apokrisis

You are just repeating what I've already dealt with. Of course beyond the known knowns, and the known unknowns, there could be the unknown unknowns. P...

Yeah, but as soon as your private experience is framed by yourself as an argument, it is social, even if never in fact articulated publicly. So to be ...

Why would I dispute the very problem pragmatism sets out to resolve?

Perhaps you don't understand what it means when I say I am defending a pragmatist epistemology? If you believe instead in private revelation, go for i...

It is illogical to claim that there could be phenomena that aren't distinct and therefore counterfactual in the fact that, given different conditions ...

You forget that I am arguing the pragmatist view and so Occam's razor applies. You can pretend to worry about invisible powers that rule existence in ...

I don't understand your objection. The model describes a territory that is itself being viewed as a modelling relation. Seems simple enough. But that ...

Silly question. You already know that my position isn't tied to a mechanical notion of time.

But you are ignoring the known distinction between dimensionless and dimensionfull physical constants. So at the singularity, we are talking about the...

Don't be silly. It is a deduced fact. Just like the complementary notion of there being instead a first cause. Both derive from the axiom of sufficien...

Yep. The cosmology that captures the public's attention is exactly that which taps straight into the mechanical thinking that has become endemic via t...

Hence the third category of vagueness - the land of no brute fact which can give rise to the yin and yang of mutually co-arising brute facts such as s...

Sorry. Gods that exist in ways that don't make a difference don't exist according to my definition of existence. So all you are doing is trotting out ...

It starts by recognising that there are two complementary needs that both ought to be maximised. So the balance is about doing justice to both sides -...

And that didn't work out so well, did it? Modern physics finds itself dealing with the inverse issue of how to regulate the inherent dynamism (or inde...

So could God have made circles simpler. Or even more complex? And remember that in semiotic metaphysics, that which does not make a difference does no...

For fuck's sake. Why would I accept the very thing that shows a mechanical model of causality is fatally flawed? (And God-talk is of course all about ...

My system - being all about material self-organisation - says there is no God. So His existence would be a terminal fact. That's one of the advantages...

You will first note of course that Pattee is saying the map is an atemporal truth. It is the rate independent information or model used to constrain t...

That makes it the worst harm of all in my book. At least the others are honest harms. Pleasure is positively malicious. And without pleasure, how coul...

Laughter, children, orgasms, contentment, reaching the top of the mountain - these are all harms because they are all clever illusions and distraction...

You're being kind. But of course it would mean that my position was complete nonsense. And worse still, according to your pet-keeping God metaphysics,...

So is this particular one now also on your list?

So pessimism isn't a harm? But what if being surrounded by it is one of life's great unpleasantnesses?

Did you mention pessimism?

Yep. If God exists, my metaphysics is utterly screwed.

Yep. Pomo in a nutshell. As usual, you are talking about someone else and not me. My brand of structuralism is about accounting for the emergence of c...

And the biosemiotic crowd were the loud critics of Venter and genecentrism. I mean that's why folk like Salthe and Pattee are practically invisible. S...

Your characterisation of my position is accurate enough here. But I don't see the problem. Surely a model by definition is going to be an atemporal tr...

I don't really claim anything as mine or original. That is why I am at pains always to start with Anaximander - the first bloody metaphysician! :) If ...

So do you accept that my approach is "clenched and curled up super tight" because it describes the generative algorithm at the heart of my "semiotic o...

Your line of attack was "your own model is clenched and curled up super tight brooking only those findings and ideas which will reinforce". My reply w...

So how did you yourself become acquainted with this fact that you cite so often in your posts? You've written that the government has finally admitted...

But you can provide a reference to support your clam about this being a fact? This is something you know because it has been reported somewhere credib...

But mathematically it starts with an infinitesimal rather than a zero if we are talking about the other "end" of infinity.

Well does matter have an intrinsic nature? Hasn't structural realism been the answer since Aristotle's hylomorphism? Not sure why scientists call them...

If you want the full answer from the biosemiotic perspective, that would take some explaining. You might want to google howard pattee + biosemiosis, o...

Huh? You are confusing an epistemological point with an ontological question. Hume ain't relevant here as this was about specific models, not the unde...

Open. By design. So it is axiomatic. The process claims only to minimise our uncertainty. If you believe in some different epistemology derived from a...

But also if you advance a positive doubt here, it needs to be constrained by what appear to be the facts, dontcha think? You seem to be claiming that ...

So do you choose a closed worldview that doesn't update its beliefs, or instead an open one that builds in continuous inquiry?

Don't you mean he argued for generic sameness? That's the logical point. The general and the particular are asymmetric or dichotomous in that one is a...

My argument would be that I describe the meta-model. So it is the most general level description that captures the abstractly utterly necessary. And t...

I certainly agree with a thermal approach to time. But other infinities don't show up at the beginning. Instead, all things have the same Planckian sc...

But not in a strict materialist sense. I would be a pan-semiotic physicalist - meaning that my ontology involves both matter and sign (or matter and s...

That's a little hand-wavy. Where do we have evidence that on the whole causality fails the locality principle? Yes, we definitely also have good evide...

References please....

Alternatively, this is what all the possibilities distill down to. If you understood the natural sciences in their broad sweep, this is where we are a...

So physics is then idealist in saying reality is only what can be measured by someone? If it ain't a number on a dial, it isn't real? :) I think if yo...

So beauty = ideas with mathematical precision, and humour = measurement uncertainty? Where then is there a problem if science has mathematically preci...