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You are ignorant if you think that political and social landscapes aren't instead ruled by structural attractors. They have memories and thus place co...

Keep whistling. But I can see how tiny irrelevancies do set you off on ever wilder gyrations. You can’t follow the line of the argument.

Add chaos theory to the list of things you are not expert in. :rofl:

Agreed. A description or interpretation is open or vague in the way you describe as there is no value in being more precise than the occasion demands....

Do you accept the realism of the enactivist/pragmatist as having properly gone beyond Kant now? What we experience of the world is the self-centred re...

The cut in organisms separates the material dynamics that constitutes the physical world from the information or algorithms that are the regulating mo...

What can I say? My point was about labelling ourselves in predicate logic fashion as a bundle of atomic attributes. You started withering on about bei...

There are plenty of ecologically informed scientists who have fingered how we wound up in our current bind. The short answer is fossil fuels want to b...

Of course I agree. We don't use words as reductionist units of meaning. We use them to weave the webs of constraint I mention. We speak in sentences. ...

Flicking through a bit more of Lawson, I also want to point out how selfhood - the “reality” of the first person point of view - is a product of the c...

I’ve not read Lawson. A quick squizz suggests he is rather lightweight. :grin: The difference looks like being that jump from epistemology to ontology...

Peircean realism would be considered pretty idealistic by some. :razz: But it leads to pansemiosis rather than Panpsychism or other Cartesian stories....

The basic issue from a semiotic point of view is whether you consider meanings to be constructed or constrained. Does a word have to positively put yo...

Knowledge is the stabilisation of contradictions, not their resolution. The point is not to pull back the curtains but to discover the larger world th...

So you want to shift the argument from the general syntactical point – the conventions of mathematical logic - to one of social pragmatics? Sure, as I...

Complexity theory has the useful dichotomy of simplexity-complicity to show how simplicity and complexity are in fact connected in mirror fashion. The...

Clearly I was talking about predicates and not names when talking about self-labelling. A name makes no claim about the qualities you possess. But the...

And how useful is it to label yourself? Who benefits exactly? My own view is shaped by systems science. That says an organism relies on a dynamical ba...

I argued that it was invalid and gave reasons. Simple as.

Again, I was pointing out that it speaks to a reductionist metaphysics. What's so confusing? That I didn't reply in the same terms as if I might accep...

Good point. This goes to the prosocial behaviour a society must extract from the individuals that are going to compose it. It speaks to the difference...

I was framing my reply in the structuralist sense that the dichotomies that succeed and thus persist must be intrinsically complementary rather than a...

An intelligent point at last.

Oh the casual misogyny of celebrating the little homemakers who "are really in charge" because they tend your heirs just as your wonderful mum tended ...

Of course. But then again, as opposed to what? Humans need to be understood in terms of the dichotomies that give reality to the notion of life involv...

There is a ton of literature now analysing what is going on right under our collective noses. Fukuyama's book, Identity, is a good example. He tracks ...

I was addressing how to think. A question of epistemology. This is high on the bullet point list of things that make me “a philosopher”. :wink: Well t...

Ask a reductionist question and you get a reductionist answer. Masculinity gets defined as being the kind of matter which possess a certain collection...

Turchin is worth reading. Here's a precis of his argument...

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Dark matter might be as bad an example as you could pick for science and it’s willingness to follow the Peicean method of rational inquiry. There is s...

Neurobiology explains the embodied consciousness of an animal. Language and maths is what then promotes humans to the kind of selves that also live li...

Yep. Metaphysics reasons about possible worlds, cashing out as general logical argument. Science reasons about the actual world, cashing out in terms ...

Non-linearity is generic in nature. Newtonian physics is the special case. Every trajectory in nature is subject to a context of accident and fluctuat...

By a country mile, as one would expect.

So what is the cause that retards your progress as you try to push through the rush hour traffic constrained by the weight of other cars and all the s...

The Universe is the stable context which is then colonised by further hierarchical levels of dissipative complexity, like stars, blackholes and biofil...

Yep. :up: The systems approach is based on the four Aristotelean causes. So it dichotomises the notion of causality into two complementary types of ca...

As usual, you just don't listen to what I've said. So no point continuing. Life evolved metabolic power by learning to recycle its materials and thus ...

Stop making excuses for yourself. It is your lack of credible analysis and understanding of the subject matter itself.

If you were a Chinese peasant with paddy fields to manure, you would know that material recycling is what nature does. But keep blathering away. :yawn...

The rustle of sweet wrappers heard from the cheap seats.

An organism is a network of counterfactual switching. It is constructed of the very possibility to flip between polar opposites at any level of its hi...

Maybe I should have used scare quotes. I meant it is the general top-down constraint acting to shape the upwardly constructing degrees of freedom. So ...

Enough idiocy. A biological system is closed for its materials and open for its energy flow. It sets up the metabolic turbine that an environmental en...

Nope. The problem is you rabbit on about moddish stuff without having any technical understanding or metaphysical grounding. Thus your "thesis" amount...

Exactly. And that capacity is measured against the incapacity of a "gone to thermal equilibrium" system to do work. So energy as a measurable concept ...

But the biological system is still constrained by the Second Law. It can develop local negentropy because that overall increases the global entropy of...

I have no problem at all with either the metaphysics or physics of raw potential. Your problem is I understand all this stuff well enough to see that ...

You substantiate my point. :up: