apokrisis

I feel like responding to you is exactly like chucking information down a black hole. The maximum entropy condition applies. Understanding is bent unt...

But I'm not the one complaining about the fact there exists a whole world out there where people talk funny.

That's a good point. I was talking about the biological level of neural modelling. And that is much more strictly pragmatic. Animals really are locked...

I suppose on the same principle you object to rulers that pretend to be straight, and clocks that pretend to be regular. It is physically impossible t...

Or you could get used to the fact that academia uses technical language for the sake of precise thinking.

You latched on to a phrase in a way that shows you don't understand the physical argument. Relativity would model the gravitational curvature as perfe...

Don't blame me if you lack literacy and are too lazy even to google the unfamiliar.

I'm saying that the intent is not to re-present reality to the self - display sensory data so it can become the subject of experience. Instead the int...

What about them? If I could look at the world through the eyes of a cat, I wouldn't expect to experience trichromatic vision. Just the same as I would...

It is your apparent attachment to "substance" that would be scientifically anachronistic here.

And yet the application of GR equations to cosmology immediately had the effect of predicting spacetime curvature so extreme that an event horizon mus...

Is that really what information semantics claims? To me it seems the kind of semiotic, constraints-based, approach I've described. So meaning is use. ...

So what does that mean for your notion of the atomism of concepts. Are they informationally closed or open? Uttering "dog" is an atomistic act. As a n...

But this is just being inconsistent - choosing dualism or some ill defined brain functionalism depending on which front you are currently mounting a d...

To try to make things clearer, the computational view does the regular atomistic thing of imagining existence to be based on some level of fundamental...

Ha. A paid up member of the flat earthers. It's only a rumour things disappear over the horizon because the world is curved. Another flat earther. In ...

The neuroscientists have looked. The answer is in. Everything works together fine on the whole. It is not unnatural to jerk your hand off a hot surfac...

In what sense are either not composed of multiple instances of experience? You might mean that words, to behave in "the right way" - act like a conjun...

Except you forget that my naturalism has been checked out all the way down. So I am happy to ask the question whether nature is natural. Why does life...

I hesitate to give the usual answer, but since you insist, I mean vague possibility. So a state of informational symmetry that could be broken a count...

Well in neuroscience it has led to this almost crazy obsession with the possibility that cells are talking to each other in codes of electrochemical p...

So by your dualistic reasoning, every congenitally blind person ought to report imagining colours, every congenitally deaf person would still imagine ...

Doesn't make sense. You must mean concepts can be combined but not decomposed. If concepts can be composed, then they would be composites. So you migh...

The disconnect is the other way around. We still think we see red even though there is now no actual "red" wavelength light being emitted. So the brai...

My point was the opposite. These were all things I could be consciously conjuring up, but then in fact I am effortless ignoring. Just being aware at a...

Kant is a familiar reference point. But my argument is more properly Peircean or biosemiotic. Of course we can't compare our experiences to know that ...

Your argument exposes that this can't be about simple emergence via compositional interactions. But in talking about a digital pixel display - designe...

Same old one note lament. You make the choice to view everything as pointless and whine on and on about it. Yet life as normal people experience it is...

I'm giving the simplified version, but it is like a short circuiting as you said. The lower emotional areas are involved in normal speech acts, giving...

There is a prosaic answer. A "lower brain" area - the cingulate cortex - is responsible for expressive vocalisation in social animals. So chimps hoot ...

The point is that you want to found your position on the transcendental subject. Good luck with the pure solipsism that ensues.

Yeah. But only if they live in some other reality rather than this actual world of ours. So natural values are not abstract in the way that your affir...

That's terrific. But the said moral agent has to be actually rational, not neurotic, psychopathic, autistic, etc. Which in turn means the agent must h...

LOL. Says the guy who fantasises about pessimism having the responsibility, because there is the capability, of wiping humanity out with nukes. You ke...

http://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/59160

I responded to your phenomenology point by reminding you I posted a detailed argument on that which you have continued to ignore. As to the rest of yo...

But in fact I said that the phenomenology as I experience it is that pain and pleasure go together. They appear inextricably intertwined in everything...

The logical presumption is that what a culture does must be pragmatically reasonable in some sense. It has to work in self perpetuating fashion. And t...

So I'm suppose to mistake this for an argument? Blah, blah, blah, you're the real romantic, take that and no returns. ;) It's not a problem if its jus...

Yeah. You have already embraced failure. So one less thing to worry about I guess.

Well I don't say that except to ridicule the idea that we have the choice implied. Naturalism would be about accepting our natural condition as the ne...

To remind you, this is the (false) dichotomy on which you got the OP started... So your claim was either/or. Either we are truly our own person, or we...

If that was all you said - making that pragmatic point - then of course I agree. But I don't see where you have argued that society is a natural pheno...

You sound upset at being accused of vicious circularity. And yet only a few posts back.... ...right. So now we are on the same page in agreeing that h...

But your angry language shows you do in fact care. As does your endless reposting of the one argument. Your actions give the game away. In your own wo...

Nope. I'm asking what is consistent about claiming existence is essentially meaningless and then getting so het up about people who don't appear to be...

Why is the questioning important if your answer is that nothing matters? As usual, pessimism makes no sense. You complain about the pain and futility ...

Is that clear from your careful rebuttal or something? Must be something up with my iPad. That post doesn't seem to have appeared my end yet.

Yep. I've just explained at length why I wouldn't invest a cent in the sad dualistic combo of mechanicalism+romanticism. So what's your point exactly?

LOL. Appealing to subjectivity is metaphysics. You can't have "a position" that doesn't make a claim on some species of counterfactual definiteness.