apokrisis

Perception isn’t mediated. It is the mediation. Radiant energy gets turned in colour experience. Floating fragments of organic matter get turned in th...

Finally you spell out a position. And I agree with the gist. It is why I say humans introspect but animals extrospect. Animal perception is direct in ...

How has that not been the case since Thatcher and Reagan. Can you think of any leader of either country winding back the neoliberal project in any mea...

I really like the way you’ve been expressing this. But I think the weakness is that it depends heavily on the metaphysical truth of some communal or s...

So you want a definition of meaning. And you don’t think it useful to first have a definition of the meaningless? Mathematical truths seem fundamental...

I see your point better I think. There is an assumption behind idealism~realism which is about being an immaterial soul locked in a material body, a p...

Coherence also has a part to play. Concepts can be justified on the grounds of their rational coherence. So it is not just a correlation between gener...

Evasion, evasion, evasion. You've been haranguing me for definitions. I've given them. To the degree I could given your refusals to clarify what it is...

All quantum mechanics can tell us is that it sure started small yet intense. But then under a thermodynamically extended view of QM - decoherence - we...

Oh right. So I was punk'd on that one. :) Apologies to Creative there. But it was so believable...

But where is the astute reader who can make sense of your linguistic quirk? If Kant is there beside you, can you put him on the line? Otherwise, I can...

Ah, but the more localised the applause, the more immense is its energy. Heisenberg's principle rules.

Given you don't seem to take Kant's meaning here, the point is that you do have to internalise the proper habits of conception. Just being able to par...

So let's stack that up against a more scholarly view - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleonasm So any standard notion of good writing would cross out y...

Stop feeling sorry for yourself. You are making your own credibility central to any discussion as you admit this is all your own personal theory, your...

So why is saying the same thing two different ways of any importance? What does that idiosyncrasy mean? Clear that up. Then you can tackle mental corr...

It's your private theory that the whole world doesn't understand. I remember now your recent lament that you can't seem to bring the academic world to...

Yes, can anyone here explain what creative means when he doubles up his terminology. I've asked him so many times, but he can't/won't explain. (Or is ...

Didn't Descartes write that book? Anyway, to the degree that doubt is possible, belief in turn becomes uncertain. The logic is the usual reciprocal on...

Wake me up when you've ready to answer on your definition of mental correlations and mental ongoings.

Yep. Me scholar, you crackpot. Me cite sources, you complain the world doesn't understand. Who would'a thunk? Social constructionism 101.

That's how crackpottery starts. Right away, I can't take you seriously. Well I can point to any standard psychology textbook. If your definition is al...

Well I explained why in fact it is. If you can quantify, you can do science. So Shannon clears the decks for the assault on semantics. At the start of...

But that misses the whole point by talking about the process rather than the results. The epistemic concern is whether the world itself is how we perc...

Great quotes from Thompson and Bergson. But doesn't that sophisticated view about "points of view" arise from trying to respond to the way that the go...

You’d have to explain how. I’ve asked in the past and you haven’t explained. I’ve made the point that human language changes the way we are aware of t...

Does that not cover perception? Really? After wasting so much time on irrelevancies, you seem to have forgotten to address the OP.

Not much I can say if you can’t work out your problem.

You are still thinking that Shannon was talking about the meaning of a message. He was instead talking about its quantity. As I said, he derived a fun...

Zing!

From that article I cited, this might help.... Note also that Boltzmann's entropy is based on probability theory foundations - statistical mechanics. ...

Note the "message" is a random set of data. Quite deliberately a meaningless pattern. So you can't cheat by posting A, B, C,.. The test is a transmiss...

Well, that is stating the bleeding obvious. The point of the pigeon research is that animal brains can in fact categorise to quite a human degree ... ...

Yeah. I'm not arguing that art should be doing science's job somehow. My position here is about how art is employed in the social construction of what...

There is quite a bit of it in Ancient Greece. The way that a galley away on the horizon looks tiny, and yet we don't see it as anything but a regular ...

I can't work out what it is you are so fussed about. Pigeons are a famous example in mainstream psychology of just how easy it is to train up human-li...

emphasis mine...

Or you could stop putting words like "precisely" in my mouth. That would be a good start. Well whoopsie-do. Again, making any claim about perception b...

You are confusing the epistemic issue of direct vs indirect realism with the ontological commitments I might then argue concerning the mind~world issu...

You are missing the point that dreams are real perceptual states. Sure we can decide later that they weren't perceptions of real things. But we can't ...

The dichotomy of quantity and quality. And then you have that divided by the dichotomy of the subjective and the objective. Good art is a rationally c...

That may be right. But is it a paradox for my position or rather its useful feature? I could sum up my approach as pragmatic. It is the attempt to sta...

Heidegger got how technology makes us who we are. We become machine-like so as to be good at machine using. But then Romanticism is just as much a soc...

Jesus Christ. How do you think paradigms can be changed except by someone managing to ignore what everyone else was insisting had to be the central th...

But my point is that something can't count as evidence unless there is a theory framed to be countable. So what is Romanticism counting? As a theory, ...

Vygotsky and Mead were contemporaries. So we are talking about many people making the same "discovery" once the social sciences became actually a thin...

It will be pissed when it wakes up from that dream in turn and discovers it is a figment of the Matrix. All it sees is magnetic 1s and 0s. And now the...

It's lots of people. It's Vygotskian psychology. It's symbolic interactionism. It is any kind of social constructionism or developmental psychology th...

Well what I'm saying is that I just don't come across cognitive scientists who could be so crassly unphilosophical as to be direct realists. And that ...

It was a vague "philosophical" distinction given solid mathematical/empirical foundations at last. And so that has had immense consequences if you act...