apokrisis

You started with the ad homs after quickly running out of arguments. And sadly they are not even witty, let alone cutting.

It is your interpretation that is sloppy. The Peircean and Bayesian argument is that this is the most generalised view of rational inquiry. The same b...

But these are all subjective qualities. Your notion of the material world is being described in how “it” feels to “you”. It is harder or softer, drier...

I can't follow your argument there. Science is the combination of theory and test, deductive prediction and inductive confirmation. So you seem to be ...

I pointed out how it is failing the test in terms of being a generalisation that ought to contain supersymmetry as a particular feature. And in being ...

But my position is the opposite. Everything is self-cancelling itself towards nothing. The probability of that was so high that it the Big Bang was a ...

Is it an untested theory or the mathematical generalisation of tested theories? And is it not indeed failing the test because supersymmetry is not sho...

I would say it should be according to my metaphysics. But it is normally treated in terms of a substance rather than a process or action. Something wi...

Note that the brain has a matching visual path for movement and spatial orientation. So the brain dichotomises by not just seeing a recognised object,...

And yet who are the drongos who are reifying it as something apart from what is being done? Is life something apart from the process of living? Does a...

. The complaint was about science’s “failure” to answer the question. That would need to be supported by examples of science failing. Does this pass a...

But how much neurobiology do you know to make such sweeping dismissals? What definition of “consciousness” can you present here such that it could be ...

The line between chemistry and biology gets murky if we do wind all the way back to the first metabolic process. That doesn’t fossilise so well when i...

You sound like the kid in the back seat. “Are we there yet? Are we there yet?” You have failed to engage with the points I made and I don’t feel I nee...

Shouldn’t the question be when did semiosis first show up? What first counts as a living organism? And then what counts as the first version of neural...

The article shows how little some folk have changed since the era of the first ASSC meet. Friston is the only one who has made actual proper progress ...

The problem is that I read this sentence and feel utterly unconvinced by claims that affectivity = truth. Do I trust this judgement? What’s the next s...

Yeah, digital physics fails at the gate for me even as an epistemology, let alone an ontolotgy. As Wiki notes: Informational atomism has to be able to...

So where are you standing when you see that embodied modelling relation? Pragmatism/semiosis is about going the next step of discovering the extremes ...

I think it helps to see we are pursuing a model of causality when we talk about the logic, structure, rationality or intelligibility of nature. Otherw...

Oh, on this, we start with the need to explain at least one world - ours. And to the degree that a tale of immanence and self-creation is achieved, th...

Again the rustling of lolly papers from the cheap seats. If you want to join in, make a counter argument. Otherwise … :yawn:

Yep. The Big Bang was just going to be a spreading-cooling bath of radiation. So it was an accident that it got caught up in the phase transition turn...

Or better yet – if Peirce had completed his logic of vagueness – he was defining tychism more clearly as that to which the PNC doesn't apply (and gene...

You are badgering me for no good reason. I answered your question. How is it ethical for you to keep burdening me with more work?

Pretty much. I would argue time is best measured logarithmically to reflect that rapid slowdown. Everything was happening everywhere all at once, but ...

But I simply don't accept your one-sided view of existing as a human. If it is a reason for you not to breed then that's fine. I have often enough exp...

That's just misreading. What isn't constrained is what is free. The Second Law absolute forbids perpetual motion machines. But humans can build any ki...

It ought to help to strip "logic" down to its ultimate simplicities. We do grant it too much psychological status, even though we don't then want to e...

The step from real worlds to possible worlds. But then that also requires the same inherent criteria of being worlds from a point of view. Worlds dich...

I talk of play and mastery. You turn it into fight and misery. Why not ask a surfer or procreator and discover what actual metric seems more accurate ...

Semiotic networks now. Bayesian mechanics has been generalised to include life and mind. The “other” must always exist. The systems view adds the cons...

If you want to talk in terms of psychic energy, then Bayesian information is as close as you could get I guess. But it sounds now like you are falling...

Exergy would likely be the better term for what you want then. Biology prefers it because it is the useful work that can be extracted by a system comi...

A simple answer is the two talk about things at different levels of generality. So enthalpy is a measure of useable heat. Entropy is a measure useable...

Following Peirce, I would argue any notion of truth is semiotic. And science now tells us that humans engage in semiosis at four levels of encoding or...

Relativity builds in the fact that the “speed of rest” is a reciprocal limit. So a photon experiences no time separating locations as it moves at c, a...

The twisty journey that all must take from lumpen realism, to the body shock of idealism, to the eventual resolution of enactivism and pragmatism.

Life is sweet. My position is Peircean semiosis and pragmatism. Peirce, among other things, was the founder of serious US metrology. So all credit to ...

Why not then just say what you mean rather than ask dumb questions and expect me to take them seriously. On your actual argument, the simple reply is ...

Pragmatism is not about individual belief but about a community of mind. It is “truth” at the level of the social organism. What it needs to believe t...

Why are you pretending not to understand?

Well on the common understanding of “advocating”, what is it that you might doubt and so sustain a view that I am in fact attempting the antithesis of...

Do you believe it or do you doubt it? How are you going to proceed here so as to minimise your uncertainty? :cool:

Pragmatism roots itself in the logical consistency of the dichotomy. We could either believe or doubt. Each extreme is logically rooted in its “other”...

Pretty pictures but like getting a postcard from the 1980s.

You haven’t made any argument in support of your rash assertion as yet. Give us an example of how sensitivity to initial conditions is relevant to hum...

Just one wee point. Could you at least call it the butterfly effect. It would be less cringe.

In news just in, man the hunter has been debunked. Haven’t had time to assess the credibility of this. But it could be a problem for those defining ma...

It you want to do a pure math model as your project, you probably don’t want to get bogged down in the added intricacies of biosemiotics. Life and min...