apokrisis

So the way to get rid of a stain on the carpet is to disguise it with a bigger stain? Great thinking Batman! Wrap your mystery in a bigger mystery. Pr...

I certainly agree with that. But it points to a "first moment" that is a vagueness, an utter lack of determination. Once you accept the basic relativi...

Says our observations. Pick a quarrel with the facts for a change.

Unfortunately for theists and their claims of higher intelligence, the Cosmos turns out to be fundamentally a process of disordering. It is a cooling/...

But what is a statistic except the canonical example of order emerging from chaos? And could even an omnipotent God make a world that lacked the intel...

So was it a or b? Why are you suddenly silent here?

Keeping a straight face is the problem here, Rich. Just give a straight answer. Is the new born mind (a) the result of the development of another infa...

So you are saying the nervous system is not the cause? On what grounds? Oh that's right. All reality is a mind field projected hologram.

So a foetus develops, the child is born. We kind of know that another mind just happened due to the growth of a nervous system, don't we? Or do you ha...

In physics, we have got used to considering possibilities as "virtual particles". So the possibilities we can count - as in quantum mechanics - are al...

What again? And were you meaning without the explicit dichotomy - the bleeding "apokrisis" that I even choose as a user-name? >:O

Well that was what I was saying. As that is itself an emergent geometric constraint on infinite dimensional possibility. 3D space has special properti...

If constraint begets constraint, then what begat the first constraint? Oh I forgot. Must be God. :’(

Err yeah. The word gets said. :-} And now we are doing the big boy thing of reading a whole sentence all in one go. The critical part of that sentence...

If constraints don't emerge for material being, then provide me with a die that is five or seven sided. Why is six-sidedness a limit on this kind of m...

But you've got a problem, Rich, if you don't understand what you read. :) So: "tychism must give birth to an evolutionary cosmology, in which all the ...

Yes. And I am asking you to define what that might actually mean - in Peirce's view especially. What does such a statement commit to you in ontic spec...

Cool. So perhaps you can sum up what "mind" then means in Peircean terms. What actual ontic commitments follow? Do you think he is actually idealist, ...

To talk about unbounded awareness is incoherent. There is only awareness-of. Or the lack of that particularity, and so a lack of a definiteness of con...

What's uncertain or vague about a die? It is an engineered cube with clearly marked faces. Are we in doubt that it must land on one of six numbers whe...

Err, yeah. That was the point. The self-negation of unintelligibility (the constraint on chaos) is what Peirce's "growth of universal reasonableness" ...

Or maybe I have replied a sufficient number of times in the past? I see no problem in presuming the "ground of being" to be instead the "limit of bein...

Sounds legit.

You know how it goes, MU. If one finds oneself going in the opposite direction to you, then one is definitely not getting it backwards. So thanks for ...

Not missing, but explicitly rejecting. Although I'm certainly also sympathetic to the idea that all differences disappear as we work our way back to v...

In fact I am trying to avoid the usual substantial take on the Apeiron, just as I am of Mind. But also, I am a physicalist in that I accept the scient...

Hardly. My question to you is how is that not explained (in at least some tentative fashion) by agreement that a modelling relation with the world see...

Of course you have. That is how conception works, remember? It shapes your impressions. You always feel like you find what you are looking for if you ...

Ah, up pops your "experiencer". Because of course if you have experiences, then an experiencer is there already just waiting for his Cartesian theatre...

In crude but familiar psychological terms, general concepts shape our particular impressions while those particular impressions in turn build up our h...

We could be here forever and you won't get the first bit of it. In my metaphysics, the constituents emerge too. The global constraints shape the local...

Have a go at supporting the counter-factual - that there is the kind of modelling relation the human brain has with its environment and that that feel...

It's like you have zero comprehension skills. Don't just claim counterfactuals are irrelevant to facticity. Demonstrate how that is an epistemically c...

Yep. Anaximander confused the heck out of folk as the only recorded scrap of his actual words talked about cosmic justice vs injustice. Heraclitus lik...

I suggested you focus for a change on why ein sof or dependent co-arising might be something shared here. But it is your choice to see only divisions.

Mmm. Still not getting it even when it is said explicitly? It is epistemically fundamental - I take it as true - that questions no longer have answers...

It was a quantum mind field projection bit of trickery by the big daddy hologram up in the sky. Or something like that. Can't actually remember straig...

No, the point is WHAT IS IT NOT? If you can't provide the suitable counterfactual, you ain't got nothing, buster.

You know Helen Keller wasn't born that way? And she always had the senses of touch, taste and smell.

Sigh. I said totalising questions have no resources by which they can be answered. So eventually we arrive at brute fact. "There is existence," is all...

Your posts are dissolving into incoherence. Relax and take a moment to read what I've actually written. Even think why it is so important to you that ...

So you are asking what causes vagueness? Apart from a lack of crispness? What bit of my account of counterfactuality and the legitimacy of causal ques...

It is hard to reply if you insist on being ridiculous. Anyone who ever came up with a powerful metaphysical view was reasoning from experience of the ...

Have I not explained this often enough. The first thing is to stop talking about it as a nothingness. An apeiron is an everythingness in being a pure ...

Yes it must be baffling. I acknowledge all the efforts in the same obvious direction and yet also criticise those efforts to the degree they remain my...

Nobody knows as usual. This Mr Nobody sure seems one heck of a smart guy. It is always just so easy taking the sceptic's position isn't it. "I don't b...

So justify those cognitive modes in reference to my explanation of my cognitive mode. I've highlighted the centrality of counterfactuality to metaphys...

Sure its annoying that you can't be consistent. But since you are really just accusing me of being relentlessly reasonable, I can't complain. I'll jus...

Darwin believed in God. So did Newton and Einstein. Thus it makes no difference if Peirce believed in God. That is the splendour of the scientific met...

That's right. The Hard Problem has bite because in the end, causal explanations (about anything) rely on counterfactuals. You can believe the answer i...