate" is the boundary between "culture" and "nature". Cross-Cultural research attempts to differentiate the two....
February 17, 2020 at 09:34
I agree. Based on what I currently know of Virtue Ethics, I would use "virtuous" to describe a type of character (those aspects of personality conside...
February 16, 2020 at 15:54
This implies that a coherent Moral Psychology entails a virtue (as opposed to deontological or consequentialist) approach to Ethics. I would replace h...
February 16, 2020 at 09:17