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Well you are certainly right that it is only by correcting the faultiness of Cartesian dualism and its res cogitans dilemma by moving up to the triadi...

Try reading again and realising that biosemiosis doesn’t talk about agents who interpret but systems of interpretance. The whole bleeding point is to ...

Here we see the reductionist blundering about, missing the point, as per usual. Anthropologist Richard Wrangham makes a good case for how Homo sapiens...

One difference is that the norms of cooperation have to be voiced clearly as these must exist in the public space of the social organism. We must hear...

You are on the right track. From my systems science point of view, societies are organised by the dynamic of competition-cooperation. Which is pretty ...

It’s the crackpottery. Simple enough.

This is a deficiency of your knowledge of systems theory. Read Salthe. Boundaries are what systems form by symmetry breaking and dichotomies. The Big ...

Correct. This is something I’ve been researching this year. It is remarkable how human entropy production maintained a Malthusian balance even through...

Download here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305375362_The_Economic_Origins_of_Ultrasociality They garden fungus, we harvest the biosphere....

In the logical sense, it is more abstract and so less concrete. So higher in abstraction. And thus better at maximising entropy production. Intelligen...

It ain't simply an amplification according to me. A change in code is a change in levels. It's not about more. It is about different. So a biosemiotic...

Check the references. Note the lack of a sociocultural or systems perspective. It's all neurobiology and functionalism.

You tell yourself whatever gives you comfort. But I will continue calling bullshit on your conflationary arguments about "information".

I admit my response is largely based on what he was saying about 30 years ago. So maybe he applies the simplifying logic of dichotomies and symmetry b...

Right. It’s the logic of the dichotomy or symmetry breaking. The self is defined in terms of not being the world, and the world is defined in terms of...

….Or the tl;dr version. :grin: Which should one problematised as the essential scientific question? What kind of thing is this ineffable phenomenal se...

Metzinger is another who naively accepts the framing of consciousness as the problem of a self in the world. There is this phenomenological “stuff” - ...

Deacon is very competent. But he also has been busily reinventing what already exists in terms of the biosemiotics + dissipative structure space of th...

Bollocks. Biophysics speaks directly to the issue. Right. He is talking about physical SO as dissipative structure. Just talking about it as if it is ...

It definitely isn’t. Holism is about the triadic story of the unity of opposites. Dialectics. You have to break a symmetry and discover its new equili...

Not my bag. I had a quick skim of her agential realism. As a pragmatist and biosemiotician, I would be making the totalising argument that the modelli...

Cassirer is on the right page. What we would be wanting to move from is the rather particular view of the linguistic human to the abstract as could be...

It is this kind of conflation that illustrates the problem. Sure Shannon produced the reciprocal maths to model information. Certainty could be quanti...

Yes. And you will note that I pointed you towards the two bodies of theory that deal with these two different, yet also connected, stories on self-org...

The criticism you have been insensitive to is that this is a metaphysics of fundamental substance and so another stab at monistic reductionism. Yet ph...

If you want to study self-organisation more formally, SO in physics is best approached through dissipative structure theory, as part of thermodynamics...

A simpler account is that the brain switches on sleep by cutting the brain off from the flow of incoming sensation at the level of the brainstem and t...

It is only a good word from the point of humans as social creatures who rely on folk acting the role of “consciously self-regulating selves”. We requi...

Either that or the loss of attentive filtering is a reduction of global activity that lets the selective spotlight of high level processing get floode...

It gets trickier as the systems view of this is that dichotomies create the polarities that then can become the dynamical balances. So - as Kelso mode...

This illustrates how “consciousness” is just a misleading term when it comes to the architecture of cognition. Neurobiologists prefer to talk about th...

Your premise is wrong. So the argument that follows is already dead in the water.

Evolvability had to itself evolve by distinguishing itself from development. Replication with difference had to become distinct from homeostatic repai...

Evolution is one thing. Development is the other. Salthe covers this nicely.

Check Scott Kelso perhaps. His Dynamic Patterns models this kind of stuff in equations… https://www.researchgate.net/publication/224982322_Dynamic_Pat...

Nope. Only reductionists think that way. As Stanley Salthe puts it, hierarchically organised systems come to be the contexts of their own microphysics...

In neurobiology, this is just the transition from habitual to attentional level brain processing. The brain is set up to predict its world so well tha...

Of course you do. You can speak the words. But you can’t tell us what you mean. That would be to provide an actual argument in this forum. Jesus wept.

Holism and its downward causation should resolve your confusion. The whole shapes its parts in accord with its global desires. The parts reconstruct t...

The organism is defined by its capacity for such agency or intentionality. As a bare minimum, an organism must have the kind of modelling relation wit...

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Define experience in a way that could break out of your hermeneutic circle. What are its measurables from the microphysicalist perspective you want to...

Assertions ain’t arguments. So move to strike, m’lud.

You are so low effort. This is where you identify the explanatory gap in terms of how a switch fails the task of connecting model to world in pragmati...

A great technical point. But isn’t he? He does jump around in what explanation he actually would favour. Sometimes it’s consciousness as a property of...

The usual excuses and promises. You either have an argument or you don’t.

That is certainly the important half of it. But to close the explanatory gap, the informational story has the be unified with the entropic story. And ...

I’m not a fan of Damasio. Only read his first book. But the answer is simple enough. Conciousness is what brains do. As modelling, as semiosis, it is ...

The usual assertions sans support. :yawn:

It would be nice to have an argument rather than a bald assertion.