apokrisis

That's the kind of "dancing wu li master" nonsense that gives serious systems science such a bad name.

You are right the argument would be suspect simply because it depends on a particular notion of time. And while modern science might not be able to of...

But isn't physics bottoming out in the statistical and the informational - the very turn that the last of the great systematisers, Peirce, foresaw? Th...

Rather than selection and hinges - which both speak to transcendent mechanism, imposed distinctions - metaphysics has groped its way towards immanent ...

Depending on what you mean, it could be a good sign. The simple view of philosophical questioning is that there should be only the single right answer...

The problem there is that there is no such "you". There is an accumulated bundle of habits with certain tendencies, and also a capacity for creative u...

The debate boils down to the difference between what is publicly acceptable and what is privately acceptable. And what can't work is if one side tries...

The problem is that "knowledge" requires the two definite things of the knower and the known. So it is inherently dualistic. And yet you want to claim...

But that is precisely the argument by which talk about durations less that the Planck time is considered to be physically meaningless. The Planck scal...

You're a waste of space. :)

That's my point. No I can't. An absolute lack of change makes no sense to me. What kind of thing is that? But I can easily imagine a reciprocal deal w...

Or alternatively, it is therapy aimed at uncovering the sources of your conditioning so you can consider the value of that conditioning for yourself. ...

Your wind up toy first has to overcome the inertia of being at rest. And even before that, someone has to wind it up, and set it down on a surface whe...

You of course. If positive psychology has anything to offer, it is empowering you with the skills to discover what is your fault, what is the world's ...

So I am wasting my time because any argument I offer is going to be "rebutted" by your un-argued assertions of personal belief? Fine.

I simply explain that the feeling is a product of socialisation. So if feeling like an individual becomes a problem, it could be either that society i...

So you choose incoherence? You are not even wanting to say time is a property of a process. or some such. You are simply conflating terms in way that ...

So you accept my "but" in the sense of dropping the claim that "time just IS process"? At most, time is just one of a combination of abstracted limits...

Or to be more accurate, we are born highly unindividuated. A newborn infant has an unwired cortex and is little more than bundle of reflexes. Then bec...

And I didn't say it "is" temperature. A clock is a device that is meant to locate events in time. So - to the degree a clock seems to work - this is d...

But a process is an unfolding causal pattern. So it involves changes, but also materiality and location. What you may mean is that in talking about ti...

Yep, the Big Bang exactly represents the situation of a wind up toy. Your argument is devastating.

Yep. Except the entropic clock ticks in logarithmic units, not linear. It's cooling is an asymptotic curve. So if the first tick was a second, the sec...

Well if you believe a clock can actually measure time, then surely that answers your own question?Whatever a clock is, it represents the way you alrea...

But there is still a reason why we might choose one axiomatic base over another. The laws of thought have got to seem self-evidently right. That is, e...

The brain evolved to evaluate the world. So you see what is happening and then how you feel about it is part of the overall reaction. If you see a sna...

Selective attention can certainly modulate the receptive fields of neurons in top-down fashion, either suppressing or enhancing their responses. So wh...

That is focusing on the material questions. And I am stressing the semiotic dimension to existence. So the fundamental question in that light becomes ...

So that is the intelligent design argument? God created our particular kind of Universe because it had the constraints within which Homo sapiens becom...

Well upright walking hominids have been around for about 5 million years - an evolutionary response to the retreat of the jungles with climate change....

That's an example of where you can go off the rails if you can only think about recursion/negation in crisp computational terms. To Chomsky, it seems ...

But you have then added the extra thing of a change in location to your static grid. So now there is something extra in the this grid world that is no...

Or it could be the step that allowed human culture to think. The necessity could lie in sociality achieving a concrete memetic presence in the evoluti...

What you are dealing with is that change or flux can only be measured with absoluteness if we can establish some absolute backdrop of stasis or a comp...

I agree in general, but I think it is more technically precise to talk of dichotomies or symmetry breaking rather than negation alone, and of hierarch...

You are reverting to a demand for absolute knowledge when I am describing what can be justifiably believed as the result of accepting a particular epi...

So mild suffering sucks only relatively and not - per your original statement - absolutely? And thus if this permits prioritisation, then you have no ...

Does mild suffering suck absolutely or only relatively? Do you see your problem yet?

That's why I didn't say it. Instead I highlighted two ways people approach the natural world, and thus the question of the good. My criticism of your ...

Darth, it's not easy when you pretend you said something else....

??? The question was what romantic connection could explain Nazi vegetarianism.

You asked what the connection could be. I said notions of purity. So your rant aside, I take it you agree about that then.

In a word, spiritual purity. Romanticism boils down to the complaint that the modern technological mode of existence is soul-less and impure. It is di...

It is always going to be the case that we model the world to the best of our abilities. I haven't claimed absolute knowledge in some thing-in-itself f...

Yep. You are employing a dualistic ontology and you don't see that as a problem. :-} Calling Peirce a womaniser is a bit strong. That charge says more...

Err, if it pervades nature, that makes it immanent. And immanence is opposed to transcendent, not transcendental, in this context. Focus on causality....

It's actually a famous line. You know that, don't you? We know that our vacuum is both quantum and three dimensional. And these facts may well be dire...

It's your life. But you seem to expect me to take it seriously.

That is certainly the problem for those who are seeking "the particular, eternally persisting, elementary physical stuff of the world". But as a struc...

We are back into adolescent whinging then? Life's too hard to even get out bed in the morning. Everyone is always bugging you about chores you need to...