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Intelligibility is what emerges. Therefore it would be incoherent to claim that what it emerges from is the intelligible as well.

Finally. That being so, case closed.

These are very important thoughts you are sharing.

Again, you aren't really listening. Peirce begins with an examination of human reason - epistemology. And then pansemiosis argues ontology - existence...

Rich, you are proof the Cosmos loves hot air.

Did you really ever follow what I said then. You keep coming up with questions I've already covered. Pansemiosis is about the fundamentally of thermod...

I've explained why all through the thread. There is a difference between biosemiosis and pansemiosis. Biosemiosis is an actual modelling relation. The...

You'll have to try harder to make it worth continuing the conversation. Start by answering honestly why a modelling relation with the world wouldn't f...

So the story is .... triadic? Except a backwards triadism that relies on brute fact monism rather than emergence... Sounds legit.

Yep. The economy goes sideways as it needs a good dose of inflation to wash away the debt. But it is so in debt that it can't jolt the patient to life...

And not that the population is simply hopelessly irrational these days? ;) But speaking realistically, there are always going to be artificial constra...

Silly me. That comment sums up how little you understand about the subject.

Constraints remove degrees of freedom. And the degrees of freedom not removed are then those that must be expressable. It's not rocket science.

Hence the argument for a carbon tax and a national future fund. It is just plain obvious that the active subsidising of Big Oil (which includes the ma...

Huh? They are the two faces of the same thing. Surely that is obvious? To be constrained is what results in being left with a more focused point of vi...

The US story is about how rage at the consequences of neoliberalism - especially the way liquidity paves the way for globalisation - needs to be re-di...

Christ almighty. It rewrites the state of the Universe. Another bit of history has accumulated and so points all possibility toward a more constrained...

The point is eluding you. That is something different. I've explained myself endlessly. Time for you to do some work in understanding better.

If you keep just asking me "who knows", why should I show respect for your lack of imagination here? You believe consciousness to be itself a universa...

You won't abandon your mentalism. Fine. Science isn't for you. And thus the metaphysics that follows in the wake of scientific advance is also not for...

If an atom decays, that is an event that changes the history of the world in definite, digital, fashion. Existence will never be the same again having...

You miss the point. Information was given rigorous mathematical meaning by Shannon. It was defined in terms of message uncertainty or information entr...

It is not the individual words so much - although plenty of them are way more obscure than talk of symmetry or constraints. It is the dense thickets o...

What you are missing is that it is the triadic causality of semiosis that pan-semiosis is generalising. And I think you don't really get that aspect o...

You aren't going to be able to follow this as you are insisting on a mentalistic reading of anything I say. But anyway, the river channel is an exampl...

You are simply highlighting how your abstracted jargon conceals from even yourself the huge logical gaps you are leaving in the wake of your purple pr...

So at no point did you suggest anything about the fostering of a sense of crisis? Hmm. Perhaps if you posted a coherent argument it would go better fo...

In plain language, where is the promised account of how any of this impacts on the individual's relation to their own body? How doesn't the biotech bu...

I said they were external, not internal. That would be the difference. The water of the river knows which way to go because a channel carved over time...

That is because the idealists want support for a substance ontology. Semiotics is about a metaphysics of emergent process.

But my view is that kind of thing is the most exquisitely artificial kind of practice of all. It is wildly unnatural. It takes introspection away from...

This systems approach is as old as Aristotle's hylomorphism. So no need to sound so put upon in a discussion on metaphysics, Substance in a process ph...

I admire the persistence with which you hope to trap me into a formula of words which you can then claim to interprete dualistically rather than triad...

If you want to celebrate guys who can stick their arm in the sky until it withers and locks, go for it. If you believe in levitating monks, present th...

Huh? It forms awareness - biological, in the flow, extrospective awareness - into considered, rationally structured, introspective awareness. You just...

A habit of interpretance is hardly nothing if it becomes the cause of everything. Maybe you should slow down and actually think all this through some ...

That kind of awareness would have to be sociocultural - Peirce's community of reasoning thinkers. So epistemology only exists in the form you mean - r...

Maybe I'm being too complex for your tastes but I've explained a thousand times that I am working on two levels here. There is good old ordinary semio...

Psi research is the one I've had close contact with. I can speak to the sociology of that as science as it is in the field. If you want to talk about ...

The reason why Peircean semiotics impresses me as the most developed model of systems causality is because it turns things around. Epistemology also t...

I know that is bullshit as I've had close involvement with parapsychology research for instance. Science can afford to be open minded because it works...

Stop asking for definitions and start listening to explanations. A definitions based mindset is itself anti-pragmatic. It is key to the philosophy of ...

Now you appear to be talking about the basis for self-awareness. I know that I am a self because in modern human culture, that is a well-defined socio...

Nope. I can only keep telling you that speaking of mindfulness as a noun rather than a verb is where folk always go wrong. If you assume mind to be a ...

Reason and observation. The usual combo of metaphysical speculation and scientific test.

Mind still continues to enter the scene. Even just 2600 years ago, we were simply linguistic minds, not mathematically and logically formed minds. Who...

Our difference is that you seek what concretely must exist as a foundation, I instead think everything fluidly emerges. So for me, the question is wha...

Yep. Remember that a dissipative structure is organisation produced by environmental constraint. All the information involved is just how the world ar...

I talked about a modelling relation rather than a map as that involves the interlocking causality of all three things - world, symbols and habits of i...

Yes, the striking thing that comes through from Hoffman is that the basis of life is way more mechanical than we knew. It is all a bunch of little swi...