apokrisis

That's surprising. I'm sure you said once you believed that spontaneity was a proper part of nature. Or is equipotential in fact physically impossible...

You're a peevish kind of chap, aren't you? But I see that at least you haven't attempted to deny the implications of your choice of words.

So you think the wisdom of modern maths is that infinity is just another number? And not something more that that? X-) You start counting and tell me ...

So why mention lunar influences except that it seems reasonable that they might be influences? If you actually thought you were suggesting the kind of...

But nature is an emergent mix of constraints and freedoms. So humans are free to do stuff that nothing else in nature can manage. OK, well you can mak...

Heh, heh. I would have loved to meet the guy because even biographical accounts don't paint a picture that make sense to me - even as in the classic m...

But we are talking about the US here, aren't we really. So the formula is conservative/religious social norms and economic liberalisation. Yes, that m...

You are happy to just make assertions without evidence. You describe the facts as they need to be to make your version of reality correct. But the ver...

I agree Trump is a good test of civilisation's current level of foresight and resilience. But surely you can rely on the CIA to arrange an accident fo...

That's a sweeping claim. All earlier examples of social collapse (as evidenced for example by Jared Diamond) were societies that didn't understand the...

Yep. That would be the counterfactual that my position makes possible as its antithesis. And history shows sentience evolves. So your pessimism loses ...

Nature doesn't produce dice. Only humans do. However they still illustrate the essential principle of how to understand randomness or spontaneity in n...

There is the long-run issue too. But a "perfect" society - that understood itself in these organismic terms - would understand such lifecycle issues a...

But that still leaves the natural philosophy argument that "perfection" involves only a constraint on variety in pursuit of some global goal. So the g...

Randomness can be described equally well as either epistemic uncertainty or ontic indifference. We don't know which number the roulette wheel will rol...

It doesn't make sense for you to classify x as the unknown unknowns and then start to tell me about all the known unknowns that constitute x. Besides ...

But he does rely on that kind of direct experience of the divine - that firstness - in making the neglected argument. Yet a "community of minds" appro...

Abductive reasoning is always reckless! But as you say, then comes the deduction and induction which justifies it as the right thing to have done.

And the honest truth is I need to be pushed. I'm basically so lazy I need to be made to justify my views by plunging back into the literature to make ...

If you want threads on the biophysics of substance or the thermodynamic imperative, I could start providing those again. But be careful what you wish ...

Hey, you go on a philosophy forum and not just your arguments, but your premises too, get picked apart. Get used to it. You made the assertion that sc...

I find myself tediously re-explaining the same things to you. Good job I enjoy rehashing the same story in various ways. :) Firstly - at this level of...

Difficult one. I see his theism as firstly a product of his environment. His family and the Massachusetts of that time was intensely religious. US aca...

A true fact .... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otoacoustic_emission

Haven't I explained this to you before? If everything tries to happen at once, most of it will be contradictory and so will self-suppress its own exis...

But what is the source of this "commonsense" understanding of magical thinking? It can only be that you are benefiting from a tradition of scientific ...

But Apeiron - when understood as primal chaos - says that everything is already happening. It doesn't need starting, because it is already an infinite...

Personally, I discount Aquinas as he latched on to what was most wrong about Aristotelean metaphysics - the idea of the need for the further thing of ...

Or maybe it exposes the essential incoherence of that familiar notion of a creating God? It seems nuts that anyone would want to create our flawed wor...

The argument is over causality - what could cause existence? And both conventional theism and conventional atheism flounder in the same way. They thin...

Yep. Sort of. The argument would be that accelerating entropification would be the most general of all imperatives - the one rule that all existence i...

Yep. It will keep on going in the wrong direction. The definition of disoriented. And they go off in whole groups. There were 15 in the group that wal...

So I see a disoriented penguin in Herzog's film. A few years ago I was standing next to a penguin researcher when a whole gaggle of Adeles came waddli...

Still regurgitating his factoid?

Being the beginning of (space)time, it is also the beginning of the dichotomy that we call old vs new, past vs future, change vs stasis. To talk about...

The article of course does not mention the actual mainstream hypothesis of modern biology - which is that life arises as an expression of the more gen...

Nonsense. Instead of having to start with either a whole, or the parts, things start with the more foundational step of the beginning of their actual ...

You can blame the scientists. But it is the scientists who actually investigate and support the idea of a placebo effect. Its a huge area of research....

So are solitons and electron holes material things in your book? We can use them for computing. They obey the quantum rules of particles. And for the ...

Fraid not. But there is now a real industry of secondary sources. So things are miles better than even a decade ago. Cheryl Misak is good for a summar...

You just keep repeating the only question that makes sense from your own reductionist ontology. What is it made of, what is it made of, what is it mad...

Holism requires material cause too. The point is that there is always more than just that.

The fact that you have to resort to arguing your case in terms,of an engine demonstrate that you are only thinking mechanicallly and not organically. ...

Yep. Self-awareness is narrative and hence propositional and deductive. It is essentially backward looking retroduction. If I just pushed that button,...

I've said it hundreds of times now. When things begin, both parts and wholes would be maximally vague. It is in their co-dependent arising that they t...

Hey, that paper is in fact a pretty decent defence of Panpsychism. But you are right. Being a pansemiotician myself, I would fundamentally disagree wi...

So now you recognise that to "have a collection" one must add the further thing of "a container for the parts"? Cool. You have conceded my point in re...

But demonstrably, historically metaphysics is founded on the assumption that nature is intelligible, rational, logical, organised by mathematical patt...

I said part or aspect to try to bridge the obvious gap between my holistic point of view and the reductionist language which DC wants to conduct the c...

Good luck with your creative mysticism - which you seem to have faith in without even being able to justify it as a method. Meanwhile scientific reaso...