apokrisis

But for me it really isn't about being faithful to anything. I'm not a Peircean historian. So I do see him making a foundational contribution to what ...

Symbols have to be physical marks. So they have materiality in that sense. Something needs to be scratched on a surface for it to endure as a sign. An...

Cool. They couldn't fool you, eh?

Great. So tell me what you find so anthropomorphic about the neuronal machinery of habituation. The more usual criticism is that it is a tad mechanist...

So I posted that link to habituation. Pounce away. :)

Nope. Not in my class. Are we talking university or primary school?

Why? Do you have a reason to think that there is no brain doing something inside your skull?

Did I mention neurons? But yes. If we were talking of mindfulness down at the level of simple creatures like sea slugs, then the habituation of neuron...

What could that even mean?

See what I mean by hand-wavy? You didn't mention the basal ganglia once. Instead you capitalised consciousness to show that all that messy neuroscienc...

Sure. Scientists are human too. They have investments in belief systems. They have social boundaries to mark. They like fame and fortune as much as th...

How are you defining habits exactly? Is that an actual theory with some mathematical structure or simply vague hand waving on your part? (A Peircean d...

But to talk about causes, first you have to be able to demonstrate the reliable existence of an effect (so something more than coincidences, accidents...

You have to consider all three laws of dynamics as a system to see how the second law scales local symmetry breaking. So the first law establishes ene...

Not to mention the profitability of the casino industry.

So do you believe Sheldrake's theory has been experimentally validated?

I dunno. I in fact had a close interest in parapsychology research in the early 1990s as an example of science in real world action. Even did a ganzfe...

But I would be a weak eliminativist in that I am only arguing that there are models that are better or worse in the light of some purpose. So folk mod...

As John points out, there is a difference between expecting the mystery to be cleared up in some radically different way (revelation? poetry?) and acc...

I think Kant can be credited with creating a ground zero for epistemology. Ultimately we can't know the noumenal in any direct fashion, we can merely ...

This is a tricky issue because it depends whether you are reasoning about the particular, or about the general. When you are making claims about the p...

But you want to preserve the mystery because you believe in the mystical already. Your epistemic arguments are soaked in self-interest. You must rejec...

I discount Dennett as a serious voice. Frankly I find him all over the shop. Early on he was saying good things about intentionality and even the soci...

I'm not following because eliminative materialism doesn't seek to say the mind doesn't exist. Rather the point is that folk psychology conceptions of ...

But who believes in this fiction of either "the happy man" or "the unhappy man"? What's wrong with "the man with a normal emotional range".

But this is only a problem if perception and conception are conflated. You have an idea that you have freewill. But that is a folk psychology concept ...

I like Charlie Lineweaver's take on the issue....the counter to the argument that we will be able to detect aliens by their wasteful radiation.

True that. Is that because the pain/effort of exercise/learning are somehow naturally part of a greater balance? So we can enjoy the short term signal...

It's a common saying - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_is_the_enemy_of_good

What are you talking about? Are you denying that my phenomenological experience is in fact a balance of the positive and the negative? Does personal, ...

It all boils down to the organisation of power. And power is organised through systems of signs. In nature, that is all mind is - the organising and d...

How many more times must I say that my semiotic approach is founded not on determinism but indeterminism. Constraints and freedoms co-arise in mutuall...

But isn't this exactly what my semiotic naturalism is about - bringing four causes thinking back into scientific thought? So there is a dualistic divi...

Folk are always saying this kind of thing. But on what grounds should my freedoms be constrained by artistic or religious notions? Can you provide a s...

Right. So there are two ways you are prepared to view my contributions here. Either I'm wrong, or if I'm right, I'm only stating the obvious. Cool. Bu...

Natural philosophy is this hierarchical approach to telos. The telic is understood as a cascade of increasingly specified constraints. So telos can be...

So you agree that gravity has a direction in that regard? For some reason, making an effort is morally improving. The underlying entropic telos of nat...

So how, in your solipsistic ethics, do you handle paedophiles and crack addicts? They are just doing what makes them feel good, right? Should you be a...

Which do we celebrate more - going up the mountain or trotting back down?

So do you have to care about gravity or not? What I explain is both what we need to care about and what we don't. The world is a hierarchy of increasi...

Now that's funny,

Even if the desire the Universe encodes is its heat death, isn't Thanatos or a death drive recognised as a telos in Romantic/Freudian thought? But don...

But that misrepresents what I say. I certainly think natural philosophy (or four causes science) is the right way, the best way, to look at ethics and...

Why should I in the end be overly concerned about what you in end claim to believe? That would be crazy, especially when you make it clear your belief...

As I suspected. You are not here to defend an argument. You just want an excuse to chip in with the ad homs. Stroll on buddy.

So you agree that "value" is a relation and not a thing? It is thus provisional on something other than itself and not a primary fact of being?

Big and swinging. Mind your head, coming through.

To remind folk of the key issue as I see it, ethics is generally a topic unmoored because it can't place itself in the world in general fashion. It wi...

Ah, solipsism it is then. Pragmatism is the process view, and so it grounds being in acts of evaluation. It is not the feeling that is true (or good, ...

You over-estimate my concern over what you believe. The fun is in watching how the arguments play out.