apokrisis

That's the rhetorical advantage of founding your "metaphysics" in the ineffable. No one can call you out for your failure to speak about it meaningful...

I said what I believed is that a tornado is the product of semiosis. As a dissipative structure, it is formed almost entirely by constraints outside o...

Fair enough. But then that is the essence of the scientific method. Have a guess and see how it fares in terms of inductive confirmation. That is Peir...

So what is it about the values of satanism, for instance, that convinces us of its claims to being a superior basis for philosophy? Where in the great...

At the end of the day, you are talking religious conviction.

It gives a naturalistic and immanent basis to value or purpose. Your other choices are then either the arbitrary or nihilistic answer given by regular...

Animate vs inanimate was not my choice of jargon. I don't need to defend it - as it is what I've been cricitsing. Sure biology is different from chemi...

Yep. The standard definition of metabolism is the "chemical processes that occur within a living organism in order to maintain life". Which leaves the...

Er, no.

You seem confused. I explained the speculative thesis of pansemiosis. It is based on the dichotomy of sign and matter. So it says that the animate and...

So inanimate is a category? But it lacks a definite essence? A tornado can move, grow, die, dissipate energy, sort of like something animate, but we c...

What your monadism implies, my dualism (which in fact unfolds to a hierarchical triadism) seeks to make explicit.

I gave a lengthy answer. You can pretend I didn't if you like.

So forget matter (or rather, substantial being) and give me your definition of inanimate. I presumed you thought of it as some kind of predicate of su...

Obviously, metabolism being unstable, it needs the further thing of a stabilising overlay of informational machinery. I think you are presuming that o...

Of course Thompson defends autopoeisis. This is a contentious issue with two sides. And it is not that autopoeisis is wrong - it accounts for dissipat...

And what you were asked for was the essence of inanimate matter. Does it not have its own form of nous - its reason for being - under Aristotelian hyl...

You claim that you only won't provide your definition because I would obstinately just then reject it. I call obvious BS. You don't have one. So there...

Yeah. We will know one way or the other by 2050 - the global bottleneck represented by "peak everything". Population, fossil fuel, probably even medic...

Not surprisingly, the major criticism that theoretical biologists would have of autopoiesis is that it undercooks the informational aspect of dissipat...

I note that you still seem unable to define what you mean by inanimate. That is pretty telling.

In science, talk about any quality ceases to be metaphor to the degree the quality can be measured or quantified. And my pansemiotic argument is that ...

So the LEM applies to inanimate, but not to animate? Interesting.

Would you categorise a tornado as inanimate and on what grounds precisely?

A biologist would stress that what is definitional is replication and metabolism. Respiration releases energy, but life also requires the ability to d...

Define inanimate. What is its essence? :)

Of course not. It makes a change from calling life and mind a physical machinery. I thought you were the one who believed in all the spooky transcende...

Biophysics finds a new substance This looks like a game-changer for our notions of “materiality”. Biophysics has discovered a special zone of converge...

Correct. So my use of "mind" is clearly deflationary. Especially as I am explicitly generalising it to semiosis, or sign rather than mind. Semiosis is...

You mean Apeiron, or even apokrisis? Or are you mixing up your Anaximanders and Aristotles? Easily done.

Hu?

I said it seems like it rages ... and then specified why that could only be anthropomorphic projection because there is no internal semiotic model in ...

OK, fixed. :)

It's a good question as it does get to the heart of a big controversy. A simple answer is that yes, all properties are relative - and that in turn mea...

That's a bit harsh when science is all about placing empirical or observable constraints on metaphysical speculation. So the observer is included with...

In my opinion, the best neuroscience model of the mind is Karl Friston's Bayesian Brain approach. And that does describe it as a semiotic dissipative ...

It is accepting formal and final cause as real at the cosmological level. Even if that is just the general desire for entropification served by the fo...

To use the words means being able to cash them out as acts of measurement. So it is a semiotic coupling of models and measurements, concepts and perce...

That is really interesting information Banno - rolleyes.... Thanks for again illustrating the narcissistic essence of life and mind. Whatever else you...

Definitions are never going to be hard if they have to track the crossing of some critical boundary. It is always going to be the case that the line b...

So life can be defined as a natural kind, and yet that is not an implicit theory of essence? Ah, how you Fregean scholastics love dancing on your pinh...

How to put it simply? I would say you are far too focused (like all AI enthusiasts) on the feat of replicating humans. But the semiotic logic here is ...

Maths is the science of patterns. It is our modelling of pure form. So maths remains just a model of the thing in itself and not itself the thing. So ...

Again, this is why machines and organisms are at different ends of the spectrum (even if it is the same spectrum in some sense). So it is because biol...

You often ask why nature is so mathematical. And the reason would be that maths (especially symmetry maths) can be considered to be the order that eme...

But that natural order is explicable in terms of an accumulation of history if we understand the mechanism of the critical phase transitions. So it is...

My position on the laws of physics is that - to avoid any mystery - laws are "material history". Laws are simply the constraints that accumulate as a ...

There would be a unity or symmetry. That is implied by the fact something could separate or break to become the "mutually exclusive and jointly exhaus...

Just keep making random shit up.

You can dude all you like. But action potentials are not electron discharges. Ion flow regulated by voltage-gated channels are electrical in that a ch...