You've pointed out the difference. I feel that I am me - the principle of identity. And I feel that you are you and not me. The principle of non-contr...
The triadic distinction of "I/you/them" is so basic to the logic of relations that it is built into the fundamentals of our grammar. And Peirce had th...
Friston is returning neurocognition to its 19th century roots. The brain as a mix of habits and expectations. Helmholtz’s treatise on perception. Baye...
You and me is a second person view of two individuals in interaction. Peircean secondness, in other words. The semiosis here is about first and third ...
For the record, I don't subscribe to either Global Workspace Theory or Integrated Information Theory. Neither are semiotic approaches. But I do endors...
Phenomenology is socially constructed. It is a modelling exercise using language to externalise the internal in a socially pragmatic fashion. So what ...
Yes. That is what I was saying. Putting it simply, semiosis is the construction of a meaningful relation between a self and world using a (meaningless...
We can see how strong physicalism winds up going too far because in the end it leads to the crazy metaphysical extremes of quantum theory where either...
Base level consciousness is the neurosemiosis. The modelling is the attending. Then humans structure their own relationship with themselves with langu...
Or biological scientists showing that they see life and mind as the same essential kind of mechanism. And Peirce saw semiosis as the logic organising ...
Why would an entity doing all the semiotic things an organism like a jumping spider does be unconscious. Or even a robot? The shortcomings of computat...
it is your choice to assert but not support the position that consciousness is something that can exist without a content. And if I have failed to pro...
Look at you. Ducking and diving like mad. C'mon. Where is the evidence or the logic that says that consciousness can exist in the absence of a content...
Your position depends on consciousness being able to exist without these kinds of contents - modelling, selective attention, etc. All of biological an...
If you don't care to defend your claim that consciousness can exist without a content then I accept that you quietly find that an indefensible leap of...
It is what people think they mean when they say "consciousness" that is the controversial bit. What they usually mean is that somehow the world is "re...
A theory that is not even wrong as it offers no measurable difference. Yet you demand such evidence from others.... Well there's two types. The reduct...
What supports your contention that all that neurology - by far the most extreme kilo or two of functional complexity in the known universe - could hap...
I talk about images as that is the everyday jargon that you wish to employ. From a properly functional point of view, it is a perceptual anticipation ...
The mind is an accumulation of habits of interpretance. Past experience is used to predict the future world in terms designed to deliver effective act...
The semiotics of traffic networks is based on switches. And in biosemiotic, what is being stressed is that switches are where the action happens as th...
What I was saying is that if folk could shake off their romantic notions of causality then they might be able to focus on the rational solutions that ...
Information would be the part of reality which is the least material, and matter would be likewise the part of reality with the least information. Phy...
At least you can try the snake oil and see if the claims on the bottle match its real world effects. You're stomping about making the claim to have th...
How can I see what you won't properly flesh out. You haven't shown that adding more sugar to the recipe in fact makes it taste more delicious. You are...
All hail H.philosophus. Nature's most grandiloquent animal. Or was it instead the metaphysical inquiry into the basis of being - the search for the un...
A stop sign is social level switch. It is enforced by social level mechanisms. You might risk getting physically stopped by a patrol car and physicall...
I'm always saying "life and mind". The two are pretty synonymous given that they are both about the special thing of a semiotic modelling relation. If...
You said the words. You unpack them and show there is some kind of theory behind the hippie slogan. Aha. So it starts with equal quantities of caring?...
Describe to me this world where we all "care enough". What does that look like precisely? How does it operate in a way that might maximise the upside ...
What did you have in mind beyond surviving and thriving? Sure, people can find the unpragmatic in philosophy. Some around here even celebrate the lack...
Why is it not a falsifiable theory? The world has many countries running somewhat different functional balances. The societies that manage the healthi...
You can tell that a claimed dualism or dichotomy is wrong to the degree you can’t find a hierarchical reciprocality built into it. So does fact-value ...
Sure. But the dualisms are in a functional and causal relation. So they are really a triadic semiotic relationship. Pattee says life is symbol and mat...
That's my complaint. You "consciousness" guys are bogged in the mud because you have a dys-functional conception of what its about. The mind can't mak...
After trying to make sense of Dennett, I long ago decided it was a waste of my time. I now simply have no opinion on his "ideas". Nothing coheres in a...
I'm talking about Peircean semiosis and not Saussurean. So it is about a triadic modelling relation and not a dyadic signification one. Well everyone ...
In other words, a science that accounts for experiencing organisms needs a theory of semiosis. It needs to place the epistemic cut (between self and w...
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