apokrisis

The problem here is perhaps expecting a rosy outcome in terms of a human social geography where “all are winners”. The natural dynamic at the heart of...

Hah. That is the problem of argument by Hallmark card cutesiness. You would have to be thermodynamically-informed enough to tell the difference betwee...

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Flux is material chance. Logos is structural necessity. The hylomorphic formula.

Is a river not a good example of a balancing of stability and plasticity? Is reality not in general a balance of logos and flux? I think Heraclitus go...

Yeah, nah.

I wasn’t accepting good and evil as a useful set of terms in a discussion of moral extremes. I was saying good as a direction in which to move makes m...

Eusocial doesn't quite cover it as that applies to a social organism and hive mind at the level of ants and bees. Humans have their biology – the euso...

It leaves three things. But in a fundamental sense, the systems view talks about balances that are complementary and thus "good" in that their contrad...

But does every individual have to be fair and just or should we build a social system that is on average fair and just? To expect individuals to const...

But small is not not-large. So small is the least possible large. Thus largeness and smallness are defined in terms of the excluded middle. But the LE...

Yep. This is the general structure of cognition. The balance that is the rearview mirror of accumulated wise habit and the forward view of creative po...

First up, logic does say that balance is what emerges from the very possibility of a dichotomy or symmmetry breaking. If you have a dividing, this in ...

But we know what living organisms have that these things lack. An active semiotic modelling relation with world based on an encoding mechanism like, p...

Sounds good as this is most surely the epistemic reality, but the claims folk want to make are ontological in the most basic way. A "just neural activ...

But the claim is that this performance is based on a mechanism that connects. Take away genes, neurons, words and numbers, and what have you got? Can ...

No. I can happily leave you with your self-proclaimed mystification.

The latter is of course the deeper phrasing. :up: A model in the modelling relation sense is there as a machinery of semiotic control over the world. ...

What? There is no path from mechanics with Galilean invariance to mechanics with Poincare and eventually de Sitter invariance? Tell me it ain't so. :c...

I was talking to Baars back in the 90s at the same time I was talking to Friston. While the workspace story had some metaphorical value, it wasn't a r...

I see I have already attempted to explain this to you ... how biosemiosis is indeed a way to close the explanatory gap, and how mechanicalism is invol...

This may be true. Philosophy ain’t a strong suit on PF. Mead of course leant into the “anthropological theory of cognition”angle with his symbolic int...

Such confusion. Talk of "phenomenal experiences" is just the standard sin of reifying a process as a substance. Tell me what process you might have in...

The truth of this relies on you being an expert in what counts as metaphysics. So... Sources of CP violation have indeed been found. Just not enough. ...

Which is what I said and why I cited Salthe as the source. Yep. It elevates the realm of human concerns – the purposes of a confused species not long ...

You're talking bollocks. Science is based on the axiom of the principle of least action. It is enshrined in Newtonian Mechanics, Einstein's Relativity...

I just cited Salthe's tellic hierarchy of tendency/function/purpose a few posts back. I've also cited it to you half a dozen times at least over at le...

Systems science takes Aristotle as its founding figure. It expands on the holism and organicism of his hylomorphism, whereas regular science riffs off...

To which natural philosophy would reply, so what? We're Aristoteleans.

Have you never heard of natural philosophy as a metaphysical tradition then? :roll: https://www.nbi.dk/~natphil/salthe/NatPhil_of_entropy.pdf

You are trapped in a search for meaning in an ordinary socially constructed use of these terms. You are not receptive to a technical redefinition that...

But this is not a theory of truth. This is not the application of the Peircean process of rational inquiry - the truth towards which a community of re...

What else is pragmatism about as a ground for a theory of truth? Nature is its own self-balancing flow. And there is room for us in that. It is not me...

Or putting something mathematically grounded in a jokey fashion.

I was pointing out that negentropy seems antithetical to entropy, but a systems approach explains why it ain't. From a human point of view, negentropy...

Rejecting metaphysics is still metaphysics. The clue is in the use of logical imperatives such as the word "not". A dichotomising epistemological clai...

Incorrect. They are dichotomies. They are reciprocally connected by the constraint of being mutually exclusive yet jointly exhaustive. So take a basic...

Buddhism, Continental philosophy and quantum mysticism have so much in common. Claiming you understand is the proof you don't understand. Truth has to...

Humans are complex creatures. We could just as well celebrate the idea of live fast/die young. Teenagers often do. And I thought I was clear there is ...

Sounds a little zen, no? Eternalised equilibrium. The end of restless change in a pure state of Sunyata?

The problem is that pragmatism spits out two answers in terms of what it means by "goodness". On the one hand, you have some notion of functionality o...

My position is formally an internalist epistemology. I'm a Peircean pragmatist. So problem dealt with. :smile: You seem to be arguing rather passionat...

Well an electron is an emergent composite and not fundamentally simple in some reductionist/atomistic sense. It exists as the result of a chain of sym...

For those interested in the history of these kinds of political projects - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism

OK. Inverse if you prefer. And from there, the multiplicative inverse. Again you are talking about the absolutism built into the maths model and not t...

And how are you defining the discrete? What grounds claims of there being a difference? Why is differentiation reciprocal to integration? I agree math...

But to be absolute is a relative thing. The absolute only exists in terms of reciprocal bounds that mark the limits on being. Thus no thing itself can...

But note how fractals neatly express the intermediate case between the continuous and the discrete.

Dialectical reasoning covers this by making two opposing limits relative to each other. So you have pairs of absolute limits that are related by their...

Thanks. :up: