apokrisis

So now it is about property damage and adequate compensation? Correct me if I’m wrong but the OP was about personal insult. If you hurt my feelings, y...

That's what I wonder. Can people actually choose to do wrong? If they are making real world choices, they must weight the decision with many factors. ...

The law says you are responsible. It says you can't have been paying due care and attention. So now there is a social standard in place. And the OP se...

But if you intentionally do the wrong thing, surely you must believe that in some larger way it is the right thing? So it would then be unreasonable t...

That's fine. You seem interested and serious. I am just arguing for a particular point of view which represents a logical metaphysical methodology. An...

Have you already abandoned apophatic reasoning? We start with where we are. We accept that there is a creation issue because we have the clear evidenc...

Saying a potential was actual is the after the fact view. So it says something was possible rather than impossible. An infinite potential would then m...

That doesn't help me understand what you could mean by in-finite mind here. And I already said that - apophatically - the unbounded initial potential ...

Ever the sulky child, hey? Beats me what you think you have to lose.

Or you could explain what you are thinking as the alternative. What even is in-finite being? You could be agreeing that it is the Apeiron - a potentia...

So you've prepared your excuses already? Coitus interruptus signalled in advance? The usual vague response from you. I made a specific argument. There...

You've had my explanation. What did you disagree with? Don't start trolling if you don't want to be "disrespected". :)

Did I say something different? I just continued on to point out that that involvement in turn involves "a self". Which is where things get slippery ag...

Yep. As I've said.

Again, what I was pointing out is that of course it will do this. Language, being semiotic, is producing the very self for whom such an experienced wo...

So when "you" believe something, is it true in some self-transcending sense, or just true for you? Answers on a postcard as usual.

Yes. You sense the difficulty and try to avoid it. I seek to make the difficulty plain and so force a definite choice. But here you have to offer the ...

Either language absolutely captures the truth of the world, or the truth of the world absolutely escapes capture by language. Or in fact neither, but ...

The extrapolation has to reverse a dichotomistic separation. It has to unbreak a symmetry breaking to recover the original symmetry. So there is a par...

There's a difference between substance dualism and my dialectical or semiotic approach. If that were true, computation becomes a physical impossibilit...

Hmm. Are you saying that Kant's categorical imperative IS the thermodynamic imperative? Try reading your own source perhaps?

What's a desciple? And why would you imply that Kant might have to be either accepted or rejected in his entirety. Wouldn't that be a rather religious...

So it is either just me or just Kant now? Let me know when you decide who to blame. >:O

Well said. Belief can't be belief without the possibility of doubt. Why would he treat waving his hands about as a demonstration of anything unless it...

Thanks for the credit. But that's just mainstream science really. The stuff you "grew out of" once you took up astral transportation and whatnot. Out ...

My argument is that intelligibility can approach it in the limit - as its own "other". So intelligibility can define the unintelligible as that which ...

Rich is here to represent the new age loopies - part of the site's diversity initiative. Just ask him about holographic quantum mind projection and se...

Get back to basics. The sense of self is a perceptual contrast the brain has to construct so as to be able to perceive ... "the world". Even our immun...

This ignores the fact that the flying machine designers quickly gave up trying to copy the flapping wings of birds and instead focused on a non-bird m...

Rubbish. Speech acts are intrinsically creative. No words ever exactly capture the meaning I had in mind, despite even the opportunity for rewriting. ...

Shall we take a collective vote on that?

But isn't that the problem? The way you phrase it suggests that you have certain beliefs about the nature of fundamentality. The semiotic view is that...

This is the problem for me. Peirce makes sense of causality as the development of reasonable habits. I can follow that as an intelligible metaphysics....

Not sure he said it best. But yep. Materiality is located action - action with a direction. Then the other half of the causal story is the global form...

Fine. I would agree that NNs are not biologically realistic in some fundamental ways. But also, NNs are an attempt to be more biologically realistic i...

It seems curious that it was only just a few posts back that you were trumpeting the mind-like abilities of NNs. So if they were inspired by the "comp...

Do you really want to argue that Searle thinks "biochemical processes" are a necessary and sufficient condition of conscious thought? It is well know ...

Err, yeah. As I was saying. But the problem was you began this by claiming biochemistry is capable of things like understanding Chinese. :)

Seems standard... ...but then no idea what this could mean. Is this saying that an assumption of intelligibility - as in the laws of thought - are a p...

Nope. I made the point that humans and NNs can emulate TMs. (You did claim to be familiar with the CRA?) However that doesn't make either of them TMs....

Creative: "I refer you to my entire post history. Any astute reader perusing that will surely uncover the nature of my heretofore mentioned claim. (Pe...

The usual rambling bullshit instead of any direct answer.

I think you give yourself way too much credit for clarity of writing. I didn't understand your comment so I wouldn't even know what other comments mig...

Why would I arbitrarily exclude final cause from nature?

Either you understand the difference between emulating a TM and being a TM, or you don't. Either you understand the difference between analog computer...

Where? If so, why not cut and paste it here?

Maybe you don’t realise that snark is pretty routine on your part. And I have investigated neural nets. Your posts on the issue reveal you haven’t rea...

Hmm. So what I have got from this exchange is that you struggle to keep track of your own arguments because you don't actually have a well constructed...

And your argument is...

And so you have some notion of truth that can’t make a useful distinction between the essential and the accidental. If a female duck can’t lay eggs, t...