apokrisis

Interesting. Do you have a handy link to this?

I meant that I don't do gibberish. And I certainly don't regard the PoMo version of "structuralism" as a solid foundation for a proper structuralist m...

We could argue the toss about who was informed by the mechanistic holism of Kant, who by the idealistic holism of Hegel. But it is still the same thin...

But wasn’t the pragmatism a reflection of early psychological research - the work of Helmholtz, Wundt, Donders, Fechner and the rest? Psychology start...

So what is it about organisms that is so special? What characterises them beyond what the bare physics of matter can tell us? The scientific view is t...

I dismiss Chalmers by reducing his claimed concern to the general epistemic issue that science can only proceed by way of testable counterfactuals. Th...

The refrain of “no one knows” is being heard often. And yet the neuroscience exists. The unification and stabilisation of perception is what falls out...

You don't yet understand the epistemic cut. Perhaps I should rename it the epistemic bridge for your benefit. The cut is the mechanics of a sign, a sw...

It seems the explicit part of science as epistemic method that this "independence" is what is being socially-constructed. It is the realist position o...

That would be a grave misunderstanding of Peircean semiotics. Or indeed, post-Kantian epistemology in general. The difference between being there “for...

Yep, a useful trick of grammar inflated to become an epistemic no go theorem and from there, the greatest mystery of all metaphysics. :up:

My celebration was premature. My name keeps being brought up. And suddenly you all seem to be reading papers on biosemiosis. I am curious about the gy...

You waved goodbye. But I keep getting tagged. Now that you are talking of this mystical thing of “the mind’s eye”, is that something a philosophical z...

So you in fact believe they are not real? And therefore irrelevant in the reality in which scientific accounts unfold? If Descartes’ demon was also re...

All fine up until the conclusion. Why won’t our theoretical frames do if they can do work in terms of our enactive interests? Barad to me is saying no...

It is much more prosaic than that. Barbieri wanted to be the big cheese with his ribosome theory. Pattee was over-shadowing him and the rest by arrivi...

In the same spirit of making ontic commitments explicit so they can be debated rather than derided, I would point out that I follow the biosemiotic hi...

Sounds grand. What does it actually mean in practice - metaphysical or scientific practice?

Yep. The shift to real people rather than social tokens. Less moralising and more nuance. All part of the social construction of the modern citizen up...

I’m OK with that. Time binding is actually a semiotic concept in my book. But which comes first? A biologist could reasonably argue that “ultrasociali...

Tell me something I didn't know and haven't said. We discussed Kelly at length, remember? And I think why Mead, Cooley and Dewey showed something was ...

That is how a computationist would look at it. Biology and neuroscience show that computationalism is simply wrong. Life and mind start from the first...

Better yet, let’s imagine the infinity of randomly typing monkeys banging away until the end of time. We agree that they “must” produce every possible...

A certain kind of inquiring intelligence?

But you were claiming that inside the institutions as well as outside. And I replied that the institutions institutionalise the competitive space in w...

Sure. Belatedly the Anglo world started to show up. So I don’t see these as exceptions but stragglers. Folk like Vygotsky and Luria already had the pa...

Still not sure what goal you are reaching for here. You seem to be arguing that these things are mutually exclusive rather than necessarily complement...

My systems science view expects upward acting construction as the “other” to downward acting constraint. So construction comes as part of the holistic...

You could make a case that he spoke to the metabolism - the economic and political order - of his time. He may well have crystallised views of history...

So this is goodbye. :party:

Well that is my current research interest. To model life and mind at all their levels in organismic language. Biology speaks of metabolism. I would sh...

Computional analogies are certainly the rough cut. But even so, why does that make a difference – except in being a lossy compression of what I said?

Finding refuge in the Gettier problem? Sly dog. I agree. I couldn't see the fuss about Picasso when I was just looking at the pix in the book. But the...

Where is measuring a practical problem? Decoherence tacks statistical mechanics onto quantum mechanics and recovers a world that is close enough class...

Art schools make it their business to these days. They teach the process of making works. They sell their courses to worried parents by pointing out t...

It doesn't seem that simple judging by the reactions. But again, where Peircean semiosis introduces the sign as the mark that marks the cut by bridgin...

So art produces artefacts which are indeed the concrete signs of ideas. I agree. Mountain climbing is definitely the more personal pursuit and less so...

Get it straight if you want to claim to have a basic grasp on logic. I’m asking you to define what you might mean by circle. And yes, that is conventi...

I laugh as what else can one do when being pestered by someone so incapable of following a straight line of thought. I asked for your measurable defin...

No. Neuroscience does that. The view of the neural level of world-making from a verbal and mathematical level of world-making. The form of the complex...

I can’t tell if you mean this ironically. Our positions are poles apart if I am emphasising the socially constructed and communal nature of rational i...

So you think I should take you more seriously? You believe this is a discussion to be cashed out in propositional logic? Well, yup! :lol:

Sure. But if that definition isn’t being offered, as in this case… And if the term is meant to be meaningful as a scientific definition rather than, s...

But I can say I play sport and climb mountains for that same reason. Not so much with a focus on visual composition but for the intensity of the exper...

What would Shakespeare have said? What would Peirce have said? From their points of view, what do you suspect would be the answer and why? We can use ...

You just switched from “conscious of x” to “first person awareness”. Are we talking about a thing or a process, counterfactually speaking here? I was ...

Capable of being wrong rather than not even wrong. Still not even an attempt to define your use of consciousness here then? You had many chances now. ...

Let me insult you again. You continue to weasel your way out of the requirement to provide a counterfactual definition to fit your counterfactual prop...

Think of it this way. Imagine a lake damned up behind dirt mounds. The second law describes how it wants to run down to a more general equilibrium but...

First steps are abductive. Rationally constrained to be that which could scale in general fashion as a causal account. So I disagree. It is the deduct...