Have you ever heard of pragmatism as a theory of truth? Doubt has to have its reasonable basis. The Hard Problem pretends to have its ontic ground - z...
But this was your choice of example. I just followed through with the historical facts. And these seem to tell another story. Yet again you simply ign...
But he said you don't need good grammar, philosophy or science in general. Just Jesus. Or at least the plain commonsense that Jesus expressed in sayin...
Huh? It's political structures are largely still in place organising the world. Even in the US with all its current corruption and division. Were you ...
Agreed. The sad thing is that philosophy would now seek to reject such a totalising discourse? The very idea of a single way to live that would constr...
What was the Enlightenment all about then? Well exactly. And are you planning to do that individually or collectively? Do you expect it could be done ...
Sure. The next level dichotomy is deciding the pragmatic balance between generality and specificity - between laws and measurements in science terms. ...
Who is this "we" to which you just referred? Some form of self as a point of reference that suitably anchors some world in the passing pincer grip of ...
Of course. Marx was a decent critic of his times. He took a systems view. He and Engels had their model of Dialectical Materialism. But diagnosis did ...
But you just mumble the same old opinion. "Meh". There is never work done to justify you even speaking out. Who needs your "meh's"? Keep them to yours...
Even just keeping everyone on the same page in terms of general rationality would be good. :smile: I think I've said that myself fairly often. It has ...
My view is that computation always has been and always will be a technological extension of human semiosis. It isn't its own form of life or mind. AI ...
You are so deeply confused on the issue that I thought I didn't offer you any reply. It seemed pointless to attempt to unravel your tangled thoughts. ...
Sure. You have the freedom to choose otherwise. Or claim you intend to. Agency is what hierarchy produces. Constraints limit possibilities but then wh...
The progress hasn’t quite been zero. Nobels have been handed out… Of course folk can still invent even more outrageous loopholes to preserve classical...
Fair enough. But when Trump mounts his post-election coup, you might be waiting for some next hero to show up and save the day. Or are you thinking Ha...
But Trump? Sure he was poor white folk passing – women and men, immigrants and rural. And rich Christian conservatives enabling. So he was both very m...
That is why I like the modern systems approaches to history. Fukuyama for example offers the counter-examples that would inform this debate about how ...
Who says this? Is this your framing or that of some source. The more usual polarities would be the four quadrants formed by the divides of liberal~con...
I should remind you of Joanna Macy who drew the parallels between systems theory and dependent co-arising. https://www.amazon.com.au/Mutual-Causality-...
A good job Peirce fixed Hegel’s stab at a systems story of logical development then. The dialectic became the semiotic. The tale of how dichotomies st...
And the better way to carve up this territory is semiotic. The enactive or embodied self that is sometimes the cognitive science approach you cite. He...
I can't tell the difference between Wayfarer and ChatGTP anymore. :chin: But this is another way of talking about that holism vs atomism division whic...
In general I argue for a metaphysical holism in opposition to a metaphysical atomism. But complexly, it is a holism that must recover an atomism withi...
It is not merely that they are individuated. Any particular thing would require some generalised dichotomy that allows it to be measurably this thing ...
You mean, any thing. Anything would be the generalising leap from the differentiated particular. And let’s not make the modalist mistake of believing ...
There is a retrojective argument. For things to be crisply divided then they would have had to have been previously just an undifferentiated potential...
Jeez, you’re right. Urging folk to wake up and smell the oil - understand what now drives our political and economic settings - is really pretty small...
If the PNC said it all, why does it lead on to the LEM as the third law of thought. Peirce offered his answer. Vagueness is thus defined by that to wh...
In what sense is that a notion? And don't forget that I treat mindfulness as a general term that would span the biosemiotic gamut from genes to number...
Matter and form make the better metaphysical ground zero. Aristotle's hylomorphism. Or what might be called ontic structural realism in modern metaphy...
Information theory really is anti-semiotic in its impact. Interpretance is left hanging as messages are reduced to the statistical properties of bit s...
If we take an idea to mean a form or structure of organisation, then it would be instantiated only upon its stable and persisting realisation. That wo...
This would make more sense if we paid attention to the dichotomistic manoeuvre involved. How do we know we are wrong? That is measured by the degree t...
A lot of sensible stuff has been said in this thread. I would argue that the central issue is with the idea of "following rules" which should be repla...
Sure, we can construct our moral economies, but they are founded on entropic economies. We can't actually become detached from the world in practice –...
What might help is to consider that "the measurement" involves both preparing the coherent state and then thermally interacting with the system so as ...
I think a few folk are frustrated that this is something you dance around. The implication always seems to be there in what you post. So here we go ag...
First job was to wind you back from confusing cognition as epistemic method with cognition as some kind of ontological mind stuff that grounds mind-in...
You've neglected the epistemic fact that an organism's reality modelling demands this twin move of generalising and particularising, abstracting and i...
Then there is no ontic case to answer. Even if we are trapped inside our models, we can aspire to better models. And biosemiosis would remind this is ...
Well that is just an epistemic issue and not an ontic issue. We can all agree that we are modellers of our world. Semiotics makes that point. What we ...
Perhaps not quantum mechanics, but I don’t see how this works for quantum field theory. I am all for minimising the mysteries, but quantum properties ...
So these are your words. They imply no observers means no fabric, no world. The interpretations generally want to argue some position on observers par...
I’m sorry but which of these interpretations say that human minds are what cause the Universe to be? That the Universe resists the simplicities of our...
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