Good job that the particular and the general are a dichotomy and thus a system of mutual constraint then. So first and third person is the division we...
Let me be clear then. I couldn’t disagree more. Being able to give reasons for why things are and why things change is the entirety of metaphysics in ...
Nope. But we do tend to define matter as that which can take the imprint of our rather particular human wishes. That doesn't do justice to the deeper ...
I mean good luck trying. That would be a counterfactual approach. Deny the obvious, and when that fails, you have no choice but to accept the obvious....
But how could you define your deterministic efficient cause except counter-factually in relation to that which it is not. This is Metaphysics 101. Pre...
Yep. The holism of the context. Yep. The next step in understanding the causality of the context as the holism of global constraints. So efficient/mat...
You are hoping to project an intuitive notion of efficient cause onto the physical account - one where, as you say, you can ignore the rest of Aristot...
This makes sense in that Being grounds Becoming in the Aristotelean scheme. So that which stably exists becomes the stuff which also can stand under t...
Are we talking reality's atoms, or reality's degrees of freedom? ... and thus its invariances ... and thus its structural dichotomisation into its glo...
How do you "solve" a problem by combining two problems in an unresolved fashion? It is like shoving the shit that makes you uncomfortable into a locke...
Panpsychism is the pathological metaphysics that arises when you try to reduce all existence to materialism, and wind up including "consciousness" as ...
Sounds like you’re done with the easy globally continuous stuff and are raring to go with the local discrete stuff. Bring on gauge symmetry and how it...
...to complete the thought, classical realism is the place we want to get back to as the balance of what gets broken. So QM is "weird" as it breaks re...
I admit my views are provisional here. But for me, non-locality and contextuality seem two sides of the same coin - a dichotomy, and thus reciprocally...
Think of it as the global Newtonian 3D spatial container and its local energetic actions. Spinning on the spot, or moving with constant motion in a st...
Reflections - and even rotations of triangles - are discrete symmetries. You can see something has changed even if it maps back on to itself. But the ...
I'm always being asked that and the truth is ... no. Peirce never wrote a book to sum it all up. So he isn't easy to study like others who put it into...
That point is made by Robert Rosen’s modelling relations theory, Measurements are the informal part of the formal process. The system, as a whole, is ...
I’d take a different tack. The problem for quantum mechanics is that it has no epistemic cut - a place that marks the collapse of the quantum probabil...
I need to get back to Boehme and Schelling. :up: They all seem fundamental. What about Aristotle's hylomorphism of form and matter? But I personally s...
Yep. So does this lead one logically to identifying fundamental being with vagueness? To get to less than nothing, we would find ourselves in a realm ...
No. The sun’s radiation hits the earth at about 5900 degrees K and is then re-radiated into outer space as some cooler frequency. The energy is scatte...
Yeah sure. Which might be why my point was... ...So reductionism depends on the presumption that locality rules. Yet reductionism also quietly depends...
Indeed. And that is what I already say. The deal is reciprocal. Our notions of the determined and the random are the pragmatic limits which reality ca...
Doesn't that depend on your preferred interpretation? At the moment, the maths can't distinguish between a Copenhagen and a Multiverse point of view. ...
But it is the higher complexity life that transacts more entropy. The earth’s surface is measurably cooler where it is covered by a richer ecosystem. ...
Statistical tendencies would be the more generic, mathematically speaking. Mysterious tendencies don’t lend themselves to formal treatment, just frant...
Humans are part of Nature and so are ultimately grounded in nature's thermodynamic imperative. To persist, thou shalt entropify! But life and mind don...
A dichotomy is formally defined as that which is "jointly exhaustive and mutually exclusive". So a polarity is the successful reduction of some set of...
So more intuitive than mathematical? What is gained by sacrificing full rigour here? Energy is a scientific notion justified by Noether's theorem and ...
The more narrowly you can constrain the initial conditions set-up, the less scope there then is for any quantum surprises. So the two ends of some sto...
The issue is then how do your recover what folk think they mean by meaning, consciousness, mind, intentionality, agency, etc, from an infodynamic pers...
That is what quantum indeterminism describes - the impossibility of classically exact knowledge of a system's initial conditions, coupled to the possi...
This is why the nonlocality in quantum mechanics, and the principle of least action that grounds physics in general, are such a metaphysical problem f...
A carpenter is an organism and is indeed autonomous to the degree they embody all four causes. The carpenter can act with form, with purpose and with ...
Efficient cause answers the question of what particular event(s) conspired to trigger the observed result. So it sits with material cause (as the mate...
Mmm. So still trying to talk past the triadic logic then. The global coherence of the cooperation is only possible due to the local incoherence of the...
Why do you keep insisting on reducing dichotomies to monisms? Haven't I spent enough time on explaining that they are the step towards the holism of a...
If we can still find the freedom to imagine things being different, then we haven't arrived at the ultimate goal of the game - Platonic level, mathema...
:up: Is the glass half full or half empty? It seems both obvious that fundamental physics knows it needs to add thermodynamics to a view of nature tha...
It can be true both that the very ground of being is a radical instability and that nothing systematic exists until that ground has been sufficiently ...
How so when it is logically defined? (as that to which the PNC fails to apply) How so? A systems way of looking at things says that everything boils d...
I prefer Peirce’s framing of Firstness as Vagueness, or even Tychism. That gets beyond the idea of something that exists by itself or is independent o...
The minimal entry requirement is to have the skills of critical thinking. That ought to cover both analysis and synthesis, or deductive reasoning and ...
Tell that to a fly. Or a human juicer with a straw. :grin: But H.sapiens is famously weak chinned and puny toothed for a hominid. We reverted towards ...
Flat earth theory is good enough for the local geographic point of view. Epicycles likewise give you an acceptable celestial mechanics. Everything wor...
Again these are all stories of following the Nile back to its source. We move up to greater theoretical generality by adding back all the symmetries t...
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