apokrisis

This may suffice for everyday life. But it would be a weird way for more ambitious communities of inquiry to organise. :roll:

And yet in practice, there are procedures developed by neurologists to determine brain death in hospital situations. Brain scans can tell if you are t...

Nick Lane’s The Vital Question is excellent. And Peter Hoffman’s Life’s Ratchet. Lane has lots of YouTube talks on his book. Eric Smith is great - htt...

Well said. A biosemiotician would agree that every organism would have its own umwelt. There is as much evolutionary variety right there as we would e...

It's not my theory. I just say it is the best available theory. And you missed a vital part of it. That the modelling has a purpose. The purpose – in ...

Sure. The field of abiogenesis has plenty of suggestions on the matter. In general, one looks for a dissipative chemistry that could become colonised ...

And yet all we have in our brains is neurons firing. Somehow that give rise to both the "subjective affects" and the "objective properties". If we see...

The article makes my point that we have to acknowledge why there is this idealist/realist tension when talking about perception – why the redness of r...

Evade away. :up:

How have I not done so? (This answering a question with a question is just so handy. Always be evading. :up: )

That reminds of this 2008 conference on a general pansemiotic take of "The Evolution and Development of the Universe". Here is Salthe's summary of his...

Yes you are. Have been for years. It's the language game you've developed to protect your language games. :up:

More questions answered by questions. So more evasion as you dare not risk a good faith reply in a public forum. :up:

Why would I care if pragmatism is my judge in these matters? It ain't me who is all caught up in this particular culture war. Did I mention Friston's ...

Sure. That is why we biologists have always said biology is bigger than physics. It is large enough to also include semiosis as the new science of mea...

Shapes appear to take up a quantity of space and time and materiality in a way that colours don't. Yet both are constructs of our neurobiology. Hence ...

But I just asked you to show how your answer on that applies consistently across the board in terms of perceptual discrimination and object recognitio...

Or no particular reason. It wasn't prevented. A fluctuation was possible. How we understand "accident" is not as simple as you suggest. Switches and m...

Does talk about pens and faces refer to "somethings"? Does talk about circles and squares refer to "somethings"? Can you run this argument in some way...

Why can’t it have appeared “by accident”? In the usual evolutionary fashion.

It is of course everywhere scaled by h as a constant. But here on Earth, at its average 20 degrees, with its complex planetary materiality, you can sa...

Relativity is also classical. Theories get quantum once they have to include Planck’s constant h in their mechanistic equations. That inserts the inde...

Indeterminism can be true and also merely relative. The full weirdness of "the quantum realm" is never observed, as at every point since the Big Bang,...

This sounds a little reductionist. Sure, I am all for this kind of predictive/enactive/semiotic understanding of the neurobiology involved. The brain ...

Forgot to say that Neumaier indeed argues the same position I take, down to the biosemiotic point about measurement being a matter of imposing metasta...

Sure. Confabulate away. Pretend that colour is covered by "language games" and there is no further mystery to be accounted for. One that deals with th...

So when you get into an argument with a dichromat and start insisting that what they call green is actually beige, does your personal preference for l...

Even an enzyme is proto-intentional. A kinesin or any other molecular motor is proto-intentional. They exist to make things happen in preferred direct...

Why should we frame ourselves in this fashion? Is it anything more than a way of thinking that grew out of the Enlightenment and its Romantic reaction...

Have you come across Rom Harre’s The Social Construction of Emotions or Catherine Lutz's Unnatural Emotions? Lutz's study of the Ifaluk especially is ...

:up: You bring out the essentially social dimension of this neatly.

The science exists - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4987397/ The ecological question of whether it is better to be a dichromat or trichr...

One has to wonder what the 8% of “colour blind” males make of this debate. Are they missing out on the glory of the red or green frequencies? Does it ...

Somehow the neurobiology of perception has gone missing here. And some might think that the most salient part of the story. Curious.

The best “law” would be Pattee’s notion of the epistemic cut. It sets the divide down at the atomistic level of when a molecule becomes a message. It ...

Yeah. Conscious microtubules! Give us a break.

Did you watch the video? A swarm of little machines? Surely that must give you pause. But if your distrust isn’t swayed by evidence….

On the particular point of “why”, think of it this way. Maths progresses as an inquiry by abstracting away constraints. The physical world develops as...

Remember then that biosemiosis is in fact a surprising story of how machine like is the basis of life and mind. Semiosis is about how informational sw...

But since then the “surprise” is how the physics has pushed the maths.

The point about vagueness in relation to the constraints of nested hierarchies was the OP issue. It was also an accusation quickly thrown at Wittgenst...

Well yes. Until you start to understand the physics of dissipative structure and topological order. The physics of symmetry breaking and emergence. Th...

Yep. Once you are stuck with the Cartesian metaphysical division into a mind stuff vs a world stuff, then this kind of wooly Panpsychism is where you ...

Not a good example because colour vision is the outcome of three real cones and one virtual one that are dialectically structured into two opponent ch...

No. I was making an argument completely in a realist register there. No "mind stuff" or "qualia" at all. Our cognition has a physically real structure...

Thanks for the pointer to John?Vervaeke. If you skim this review article, you can see he talks about all the same stuff as me. Modelling relations, an...

Can Nature be actually indeterminate and not just always determinate? Is there a state where there is no fact of the matter, and thus not even properl...

Bertrand Russell took this line in his essay on vagueness. As a Peircean, one would point out that there is epistemic and ontic versions of the vaguen...

So not like dawn or dusk? Hmm. From a neuroscience view, the point of colour vision is not because the world is coloured. Or even because it makes vis...

And it has a problem in that the more data it averages over, the more it will bland out and become useless. If it starts consuming its own generated m...