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Or else you have no idea what natural philosophy is - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-natphil/ The rest is just too dull to address.

I’m talking about ontology rather than epistemology. Life and mind as a further source of causality in the cosmos. The stakes are accordingly higher. ...

But that is just your failure to understand my position. My core principle is that there is always a dialectical balance in anything that could matter...

That's a separate matter. :smile: I just like pointing out how the semiotic approach goes further in emphasising that our model of the world is also t...

But that is because I am sensible and don't buy that as a basis. Wrong premise and thus a pointless argument. It would be bad faith to pretend I went ...

Sure. You've certainly said how it seems for you. But as a biologist and neuroscientist, I see this as question-begging reductionism. This package of ...

For fun, let's test the pragmatic limits to your antinatalism. So you say you are a signed-up member of the AN charter. Being responsible for a birth ...

It would have shown less bad faith if you had responded to what I actually wrote. If one is simply recognising problems then that is a quite different...

It could have been better written. Well who gives a fuck when you put it like that.

You can tell without even reading? Impressive. How mighty are the arguments you make on PF. How you make your foes tremble when they hear the soft pad...

I can certainly recognise problems when I see them. And going looking for problems is a problem that I can recognise. If you think looking for only pr...

I just served you with a paper by Howard Pattee. Professor Emeritus at Binghamton University and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancemen...

An opinion. Served as usual without argument or evidence. You are such a lightweight.

Seems you are trying very hard to do exactly what biologists complain about. Failing to understand the epistemic cut. Or as a physicist put it in The ...

I never said Hegel was physics. As a paid up biosemiotician, you would have to show where I am a Hegelist rather than a Peircean. Produce the textual ...

Extra marks for getting the reference. But shame your skill at subtext is not matched by your diligence at doing actual work.

And they love you.

As insults go, this is pretty weak if not quite odd. Perhaps try getting ChatGTP to give you a hand?

Yep. See the science and run for your burrow. Pretend it never happened.

How is this not physics exactly? The Physics of Symbols: Bridging the Epistemic Cut

Be honest about it. My biosemiotic position arises within a community of reason that was Aristotelean and then became Peircean. So the reworking of He...

The wombat stirs, farts and leaves. Pleased to have made its small contribution.

Life is a balancing act. Once you get into a mindset of looking for problems, you are never going to find an end to problems. That ain’t philosophy. I...

So how do you derive the structure of a neuron from the laws of physics? Sure, the laws don’t forbid the structure. But in what sense do they cause th...

…he says pompously. :up:

To be clear, yes of course information storage as genes or words has some entropic cost. To scratch a mark on a rock is an effort. Heat is produced. M...

Not really. If we are talking causality, in biology it is the genome that is causing the physics. Enzymes are switches that turn chemical processes on...

I am sure you feel your opinions are well qualified. I could reply if I spotted some argument. In case you are interested, the supporting detail can b...

Well of course the cosmos is more fundamental than the bios. One creates the possibilities that the other exploits. Life and mind don’t contradict the...

This ignores the fact that organisms are organised by codes and so exist in a semiotic modelling relation with the world. This neatly inverts things. ...

But isn’t this approach failing to take into account that the witnessing selves are part of the semiotic construction of a witnessed reality? And ther...

You know yourself that three, four or even five things can be seen as different sized collections at a single glance. And remembered as such. But the ...

Or of perceptual grouping. Human working memory famously tops out at about “7 ± 2” items. The kind of grouping in the test that Trump aced when he cou...

My error was only in re-entering a long stale discussion.

This seems a useful clarification. Information is encoded meaning. Genetic information encodes for constraints on chemical actions. Neural information...

Were you addressing me? :chin: But anyway, animals obviously have good object recognition. The recognise pragmatic forms. But are they apprehending fo...

I've had schop bleating in my ear for a decade. And you are not striking me as someone who is suddenly going to make it an interesting subject.

Who could care about AN concerns? They are ridiculous given that there is plenty enough of pragmatic importance to be getting on with in our already e...

Object recognition thus parallels an entropic view of information. An equilibrium system like an ideal gas is defined by its macro properties - temper...

It might be relatively wrong but then also relatively right. You of course will do your usual mad thing of talking in exceptionless absolutes.

Remember I have already agreed that one ought to make responsible choices. One can tell if one is really in a position to do a good job of it. I’m not...

So because of this round up error, humanity should end itself forthwith as some kind of supreme ethical act? :chin:

Checking your comments on the other AN thread, I can explain better. You were arguing as if the “higher consciousness” of humans were something neurob...

AN would be the aesthetic pose in my book. I prefer to move on to the pragmatic meat of the issue of whether to have children. And how to approach lif...

Given you find yourself alive, is it then better to have a positive or a negative mindset about that fact? Regardless of the "truth" that you might ho...

Well these gripes are covered by it being a responsibly-informed decision. You have to catastrophise the average life to make life itself seem always ...

Any ethical argument that pushes for monistic absolutism is going to be inhumane just in denying that humans are organised by dialectical balances. We...

What does that mean? You were birthed. Does that force you to be a natalist?

Source?

So at what point does anti-natalism become just another social interest group telling me what I should think? As an evangelist, do you believe you hav...