So part of what I was pointing out is how information theory cashes out the counterfactuality of logic in actual logic gates and thus in terms of a pr...
It is easy to assume things are just what they are. But that depends on them being in fact not what they are not. That should be familiar to you from ...
Perhaps Sam Bankman-Fried should call you as a character witness then? You would obviously feel it an outrageous violation of the bitcoin bro code tha...
Evidence? Where in history is a human society not hierarchically ordered? I mean how could we even recognise it as a "society"? Imagine pulling up in ...
You raised an interesting question that I haven't properly dug into. My focus has been on the more macroeconomic issue of nation states and their colo...
Both piggyback on the logic of counterfactuality. And that in turn leads to the deep difficulties folk have in believing in a continuum that can also ...
I think it was just commonsense once the big leap towards treating society as a designable machine for delivering desired ends became a thing with the...
It works all the time everywhere in life. Of course if you think in only rigid absolutist terms, this will be hard to accept. Who in everyday life eve...
Nope. That is just Banno trying to rewrite ancient forum history to console his still hurt feelings. :grin: The more important measure in everyday hum...
And the weakest spot would be by definition the least average? Dude, plug your brain in. Again, just stop and think a little deeper. This is why defen...
So do you mean actual linear cities - like the disastrous Neom project - or those with a natural fractal hierarchy that maximises the efficiency of it...
Yep. This is in fact just how self-organising systems work. They require a constant interaction between their global constraints and their local freed...
You seem to be talking about notions of the continuum which would be a small part of Peirce’s semiotics. And you have your own ideas about how to abus...
Read Richard Wrangham’s The Goodness Paradox for an evolutionary perspective of how we are set up for social organisation. We shifted from the reactiv...
When something is working so relatively well, folk can just take it for granted. Then as things start to go wrong, it can take those who have become d...
In general I would say your maths training leads you astray about the real world. More statistical theory might help you on how effective solutions ar...
I did specify social psychology. I agree that psychology in general seemed a science in disarray when I studied it in the 1970s. Apart from psychophys...
Sure, sure. One can always live on the fringe as an option. Or seek to flee it too. Digital nomad or migrant worker? Individuals can always be individ...
What about this as a better way of framing it for modern times? The globe is busy self-organising itself in terms of these new mobility possibilities....
Exactly what the colonisers shipping out Europe said by the boat load. They looked forward to no longer tugging the forelock at home, enjoying the wel...
Marxism failed as communism. But it fared better as social democracy. Russia and China had to make big jumps just to become industrial powers within a...
Wow. You realised you describe the age of Colonialism so well. Just the same model in today’s world. Pack up your bags and settle in some land inhabit...
It is quite accurate that nature organises itself with hierarchical complexity. That began right from the Big Bang. It is the natural pattern of all N...
Congratulations for finally spelling out your position. Not sure why it had to take so long. The simple way it fails is that there is everyday talk ab...
I wondered what the problem might be in Spain and found out that Jaén is a weird story of building a whole new tram network in 2010 and then mothballi...
The city Amadeus complains about in fact took inspiration from Seville’s “tactical urbanism” approach to start rolling out a rough and ready cycleway ...
This is really getting into the weeds but the NZ context is that bus lanes are being created by taking out roadside parking and the margin of the road...
You think roads and carparks are cheap national investments? Do you think that countries get rich by not being focused on the long term economics of t...
The general idea of setting up bus lanes in NZ cities is to prepare main commuting routes for eventual conversion to light rail networks. Or at least ...
Why? Bus drivers are at least professional and trained to be attentive. They are not texting or day-dreaming like the average car commuter. What's the...
That was my point. Left and right used to be about social and economic policy settings. A debate over the right national system. Now it has shifted to...
And the problem here is this bogus notion of "our everyday lives". As humans we are semiotically organised across at least four levels of reality enco...
Agreed. And an excellent definition of Scientism. Semiosis aims to be a science of meaning. And so it assumes that anything we value as an idea or hab...
While I might strongly agree with the general sentiment about cars having taken over and social pushback being required, it also has to be pointed out...
Agreed. But the semiotic position would be that "red" is reducible to some kind of sign relation we have with the world. This ought to help clarify th...
It's not even in the university library system and I doubt I will learn anything new for the $82 price tag. You would have to summarise what he adds t...
Pragmatism is the art of being finely balanced on the metaphysical knife edge between the competing pulls of lumpen realism and lumpen idealism. Even ...
The model does. You have your embodied self-world relation and I have mine. At a neurobiological level that means you push your buttons and I push min...
Sure. But he has a book to sell, a name to make. There is a social incentive for him to angle his story so as to attract the audience he does. And it ...
So Umwelt realism? But even this doesn't work epistemically as we have access to more than the way we talk about than just "how it all is for us". We ...
Interesting way of putting it when it was your position being criticised for its sophism. Sure you can have your own philosophical platform of "everyd...
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