Yep. As your cite says: "Neural turing machines combine the fuzzy pattern matching capabilities of neural networks with the algorithmic power of progr...
Is a neural net strictly speaking just an algorithm? Or does it do what it can do because an anticipation-creating learning rule acts as a constraint ...
The origins of motility are worth mentioning as a charming example of the dichotomous logic of symmetry-breaking. The simplest movement is created by ...
Great. Except... ...which appears to stress the differentiation over the integration. First in your philosophy comes the primacy of biological embodim...
I should add that my approach also then may lead back to aesthetics in that having recognised its inherently socially-constructed nature, that gives p...
Fine, And I'm going a step further in claiming that the emergent constraints aren't bizarre but natural in their developmental inevitability. Human gr...
You have been either missing or avoiding my original point. Yes, I have always agreed with the embodied or enactive view of mental experience. I was a...
This is one of the points I think is interesting here. It is a speculative way of putting it, but it is as if the Universe is talking about itself in ...
Well, as an extremum principle, the number of universes is either going to be 1 or infinity. Either creation is unbound, meaning an unlimited number o...
That's great if you understand that a dichotomy spells mutuality - and thus is an anti-reductionist notion. Or in fact, a holistic notion as the mutua...
But the Universe is in fact an expanding-cooling space with event horizons. So recurrence has to be considered in the light of that. Time is not infin...
It would be nice if you defined what you mean by aesthetic in this (apparently) ontic context. Sure, I agree that neurobiological evolution results in...
I didn't make your shit up about the primacy of aesthetics. So again, what justifies this "we" that exists pre-linguistically. When was the last time ...
Humans are naturally already more than mere sensate bodies. We are fundamentally discursive beings. So it is phony and romantic to claim that human em...
Why always so thin skinned and confrontational? If you can explain how your rejection of the chain of being is done within the context of a more gener...
So are you making a point about the lower and higher rankings of things or not? Your complaint was that women get ranked lower than men (if above anim...
The problem with this thesis is that animals might be all about embodied cognition but Homo sapiens is a linguistic species. Our brains are shaped als...
But you are simply adding values, sensation, social equality and nature to the list. So all claims still need to be argued. For instance, you seem to ...
Sure. I've checked that kind of stuff out in the past and found it not compelling. I just wanted to see you support your claims in your own words for ...
Great. But what does that mean? How is being a sensate body not to be in an anticipatory or Bayesian modelling relation as a neuroscientist for instan...
What do you mean exactly. If flux only manifests as a regularity of pattern, aren't we then talking about form rather than matter? I prefer to reason ...
It is a genuine issue that modelling is procrustean. If you have a hammer, everything is a nail. Existence might be ontically vague, and yet still we ...
Yes, a productive tension. Formally, they are complementary kinds of causes - free construction shaped by emergent limits. But material/efficient caus...
That again just reserves reality for bottom-up constructive causality. You have quality standing for material cause, disposition for efficient cause. ...
It was you who talked about non-conscious creatures. So I just went along with your use of terminology. Did you want to distinguish now between sentie...
Yep. The asymmetry refers to the path or negentropic structure that gets you there. And then the symmetry is where the journey starts and ends. Howeve...
Yep. Aristotle mixes and matches a few different strands of thought and so it can't be said he spoke unambiguously for a single organic vision. But se...
The essential difference here would seem to be that we call purpose conscious when it involves a conscious choice. That is, when the organism knows it...
Things were going well until you smuggled this reductionism back in. :) Formal and final cause are better understood as contextual properties or power...
You seem to be defending the notion that entropy = asymmetry. I am saying that a state of entropy is a state of equilbrium - so a general symmetry in ...
But your point of view is the unrealistic one that is imagining a single black hole in an unbounded void. So it is asymmetric in the sense of being ev...
I see two senses of the word reductionism being used here. One is the familiar one of a reduction to mechanical or atomistic ontological models of rea...
Gravitational clumping would be symmetrical in its asymmetry if the distribution of matter ended up fractally spread. Fractals have scale symmetry in ...
Well what makes a fluctuation intentional rather than just actually being random noise? Local intentional acts are possible. We humans - as the most c...
Didn't the revolutionary minority and the unrevolutionary majority get switched somewhere in this OP about the Trumpish appeal of authoritarian leader...
I'm making the point that material/efficient cause gets overplayed in regular metaphysics. The butterfly effect was understood by many in just the way...
Or more than that, the animal would have to have the capacity for grammatical construction. Words are one thing. Animals can learn hundreds of them. R...
Not really. Instead, what it says is that if you try to strip reality back to some foundational material monism, what you arrive at is quite different...
And yet black holes evaporate. So while clumping increases the entropy in terms of dissipating gravitational degrees of freedom, dark energy expansion...
Symmetry and symmetry breaking do have to be flip sides of the same coin. That is basic metaphysical logic. Each has to be each other's other. That is...
Well given some other formal and final cause setting up a different design to achieve this other goal. The crumbs that fall off the table could feed t...
You are simply speaking of the world as if Newtonian atomism was the truth and not simply a working model. So we are both dealing in theoretical const...
No. In thermodynamics, work is work, not entropy. It is that part of an energy flow which does get used in materially efficient causal fashion. Then t...
If you are talking about a "state of maximum entropy", then you are talking about a state of final equilibrium symmetry - where things can't get messi...
The problem with the Romantic model of human psychology is that it is pathological rather than scientifically valid. The argument starts and stops wit...
Comments