apokrisis

So it seems possible if your existence is just a computer simulation. But if this about a material reality, what could generate the level of accumulat...

Ye gods. Outright mysticism. So it is necessary there is a first cause. And it must be a first substance indeed. Otherwise your hypostatic reductionis...

And you find this a self-evident and undeniable truth because? .... . I mean has science found some such ultimate basis? Surely what science is findin...

Yep. Except to access that, you would have to redefine your notion of "mind" in radical fashion. And you would still want to argue that mind is someth...

Interesting article. But it does say that further random seeds are being generated all the time. Now it then tries to backtrack and argue that this is...

Thanks for restating your conventional reductionist understanding of reality. But assertions aren't arguments.

That's a good point. And it is the point of the semiotic view to generalise or universalise the notion of the observer. So in the panpsychic view, thi...

So metaphysics doesn't include process philosophy in your book. Great. You win.

The sparrow emerges from the capacity of information to organise a dissipative flow of matter into an anticipated, purpose-serving, structure. It's ne...

It could go either way. The big problem for fundamental physics is that the constants seem instead to be the most contingent of all particulars. So th...

Generally I'm not following your post (sexual ethics essentialism???). But I draw attention to the synchronic supposition upon which you try to argue ...

Another ontological point that distinguishes Pragmatic naturalism here is that it indeed embraces the arbitrary along with the necessary. So the tradi...

You miss the point of science talking a hierarchical naturalistic view on the question. It does mean you can go out and measure universality in terms ...

Metaphysics began with Anaximander taking just such a hierarchical view of nature and has relentlentlessly followed the same path ever since. So from ...

That's a broad question. It's just basic in systems science and theoretical biology. But for example there would be Robert Rosen's relational biology ...

Convergent evolution is a good example of how contexts shape up their contents in teleological fashion. So ecosystems have niches for vultures. In the...

Regardless of your alternative world scheme, gravity is going to be a more universal fact than sparrows.

Alternatively, Hegel was making a deeply logical point that Carnap's brand of logic fails to describe. Carnap's metaphysics presumes all logical possi...

So why is science hierarchically organised in to physics, chemistry, biology, psychology? Did humans just invent a crazy set of divisions for no reaso...

Again, the real point is that the realist-nominalist debate is founded on a metaphysical dichotomy. And so the resolution lies not in an eternal battl...

But sparrows and redness are names of qualities. So how did you get from quantification to that? It would make more sense to say that we are different...

This isn't about predicate logic as that is itself a highly reductive version of what I would mean by logic. So it is about sign relations as a whole ...

That is the usual commonsense position but it runs into the problem that causation is what in the end folk want to get at. Cartesian dualism seems a f...

Peirce said reality was organised by sign relations. That is a little different. Or even completely different.

Yet still you have two ontic choices here - either you are going to go for an immanent or a transcendent metaphysics. I choose immanent. Where I would...

That's fine. Except my point is that it is the very thing of trying to make one "the real", the other "mere appearance", that is the wrong move that e...

Another a way of resolving matters is to see both the general and the particular as equally "unreal". So where all the issues stem from is our need to...

Another entropy based way of visualising it is like gas condensing to water. Gas moves about in constant disorderly fashion. Then it cools and gets or...

Its only a problem if you believe scientific models have to be "the thing as it really is", rather than a pragmatic model. So the source of the time s...

Entropy is the only thing that could explain time (as global change) having a direction. So the problem for all of physics is that it is "mechanical" ...

Heh. Well as PF is buggered... Applying entropy concepts to the whole universe is tricky. But two simple points we can make are: 1) The Heat Death sta...