One thing that looks missing is that semiosis stresses the purposefulness or usefulness of "having knowledge". So it is about having a functional rela...
Not come across him before. But checking his site, he certainly seems sound on epistemic principles and approaches to causal modelling. I'm liking the...
Typical western new age cultural appropriation. Rather than peddling esoteric spirituality, focus on how Taoism is about the naturalness of constraint...
Continuing on the rationale for pansemiosis - and touching on something critical Mikel did mention - the hierarchical organisation of causality in nat...
That's a spectacularly bad description as it mushes all the different aspects of a dissipative structure ontology together. But anyway, it should be r...
Once more, you can leave pansemiosis out of it if you like. Biosemiosis alone makes the crucial point when it comes to how life/mind can be both a phy...
The flipside of a molecular structure that has critical instability is that it is matchingly open to small nudges. So it is perfectly poised. It faces...
It's not absurd if the thermodynamics enormously favours it. That is the point. Folk have this notion that life is extraordinary because the Universe ...
Remind me how molecular machines argue against abiogensis? If it is demonstrated that a tiny fragment of biological machinery can harness a vast amoun...
Yeah. I just find it so hard to imagine reality in any but the most stereotyped and hackneyed old ways. You got me. Forever guilty of the unthinking S...
Hmm. I'm sensing a connection here between the "not reading" and the "failing to see". Trust me. This stuff is fundamentally surprising to the biologi...
Fair enough. And I have the same problem with imagining some big daddy super-mind in the sky who counts or knows. Given that you too want to avoid tha...
Well obviously physicists in the first instance. But in an information theoretic model, reality itself is "counting". Or rather, a countable number of...
It would be why I like quantum interpretations that now take the information theoretic approach and explain quantum uncertainty in terms of the fundam...
Semiotics isn't saying everything is information. It is saying "everything" is the sign relation that has the three parts of an interpretation, a worl...
Yep. So it is vague ... in relation to the definite actuality that it then gives rise to. Yep. It is defined dichotomously - A and not-A. Or rather it...
Potential is defined dichotomously by Aristotle. It is about the production of "what is" in contradiction to "what is not". White is a definitely poss...
That's not an issue in my triadic/hierarchical approach. A hierarchical relation has both an upper and a lower bound. Constraints come in two kinds - ...
Naturally. I look forward to your citation to support your own stance. Alternatively, for me, it is only natural that matter and form should express s...
I agree that a dualistic reading of prime matter doesn't work. It makes a mystery of both the forms and the material principle. But that is why I supp...
So prime matter is denied? Or defined by some other modality other than "real existence"? And was the assertion ever just that it is matter without fo...
It is fundamentally constrained by the physics that has resulted from the past 500 years in particular. I hope you see the difference. Them's your wor...
Dualism is reductionism. Just doubled down. Instead of one variety of brute fact - material substance - you offer two. There is a spirit stuff or res ...
A confusion here is that the notion of entropy itself becomes relative at the Cosmic scale. So talking about life in terms of negentropy or dissipativ...
I can see why you only want to talk about the particular and not the vague or the general. I'll just remind you that I am talking about a triadic holi...
Isn't it interesting how theists are quite happy to take so much of what they believe on faith and yet as soon as it is science, nothing ever meets th...
No. It is generality to which the LEM fails to apply. The PNC fails to apply to vagueness. You need to brush up on your definitions of generality and ...
Yep. The argument is one of metaphysical logic. And then I also show how science supports it. But note also that "intelligible" has a technical meanin...
Or rather, metaphysically as a state, it is neither one thing nor the other. Where you just went wrong is to talk about vagueness or Apeiron as an obj...
I'm sure you're now about to reference the part of quantum theory which supports your assertions here. Any minute now... Huh? If different permutation...
I don't think you've really thought through what it means for the PNC to fail to apply. Vagueness is defined by it not being actually divided by a con...
It would be nice if the metaphysical detail of these kinds of positions felt better worked out. If this intelligent creator is outside of time and spa...
Well either you believe in the relativity you advanced or you don't. Or is inconsistency OK in your metaphysics? The very fact of determination would ...
That is why you need to pay attention to the actual science. Prigogine showed how order arises emergently and so is not prior but immanent. We know th...
So you just ignore the evidence of the Heat Death being all around us? And you ignore the fact that we can look out into the sky and see the start of ...
I don't get it. You are complaining because science presumes that "anomalies" have rational explanations? The requirement is not to make nature confor...
Bleeding hell. The "problem" for science is that those fundamental constants do seem to be "chance numbers". Everything else about the Standard Model ...
Why do you persist in misrepresenting the science? Thermodynamics says life must exist if it raises the local rate of entropification. Science has mea...
Somewhat missing in these discussions is that science is the one that has demonstrated the Universe had a beginning. The Big Bang happened 13.8 billio...
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