I have no idea what you mean here. It sounds like some brand of idealism if you so clearly rule out fact/reality. Although fact and reality could also...
Time means nothing to the photon, but it does mean something to any particle with mass. Relativistically-speaking, mass has a meaningful temporality b...
Yeah. And so already you are pointed in the direction of seeking that missing thing as a satisfaction. If satisfaction is actually impossible, then it...
Instead of two beliefs, it is two separate notions of justification. On one hand, there is what seems to be your idealist approach - a dyadic correspo...
In biology, they are the determining part. What happens during growth or development is then that this finality gets mixed with a lot of particular ac...
I already made the point this is a one-eyed view - https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/100361 You always stress the escape from negativi...
On a personal note, the first aha! moment for me was reading a 1976 SciAm article on Rene Thom's Catastrophe Theory as a biology undergrad. http://www...
That's it. The popular account of all this has been the talk about fat-tail distributions, or seven degrees of separation - http://www.nytimes.com/200...
Well stratification or nested hierarchical organisation is itself predicted by Barabási's scalefree networks. The emergent powerlaw statistics of airp...
No, no. Top-down constraint is formal and final cause bound up. Although - following the logic of dichotomies - we would also follow Aristotle in divi...
I think we all know this. But then the paradigm shift is seeing that it is a natural, probabilistic and self-organising thing. It is a mutuality or di...
I thought I've explained ad nauseum? It is a dialectical or dichotomistic principle. Final and formal cause are wrapped up in the systems notion of to...
But is your tag game a good model from which to extrapolate? It has unnatural features like that it is a closed system - only these four kids are play...
Again, take notice of the background thought here. There are two views. Either we try to engineer the system like a machine, or we recognise the power...
Excellent point. My systems science perspective sees competition and cooperation as the complementary local and global poles of social organisation. S...
Ah. Again the return of the agent, the mysterious witnessing and deciding self who is conscious. We are back to the ghost in the machine. Who needs ne...
Quantum mechanics definitely challenges Newtonian determinism. But the answer on freewill and causality is more general. What is really needed is an "...
Yes of course. The basic idea that our conceptions shape our impressions is ancient. The Greeks realised that we have to read the ship on the horizon ...
I would say the historical situation is that Peirce formed an absolutely coherent view of pragmatism/semiotics. But then because of social forces, tha...
I would put it the other way round. We know that to dichotomise strongly is the way to be sure that any answer is going to fall within the bounds of t...
Attending releases the appropriate habits, while suppresing the inappropriate ones. In broad way that is so. But habit is also final cause/constraint ...
It is scientific reasoning. So I guess bivalence might be replaced by the null hypothesis. We propose that X is a hypothetical cause of an observable....
Pragmatism would flip this on its head by saying everything is probabilistic. Reality is not deterministic - in the fashion conventional thinking abou...
James was a good psychologist but a weak philosopher. The holes in his version of pragmatism were obvious. Peirce felt forced in the end to rebrand hi...
Scientific objectivity is a bit more than "construing". It is the evidence based approach. And it is metaphysically systematic in assigning causality....
As Schop says, a general reply is that nature is a balance of competition and co-operation. So rather than reducing the issue to a debate where cooper...
You are forgetting that my approach is quite different from yours on this. Again, you want to boil things down to the effective causes of behaviour. A...
Attention is a habit acquired in an evolutionary sense. The brain evolved that propensity in that it is baked into the inherited neural architecture o...
No words. You are saying the Dutch can't be a tall as a national characteristic because some happen to be short? You just reject ordinary statistical ...
Sure. You mean like Pragmatist philosophy of mind? Or do you mean to reference some other philosophical position? Give me a link so I can get an idea ...
Yeah sure. That's totally believable. But I am asking you directly to make it clear what you might think be our essential point of difference in this ...
It was a simple question and you don't seem to want to answer. Why don't you just come out and explain what is bugging you so much. I mean in terms of...
So are you agreeing with creative's argument? Or is that what you are labelling a satire. :) Creative says we can't extract traits from population sam...
Alternatively, action can be motivated by either a desire to move away from something or a desire to move towards something. In operant conditioning, ...
So attention forms an intent as a general constraint? It doesn't matter how that intent is satisfied in terms of particular connecting actions? Isn't ...
The logic remains. Nerve signals take time. Habits short circuit action decisions and have an integration time of a tenth to a fifth of a second. Atte...
The quarterback must release with millisecond accuracy and yet it takes at least a tenth of a second for any "go now" command to form as connections i...
Goals are not passive things. They are active states of constraint. So they may not be efficient causes, but they are final causes. They shape the int...
Yep. It is pretty obvious that there are many cultural styles around the world. There are crib sheets for business travellers to help them understand ...
It is you who introduced these further distinctions of "deliberate" and "conscious". Why do you think they are necessary qualifications? As I've said,...
You just seem very hostile. If you want to understand something, try to pin-point the difficulty you are having a little more crisply. Put your emotio...
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