apokrisis

Does physics say the Big Bang started in a high state of energy or a maximum Planck-scale state of quantum uncertainty? Once the uncertainty started t...

I listened to the podcast and it is indeed interesting but does the opposite of supporting what you appear to claim. On incompleteness, Chaitin stress...

Yep. Symbiosis is a good way to think about it. It all has the causal interdependency that an ecological perspective presumes.

You forget that I was addressing the OP, not the Hard Problem. But we've talked about the Hard Problem often enough. I agree that there is a limit on ...

Only because you stubbornly misrepresent my position. Exactly. Why say pomdp sorts all your problems when it is now clear that you have no technical u...

Again, real world Turing computation is certainly physics-free if the hardware maker is doing his job right. If the hardware misbehaves - introduces p...

Repeatedly? Once properly would suffice. Read Rosen's book then. You just changed your wording. Being dichotomously divided is importantly different f...

A tool is a effective cause. A logical constraint is a formal cause. So you are confusing your Aristotelean categories here. I agree. It is the struct...

But while I arguably can't help but care about my suffering, why should I "have to" care about yours? So phrased this way, you already presume empathy...

Infinite regress. An explanation endlessly deferred is an explanation never actually given.

Great. Now you have replaced one term with three more terms you need to define within your chosen theoretical framework and not simply make a dualisti...

You miss the point. No matter how we might refer to dasein or whatever, in pointing to it, we are already constructing a conceptualised distance from ...

Great. Now all you need to do is define "agency" in a computationally scalable way. Perhaps you can walk me through how you do this with pomdp? A noti...

I would put "experience" in quote marks to show that even to talk about it is already to turn it into a measurable posited within a theoretical struct...

So you say. But good luck with a psychology which is not focused on a structure of distinctions as opposed to your panpsychic pixels.

It is the structure of sensation. And sensation without structure feels like nothing (well, like vagueness to be more accurate). So if the world is lo...

Any secondary literature that talks about my primary interests - Anaximander, Aristotle and Peirce - is going to be interesting to me. And the seconda...

Yep. Most of those I would be in deep disagreement with. But now because they represent the reductionist and dualistic tendency rather than the romant...

Again, who are you talking about in particular? What you might be talking about just keeps getting muddier to me.

It's hard to be particular because the ways of expressing the generalised confusion of romanticism are so various. But anything panpsychic like Whiteh...

That is what I argue is the most penetrating model of it, yes.

As I've already said, I see metaphysics and science as united by a common method of reasoning - the presumption the world is intelligible because it i...

All celebrated figures are celebrated for some reason. So I wouldn't dismiss anyone or any movement out of hand. But yes, I am saying something much s...

Yes, the business of measurement is various. But I thought you were saying there are other methods of seeking intelligibility itself - methods that ar...

So apart from "scientific" reasoning - a process of guessing a general mechanism, deducing its particular consequences, then checking to see if the be...

So this is an example of how science does think through its metaphysics. As already said to you in other threads where you have rabbited on about the ...

The Greeks were naturally stunned at finding that mathematical arguments have the force of logical necessity. If we take certain geometric axioms as u...

Given this is a philosophy board and the OP was clearly meaning to apply the philosophical usage, talking instead about issues of ordinary language co...

Yeah. I just don't see that. You have yet to show how syntax connects to semantics in your view. And checking to see that "we" are still "a mind" is a...

Of course you would have to have useless understandings. That is what justifies talking about the contrary of a useful understanding. Again, this is h...

It is a faulty binary to go about saying science is empirical, philosophy is rational, therefore the two are mutually exclusive. Sure, you can advance...

Yes, it is important to a proper understanding of pragmatism - the original Peircean version rather than the popularised Jamesian one - that is isn't ...

Why the snobbery? Historically, science has clearly been philosophy's best and sharpest expression of itself. It's pragmatism deals with idealism/real...

So science has no epistemology? Gee, that's news to me.

Isn't that how language is meant to work? So it is the feature, not the bug. A name is a symbol with no necessary connection to what it is meant to st...

Yes. But you don't agree because you want to believe something different without being able to produce the evidence. So at this point it is like argui...

In your stubbornness, you keep short-cutting my carefully structured argument. 1) Whatever a mind is, we are as certain as we can be that biology has ...

That is irrelevant because you are talking about an already fully developed biology. The neural circuitry that was the result of having a hand would s...

Do you mean a dualistic folk psychology notion of mind? I instead take the neurocognitive view that what you are talking about is simply the differenc...

Great. So in your view general intelligence is not wedded to biological underpinnings. You have drunk the Kool-Aid of 1970s cognitive functionalism. W...

Right. Pattee requires you to understand physics as well as biology. ;) But that is what makes him the most rigorous thinker in this area for my money...

For anyone interested in this kind of thing, two really good examples are these.... First a non-Peircean semiotic approach that actually still maps ve...

That is the question. Does it actually learn its own semantics or is there a human in the loop who is judging that the machine is performing within so...

Ok. But from my biophysical/biosemiotic perspective, a theory of general intelligence just is a theory of life, a theory of complex adaptive systems. ...

So every time I point to a fundamental difference, your reply is simply that differences can be minimised. And when I point out that minimising those ...

Beinghood is about having an informational idea of self in a way that allows one to materially perpetuate that self. So we say all life has autonomy i...

Pattee would be worth reading. The difference is between information that can develop habits of material regulation - as in biology - and information ...

Your insults are so funny. Stylistically they are just all over the place. Maybe you should get a copy of a book of someone expert like Dorothy Parker...

There is a computer science difference between programmable computers and learning machines. So yes, you can point to a learning rule embedded in a ne...

Likewise. I believe you were about the first person I "met" on PF, talking about thermal models of time!