apokrisis

The essence of our difference is that my immanent naturalism opposes your transcendent Romanticism in believing in the unity of opposites. So any dich...

You seem to be mixing two different familiar questions. One is about the nature of your existence - the riddle of consciousness. The other is about th...

Surely worlds have logical properties that ordinary logic does not capture - because ordinary logic doesn't make general rules about spacetime and mat...

Either you accept we live in a natural world with immanent logic or not. If we are part of nature, then all that asks of us is a pragmatic response. I...

But you are again straying from nature's own logic. Failure spells non survival. So the ability to persist is definitional of what it is to flourish. ...

Alternatively, we are meant to flourish. Or same thing, flourishing would be what would be meaningful. (Try and deny it.) So you are simply building y...

Must I keep repeating myself endlessly for your pleasure? Just do some reading on hierarchical organisation.

Yep. I've been pointing out the self-defeating nature of anti-natalism in that it in fact must result in the eugenic strengthening of the pool of will...

Try and keep different thoughts separate. I was addressing Schop's OP about the "puzzle" of self perpetuating social institutions and noting the irony...

Why must you keep misrepresenting what I say? I'm not arguing for optimism in place of pessimism, but instead pragmatism. And also you can make your a...

You have yet to pull words out of your own mouth that would make a coherent case as to how a structurally black world could be quite fun and meaningfu...

That would be the ship with all its "accidents". So to get the metaphysics right, it has to be sortal (or constraints-based) in Peircean type fashion....

Rubbish. The bar on what counts as being properly human has simply been set impractically high by institutionalised Romanticism. That is the subcontra...

Yep. Either the grey is an illusion, or the black is a delusion. So pick your poison.

How can you see grey in a world that is structurally black? What is going on there?

You say you personally see no purpose. A greater number - those that actually put their back into strengthening those social institutions - certainly ...

You are missing the point. It would be your conception that lacks coherence with your perception. If you see only grey, yet you claim that the world h...

Yep. It is the purpose, the finality, that causes the ship to be repaired and so there is unbroken continuity in the identity - for all practical purp...

So you agree that your perceptions and conceptions are incoherent. Great.

Of course it is incoherent. If you see the world is generically grey, you can't coherently claim it to be black on the grounds it is not white. Just a...

But semiotics transcends physics because it can imagine its marks as having zero dimensionality. So we have to recognise the computational aspect of t...

It is relevant that in one breath you tout the mood enhancing benefits of pot, the next you imagine it as the very worst advice I might give you and S...

So why are you hanging around a philosophy forum instead of being out there jiggling your booty. Is dance ... not enough?

So another vote for idealism? Michael will be pleased.

Ah. Direct experience. Good luck with that. :)

Hah. That's a dreadful book in terms of its over-egged celebration of plasticity. But remember that my own take on neurology is semiotic. So I don't e...

You need to try harder to keep up with the thread. You are still wanting to construct your numbers, and yet the point being made is that the continuum...

So to complete the pattern, 2ns would need to be characterised by a failure of distribution of the principle of identity. And you are saying 2ns is re...

So again, explain stimulants.

So you have changed your claim now? Consciousness no longer creates matter. Instead matter can kill it, yet not create it? Yet what is happening when ...

You seem uncertain that this is my actual position for some reason. Is that because you know you're just making up things I never would say?

Yeah it's just so obvious. Alcohol doesn't cause drunkeness, drunkeness causes alcohol. Lobotomies don't cause a destruction of integrative thought, a...

Or formally, each is the other's context. As in the logic of a dichotomy - that which is mutually exclusive and jointly exhaustive. So mathematically,...

Following on from the point about Brouwer, memory and action, I am reminded of Landauer's erasure principle - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer...

So MU, you quote Peirce in a way that directly contradicts you and directly supports me. Interesting argumentative strategy.

If you could define meaningful in a meaningful fashion here - ie: in a way that makes a quantifiable difference - then there might be something to tal...

I'm liking Brouwer's "two-oneness" intuitionistic approach to the continuum that Zalamea mentions. It gets the pan-semiotic point that existence depen...

You really do live in your own private Idaho. Underground like a wild potato.

But how did it make a difference to you that you ate one and not the other? And how even did it make any difference to the world, if the world had any...

Or meaningful in fact. And this is the semiotic point. Information is not noise but a message when it is a sign connected to our desires. So there are...

This. Then. If you can't join the dots between the superficiality of Pessimism as a philosophy and the superficiality of pot as a solution to life's p...

MU's thoughts indeed form an undivided continuum. :)

At the end of the day, your version of understanding nature amounts to you standing there and saying the words "I understand nature". There is nothing...

You need to get out more. The mathematical world is larger than just set theory - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_(topology) The continuum mad...

Bateson must get the actual credit - http://www.informationphilosopher.com/solutions/scientists/bateson/

But why do you presume the job of the mind is to see reality "as it is"? That makes no evolutionary sense. So pragmatism/semiosis is a realistic theor...

If I offered you the choice between two McDonalds cheeseburgers, would it make a difference which one you picked? If there are differences that don't ...

You smoke your first joint yesterday and today you talk like a seasoned stoner.

If that is truly Spinonza's view then at least we can cross him off the list. ;) It would be nice if you could support your claims with references or ...

And that existence is what you make it. Of course Pollyannaism is as superficial as Pessimism. There are limits to what any individual can change. So ...