This doesn't adequately deal with the holism of nature and thus our position as modellers of nature. The world as a whole is entrained to the dynamics...
Step 1: bin James and Rorty. Dewey is OK though. :wink: Even though Popper only came across Peirce late in his own career, he shared so much with Peir...
Sure. But from the pansemiotic view, both matter and mind - realism and idealism - are each just as much a construct of modelling as each other. And t...
I see no mention of Peirce. Did I miss something? The tricky bit here is that measurements are where the facts - as theoretical entities - must interf...
The alternative to Panpsychism is pansemiosis. So all we really require for time to have temporal structure is that physical reality boils down to a P...
Yep. That is the definition of a constraint. It does not specify the exact nature of some action. It instead narrows the scope of the possible by elim...
I was talking about the folk who pedantically demand dictionary definitions in - for example - philosophical discussions. Those who have to deal with ...
A pedant would surely disagree with me. But amusingly ... "Lexicographers define words but still lack a clear and unambiguous understanding of the wor...
I would say the difference results from the fact that we use words to constrain meanings (or interpretations) in a holistic sense, rather than to defi...
I've said that all along. You take it to mean just efficient cause. I take it to include all four Aristotlean causes. Likewise, you take it to mean ch...
A constraint doesn’t determine an outcome, it just limits the probabilities. It places concrete bounds on the degrees of freedom or sources of indeter...
I was talking about demarcating sense from nonsense. Surely you have heard of that? So now you tell me how you rule out astrology, homeopathy and crac...
How do we rule out astrology, homeopathy, miracles, fate, and anything else that might rely on the appeal to lucky coincidence in our cynical old eyes...
We would treat it as a counterfactual hypothesis. We are saying there are two choices here, either things have a cause or they don't. The job then is ...
Pragmatism just means burying the mouldering corpse of logical atomism and moving right along in a commonsense fashion. Yep. If you use logical atomis...
Sounds good to me. But what then is the epistemic upshot? If we can't have absolute belief that reality is causal, then we can still - inductively - c...
Your hierarchy of self-actualisation looks to make Donald Trump the most evolved dude on the planet then. Or any other autocrat and cult leader. Is pe...
Is there the third thing of moral pragmatist interpretations? My position is that there is neither some Platonic absolute, nor that there is utter con...
It’s downward acting constraints and upwards constructing degrees of freedom. So it is a model of Aristotelean causality where the constraints are the...
A quantum jump between two states is meant to have nothing connecting them in the spacetime between those jumps. No story of efficient causes laying t...
It's rather like learning to be bilingual. You need to become fluent in both reductionism and holism to see how they are in fact the two poles of the ...
Only in the sense that sociosemiosis stands back to look at biosemiosis "from the outside". Our bodies make up their own minds - as organisms organise...
What? After Newton narrowed the definition, it becomes forbidden to continue to follow physics and tack back towards Aristotle's larger definition? Ye...
Newton was the guy who invented the modern model of causality that in general opinion replaced the old Aristotelean one. So if that ain't explicit eno...
Why do you feel the need to add "consciousness" as some further reified being that sits above and beyond the brain processes of attending and habit-em...
Or any child. That wasn't anything that I was advocating. I was saying it is yet further evidence that the metaphysics of causality are far more compl...
But if you frame your notion of final cause so that it only applies to humans, or even organisms, then you rob it of that kind of causal status as it ...
Shome mishtake shurely? So Newton was both pleased to be able to give a precise reason in terms of one body striking another body, and also honest abo...
What, that some events seem to need a push - an impressed force - like the billiard ball, while other things, like the decay, the quantum fluctuation,...
But why when that approach can only make causality incomprehensible? What is efficient cause all its own with no context? And how could you explain wh...
Yep. There is the set-up. Then there is the pulling of the trigger. That way of thinking also leads to the dichotomy of proximate and distal causes. E...
Yes. Final cause and formal cause combine like that in the pansemiotic view. But at the level of physics, this is no more than saying the second law o...
That would be what I mean by pansemiosis. And all forms of organicism arrive at the same insight. The cosmos is a whole because it is a harmony of its...
Right. So any neuroscientific account has to explain both the differentiation and the integration here. The exact same noise could be painful or exhil...
The clue would be that it is indeed a "paradoxical" claim unless the unity is the holistic one based on the classical unity of opposites. In other wor...
Yep. A biosemiotic modelling relation. :up: Also, there has to be a reason why animal brains are the densest concentrations of structural and developm...
No. You just continue to badger me without addressing the inconsistencies of your own position. It seems according to you, panpsychists don't mean to ...
I gave you the dictionary definitions. They fit what I was saying. If you think different, show me how. Yeah. So they reduce it to a property of matte...
So how are you defining reductionism and panpsychism in this conversation? The simple answer is that you don't seem to understand the terms in the usu...
Again, let the dictionary be your friend: " the doctrine or belief that everything material, however small, has an element of individual consciousness...
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