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Seems like a reasonable hypothesis. You feeling up to explaining how colour constancy supports your assertions about direct cause and effect yet?

As to Platonia, again I am arguing that maths structures our experience in a semiotic way. So number in fact divides experience into theory and measur...

Saying there could be primal material cause is different from saying there is primal material substance or being. That is why I’m talking in terms of ...

To be honest, I've given up trying to parse Hegel himself. But the key difference that keeps cropping up (apart from the tilting of the argument in fa...

I see a confusion here. Human-made machinery of course is engineered to be physics-free and so the hardware is completely generic in terms of its info...

I dispute that the wonder is something separate - mystical, supernatural, transcendent. I am certainly applying the scientific image of reality - Peir...

Hah. Isn't that just showing how Hegel got it the wrong way round? My approach (following Peirce) ends up saying that bare contradiction is instead wh...

But I did say that I am talking about a vagueness - something that is less than nothing. Your approach looks to take the form that the mind is a busy ...

Yep. Knowledge has to bootstrap itself from axioms. We have to risk making a hypothesis that seems "reasonable". But hey, it seems to work pretty well...

I still prefer to call it naive realism in this case. Transcendental realism would surely be only a position that makes sense as a conscious oppositio...

That would be the research question. We do have a variety of neural network architectures as candidates. The genome could be just like of those, or so...

Physics certainly constrains biology. But what then isn't constrained is by definition free to happen. And this freedom is what demands further modell...

That is a good point. A big constraint on the whole gene story is that there is this strong selection for the whole damn business being evolvable too....

Yes. The interesting point about genomic networks is that their internal processing structure could be - in principle - uncrackable and forever hidden...

Love the “merely”. Anyway, you are still successfully dodging the question of how an apple can still look red to us even when the light it reflects is...

I’m telling you what I find to be a justified belief. I’m not pretending to have transcendent access to absolute truth. Why do you find that so hard t...

So how does colour constancy fit in here? You haven’t explained. And this talk of apples is just misdirection. A laser beam could be tuned to the same...

But not your direct cause and effect. Instead my indirect causation which is the modelling relation. But my argument is indeed that we don’t get at wh...

Even in dreamless sleep, there is a desultory rumination going on. There actually is experience of some deeply disorganised and unremembered kind. And...

The problem I see here is you seem to be arguing that network topologies force their organisation on biological structure in a rather crystalline fash...

So is Being a verb or a noun here? Are we describing the process of how things could come to be, or frustrating ourselves because claiming existence a...

A semiotic approach to metaphysics says all you need to get things going is naked potential. Just the sheer fact of "something happens". So a propensi...

Meh. It is a self consistent story about how existence could develop. So of course it may not totally do away with brute fact, but also it minimises t...

Pierce also treated chance or spontaneity as real in this way. So vagueness, fluctuation or material potential are matchingly real, giving you a triad...

The basic idea of general relativity, as famously expressed by John Wheeler, is: "Mass tells space-time how to curve, and space-time tells mass how to...

Gravity is spatiotemporal curvature according to one way of modelling reality - general relativity. And it is a force in another - quantum physics (wi...

You haven’t given a good reason for why two directions of action or entropic dissipation would be separated in a way that produces clumpiness. The mai...

If we are still discussing the nature of mind, we only need biosemiosis and its epistemic cut. Peircean semiosis claims the irreducibility of spontane...

Precisely. Direct needs to said in scare quotes. Indirect is admitting that it is only “as if”.

Amusingly:

As I say, it explains how semiosis is even possible due to an emergent scale of physical convergence.

And yet the question was quite clearly addressed to me. So what's the game here?

Clearly my answer is that it doesn't. And I also pointed out that semiosis recognises grades of "communication" here, like your shift from indexical s...

I'll repost the particular way that biosemiosis has now been cashed out as a theory below. Of course, the biophysicists involved don't frame their wor...

This skips too fast over the fact that the machine is operating syntactically - according to rules the physics can't see. This is especially obvious w...

But gravity wants to curve spacetime into a tight ball - a singularity. And dark energy is the opposite in wanting to curve spacetime hyperbolically -...

We've been through this before. How can you claim direct cause and effect if we still see red when the wavelength is not "red"? https://en.wikipedia.o...

Err. It's new. Also it is holistic. Science on the whole only needs to be reductionist. Holism only becomes important when science approaches the boun...

So your complaint is it is too philosophical? Well, OK... Would you accept that hierarchy theory is regarded as a universal natural organisational str...

Again, dark energy would be inherent in space - the quantum vacuum - itself. That is why it could create a basic tension or negative pressure that acc...

I can't help it if you don't get the difference between direct and indirect.

Hah. I wasn't going to mention that to avoid complicating things. But you realise that is a way to do without dark energy at all? So a patchy distribu...

The proper answer is very technical - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noether%27s_theorem Yes. And then energy is not necessarily conserved under GR as ...

Hierarchies are triadic structures. Semiotics is a triadic process. So two views of the same thing. That is why Pattee, Salthe and other hierarchy the...

Your questions are gibberish. So I'll leave it there if you are so unwilling to start with the biological simplicity of Pattee's epistemic cut before ...

It is not what you trust, it is how you would understand. I'm pointing out that your line of questioning immediately reveals your ontological framewor...

You mean how should you understand semiosis as if it were Turing computation? Yeah, that'll work just fine. That'll will let you preserve the mystery ...

Have you found time to read up on Pattee's epistemic cut? Yes, there is something novel about life and mind according to biosemiosis.

Right. Let's plunge back into the mysteries of how appearances can be felt. Let's not stop to think how this is itself a division of your reality into...

Semiotics sees both sides of the equation as mutually emergent and synergistically persisting. At the psychological level, it is self and world that e...