apokrisis

But there is an environmental "driver" if there are resources sitting around needing consuming. So adaptive radiation is no big deal. Life would fill ...

To biologists?

First, I wasn't endorsing Lamarckian evolution. Then on marsupials, you would get divergent evolution to fill all niches because of a lack of constrai...

The infodynamic closest equivalent might be agreeing that every material event or degree of freedom is like an informational point of view. If somethi...

I agreed that in evolutionary theory, the global constraint of natural selection preserves identity. So the environment of a species acts to stabilise...

That's a good translation. You are now talking about entropification at a more subtle level. But my view then is the dissipative structure one where e...

The question of how to be a better self is an important one. But my argument - as you know - is that the self is a bio- and socio-semiotic constructio...

Again, if one seeks division, one can always find it. But I'm seeking the third path that lies between the very familiar cultural positions of materia...

He was not an atheist. But he also said his theism was unlike that of others. So you are still trying to play the game of theism wins - or rather, the...

I was just adding something to my last post that covers that. As I argue, everyone wants to bat for one side or the other - brute materialism or creat...

Speaking then for a physicalist naturalism, I would make a few points. A geometric analogy is fine. The very thing of a mark can be understood to brin...

I see you realise your error. But even physio-semiosis would combine information and dynamics.

What transcendent thing is semiosis missing, given it covers both information and dynamics?

What are you trying to say?

But what is so objectionable in enjoying dispelling mysteries then? Seeking explanations is not the same thing as "demanding" them. Nor is uncertainty...

Great. And so this fundamental potential has no connotations of inherent mindfulness or consciousness or purpose for you? Or at least - this being my ...

Radical trinity might seem the same thing as pansemiosis from a structural view, but there is a big difference. As you say, your approach wants to mak...

Nature is a pragmatic harmony of information and matter. Technology relies on the forced divorce of the informational and material conditions of being...

Again, top down is real because it really does shape the parts. However the parts are real as well as - in the long run, as an averaged outcome - thei...

Plato used reason as the path to a realisation. So he made a logical argument. The world was observed to be changeable matter so - dialectically - tha...

What is the difference between revelation and realisation here? You didn't say.

Another way to see what is going on with reductionism as ontology is how it regards time. It constructs action in a way that conceals issues of develo...

So you confuse the immanent purpose of naturalism with the transcendence claimed by theism? Finding creative ways to get the issue backwards as usual.

A key part of the holist position is that the top down causality is something real because it shapes the parts. So where does sand get its shape so th...

But that is part of the argument. If the global telos is to entopify, the complementary local telos is to do work. Order is the way to achieve disorde...

So at best revelation, and more likely just learning the habit of feeling a conviction?

The question concerned the purpose of nature, of existence in general. Last time I looked, that lay outside any personal concerns I might have.

Well what is the bleeding method then? You've only assured me that there is one.

You keep changing the subject so I'll just repeat the question...

That is the question I asked. So more detail please. How does this validation work and how is it demonstrably better when it comes to talking about na...

Thanks for clarifying. If I understand you correctly then, yes, the first person point of view is indeed a thing. It is the embodiment of a purpose, a...

I just don't see consciousness in this kind of entitified terminology. There is no agent, just a process exhibiting what we choose to describe as agen...

Just because you don't think that dissipation is a good purpose doesn't negate it being a purpose. A purpose is the reason why things happen. So it mi...

Or rather I have repeated back the terms in which the discussion was being framed. I hope I have made it clear enough how I object to the presuppositi...

But I have taken care to distinguish my holistic naturalism from that reductionist Scientism. So you are not dealing with purpose as a systems science...

What could decide whether the naturalist or the transhumanist is correct here? Purpose is the reason why things are done. Naturalism suggests the most...

But my position is triadic. It goes in three directions.

And how meta of you to reply by demonstrating said special gift.

No. It just illustrates your special gift of understanding everything backwards.

I defined the core process. Semiosis or the modelling relation. I just gave an example. Object boundary detection. Mach bands. Yep. It was happening i...

Bear in mind that you are taking a very partial view of current evolutionary arguments. So the idea that life has the global purpose of surviving is b...

It is a substantive difference as the reductionist is claiming that a system is simply constituted of its events while the holist adds that, collectiv...

You say it is obvious but then psychology shows that isn't true. You can only think and act like an animal if you don't have language to structure tho...

Your talk of "mind" is just another ontic construct. We believe it to the extent it helps us make sense of "the world". You don't seem to realise how ...

Yeah. But that epistemic problem is accepted as the starting point of pragmatism. That is the bleeding difference here. Pragmatism doesn't pretend to ...

I both agree and also again make the point that this is really saying "nature" and "mystery" themselves form a dialectical construct. They are a thoug...

My point was that we can uncover the fact that there are underlying processes. Indeed it is common knowledge as you say. And so after that, treating c...

But you see the point. Consciousness ends up being conscious of how it must be the product of unconscious processes. A gap that was being filled can b...

It is the metaphysics of physics.

Thanks. To start, I question the value of trying to define consciousness as that already puts it in the class of a thing rather than a process. I don'...