apokrisis

Cripes. So social constructionism is the work of the Devil.

I have to say that the latest understanding of biophysics at the nanoscale is now a serious challenge to multirealisabilty. Organic molecules have phy...

You ought to check Robert Rosen's Essays on Life Itself for such arguments. Also Howard Pattee's paper, Artificial life needs a real epistemology. But...

Chalmers?

Of course not. All my senses actually see is squiggles of black marks. My cat sees the same thing. To interpret marks as speaking about ideas is somet...

Hah! Knocked it out of the park.

I always say it is fine in itself. It is only bad in the sense that two causes is not enough to model the whole of things, so reductionism - as a tale...

All modelling is reductionist ... even if it is a reduction to four causes holistic naturalism. And as I say, even the brain is a reductionist modelle...

Yep. So what the experiments illustrate is that we have "free won't", rather than freewill. As long as we aren't being hurried into an impulsive react...

Real computers are structured in hierarchical fashion. So once you start to talk about operating systems, languages, compilers, instruction sets, micr...

It's not that mysterious once you accept that the unity is mostly being unified by what it successfully ignores. (Which is also what makes the compute...

Maths is a model of reality as a perfect syntactical mechanism. It predicts the patterns that will be constructed as the result of completely constrai...

So you say. But I've asked you to show how mind science could have got it so wrong then.

So do you agree there are these three levels as I've described? Or do you dispute it? If so, on what grounds?

So do you agree there are these three levels? Or do you dispute it? My point was that you are talking a monadic substance approach to consciousness - ...

But my position deals with your "I" on three Pragmatic levels - genetic, neural and linguistic. All three are explained semiotically as habits of regu...

Maybe "I" am a social scientist. That is "I" understand and perceive the world in a fashion that is a particular educated habit of some human communit...

Yep. Of course the feeling of being conscious always involves the feeling of intentionality or the feeling of there being a point of view in play. So ...

Of course you can't doubt it ... given that you are in existence as a socially constructed self regulatory habit of thought. And indeed, you are readi...

You are ignoring the third possibility that consciousness is just a bad word in that is sounds like it is talking about something substantial, and tha...

What you are neglecting is that the "I" here is a socially constructed concept enabled by the learnt semiotic habit of speech. So the top down causali...

In a nutshell, information can regulate physicochemical instability. If the physics is delicately poised - what they used to call on the edge of chaos...

It's not passive. Individual neuron firing is actually being suppressed or enhanced. It's also not purely top-down of course. As I've said often enoug...

It's standard neuroscience I would say. Attention acts top down by applying a state of selective constraint across the brain. You can hook an electrod...

Of course. It would have to be otherwise I would be in trouble. So life|mind is an example of radical emergence ... which is also in a deeper sense ju...

Nope. And I've already explained it to you in this thread as in umpteen other threads. But as that vicious circle is locked up, biting its own tail, i...

Is this a serious question? Are you now arguing here as a theist and so have some dualistic concern about bacteria having souls and freewill? If teleo...

How is it opposed to its nature if the constraints are responsible for its nature? Obviously the attempts to avoid it. Or rather, the failure to under...

What do you mean by "float"? In what sense could that be a property the Universe is said to possess.

Already your cosmological speculation has started to go very wrong. No-one says the universe floats in nothing, let alone that this would be what give...

That is essentially it. But I would add that chemical evolution would be teleological in carrying out the wishes of the laws of thermodynamics. So mol...

Again, the reductionist imperative being expressed as a law of thought. If nature seems divided against itself by a metaphysical dichotomy, we must ru...

You are missing the point because of your unfamiliarity with basic biological theory. Dawkins' Weasel algorithm is a simple illustration of the power ...

Why are you babbling about mutations? My point about your weasel was that the letters already exist. So how did that situation develop? Recombination ...

Talk of an external intelligent creator is simply question begging - displacement activity rather than metaphysics. But talk of an immanent organic te...

But the problem is that you don't understand the current science well enough to have a clue what stage the narrative has reached. And you don't seem t...

But they are not the same story at all. Your scrambled sentence already begins with the counterfactual definiteness of some set of letters ... a conve...

Yep. Like the Copenhagen Interpretation, we accept our epistemic limitations. In the end, all we have got is some state of conception that looks prett...

Forgive me, but I can't take any argument for a divine creating intelligence seriously. There is just nothing about this actual observable world which...

So if more particular laws emerge from more general laws, what's illogical about extrapolating from that observable fact? If what we see is emergence,...

Sure, Cartesian doubt means that all knowledge is in principle fallible. But Peirce then built his career on dismissing Cartesian doubt by insisting o...

But it is one thing saying God could choose to create a world in which 1+1=3, quite another to believe it in your heart. Do you think Peirce would hav...

So you now agree that relationships themselves have causal status when we talk about the reality of things. Gentleman, our work here is done!

Yet another reason not to be a big fan of Sean Carroll. :) But anyway, the facts are that isolated water molecules have a bond angle of 104.4 degrees,...

You are confusing the models with the reality being modelled. The map you hold in your hand may be time-reversible, the territory it describes looks t...

But could God have had a choice if mathematical symmetries limited His options rather rigorously? What is missing here - from a modern hierarchy theor...

What do you think I was saying? The only subtlety is that that I add that the chaos is "embedded in the order" all the way back to the start. Which is...

But that's the point. Any attempt to envisage chaos leads to discovery that it has some structure. Any notion of a big great mess still has emergent s...

The problem over laws seems to start simply because talking of "laws of nature" suggest an analogy with human laws. So particle A acts like it does be...

Chaos is more subtle than that. It does have characteristic organisation. The primary symmetry of "chaos" is the fractal or powerlaw pattern that is s...