You've circled back to your original unwarranted presumption that descriptions can be trusted because ... well things look like what they look like! T...
It is a model-dependent assumption that your pain is "in here" and the prickly rose bush is "out there". How do you check the truth of this? How do yo...
The impasse that follows when you fall into the logical hole of dualism. For me, employing a triadic systems perspective, the hard problem reduces to ...
But that righteous amazement is due to your epistemic framing of things as first person subjective vs third person objective. You have to believe in a...
As I said, there are Mach contrast bands that highlight the boundaries of shapes in object perception. They are unconditioned in the sense that consci...
There are neural correlates, biological correlates, social correlates, philosophical correlates ... correlates to reflect each and every level of semi...
Jeez, I must have missed that restriction back when I started out on the phenomenological side of things. But in what sense does consciousness actuall...
Sounds like an elaborate excuse for not having an answer. If Husserlian intentionality is worth a damn, it would have something to say about Mach band...
Sure you can. Out of the corner of my eye, I think I see my black cat lurking in the shadows. Then I turn and see it is a black shopping bag. One glob...
Hardly. One is an easy mistake to make - a high level act of interpretation. The other is found to be constitutive of interpretations themselves. You ...
I find phenomenology useful to the extent one might start there to reverse engineer the social and biological causes. So one of my best remembered exa...
Do we want to "describe" or do we want to model the causality? And which do you think has the better hope of engaging with the causality? Even the wor...
Are you claiming it doesn't? :yawn: That how Hegelianism goes. I say balance, you say unbalanced, and we wind up agree that the systems view is all ab...
Sure. And do you see the general theme that emerges here? At the bottom, what is basic is fluctuation, excitation, instability. And that (Peircean fir...
I'm sure you can back that up with a specific example. If not, I can give you a starter. Why did neoliberalism deem monetarism an essential part of it...
Yep. We have well and truly left the world of material objects and are now talking about stacks of QFT fields. At what point do we then give up talkin...
Enzymes regulate the rate of a reaction. So the soldiers are like all the chemicals ready to get going. Then their sergeant - as a higher level of con...
Where would I have said that? You are off at a tangent. But what caused the collapse and led to the unsustainability? Clearly I would look to the bala...
Completely irrelevant, but I just happened to re-read this old quip about the reality of the pragmatic approach to science. Attributed to engine desig...
The problem is that if you now deny the naturalness of molecular machines, then you play straight into the hands of Creationists who want to use ATPas...
Sure. Economics is known as the dismal science because it could justify slavery by choosing to measure horsepower. But don't pretend that better metri...
The constraints aren't fixed and eternal. They represent a history of development that acts to remove all lesser possibilities. So at best, in the "be...
The rules of nature ultimately seem to be mathematically Platonic - based on symmetry principles. Our cosmos has a dimensional structure, an evolution...
If you can't properly describe nature then of course you can't then judge economic theories in terms of what might be natural. But here, you have alre...
Societies are organisms. So why would a holist expect "pure objectivity" when the production of "subjectivity" is what defines an organism. Or in othe...
The funny thing there is that biology used to look just like complicated chemistry. In class in the 1970s, the Krebs cycle at the heart of cellular me...
If you just want technology, you only need to answer the questions concerning efficient and material causality. The questions about formal and final c...
Reductionists and holists mean different things when they talk about hierarchical order. Reductionists think only in terms of upwards construction. Yo...
Human reason has been drawing the limits on being since philosophy began using self-referential or dichotomous argument. If you say “everything is sta...
On the other hand, how does an organism exist without this epistemic cut, Markov blanket or schnitt? It is not about scientific dogma. Science explain...
It just tells us what kind of physics to root our life and mind science in. Science believes it is constructing a hierarchy of theories. Neuroscience ...
Stan Salthe's lifecycle model of ecology will do that. It is the kind of more detailed theory that you demand. You say it yourself. You've got old. Br...
:lol: Now you just want to make me sad. Toasties and Genesis FFS's? Not obvious to whom exactly? The Peircean collective wisdom? Well why does Friston...
Did I say explain or ground explanations? So all you had to do was tell me you agreed. Instead you took the disagreeable path of pretending not to hav...
Ah, you say, it tis but a scratch. More video I'm afraid. But you've seen this one. https://youtu.be/ZmInkxbvlCs Long life vs reproductive fitness? He...
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