Semiosis says our pragmatic modelling constructs the self as it constructs the world. This is the essence of its notion of the Umwelt. So in chewing m...
But it is Chalmers who owes us an account of why we should believe in his blithe assertions about “micro-physical facts”. He treats these epistemic co...
Schelling was even worse. But every generation of rationalists has to struggle to rise above the various irrationalities taken for granted in their ti...
Study the goddam theory. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsfs.2022.0029#:~:text=Bayesian%20mechanics%20involves%20modelling%20physical,...
Scientific method implements the pragmatist metaphysics that took the problem of subjectivity seriously. It starts by accepting the Kantian limits on ...
You are talking nonsense. Chalmers uses the the p-zombie argument to arrive at the precise variant of panpsychism which he holds as doing the least vi...
Always the same refrain. And always the same answer. I provided you with a counterfactually-framed theory – "consciousness" is a neural model of a wor...
Zombies go back to GF Stout in the 1930s as an argument against epiphenomenalism. Chalmers retreaded them as “philosophical” zombies. That is, to legi...
As someone who studied both neurobiology and systems science, I can say that what we know is that life and mind are properties of systems that are bio...
Panpsychism is an ontological claim. The “evidence” is that standard physicalism or functionalism fail to explain consciousness - which is an epistemi...
You’d be surprised. Bums on seats matter. And who did Chalmers nick that from? But why spin this epistemological argument as if it were a ontological ...
It's still dualism. And it still relies on confusing people by treating qualities as quantities. It doesn't even make metaphysical sense. :grin: I've ...
Separate but connected. Spin breaks local chiral symmetry and charge breaks global translational symmetry. So an electron combines the two in that it ...
But the quantum spin that stands behind EM charge is a geometric property more than a material one, wouldn’t you agree? The geometric structure of int...
Yep. That's the weasel argument. We happily accept the idea of a physical quantity – a measure of "stuff" or substantial being, such as charge. And so...
Seems like you can make the argument that with an infinity of objects each surrounded by an infinite amount of separation (as why not?), the resulting...
The story on this has become clear in the past decade. RNA was the starting point as it could function both as a genetic code and also as a protein-li...
I agree. Arguments ought to have this hierarchical logic where you "retreat" towards first principles to defend the secondary views you may derive fro...
Let’s not trivialise something this amazing - the discovery that a convergence zone of physical forces allowed semiosis to become a thing on a watery ...
You get taught to see that a postbox is red rather than merely being able to see the postbox easily because your neurology is designed to dichotomise ...
Who is this "I" if not a reification? It is the socially constructed objectification of the quality of "you-ness" that arises as a necessity of semios...
And yet it is "fundamentally" dichotomised into attention and habit. I can drive a car in busy traffic on automatic pilot. Not to mention that I can g...
Sure. And I always address it with the specific anti-reductionist stance that is enactivism, pragmatism, biosemiotics, Friston's Bayesian brain, Rosen...
Where’s the problem with always different and yet also usefully similar? The standard pragmatist answer that has the benefit of explaining both the si...
A rebuttal would be a counter argument. It is pretty obvious why consciousness is a bigger problem for anyone who thinks it arrived early in the Unive...
Brains and nervous systems model the world, they don’t display the world. Just start with that thought. The fallacy is only being committed by those w...
Yep. Time is tricky. But at least modern physics agrees on some general things, such as the Universe embeds a cosmic temporal asymmetry. There is a gl...
That’s an assertion and not an argument. Provide the evidence for a belief that consciousness had to arrive early. Provide a definition of consciousne...
We've been through all this. You seem to have completely forgotten about opponent channel processing and how the brain sees "red" as also – counterfac...
Another way of putting the ratio issue is the existence of angles. To have 45 degrees, or a difference between 45, 45.55, or 46 degrees, etc, you have...
Sure. Will and purpose can arise in biosemiosis as the local particular in contradistinction to the global generality that is the Universe entrained t...
But the effective breaking of the electroweak symmetry was only going to produce some ratio, right? Given the input structures – the symmetries to be ...
I just did the exact opposite of distinguishing them as the general and the particular when it comes to the downwardly acting constraints of a system....
This is why I would upgrade the Second Law – a reductionist story – with the holism of pansemiosis or dissipative structure theory. The Universe is a ...
No. It is to say that reduction is perfectly possible. Just not to the simplicity of a monism. Only as far as the complexity of a triadic or hierarchi...
But my structuralist or systems metaphysics is saying that they are irreducibly complex. Thus not reducible to monistic simples. However capable of be...
Think of a mathematical constant like pi, e or phi. Are they values or are they ratios? Do they represent some magic quantity - some measured amount o...
Hence you aren’t a structuralist or systems thinker. The constants of nature are ratios or balances. So they are “fundamental numbers” that emerge fro...
The thing to remember is the hard problem is a problem about fundamental “stuff”. It is an argument about physical materials and their putative proper...
Correct enough. I'm a pragmatist if I have to wave any flag. As I stressed earlier, the modelling relation says the map is a model of a territory with...
Or more critically, the social context which could even give such ingrained negativity any kind of accepted cultural interpretation. There is no "you"...
Argument by non sequitur. Assertion rather than argument. "Move to dismiss, m'lud." No other animal has the entropic drive of half a billion years of ...
Metaphysics grounds the science. It establishes the causal logic that gets stuck into our mathematical theories. And from the maths, we can generate t...
But the wholeness requires the separation so as to have something to unify. And the separation in turn needs a vagueness which grounds its coming into...
Yep. Wrangham gives the detailed anthropological evidence. It is a challenging thesis. To self domesticate – become essentially peaceful and cooperati...
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