apokrisis

If your point is that we don't doubt our conceptual frames, we only doubt within the constraints of those frames, then of course I agree. And also, as...

So how does that impact my position given that I've already been explicit that I am rejecting Cartesian representationalism – the ontology that permit...

Dialectic. Broad as opposed to narrow. Synthetic as opposed to analytic. Meta-theoretic as opposed to applied.

But don’t we - even at the meta-epistemic level - ground it all in pragmatism? A chair is real enough to take my weight. Your quote aims at the usual ...

Synthesising expertise. It seems you think you are the expert after all. And you have only just heard of Turchin's work. Probably not even read the pa...

And that is no different at the level of fundamental physics. Maths gives us the topological simplicity of particle physics as a SU(3)xSU(2)xU(1) stru...

Of course. He wound things right back to raw phenomenology so as to get going again on a more solid epistemic basis. That is how he could then commit ...

Not sure that is how it works. Seems it ought to require being expert across all fields. But they are not different approaches.

Hence the “God of the gaps” issue. My position argues from the point of view that even chaos can’t help but self-organise itself into some form or ord...

That’s still just epistemology.

[ It is hard to reply given you say nothing about your expertise or interests here. But if you want an example of what a mathematical and systems appr...

Here is how I explained that in a similar thread using the reality of organising an actual army... Then further... And more generally... Not to mentio...

Well here again is your starter from your own source… I will briefly note again why this is silly. Hierarchy theory in the systems science tradition i...

Are you too disinterested to try to say what you mean in your own words? Or even cut and paste from your source? I might as well point to the internet...

But that was because economics lacked the larger constraint of a historical perspective on social order. It was concerned with the plumbing of markets...

The systems view is now moving from thermodynamics and biology to social science and human history. It claims to add mathematical rigour to the conver...

But Rouse’s concern here appears epistemological whereas I was talking ontological commitments. Rouse wants to place the scientific image within some ...

But I am talking about hierarchy theory as a branch of science and not in that everyday sense.

And maybe I am not your classical naturalist. If you take structuralism seriously, matter isn’t really very material when you get down to it. Even Ari...

No, I meant that you are delusional in claiming to be well travelled, unlike me. I had lived in four countries and visited another twenty or so by 12....

Indulge your illusions if they give you comfort. :up:

But the facts forced him to change his mind. A cosmological constant was added to his equation of state. He remained uncomfortable, but so what. The i...

But it is perfectly clear how little idea you have about what that is. You are just babbling in the fashion expected of the standard crypto bro digita...

You can see I did in fact reply to @"Ludwig V" on this. So I might as well expand on where I suspect you are going wrong. You have this notion of "pow...

So when bar owners are paying off or intimidating the local police so as to be able to fleece the rich tourists, suddenly this becomes evidence for yo...

No. The Origins of Political Order, Political Order and Political Decay, and the postscript, Identity, are a really great trilogy. No. I am pointing o...

If you can’t present this beetle in a box private theory of yours here, then there is nothing to discuss.

I’m not clear what you are driving at. But I have no problem if you are saying the negative can’t be proved. I can’t claim evidence against a transcen...

You really are a low effort sort of guy. You can't even cut and paste your example, let alone explain it in terms that are relevant as any kind of cou...

NZTA’s multimodal approach was to create safe separation to allow everyone pick the transport choice they best preferred. If you can whiz to work on a...

For goodness sakes. Read Fukuyama. All three volumes. :grin: He analyses political structure across the world from the year dot. Read Debt as well for...

Just amusing but not related to the thread. On the other hand, it did point to the real world issue of why transport planning is in a bind. I’m not cl...

Hold up. Biosemioticians like Stan Salthe explicitly recognise a hierarchy of grades of telos that runs from human purpose to biological function to p...

So are there countries where you would be sure that you would hate them less? What do their transport habits look like exactly? Remembering that was t...

Well I only got started on the first point. How nature is in general always organised into hierarchical or fractal flows. Then would come how hierarch...

How does entropy apply naturally to order except as its negation or inverse? Just as is the relation between signal and noise in the information persp...

I was mocking Banjo’s abuse of these dichotomies to serve his rhetorical purposes. The need to tease out what is neurobiological about consciousness, ...

So not good vs bad hierarchies, just hierarchy in general. Boo, hiss! Hierarchy, dude! It's baaad! If you could give a concrete example, it would help...

Well if you are interested in processing signals, that requires you to have a model of noise. This was Shannon's actual job given he worked with a pho...

He gave the game away. If you want to talk about the biology of consciousness, he is just going to confuse you by talking about its sociology. That wa...

Claims that the dichotomy of private/public is undeniable. Then denies the dichotomy of private/public can be the subject of a claim. Sounds legit. :u...

It goes by a great many names. Here is a sample. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-world_network https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat-tailed_distributi...

So then your target isn’t really hierarchical order but some notion of social injustice. If we step back to understand hierarchical order as a pure fo...

Yep. That’s where it started. With a conceptual similarity. But then an actual physical connection got made. Folk like Szilárd, Brillouin, Landauer an...

Yet the holographic principle in fundamental physics says it means something that the same formalism works for information and entropy. At the Planck ...

But I gave you that example. You failed to respond to it. And I can understand why. You have no real argument to make in terms of any evidence you can...

It is almost as if crime believed in the statistical utility of risk/reward equations. Dignify it how you like. Arbitrage is arbitrage. The issue is t...

Again, no point bothering me until you understand hierarchies. I could explain to you of course. But you don't want to be put in the position that wou...

Still nothing being said to back up your claims. Just some annoyed mutterings as you depart the scene. :up:

Yep. You really don't understand hierarchies in any theoretical sense. Hence the idiot response. I'll just note how you failed to back up your claims ...