apokrisis

We know there must be CP violation based on the same lawful structure of global symmetry coupled to local symmetry breaking. And then we have both exp...

What? Those hairless apes that immediately cooked their own planet? Sounds legit. :razz:

The laws of relativity arose as there had to be an equivalence or symmetry that united gravity and acceleration, and then space and time, and then mas...

Yep. That was the position I argued against. In our "best" descriptions of nature, self-consistency in the form of some global finality, some general ...

I guess it depends on how one interprets agapastic evolution. Can it really be driven by such a transcendental quality as "cosmic love"? Or is it bett...

Yeah. The how questions are questions about material and efficient causality. The why questions go to formal and final cause. But why an organism woul...

It's the search for a causal account. Every particular must be the product of something more general. Aristotle list the four general causes - or "bec...

Sure. No problem. Naturalism competes in the philosophy space with other metaphysical views - like those that are dualistic, intuitionistic, or anti-t...

I’m referring not to my qualitative judgements but that of a Peircean community of rational thinkers. I rely on the world-structuring of a logical sem...

It would help understand where you are coming from on his question. If we don’t share the same axioms, we are hardly going to agree on the same conclu...

So you don’t hold to metaphysical naturalism? Are you arguing for dualism or something? Those could be two different things. Certainly from my Peircea...

The problem here is that the essence of Peirce is the irreducible wholeness of the triadic relation - the same point as systems science and dissipativ...

It is the state of the switch - is it on or off - that is semantic. The switch itself is an element of syntax. It is the material possibility of one o...

Where do the laws of nature or the constants of nature fit into your notion of reality as mereologically the sum of all things? Aren’t you looking at ...

Correct. The argument shows that the somethingness that does exist is organised in this fashion. And thus what we can conclude is that it all starts w...

That would be right in the Newtonian mechanics view where the two forces were precisely alike and precisely opposed. So even in Newtonian mechanics, t...

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Piling speculation upon speculation doesn’t increase the soundness of the speculation. Let’s just establish that there is a compactified and overlooke...

This is where Pattee’s perspective is helpful. All semiosis can be understood as a system of information-controlled physical switches. So an enzyme is...

Without support for the equally reified concreteness, then yes. :up:

Is the balance between over-thinking and under-thinking defined somewhere, other than in your personal opinion? What criteria are we applying here - o...

What you mean to argue remains opaque. But I meant to oppose nothingness to everythingness as the path to the “less than nothing” that is a logical va...

This is why conversations with you never get anywhere. Clearly the OP is about metaphysical nothingness and not the relatively lack of some concrete t...

In making information a mathematically-defined concept, science is instead being as explicit as possible as to where the conversation starts - out the...

Maybe. If so, attention could then more fruitfully turn to the semiotic view of information that bridges that "insuperable gap". As has already been c...

Even the psuedo-scientific attempts to imagine macroscale wormholes accepts tremendous energy would fill them to keep the walls from collapsing - some...

But that was my point. :brow: From your reference - And we haven't even discussed dark energy or the cosmological constant yet. So if you want to argu...

You've been watching too much Star Trek or Dr Who. But even if such a macroscale connection between two spacetime locales could be sustained, it would...

But that is what you are doing by insisting that "information" should be still synonymous with "meaningful". The everyday sense of the word embodies t...

That's a broad question. But at the physical level, holography makes the case.... http://old.phys.huji.ac.il/~bekenste/Holographic_Univ.pdf

Thanks. :up:

Is that true at the level of metaphysics? Don't fundamental concepts there become grounded in the logical manoeuvre of a dichotomy? What is it to be d...

Even if wormholes existed for real, they would still be a path connecting two moments in time, not a nothingness.

In my systems science/hierarchy theory view, the whole is produced by what it produces. The whole shapes its parts - it contributes the downward-actin...

Not according to QCD. Instead the interior is a "proton sea" of quantum fluctuations. https://d2r55xnwy6nx47.cloudfront.net/uploads/2021/02/Proton_Sea...

In maths. Not so much in the physics of voids.

Why's that? The relation would be that the whole is explained in terms of all that it could produce. The whole "nothing exists" premise is already def...

As @"Count Timothy von Icarus" says, Chaos was a seminal book. But his later books seemed pretty average to me. So he dropped off my radar.

How secure is this premise? Why can't reality in total contain its own explanation? So particular things get particular explanations and universal thi...

Haven't read it, I'm afraid.

What @"Daemon" gets muddled is his conviction that scientific descriptions of nature in terms of information are somehow "just an epistemic metaphor" ...

For my money, definitions like Pattee’s epistemic cut, Salthe's infodynamics, Rosen’s metabolism-repair systems, Friston's Bayesian mechanics, all put...

Excellent post. :up:

You say there need to be two elements or essential substances - matter and soul. That is dualism. You might call the divide an epistemic cut, but it l...

Biosemiosis is a label many started claiming about the same time. Some had Saussurean leanings. Others were Peircean. And then some tried for a very d...

I was showing how the epistemology of science is "informational" even without considering the further issue of semiotic encoding. But if you want to c...

Humans do have the same neurosemiotic base as all other large-brain vertebrates. But then the add sociosemiosis on top of that. This is possible becau...

But then it becomes commentary all the way down. What is a protein in your reductionist terms? A chain of peptides. What’s a peptide? The name for a c...

A few moments is not hard. As you say, you can't stop stuff bubbling up, but you can just let it go. You can get into a dissociated state where nothin...

He didn't make a direct mapping as the first person became not the crisp boundedness of the individual but its diametric opposite of the radical vague...