I think Darwin’s book gives you the obvious answer. That means reducing uncertainty or error. Yep. But you can waste years reading the wrong books if ...
Thank goodness cogsci eventually took its enactive or ecological turn about 20 years back. This is what semioticians were referring to as the construc...
While you are at it, I would add that the scientifically grounded approach would be being able to say why some "this" is a more specified version of "...
:razz: Well at least you can add the general constraint of ruling out all discussions of mind that makes appeals to the notion of it as some kind of f...
This all gets much easier when you understand societies are organised by the win-win dynamic of competition~cooperation. As democratic theory tries to...
This is accurate. In fact living organisms arise at the point in nature where molecular machinery can be used to harness quantum effects. So life may ...
A way to sharpen your approach would be to look at the issue through the eyes of function rather than merely just process. You have started at the red...
So what are your thoughts here when one direction looks to track the "deep maths" of Nature and the other choice may be just unphysical pattern spinni...
From hierarchy theory and Peircean semiotics, you can make an argument that the ur-dichotomy of dichotomies is the dyad of the local~global and the va...
It would help to familiarise yourself with the current metaphysical debate over Penrose’s argument. Here is one excellently clear paper…. http://cejsh...
Perdurantism requires you to believe the block universe interpretation of special relativity is true. So as an account of change, it doubles down on o...
An object would be a structure that imposes stability. An event speaks to the notion of a structure that instead effects a meaningful change … from on...
Turning this on its head, there are those who argue instead that the complex numbers are more fundamental than the reals because they embed the seed o...
Thanks. Catastrophe theory was both one of my earliest intellectual thrills and disappointments. It seemed to promise so much and yet deliver so littl...
Natural growth processes are crudely modelled by iterative functions in that the functions build on their own history of accidents. Some arbitrary set...
Pragmatism simply says we take that leap of faith - form a hypothesis - and test it. Our opinions of what is foundational then emerge from that proces...
That must be the first part that Wiki calls an interdisciplinary scientific theory then. That must be the branch of maths that specialises in exact al...
What is the general definition of chaos? It is some maximal imagined state of disorder or unpredictability. Pure wildness. A state with the least cons...
Was even Plato a Platonist? But the Timaeus traverses the right questions. If I have to use labels, then I am a structural realist, with dissipative s...
Why do you keep framing this as a problem of "something rather than nothing" when that has already been agreed as a self-contradicting metaphysics? Th...
What is wrong with a super-explanation here? The "why anything" question seems perfectly reasonable to me – once you get beyond the beginner level of ...
But doesn’t finding that things only persist rather than exist make it harder to take such an a-causal stance on the matter? Reality seems more a proc...
Yep. The maximum entropy or information content of the visible universe is 10^123 k. So if you wanted to number every individual degree of freedom tha...
Aren’t you just mixing up epistemology with ontology? But semiotics can fix it. All life and mind is semiotically self determinate. It comes with a mo...
I’m talking in the context of quantum field theory and its path integral formalism, particle fields and creation-annihilation operators. Or in very si...
That is the gist of the argument. And it fits the physics. The puzzle for cosmology is that the Big Bang didn’t just remain in its simplest possible s...
Well everythingness must contain its own limitations just because it includes all possible conflicts. A will be cancelled by not-A. The result ultimat...
Intriguing. I looked into category theory years back but my approach is via hierarchy theory and Peircean semiotics which I just find far more physica...
My argument was meant to lead from the usual monistic framing of the existential question towards a triadic or systems view of the ontology - in the t...
I'm trying to stress that the idea of maths as a branching tree may be a misleading metaphor here. A tree makes it sound like calculus is the sturdy r...
All physics likes to cash out in differential equations. And integration - as in path integrals - is just the reciprocal of differentiation. So in ter...
Seems simple enough. A vacua is a space that is devoid of content. And thus it is already the existence of a structure - a metric or particle field. T...
Except the concept of a quantum vacuum is already predicated on a bounded, energy conserved and time symmetric, state. A gone to equilibrium backdrop ...
You just rightly rejected the idea that something could come from nothing. The existence of something already negates the possibility of a true nothin...
What we have here is the usual thing of a metaphysical dichotomy - an argument that successfully derives its two dialectical extremes, but then falter...
Oh, and this. It’s Hawking radiation. So pulled out of the vacuum by the event horizon. You apparently couldn’t follow Lineweaver’s paper so I tried s...
:grin: You're right. The figures given by Lineweaver are that the current distance to our cosmic event horizon is 16 billion light-years, and the even...
General relativity's equation of state says the universe is a balance of the positive potential of its kinetically spreading mass-energy content and t...
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