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Why not say something interesting rather than make lame garbled posts like that?

I have always stressed that my position - being naturalism - is anti transcendence and pro immanence. And that is why materialism becomes inadequate. ...

And he also says the conscious agents are constructing MUI icons. So no "objects", just their signs ... that somehow then have a background of process...

But you were saying there was a conscious choice to believe in the reality of something like your keyboard. We had to agree to agree somehow. It's not...

So now the focus switches to agreement. Private wishes are not good enough. It has to happen that we desire the existence of the same object for it to...

But this seems to entangle two causal metaphysics in illegitimate fashion. If it is about the material facts of evolution and genetics where a mental ...

Where does one start? :) Perhaps here. With your version, what happens when your conscious choice about the facts of reality conflict with my choice a...

Perhaps not. But science does have social standards around these kinds of things. So in that context, that is how I would judge him. And I would admit...

So you or your family have never taken even an aspirin? You or your family have never had a vaccination? Honestly? Anyway, it is good at least that yo...

So if you or your family did get cancer, would you go to a hospital that uses medicines rather than faith healing? That was the actual question. Would...

If you get cancer, are you going to go to a regular doctor, one indoctrinated by the Deep State and a corrupt shill of Big Pharma, or to your holograp...

Yep. It's a conspiracy. Pass the tin-foil hat.

Of course I say a change in perspective is needed. And it is not so simple as replacing one species of substance monism - material realism - with anot...

No. Read what he says again. Because "regular physics" can't seem to account for brains with minds, we should disbelieve that it does account for worl...

It's all relative as they say. Motion doesn't make sense without space and time, and space and time don't make sense without motion. That is why symme...

Yeah. Hoffman says to solve the problem of consciousness, we must get rid of the world. So onwards to idealism. And then the handwaving about consciou...

Human minds have a memory of the feeling. That is a critical thing that semiosis at the socio-linguistic level adds. The self is a socially constructe...

You missed the point. Even metaphysics reasons counterfactually. So if green isn't green, what else would it be? At some stage you might sound as thou...

Can you find where conscious agents gets a serious definition? I couldn't. So that's where the handwaving becomes a frantic blur.

If you are interested in a deeper level explanation of inertial motion, then the standard physics route is spelt out by Noether's theorem. Note that b...

The answer is that physics takes an information theoretic view of causality these days. That is what folk are really talking about with things like th...

Precisely. So it gets at final cause - that which is the meaning of being, the reasons why things even are. And it is non-mystical in that hierarchica...

So you agree with me that it prima facie should? You might have to quote me the bit where you say it was also your point. That is a leap that you make...

You are just bad at making your points. You can't explain what your own words like "mentality" might mean in terms of their ontic commitments. And you...

You keep repeating what the modelling relation approach explicitly rejects. If you want someone to defend representationalism to you as an ontology, y...

I was more specific. It is not modelling per se - as that is the representational story of computational information processing and Cartesean theatres...

And that is precisely what Peircean metaphysics embraces. It is based on there really being degrees of concrete or crisp existence. At a deeper level,...

Yes I agree. That is why the story has to be foundationally triadic. There must be the two things of a separation of causality, and then the third thi...

And yet when you get high, neuroscience finds that messing with neural signalling is the prosaic cause. Or if you recognise your grandmother, specific...

Poor old Schop. The question was simple. Why shouldn't it feel like something to be modelling the world?

It might be obvious to you that you use a standard term in idiosyncratic fashion. But why should it be obvious to me? Weird.

What are you talking about?

I'd love to see the Nature reference on that. (But then Nature is part of the establishment conspiracy against morphic field research, blah, blah, bla...

The quick answer is that I am talking of a neuro-semiotic process of modelling the world in a self interested way. And so just in saying that, we can ...

When questions are so off the mark, yes, ignore them. But if you have a go at defining your ontology with clarity as requested, then sure, we can come...

Why do I have to explain everything to you when you won't explain anything to me? I keep asking you to say what you really mean by a term like mental....

Yep I agree with the paper that reality really is probabilistic. So a picture of a wavefunction - in picturing a "field" of probabilities rather than ...

Well you had a good go at me. Now its your turn. If you want to advance your own position, let's hear how you would defend it against my specific crit...

I've made a sufficient number of points against your position. If you have no answers, we can all draw our own conclusion.

Sure, Bohm produced both good science and crackpot ideas. That is not unusual among mathematical/scientific geniuses. Newton was famous for his alchem...

No. I'm just pointing out the beginner's mistake you are making about what a QFT picture of an atom or anything would represent. You are thinking of s...

It's thorny because quantum theory says it cannot be merely an epistemic issue. It has to be an ontic strength problem. That is why folk feel it is le...

You can't afford to scoff if you mistake quantum field theory as talking about a literal field rather than a field of probabilities. Like a graph, it ...

Dual aspect monism simply collapses the triadic systems-style causal explanation that Aristotle was aiming for. Substantial being is the intersection ...

I know. I'm still waiting for your definition of "mental" or "experience" or "consciousness". You seem to be circling in on "field/theatre/appearance/...

And on other occasions he suddenly comes to and remembers the value of a living mate, feels ashamed and remorseful over how he is behaving? Come on. Y...

I could respond if you can explain what you mean by "mental". Matter and information apparently cause it. It is not a picture, or a theatre, or an ill...

You are stuck in the mode of regarding experience as a substance. That all it is.

But who is to say miss diving beetle isn't just being coy, discovering which male is tough and fit enough to overpower her? And if you find that frami...

That's a general beat against reductionism. And one I agree with. It is the nature of all reasoning to be dialectical - to be torn between two opposit...