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Sorry, you are wrong. Wiki has spoken....

So Information theory has been around 70 years and ignorance remains an excuse? Cool.

You are resorting to non sequiturs now.

Yes, this is attractive because it sounds like it is saying something. But unless this being the case makes some reasonable causal difference, then it...

Silly question. Does the Platonic apple wither? Does the Platonic white horse grow old and grey? If you want the serious answer, the connection that m...

I am spelling out the ontological commitments of a model. So no, I am stating upfront that this is indirect realism, the proposal of a theory that can...

More bullshit. I have agreed umpteen times that the epistemic cut is where life and mind properly kick in. There is actual semiotic machinery involved...

Bullshit. Plato's Heaven. Plato's realm of perfect ideas. This other place where you claim meaning finds its reality. So again, are you willing to gra...

So the flow networks of the body, like our vascular system, are fractally organised and so exhibit the pure forms we associate with nature at its inor...

The story remains the same. 1) It starts with the proper nature of explanation. An explanation of nature in terms of causality is a model - a rational...

And how do you know that except you can read the clear sign of a "mindless physical process"? The point is that a lack of meaningfulness is as much a ...

I don't get how you don't get that you are restating my argument. Look, here is the unmistakable evidence of intelligent life on Mars... https://smd-p...

My argument was against naive realism and in favour of indirect realism. And indirect realism accepts both the fact that knowledge is grounded in the ...

It is about logic - reasoning itself. So it is mathematical in that maths is our most rigorous language of reasoning. It is epistemology as the right ...

But say you could establish a contraction scenario that is exactly symmetric to the expansion scenario, what have you achieved but another way of sayi...

So your version is that we have two lines that are touching but separate? Seems a little self contradictory given the definition of a line is that it ...

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Yeah. I mean anyone woulda thunk dis was a philosophical forum or sumthink. Next people will be making their case by posting large slabs of impenetrab...

In your wet dreams. Even when arguing for pansemiosis, I am clear that life and mind are different in having an epistemic cut that puts hierarchical c...

It is hardly sneaking anything in in calling semiotics a triadic or hierarchical process. What else was Peirce describing? And what else has natural p...

All those could be good beginnings. But you've already slipped in "mind" in a contentious fashion. Could you be clearer and say minds are the result o...

Hmm. The master truly challenges us with his koans.

Of course you will. The same tautology over and over again. Duality is what you presume and dualism is what you conclude. The circularity is why you a...

A theory of the development of semantics is more than just a list, surely?

Of course you did. You said there was a boundary in-between. You also denied this. The boundary had its own location. But then it also doesn't. It all...

Doesn't this boundary have a spatial location? Haven't you said this boundary is neither the line that marks the edge of the green area, nor the line ...

So now you are saying the boundary is both not a thing and also a thing. Hmm. See what happens when you think you can get away with glib sophistry in ...

Well it is only you slapping on "mental" as a term. I questioned your customary division of the phenomenal into the "self" and the "world".

That's why the PNC fails to apply.

Peirce covers the intermediate cases by talking about three classes of sign - iconic, indexical and symbolic. One just accidentally indicates, one hab...

I am saying the "reality" is the wholeness of the modelling relation. So it is the co-ordination between the two - the modeller and the world. And the...

It's a good point. But doesn't the distinction give rise to a four way division as we now have two different dimensions to consider? One is the intent...

You are just playing with words. The talk here is of the boundary that marks the position where the transition happens. It's a well traversed debate i...

This is just repeating the same old. What causes mind as we mean it - human minds rather than rock minds - is a physical structure. The evolved comple...

So does the PNC apply to this "transition"? Can we say whether it is white or green? Do we feel moved to claim it has to be one or other because it ca...

So true, so true. We are all just Grasshopper to your David Carradine, oh wise one. Tell us again how we are all just spinning stories. Tell us again ...

Bless you my child. Take a pew and I'll tell you a story.

Of course. A perpetual motion machine for a start. Plenty of inventors have applied for patents. There have been big controversies like cold fusion. I...

If you want another perspective, you might consider Robert Ulanowicz "ascendency" as a information measure of higher purpose - https://en.wikipedia.or...

But that is back to the circularity of how you choose define mind in opposition to matter. You can only arrive at your dualistic conclusion because it...

I'm not following your logic. Didn't you cite Whitehead employing a systems-type emergence argument to explain why rocks aren't conscious and yet brai...

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Right then. So how do you deal with the criticism that claiming agency at the level of particles is causal overdeterminism? What use is there in grant...

I agree with much of that. But you prefaced it with: So the key difference is that I am arguing that all meaningfulness is ultimately grounded in the ...

Think about your example in terms of Chinese Whispers. What are we to make of the information loss that results from the message - "three-masted Greek...

Saying the telos of existence is dissipatory is not saying there is no telos. It is just mentioning a telos which you have some personal distaste for....

Just trying to rouse you from your dogmatic slumbers. Yes of course. Translation is possible. But information theory is about boiling down to the limi...

For me, it is a move towards the correct organic causal logic, but then still mired in the ultimate goal of making religion and romanticism come out r...

You are hoping to get away with ordinary language use definitions in the discussion of information theory. Nice. Feel free to walk right past the care...

I don't like the term "truth". I would use the pragmatic term, justified belief. Truth is about an absolute claim of certainty. Pragmatism accepts tha...