apokrisis

Out of curiosity, what metaphysical proposal? There doesn't seem to be one in this thread from you. So a link would be helpful.

Thanks for the lengthy reply. I'm definitely not claiming computationalism - or at least not Turing machine computation as you seem to suggest. The ma...

As others have said, this is simply a false dichotomy, an over-simplification. To be conscious here means to be a mental act that itself is now report...

Doesn't justice recognise this by accepting that liability is on a sliding scale? The law must reach some binary decision - guilty or innocent. The ac...

I was thinking about how the humanities departments justify their existence given the push for STEM funding there. They do seem to have to justify the...

So they would be technologies of the self, technologies of social advance, surely? The humanities are suppose to point the direction of desirable cult...

Yes. The "you" I have in mind is not some conscious being. This is about the cognitive architecture of brains. So what catches our attention is what f...

Or a difference that makes a difference. Truth by tautological similarity has all the familiar problems. But if similarity is defined in terms of the ...

The dispositional view of Pragmatism emphasises the way that an adequate concept has to bring with it an adequate measurement. So a belief has this di...

Great. I respect that you are strong on the mathematics. So I was hoping for a more productive discussion. Maths is unreasonably effective. It’s abstr...

Yup. Either that or the same ontic categorisation of reality into self and world. My foot, my throat, my back ... and my pain. Things only get confuse...

I offered a statement to see how much you might agree with it. The clue was in the question-mark. So when it comes to formal precision, grammatical co...

But isn't it a thing-in-the-heart according to you? Don't pretend to doubt what you believe in your heart, etc. The issue here, as I see it, is that t...

Where does Peirce say this? You are thinking of Saussure again. Ain't the sociology of philosophy amusing. AP has to demonise pragmatism/semiotics to ...

So circles and numbers are the idealised limit of physical reality? They represent perfect symmetry and to "physically exists" means always to be indi...

Ah, no. I was talking about its prestigious cultural position, not its influence on English vocabulary.

Working memory is one step back from the attentional spotlight (granting that all these distinctions are somewhat crude and computational). So you can...

That channel - https://youtu.be/_iVdy0s8ARE - has good stuff. It shows how detailed the genetics is getting and how it can clarify the archaeology. So...

That’s more a measure of how many items we can hold at once in working memory. Each item needs to be processed serially or individually. That is why t...

For me, progress would be best defined as moving away from subjectivity and towards objectivity. So the destination is the most general or abstract vi...

I get the impression you believe nature is Newtonian deterministic and therefore free will becomes a problem. But that is a limited view of causality ...

But apparently you also believe you can drive unconsciously, and that consciously you are only aware of a single thing. So how does it all fit togethe...

When we say the river flows, is there something more than the water and the channel carved over time? The landscape certainly has developed a habit. W...

You seem to be working with a homuncular notion of awareness. Language demands that we speak of the “I” who is the self behind every mental doing. And...

Ah, so if they are entangled, we wait until they are disentangled? Eventually there is the one Bob measured and the one Alice measured? Except now we ...

I see you have no plans for this to go anywhere. But anyway, I’ve already spelt out the difference between Bayesian expectation and propositional stru...

So my cat doesn't have beliefs? Or is her scratching at the door a statement of a belief - just not a linguistic one?

And yet a disposition to act "causally in the world" is critically different from one to act "in the realm of truths and facts". So to call them both ...

That's a quibble. You can define reason as a linguistic act. But animals have been observed to reason in terms of working out how to solve some real-l...

If they are entangled, do you think you can say which one is which? Is that A over there, and B over here, or vice versa? Of course MWI "solves the pr...

I pretty much agree with the rest of your post, but this step is suspect I would say. Of course it all depends on how you define thinking. As you say,...

Even so, we can be conscious of a decision. We can attend to a choice presented to us. The choice could be whether or not to hit a button. The choice ...

So we could decide on whether or not to do it? We have two choices at least?

If you are going to blather on about folk, you ought to at least spell their names right. And this Osho ... have you been a fan of him long? Doesn’t r...

Philosophy tolerates a remarkable amount of bullshit rationalisation. Science tolerates a remarkable amount of bullshit measurement. Put the two toget...

I'm concerned to hear about your eyesight, but you seem to be able to read your screen somehow, so as a reminder....

Who said you were old and set in your ways? :)

What? This time you plan to read it?

Haven't you read Cheryl Misak yet? Peirce (via Ramsey) was the one who showed Witti the way out of the bottle of logical atomism. Really, you guys jus...

I realise you need to make this come out right for transcendent Christian metaphysics. But that's your loss. Wake me up when you are tired of being a ...

The argument is over what kind of mathematical relation defines a logical dichotomy - a dichotomy being a relation that is mutually exclusive and join...

Sigh. What can you say when folk can't get the difference between a mirror symmetry and an actual symmetry breaking?

You folk must be thinking of the dyadic semiosis of Saussure and not the triadic relation of Peirce. Big difference. Value would be instantiated in th...

Heh, heh. If it wasn't obvious already, some methods of thought are better than others.

Maybe a diagram would be easier.... + | - vs +| ------------------------------------------------------------------

LOL. You don't say. You mean like ... an opposition so complete it is a total and complete asymmetry, not merely a weak-ass negation? >:O Hmm. I dunno...

And nicely, a triadicist would say a dichotomy is how the same becomes the different. That is why the relation can be described in terms of a reciproc...

Rest easy, MU. As usual, dichotomies rule. Stability is relative to plasticity. So we are talking here about the approach to a limit. If there is vagu...

That would be more convincing if the OP hadn't by then made it plain it was the MWI multiverse interpretation that motivated the thread. So don't blam...

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