On what grounds do you make that generalisation? I think you say it is because that is all kinds of "mind", whereas I say it is all kinds of "minding"...
We agree that a process can be given a name. But what you are missing is that I am asking about the degrees of generality or particularity in the proc...
No. I'm saying get off your damn chuff and approach it properly, or not at all. Spend enough time studying the relevant science. Then see what you fee...
I have explored that cultural fiction in great detail. No. I call it a cultural fiction. You have to pretend to be laughing. Otherwise you might have ...
Romanticism is certainly a mythology. And I agree it can be quite poisonous. At first it entertains, or even improves. But if taken seriously as a met...
Yeah. Having said let's not start reifying any processes, I would then immediately agree with you about reifying a process. I talk about "to feel". Yo...
Note how you turn a rational and science-backed analysis into venom and spleen. You are trying to read emotions into my words so as to explain their m...
The "empirical facts" are the product of theoretical systems of measurement. So if you want to question them, you actually have to offer a better theo...
One of my favourite examples from the social psychology of "higher" emotions is accidie - what it feels like not to be able to believe with the heart....
Creation by a creator is efficient cause masquerading as something else. It doesn't offer a causal explanation because if creations demand a creator, ...
At least you stay focused on the matter at hand. You aren't just seeking to divert the discussion to safe irrelevancies. We don't have to agree. And w...
I'm waiting for you to get the ball over the net. I see a lot of swishing and grunting but not much result. To remind you of the essence of where the ...
Clearly you just don't. You are convincing me it is essentially pointless discussing this with you as you are either just being pig-headed or you lack...
Perhaps you could justify your approach based on an actual philosophy of science argument? Science is happy to consider alternatives. But they do need...
Well actually you do if the predictions of the models match the experience of the observations. That is why they are crackpot in the sense of just not...
That's an over-simplification by Rovelli. As he does state in his first sentence, general relativity's field equations don't define a direction. The U...
So you don't understand dimensionless quantities. Cool. https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimensionless_quantity Whoosh. Ideas just go over your hea...
That's bleak. And nothing like I see it. Pretty much the opposite. But it's both. And while preferences shouldn't dictate answers, I find the alternat...
Yes, absolutely loved every second of it. And have been rewatching the earlier series again. You are likely right that the main idea, as much as Lynch...
Is that the issue? Really? Or is scientific reasoning (as Peirce carefully defines it) just remarkably effective at pruning away unnecessary speculati...
Huh? People only began to talk about the Big Bang when the evidence began to build for it. They had to start making the best sense of the observed fac...
And you don't see your performative contradiction in again asserting that it is your ultimate truth we must believe in here? It is not the existence o...
It is what it is. I don't think the job of metaphysics or science is to tell us whatever story we find the most reassuring or familiar, You keep sayin...
Any blinking at all would require the dimensionality that would make it a thing. So the blinking would itself be the first symmetry breaking - a raw f...
You are confused about the philosophy of science. As a method, it is explicit that it simply forms theories of the thing in itself. Having laid that e...
Sure. To model, we need to start at some initial scale. My point was that log e, or Euler's number, shows how we can just start with "unit 1" as the p...
I don't object to Platonia is some sense. And I am specific about that sense. So yes, mathematical form, and even The Good, captures something essenti...
Well, as you say, there is always some physical representation. But there must also be rules - syntax - to ensure the proper translation of the messag...
Sure we framed them to explain the world as we have found it. The deeper question is why the existence of that intelligible world? If the laws were me...
You are avoiding the point. Peirce is dealing with how the laws could even develop. You are talking about the laws as they would apply when the world ...
This particular part of the story is more my speculative argument. I'm not really aware of any explicit development of it in the literature. But anywa...
Think also of the fact that a sine wave is formed by the rotation of the unit circle.... https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Q55T6LeTvsA/maxresdefault.jpg So takin...
Of course the LEM applies to any particular triangle. It doesn't apply to the notion of the general triangle. Exactly. Yep. The LEM fails to apply. It...
Well yes. I must have spent quite a few pages in this thread making it plain that my claim is that prime matter would be an active and not inert princ...
This is getting into very tricky to explain areas but we now have evidence of a "dark" energy or positive cosmological constant that is driving the ac...
Hah. Surprisal, or self-information, is one of those more sophisticated measures of information I've been talking about - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w...
Note the more subtle point about fractals. As a dichotomous growth process, they directly model this issue of convergence towards a limit that I stres...
As the first fluctuation, it would have as yet no context. History follows the act. So as I said before, the fluctuation is the birth of both material...
Sure. You get infinite outcomes if your model offers no lower bound cut-off to limit material contributions. So your example illustrates my points qui...
You mean like a fluctuation? And a direction too. The degree of order is also minimal, remember. Why would inertness be necessary? The very fact somet...
The usual way. Measurement. For instance, engineers are always telling me that my definite models of reality turn out not to fit the world in vague wa...
Well you would have to make that argument then. So far you have only told me about your own map of the territory. And that turned out to have separate...
This is pretty much what cosmology says. The Big Bang started in a state of thermal equilibrium - an even bath of radiation with all the same temperat...
Again, I am content with useful explanations. I don't see consciousness as a monistic substance and so I'm not expecting some kind of magic causal mec...
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