Two would be enough if we could force folk to be have both a self and anti-self. You would have to show a dialectical self-duality by being jasOn and ...
Hey. That’s my argument! :grin: But mathematics models the relation. Metaphysics arrives as its ultimate qualities via the dialectic or dichotomy, whi...
Well put. This is social psychology 101 ... well, for some, like Andy Lock and the semiotic/symbolic interactionist/Vygotskian psychology crowd. A use...
What seems absent here is the acknowledgement that yes, this distributed systems view of self-organisation and dynamical balance is correct. Even fund...
But what if in fact the opposite is the general case among those who study the physics of material vibrations? Given that this is the crucial causal c...
Even just being rational about public health choices, like the crazy anti-vaxx arguments from folk who are then only too keen to take horse worming ta...
Isn’t it a case of the science answer becoming too complex and sounding much more like nonsense than the “facts” one can make up to justify one’s own ...
Yep. Everyone wants to be an influencer. TikTok is truly the crucible for the development of your "more ideal community of tomorrow". :rofl: The age o...
While I'm on the sins of Pomo, and the virtues of Peirce and Vygotsky, the Continentalists have an uncanny knack of picking the wrong guy. Just as the...
Yep. In case you hadn't seen it, this is Peirce's theory of truth as the limit of communal inquiry. And while I am at it, the Pragmatic Maxim: And in ...
Laughter is a reaction of surprised delight. A smile of recognition mixed with an a-ha (or exaggerated hah-hah-hah) of pleasure. A joke is something t...
But that is not what was said. I said: One metaphysics to rule them all! Jason said: Why? Is that level of metaphysical economy basic for some reason....
If the question was whether knowledge always has to be useful, then you would want to deconstruct the perfectly clear sense of the question by either ...
That is presumed by the structuralist metaphysics here. Nothing "exists" except as a persistent and self-sustaining dynamical balance. An autopoietic ...
The Wiki entry on “trace” - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trace_(deconstruction) - shows that a plain English account of Derrida’s project is perfectl...
Yes please. Curious that you would answer me in this roundabout fashion. Well my presence in this particular dynamic is now most marked by its absence...
This reads like utter gibberish. Can you give an explanation with a concrete example. Start with the mark I just made by stabbing the spatulate tip of...
Obviously I like that Hegel tried to take a dialectical approach and Kant was also a systems thinker. And there is the Naturphilosphie lineage, with g...
I think it really matters which path you take to arrive at the centre. Each path trains your brain in different sets of habits. As I see it, both PoMo...
Yes, Peirce is jargon-ridden. The difference is that Peirce is thinking mathematically. Just check out the amphek as the epistemic cut switching devic...
Of course I would agree. But also, I would add that this view of consciousness - a little soul inside the physical body that has freewill and is respo...
I've dug out my ancient notes to refresh my mind on where I felt Derrida fits in here. I see that he was dealing with the very Peircean issue of the o...
Despair comes from personal helplessness. So what we need to be individually is realistic about the possibilities of the whole world coming to its sen...
But there is a very obvious reason. Any claims about quality have to be qualified by quantification. And that is both the scientific method and Peirce...
The way this makes most sense to me is that a network of linguistic signs is a syntactical network of semantic switches. And this is lain over the neu...
This is enactivism or ecological perception in a nutshell. Another argument against Cartesian representationalism is that real brains leave as much in...
I’m not getting how it is a distinction that makes a difference. I am already presuming that a signs need to be understood as switches, and that switc...
Oh, I was thinking of that as the feature and not the bug. :gasp: A monkey randomly bashing a keyboard will in infinite time surely produce the comple...
You are managing to make Derrida seem like a reasonable guy. The question is what kind of sociology would encourage the torture of the accepted PoMo a...
I have nothing at all against Saussure. He was indeed influential on me when I was looking into why language made such a difference to the human mind....
I would indeed argue the same. God invented the integers, as they say. Or at least the identity elements of 0 and 1 around which arithmetic swivels. S...
I'm genuinely curious as to what you can get out of it except a bemused poetry? It poses as something that ought to be intelligible, but I am certain ...
Not sure how to translate that. But from my Vygotskian/social constructionist perspective, language was the new medium that structured the "undifferen...
I would go so far as to add that the only signal I can pick up from the word salad noise is the distress call of folk stuck in a misunderstanding of d...
Have you come across Norman Wildberger's dissident maths? He has retired now and is going full rogue. :cool: Yep. There has to be some deeper connecti...
Well that begs many questions. The erosion of all definite distinctions only leaves behind the generalised pluralism of all the differences that don't...
I’m not sure I understand what form you think this extra dimension takes. It sounds like a larger embedding dimension for GR - such as a brane. Or it ...
Think of it this way perhaps. Before Trump, the brakes on fossil fuel had already been tampered with. By the time Biden got in the driving seat, even ...
But doesn't it in fact predict that humans will cook themselves to death rather than voluntarily giving up on accelerating the fossil fuel burning? It...
Yuck. Now you are truly testing my resolve not to be so routinely dismissive of PoMo. But this is dreadful stuff. Abstract word salad. :sad: I can't r...
I didn't see where it claims 5D relations. But anyway, it doesn't sound a promising approach. Sure. I agree that 4D spacetime is just advanced account...
That is already contained in Peircean semiotics. Yes, that is another issue with PoMo. When it was structuralist, it was dyadic Saussurean semiosis it...
Rubbish. One can find meaning in Nature as a whole. Like folk always used to before Christian monotheism came along, and still do in other world relig...
Something like that is surely the case. But that is also too flowery language. What does it mean for humans to ascend to a mathematical level of abstr...
Hegel was certainly trying to express the triadic logic of systems theory. Peirce did it best, but even he comes at it from at an angle that largely m...
That prompted me to check out Merton. It is interesting where he notes that Teilhard’s noosphere is such a bold assertion of structuralism - the const...
Good way of putting it. As I've just outlined, the biosemiotic view would be that humans embody four quite distinct levels of world-making. But everyd...
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