apokrisis

Finally you might be getting it. :up: Cause is about the constraint of fluctuation. The world seems organised and intentional because in the end, not ...

Piffle. Things stay the same when further change ceases to make a difference. Once things hit the bottom, they can't fall any further. In that light, ...

But biology crosses this threshold at the level of the molecule that can be read as a message. Hierarchy theory was how theoretical biologists made se...

This is a rubbish argument. What distinguishes the coward from the conscientious objector? You are introducing "desire" as a vague preference that cou...

Of course. But then how is that any different in terms of baseline causality when the baseline causality itself is a model of such topological emergen...

Hah. I'm usually arguing a case a step more sophisticated. And this is indeed an issue I am wrestling with right now in its most general physicalist s...

Well one is a working physicist and the other is a jobbing philosopher. :grin: But I'm not rely on single data points. And have you even read Chen's p...

From a system thinking point of view, you can unpack this by recognising that metaphysics is groping after both the dichotomy that founds difference i...

But then you have Don Lincoln saying... One can always concoct conspiracy theories about how quantum theory is secretly deterministic, but you have to...

Isn't what you are describing all about evolving the board to a state of balanced criticality – critical opalescence or the edge of chaos? So game sta...

Yep. This is a hierarchy theory point that is almost universally overlooked. A hierarchy – in the natural philosophy view – is a system of constraints...

Physics is based on the triad of Planck constants, c, G and h. So add h to cG to complete the picture here. What happens to the classical description ...

In any probabilistic system of interest – ie: one that has the regularity to qualify as a system composed of its degrees of freedom – its destiny will...

Yep. Peirce called it the “growth of concrete reasonableness”. You get an evolution of the Cosmos that is the move from spontaneous chance to organise...

I appreciate the thought but there is a technical difficulty that is key. My approach is Peircean and so although one, two, three is being counted off...

Aristotle is a systems guy and the systems answer is always triadic. This thread seems another example of how everyone arrives at some dichotomy – as ...

I would take the systems science view on this. Society in general is based on the "political" dichotomy of competition~cooperation. The system needs t...

I was targeting a deeper point about the reversibility of mechanics and the irreversibility of nature. Mechanics seeks time reversible descriptions of...

Now you are making points about variety in types of compression algorithms, not about general principles.

The picture I have in mind goes beyond just a lossy compression - although that is a way to view it. In the hierarchy theory view, the determined and ...

It makes more sense to see randomness and determinism as the complimentary limits on being. Each limit can be extremitised, but only in the effective ...

This is why natural philosophy also recognises accidents or spontaneity in its metaphysics. The ball perfectly poised on Norton’s dome can never start...

It is the dialectical reasoning of the systems science view. The complexity of a system arises from the fruitful balancing of its contrary impulses. R...

That’s been one theory favoured by cognitivists. As a biosemiotician, I would instead stress the simpler story that language proper arose when Homo sa...

The case against antinatalism is not about its logic. That is all too easy to dismiss. It is about people confirming themselves in the social role of ...

Yep. That is all it is. Meaning is constrained in nested hierarchical fashion. The basic contrast of sameness and difference. Or the differences that ...

Why not check rather than pulling numbers out your arse?

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Yes, what indeed. You're welcome.

So some locutions would have more phenomenological accuracy? Curious that you might want to contradict yourself so blatantly.

I think the flip you identify is the financialisation of the real economy – the shift from producing to meet a current demand to manufacturing the con...

You have jumped to a conclusion. All this arises out of the 1990s dilemma in neuroscience about what we could mean to talk about a “neural code” to pa...

Sure. :up: And I was talking not about particular models but about the model of modelling relationships in general. That is what Friston, Pattee, and ...

You are just talking past the distinction between information and dynamics. That mechanics can impose network behaviours is relevant. But that is what...

I’m talking about dynamics. Dissipative structure, far from equilbrium systems, maximum entropy production principle. That class of self organisation ...

Yeah. But the brain isn’t literally minimising free energy is it? It is minimising information surprisal. So Friston is talking about the modelling re...

Schop keeps requesting my presence. No matter how many years it’s been. It seems to energise him judging by the caps lock shouting. (And this thread w...

You say this kind of thing so much that it has no bite. You can't seem to decide whether to love everyone or hate everyone. And all your accusations s...

@"schopenhauer1" would seem proof this ain't so. :grin:

OK. A pragmatist would have to agree. A pragmatist – for want of something better – would wind itself back all the way to raw instrumentalism. But per...

Well it would really be nice to know how Plato conceived of the Khôra in relation to the Eidos. Was it more a void or an Apeiron? Was there some move ...

Yep. Once you have heard it said, you can never unsee it. :chin:

Just for fun, here is a phenomenological discussion of why new car colours suddenly look so weird and wrong. https://youtu.be/KchX52bIZSg?si=2g3jRYxXV...

Favorite philosophical insight: Life presents itself chiefly as an opportunity. :wink:

It seems more an effort to discuss at the level of neurobiology. And so the "language" or semiotics of perceptual experience. Of course hue discrimina...

I think AN can only be understood as a social tactic to justify ineffectuality. One is a victim of life itself and so can't be held responsible for .....

Or more like saying a street plan encodes a functional map of its world, the city. If you want to move about, there is some habitual pattern that gets...

Describing wouldn’t be explaining. Simulating wouldn’t be capturing the causality in question. You won’t read it, but here is how Pattee covers that.....

Sure. But then our brain is an expensive organ to run. It uses glucose at the rate of working muscle. On the other hand, that is a constant metabolic ...

Still can’t give a fuck. You’re all over the shop.