apokrisis

Why not?

You do a lot of weaselling to avoid supplying a definition to the term that I must give a yes or no answer on. I’ll help you out. Do you mean somethin...

I gave you the answer. Your question suffers from logical vagueness. Affirming yes or no would make no useful difference. It remains up to you to defi...

Everything here is lost to history within about three posts. This is a safe space for misplaced confidence. :grin:

I didn’t say it did. I was taking @"plaque flag" at face value for the sake of his argument. From the point of view of the Cosmos, what matters is tha...

You did a splendid job of misrepresenting what biosemiosis claims. :up: Simply put, semiotics resolves the antique dilemma of realism vs idealism by i...

But that is how you could even construct a grounding sense of selfhood. The existential crisis in life is not finitude but vagueness. Our job semiotic...

But you seem to understand the "in practice" in terms of Cartesian representationalism rather than Peircean semiosis. You want every pixel lit up, eve...

I thought that was “philosophising”. But if you are arguing that philosophy ought to be radically open to all comers, then I would agree. No problem w...

Well yep. And is that then pattern recognition, generalisation, abstraction? It is an interesting question to ask how really to pigeonhole this fluidi...

Yes. Thales brought back geometry from Egypt, Anaximander was his pupil, then a teenage Pythagoras is said to have travelled to Miletus to learn from ...

Aren't metaphors and analogies about communicating structure of relations? "This is like a version of that in terms of its essential form or organisat...

I don’t mean this in a boundary policing way but it seems obvious that poetry is from the oral level of human cultural organisation and philosophy is ...

That's your narrative and you are going to stick to it. But no. I take the natural philosophy and systems science route by pragmatic choice, having di...

And the Russians. The Brazilians. Er ... anyone not Anglo? :chin: The cosy "history of ideas" view on this would be that the Brits/Dutch were unified ...

The history of the dialectic that pragmatism resolved – even if it is a Cartesian divide baked into modern culture for its own pragmatically comprehen...

You cut and paste all this stuff you don’t understand. That is why you can’t follow an informed discussion about it.

But this is more “bad history”. Pragmatism arrives at a theory of truth based on the usefulness of a way of looking at the world. It finesses the dile...

You questions were incoherent.

An intellectual institution must be large enough to contain its contradictions … because dialectics. :razz:

If one were to reject a "history of ideas" narrative structure for philosophy, what could one replace it with, and why? Are you claiming to have no ho...

I agree the historical context is important to showing how philosophy follows fashions. It could be said hemlines rise, hemlines fall, thus philosophy...

The less woo understanding of this Bayesianism is that the human measurer can construct the mechanical constraints on a prepared quantum system so as ...

Sure. That’s what semiosis explains. The feeling of being a self in its world by being a prediction machine with its collection of interpretive habits...

The bleeding organism. The system with the metabolism. Don't pretend this is some tricky mystery. Implied? It's a fucking theory of teleology. Read wh...

To be fair to science, how much free thinking does society really want or need? Especially at the introductory level, you want to impress a certain us...

This is monism. This is reductionism. So how I think of things – how Peirce thought of things, how systems science thinks of things – just doesn't sha...

It is semiotic. The model imposes its mechanical constraints in top-down fashion so as to ratchet the biochemistry in the desired direction. The bioch...

Yes. But what are the ontic commitments of this term "real" that you employ. Or what has become now the term "ontic" that I guess is supposed to mean ...

Really what? Really an idea? Really material? Really semiotic – as in the modelling that connects the two? If you want a conversation, I don't need yo...

My bad for assuming you might have had the curiosity and knowledge to follow arguments already much simplified.

Ask javra. Ask RogueAI.

:up:

Remind me which one you are again?

What don’t you understand about an F grade? Too many syllables? :grin:

C - Semiosis is the specification of the general function. What folk call consciousness is this function implemented at four levels of semiosis within...

For you, never. But thanks for asking. :up:

I did answer. It was how I would start to deflate an over-inflated term. You can class that under clarification if you like. You could class it under ...

That seems a better question then. How could one restructure the pedagogy to reflect a different approach? Oddly, I can remember exactly how my introd...

I would attempt to start the deflation of the confused use of "consciousness" by first pointing to the conflation of neurobiological levels of semiosi...

I could address this in detail. I’ve spent time in labs where they investigate the neurobiology of jumping spiders. Cockroaches and wood lice are the ...

But what do you study when you do a philosophy degree but the history of ideas? You hope to learn critical thinking and even eventually join up with s...

If you call being qualified to speak to the OP a problem, then you’re probably right. I’m probably the only one to have discussed all this with Chalme...

You seem to want to tell me what Peirce really argued. And I happily call bullshit on that pretension.

As in any well constructed argument, I was offering a particular example in support of my general case.

You have yet to demonstrate that understand you semiotics. You have only seized on two words you think you understand - objective and idealism.

You make that sound like a complaint. What would you prefer your science to be grounded in?

I don’t believe in a science of consciousness as a thing. I believe in a science of life and mind - of biosemiosis. Is consciousness a substance or a ...

First off, we can only talk about these things the best we can. But indeed, logic can be extended in the way CS Peirce extended with his sketch for a ...