apokrisis

I note you continue not to answer my question to you. Too dangerous. But anyway, your question to me has already been answered. The reply is that it i...

Did you have a point or just feel the need to vent?

I ask why shouldn't it feel like something as that exposes the fact you don't really have any clear definition of feeling yourself. You keep telling m...

That it is not a window into a functional understanding of cognition. Quite deliberately, it doesn't go there. Of course even Skinner couldn't be sati...

Constraints on "material potential". So there has to be something to act on. Then the question becomes what is the least kind of action that can be im...

Having studied operant conditioning way back when, I'm afraid I can't share your enthusiasm. Operant conditioning is such a simplistic approach you co...

Thanks for pointing that interesting result out. My three immediate thoughts are: 1) The claim is that Landauer's Planck-based limit was violated, and...

In case you hadn't noticed, my physicalism is semiotic. So as science, or indeed metaphysics, it starts from psychology and sociology. I'm not sure wh...

Yep. Back in the real world, the analogy is still proving useful to try and explain stuff to lay folk.

You are very good at replying why being a state of matter shouldn't feel like anything. Likewise a state of information. But you go curiously silent o...

To ungarble this, the story is that there is indeed the two things of semiotic information and dissipative degrees of freedom in my approach (which is...

Meanwhile back in the real world, physicists make it clear that they are making an analogy. A hologram is some real physical pattern. The holographic ...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noncoding_DNA

So you avoid my question as usual. Are you saying information is "just physical phenomena"? How does that work in your ontology? Again then, why shoul...

Yep. I can see how easy it is to confuse the holographic principle with literal holograms.

OK. How does energy come to rest to yield "solid matter"? What is your theory which isn't another "just so" story?

The same applies to dissipative structure. That is magic too. The trouble with you anti-materialists is that you don't even appreciate the self-organi...

Well I have certainly lived a life of wealth and selfish privilege. I have been doing my own thing from an early age. :) So yes, I don't get my hands ...

Nope. Your scenario would predict inhomogenities in red-shifting that we just can't see. If it is our relative motion that causes the effect, then we ...

And I'm saying that what you don't accept is the epistemology that is necessary to even underpin any ontic commitment either way. SX was correct about...

I have zero expectations of making any real difference here. That's way I might at least one day be pleasantly surprised. So carry on....

I keep dealing with the same points over and over. To be immeasurable is to be epistemically vague or an idea that is "not even wrong".

I was explaining why cosmologists, as a pragmatic community of inquiry, would proclaim themselves convinced. You are free to dissent. But your dissent...

I agree with you there. We do wind up having to make personal meaning of our own existence. But then the general political issue becomes how much of a...

As T Clark points out back at the start, if the red shift was just us moving towards some mythical centre, then we would also be approaching other gal...

It implies a formally exact complementarity, which is a very different (triadic) thing. The reason matter~symbol works, and mind~body doesn't, is that...

No. The Heat Death for me would have to be an eternally determinate state. It would have a fixed spatiotemporal structure and a minimal presence of en...

Again, the best answer I can give is that sensory noise would be what it is like to be modelling the world in that vague and undifferentiated fashion....

This sounds good, but what does it say that it is founded on logical paradoxes? We have to live as if the passing life were the eternal one. It is a h...

The logic of it is that it would be more like getting something from an undifferentiated state of everythingness. Vagueness is not nothingness but unr...

The digestive bacteria that cockroaches rely on do live inside cockroach cells. And they show the same big loss of genes as the result of that lifesty...

Newborn human babies have wired and functioning brainstems and so the level of sensory and orienting processing that goes with that. But it is surpris...

Well it was nice knowing you then. Goodbye to you and the 100 trillion bacteria living mostly symbiotically in your gut. And the vast variety of retro...

Sorry but I'm still not seeing any clear issue of concern. Let's look at the examples you offer: So I take it the argument is the body used to be your...

This is nothing like the story. The clue is in the word "symbiosis". The deal was mutually beneficial. It worked because the waste product of one was ...

In fact Einstein, Poincare, and others have described as best they can the way they thought problems through. The literature on mental imagery and cre...

Symmetry maths is absolute in its invariance under transformation. So it is a dynamical and emergent "absolute objectivity". And there is likely the k...

And notice I was disagreeing with you that general qualia precede particular qualia. What precedes is vague qualia. It is differencing rather than dif...

And no matter how many times I say the opposite, you will trot this nonsense out. There are three camps here. The reductionist, the idealist and the n...

But is it still materialism when the "belief" is epistemically grounded in the logic/maths? And the physiological senses are relegated to the job of s...

Shamanism is an example of getting with the program. That was the point. You are standing up for uncritical belief. And when that doesn't give answers...

Love the confused thought process. Materialists can't explain mind and idealists can't explain matter. You substance dualists really deserve each othe...

These are your wishful binaries that must be projected on to Peirce. I get it. We must divide ourselves into opposing camps. We must be team materiali...

But you are speaking for those who don't even have a hammer....only an axe to grind. That misses the point. You don't even have a hypothesis. You just...

Do I really have to walk you through the reasons why semiosis or a modelling relation is not representationalism all over again? Nope. Still in the sa...

Yep. There is a world of difference between a prejudice and a hypothesis. One accepts measurement, the other strives to avoid it. Nope. Metaphysical r...

I'm not buying this as a central issue. Our biological risk profile feels very secondary to our true modern concern, which is for "the self" - the Rom...

If you mean breaching a variety of planetary ecosystem boundaries - not just global temperature, but biodiversity - then yes, that is an important poi...

I would say rather that neoliberalism has been running things for 40 years and we are all waiting to discover exactly what form its collapse takes. Bu...

I can't say I see anything particularly biologicised or indistinct about the neoliberalised world. The dominant frame of analysis would still be that ...