apokrisis

The real world problem is that the AI bubble is debt driven hype that has already become too big to fail. Its development has to be recklessly pursued...

Indeed. And if laws are constraints, then the regularities can be statistical. Exceptions get to prove the general rule. You arrive at the Peircean vi...

I prefer Bergson to Whitehead, although you are right about the triadic structure of relations and how all this fits the thermo-picture of the growing...

To be honest, I hated it. Absolutely not my taste. But I am very picky about my music. The rap works - and harder would be better - as the bombast of ...

For fun’s, I just gave Gemini a whirl. I don’t think there is much to worry about quite yet if this is how it performs. I asked it to make your point ...

Growing block has the advantage that we have the stable foundation of our past and the open challenge that is our future - to the degree we haven’t al...

This is the reality. The tool is now ubiquitous. Every intellectual is going to have to factor it into their practice. Time to learn what that means. ...

I’m definitely seeing posters who are suddenly injecting chunks of more organised and considered material into their responses. There are AI tools to ...

And AI agrees. :razz:

There are many many versions of this in world culture as it is simply what is obvious once you think about how anything could come to have existence. ...

Correct. I had a shudder at the mention of Tooley and Sosa’s Causation. Made me think how lucky I was to have an instinctive aversion to reductionism ...

It would be guilty of the dualism of Cartesian representationalism if it were not instead the enactive story of a self in interaction with its world. ...

I think the problem is that if you train in philosophy and then specialise in logic, you can't help but become a metaphysical-strength reductionist. T...

Yep. The growing block universe is a way to see both sides of the story. The fact that the future is free, and so can evolve in unpredicted ways. And ...

Precisely. It is not a theory of consciousness but a meta-theory of self-organisation. And one large enough to encompass the meta-theories of self-org...

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Sure. But I am drawing attention to the tricky fact that Nature is organised by both “complicity” and “simplexity” as Stewart and Cohen waggishly put ...

AI gives a nice summary…. You might note that your own AI prompt ends up referencing a lot of my own PF posts. :lol:

Sure. The molecule must be a message. But it is also a molecule. And there must be a message. The issue is not semantics becoming physics. It is seman...

So you accept the principle of feedforward in general, just not in Friston’s particular case? And yet Friston is generalising the feedforward story as...

Fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, and other maths of complexity do a good job of modelling physical processes over all scales. A vortice is a vortice fr...

But this is just a basic principle of cognitive science. There is already abundant evidence for it. The mind is a predictive model. Some of the most d...

I like the Britney version for being more like how the words would echo in their own confusion. Serious, but not taken seriously. :cool:

Reading your post again, it does sound like you are stressing that my view would be based on immanence rather than transcendence in terms of any "firs...

I’m not sure what you mean there. But the fact that fundamental physics is rooted in the maths of symmetry is rather Platonic and hylomorphic. It is a...

But that is exactly what gauge symmetry does. It explains why particles are created and annihilated in matter-antimatter pairs. You break a chiral or ...

So physics did not organise this new situation and evolution did. Thus your simple complexity thesis has a sudden hole in it. Sure. But this isn’t jus...

Probably not. But what is it in terms of a simple continuum of physical complexity that a DNA base carries a semiotic meaning. Try to make that connec...

Life and mind depend on the emergence of codes. The information processing possibilities of genes, neurons, words and numbers. So how do codes “just e...

Caught red-handed!

Aha! AI now writing your posts. That will solve one of your problems. :lol: Now you just need to learn to write honest prompts. Anyways, as AI replies...

Brilliant! Hysterical! Not Death Valley Girls, but perhaps valley girls. And the bombastic rap treatment works I’m now seeing Britney Spears in front ...

It's pretty shit. :razz: I was thinking more a pastiche of the Death Valley Girls. But only as this immediately sprang to mind. I kind of dread the AI...

I already pointed out the issue of priors. Others have noted your failure to cash out semantics in stabilising ontic commitments. It is about the open...

Any choice of the music genre? Does AI do psych rock?

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I think you neatly demonstrate the pitfalls of relying on words when doing serious metaphysics - as in here, trying to say something useful about epis...

If you are asking me, then invariance is the globally constraining symmetry of the Cosmos. And so what we mean by talking about Nature’s laws. And the...

That’s pretty impressive if you just whipped it up. :grin:

But the unity of opposites is preSocratic. And not any old forms but gauge symmetries. Special relativity zeroes the spacetime metric to a set of loca...

I hear people talking about it all the time. Just not very meaningfully. And certainly not at all scientifically.

And so my reply was precisely about that. The holistic view of a first cause. The unit 1 story of the first symmetry-breaking. The unit 1 story of a u...

I thought I was arguing against using a reifying term such as consciousness. I thought I was saying this is where folk already went off track. The cal...

So it seems I am both not talking about philosophy yet talking about philosophy in your book? Ought one consider where logic sits in all this at this ...

I prefer the past constrains the future. It has already eliminated a huge range of possibilities. That is what makes the future so predictable. But al...

Such mock humility. :up:

But then these "customs, habits, and shared practices" are what are left vague. Half-baked. Contingencies treated as obligations. So I prefer the Baye...

Had anyone mentioned this?… I was pretty dismissive before. But this demonstrates the dangers of the Tech Bros “move fast and break things” approach t...

Sure. The problem that remains is do we aim to eliminate every wrong hypothesis or magically leap to the only correct one? This appears to be how you ...

Welcome to the 1960s? Anglophone logic choppers wake up to realise something or other might be slightly amiss. They begin shift in their armchairs and...