apokrisis

The standard model of particle physics is based on the maths of symmetry and symmetry breaking. Relativity likewise is derived from imposing a demand ...

In language evolution, the puzzle was why did we all not end up using sign language - hand gestures are naturally more expressive and quicker to learn...

Consider again the essential trade-off. Using SX's example, you could create a language for talking about organic chemistry using 3D plastic molecular...

I would question your presumption that extra dimensions would increase the information content of a message. Instead it works the other way round. A c...

As usual with pragmatism, the proof is in the pudding. The right ideas measurably work. Did you have some other criteria in mind?

You might have missed it, but the Metaphysical hypothesis of Peircean semiotics is that existence is explained as "the general growth of reasonablenes...

You lost me round about where we have to embrace the logic of solipsisms, regressions and the necessity of relations, but then beware of falling metap...

So you accept the irreducible triadicity of relations ... and now want to change the subject. Sweet.

Again, just show how a relation can be reduced to less than three parts even under reductionism. So far you have failed to make your case.

So then describe to me how a relation could involve less that three different component parts or aspects. And in particular, a hierarchical relation. ...

Physics gives us different intuitive ways of imagining parts. What do you think is different when you switch from a mental image of Newtonian billiard...

At least I know who Pattee agrees with.

I don't have to defend theistic versions of naturalistic metaphysics. But sure, the good would equate to notions of balance, equilbrium and optimality...

So YOU can only understand a relation as another part. Yet how many things must you have to have a relation? I count a minimum of three ... even for t...

You have it back to front. The primitive condition would have to be some kind of self activating network of connections - like an autocatalytic networ...

Not really. It makes possibility prior to actuality. And if you then give pure possibility a name like Apeiron, you seem to be pointing to a quality -...

But that is just immediately denying the irreducible triadicity that you just cited. To start searching for the monism that is "beneath"', or to start...

Yep. A Metaphysical dichotomy like quantity~quality is not an either/or story but about mutually dependent origination. They would be the two compleme...

You are a funny one. Let me know when you realise that the only way out of a state of deep ignorance is to get reading.

Measurement is experience. But it grows in rational sophistication as we go from the firstness of naming some brute quality - exclaiming "I see red" -...

Well remember that Peircean pragmatism is distinguished by the fact that it does indeed generalise the notion of the perceived. So existence itself be...

Given you admit you don't understand the first thing about holism or hierarchy theory, you show surprising confidence in your scattergun replies then.

But really, you make my point. We don't know what the aesthetic is unless we have some concept that seems measurable. It is airy fairy meaningless tal...

I think you miss the holist point that emergence proper is about the emergence of new global boundary conditions that don't interact dynamically but a...

The problem with this is that even concepts make no real sense except when defined in ways that permit acts of measurement. Or in Peircean terms, you ...

Yep. Even a trivial version of the argument says you have to add the further thing of "the organisation". Summing the parts ain't enough. And I note y...

Not exactly. The physical constraints that might in retrospect be recognised as the "primeval ecosystem" can be "crisply informational" for purely acc...

It's just not the same thing to list a set of components in a way that leaves out the further fact that is their organisation. Especially when my clai...

In keeping with the OP, I am dealing with the meta-theoretic level issues. And you don't seem "glad" at all. ;) So it should be clear that I am talkin...

Hate to say it, but Pattee is just talking about the necessity of vague beginnings. Where you have the "mystery" of a dichotomy - in this case, the ab...

But your own argument just showed that the whole has meaning, the parts are meaningless. So the whole has something more (unless you can show how mean...

But doesn't the "scientific" or "analytic" approach to nature have the advantage of being suitably modest? At least under the pragmatic or modelling r...

Great. Start with consciousness.

So what shapes a switch? Is binary logic "real" in your book? (I say yes - as real as any physical circuitry it engenders.) No, not God. That would be...

At the core of philosophy is the assumption that nature is intelligible. Rational inquiry can thus produce some kind of answer. But from there, you ge...

http://www.academia.edu/863859/How_does_a_molecule_become_a_message

Again - for the nth time - the how is explained semiotically, Wholes carry the memory or information. Life and mind have coding machinery - words, neu...

Yep. So that is why a functioning whole needs the power of constraint over its parts. It must limit the freedom or indeterminism of its components to ...

I was talking about self-organisation and not merely emergence. And I gave evidence. I said parts "emerge" via holistic constraint in hierarchically o...

Yep. You gotta stick to what you believe and avoid all evidence to the contrary in this life.

This time around, its humans who have to survive it.

So what is "self-organisation"? In systems theory, it is the limitations that wholes can impose to turn chaos into order, noise into signal. And that ...

It is a puzzle that you don't see this as an exemplar of the Peircean account of scientific reasoning. Schrodinger cites the surprising fact that dema...

Nominalism vs realism is a pretty archaic metaphysics on both sides of the debate these days. Science has moved the conversation on. In particular, a ...

In regard to the OP, this has been my favourite analysis of Trump's political "philosophy" so far.... http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/12/13/putin-pa...

So say we have you, and then standing next to you, a small vat of chemicals - a vat of carbon, water, nitrogen, phosphorous, etc - that is absolutely ...

Perhaps you don't meet many politicians in real life?

Or more likely, I'm not talking out of my arse.

Its nothing to do with cynicism and everything to do with psychological science. And I've never known a politician who wasn't behaving in very human f...

What guff. Romanticism is the go-to justification of the fascist. And politics is a social construction, so of course a skilled politician is going to...