apokrisis

Of course this is researched. For example….

But most of the Earth’s animals are domestic - pigs, cows, chickens. Likewise the Earth’s vegetation is largely cultivated fields and managed forestry...

In evolutionary terms, plants and animals are both just eukaryotes and so the Gaian atmospheric gas regulating package was evolved before either form ...

You mean the thermodynamic imperative as the blind will to power, and humanity as the vessel of its ultimate expression? Except here the twist is that...

The story is much more interesting than that. Isospin was at first conceived as an analogy in that it used "up~down" spin maths to argue for some unkn...

There was all this buried coal and petroleum left over from super abundant plant growth in an era of "too high/too warm" oxygen and temperature levels...

So the Church of Self-Actualisation and Limitless Growth? :smile: I’m just not sure what calling it religious buys you in terms of rational analysis h...

You single out religion and Hollywood as a source of the magical thinking. But consider also the role of high finance. We don’t expect rationality fro...

Just taxing carbon could have done the trick. But politics is too corrupted by industry. We’re fucked I’m afraid. Although Elon Musk will surely be us...

And I’m sure you have studied the science thoroughly, so your opinion counts. :lol: So in your opinion, what are the natural causes that play so heavi...

I’m saying the problem is deep rooted as modern identity has been constructed around the “limitless growth” that fossil fuels promised. Our political ...

pfft…

Your evasions are pitiful. The nature of the transformation is irrelevant. The source was what was in question. Again, how does the clay change its sh...

I did. You couldn’t follow. So it goes. :up: But also you framed your position in terms of clay changing its shape, which led you smack into a contrad...

But I have now questioned your answer to that question. So again, where is the cause of the change in form If the substantial matter is a “clay”? Ther...

So again, how does your lump of clay change itself from a cube to a pyramid? Does it have a change of mind or sumthink? Pro tip: up and down quarks we...

Why are you lecturing me about particle physics when you wouldn’t know a QFT or Lie group if they bit you on the bum. :lol:

You seem to be defining definitions by what they are not. Victory is mine. :party: :party: :party:

Check out the quantum Zeno effect. Just as the watched kettle cannot boil, the measured particle can’t decay. So we have experiments to show that a “p...

That is not true. Or as you might describe it, that is false, :joke: But even if it were true and not false, then my argument is about the definition ...

Aren’t you conflating two different attitudes? One is techno-optimism. We are self making gods. Our fate is in our own hands. The other is old fashion...

Remember the question. So this lump of clay. Does it change itself, or does it get changed?

Once again you are confusing the predicate logic approach of reductionism with the dialectical approach of logical holism. You are saying the whole - ...

Even the kinds of states are divided. Most would agree the mind is composed of visual states, auditory states, gustatory states, tactile states, and s...

That’s a little unfair. Especially as his Nobel was for his contribution to quantum physics - the photoelectric effect.

Certainly I rejected it. But hopefully providing a solid motivation. The OP posits the idea of the partless whole. I argued that this would be as nons...

In the dialectical sense. So as I said, you move on from A = not not-A (a statement couched in the language of particulars) to a reciprocal framing wh...

I was pointing out that you had divided the mind into its general selfhood vs it’s particular contents, thus contradicting your own claim.

You are talking about predicate logic rather than dialectical argument. Ravens clearly aren’t metaphysically general. There is no not-raven to stand o...

My ontology is structuralist and holds that all entities are hylomorphic processes. So I simply reject this view at root rather than merely thinking i...

So apparently we are in fact … entities with parts … because there is some distinction between global selfhood and particular states of mind that it i...

Logic couldn’t be boiled down to a system of switches if it were merely a free creation of the human mind and not also an inherent constraint on physi...

This is why metaphysics employs dialectical or dichotomous arguments - the famous unity of opposites. If I want to define A, I need to conceive of it ...

A would stand in contrast to not-A. That is the way the logic goes. The existence of A is wholly dependent on it being not not-A. :grin:

On the one hand, the poetic justice! On the other, the evidence that Trumpism mutates faster than a dose of Corona.

I've studied this very issue for a long time. And as an ardent holist and organicist myself, the great irony has been to discover that life and mind –...

Yep, basically.

A thing to think about is that the “collapse” happens when reality is forced to answer a counterfactual question as some kind of suitable mechanism is...

Or any less?

You are making the moral presumption that human social behaviour should divide neatly into the polar opposites of good and evil. But dig deeper into t...

That paper reads like something out of the 1970s. It is the opposite of a biologically realistic or embodied approach. :down:

I don’t follow your questions. Sure, a serial code has to be communicated one discrete step at a time. But that is the structural limitation that also...

Howard Pattee – my favourite hierarchy theorist and biosemiotician (along with Stan Salthe – wrote this on how even the question of living vs nonlivin...

Sounds like an argument over whether a donut is a cake or a biscuit. :lol: The linguistic wars talk past the issue in being hand-wavingly simplistic. ...

But as I pointed out, the modelling relation approach to neural information processing says the brain’s aim is to turn the lights out. It targets a le...

I gave Pinker a fairly favourable review of his Words and Rules when I reviewed it for the Guardian. But I wasn’t impressed much by the Language Insti...

Thanks. Great. But talking of “true believer snippets” sure sounds that way.

So you don’t invest an effort in either the telling detail or the big picture, yet you are happy to stand to one side and make condescending noises. R...

When was it written? :smile: I got into the socially constructed aspects of the human mind just a few years before evolutionary psychology came rollin...

Let me try again in even simpler terms using the concepts of computational processes. The brain models a self~world relation. That is why consciousnes...