The flow state is neurological, so about the level of selfhood that is below a linguistic and socially-constructed sense of self. Our brains are desig...
Even as a well-defined mathematical concept, talk about chaos is too broad here perhaps. A metaphysical naturalist wanting to talk about order emergin...
If you have time to be bothered by mild discomfort, that suggests you actually have bugger all to complain about. Your point argues against you. Who i...
Yes, you are free to frame your reality as if you are the helpless victim of a malign intelligence. You can choose to perpetuate that self-image. No o...
Like I said. We get to make choices ... as a direct result of being constrained by a game. We are free not despite some malign intelligence, but becau...
What if the villain is replaced by nature and evolution? What if this game produces organisms that must have the counterfactual freedom to act in thei...
You look to be setting yourself up for a false dichotomy - an either/or demand. Modelling theory says optimality is always going to be a pragmatic tra...
To be deep implies the issue raised is foundational. You are getting down to the bottom of things in some very general way. So as a metaphor, it seems...
I don’t think you understand me as that reply makes no sense. The point there is that there is the one general thing of a self-world modelling relatio...
No. It makes the point that the boundary between self and world is perceptually constructed. It is a fact of the modelling. And this is well known psy...
But a human, as a psychological being, is formed by at least four levels of semiosis - genes, neurons, words and numbers. So the modelling is both hie...
A serious answer would be no - not if the unity is understood in terms of a synthetic bundle of experiences. The argument here is semiotic or dialecti...
This is an important starting point. A racing car driver can feel their car as an extension to their body. We can all feel the world around us in ways...
An evolutionary or developmental view of metaphysics accepts that the basis of reality is an instability that has to become stabilised. The Cosmos exi...
It’s fine to have your own private metaphysics I guess. But I did think you were aiming to go beyond this kind of simplistic understanding of “informa...
Does your approach have any connection to Wolfram’s cellular automata theory or Deutsch’s constructor theory? There is a lot of maths in this area - g...
Yep. It wasn’t as if environmentalists weren’t warning us about the limits of growth in the 1970s. But from an organismic perspective, it is all part ...
You could be right in the sense that science delivers the techno-economy that wrecks the environment and leads to civilisational collapse and generali...
Where is the evidence of science moving into the down phase of a cycle? I mean, how could you even be an anti-vaxxer if a whole bunch of different cor...
Is it a down cycle in science or rather a willingness to assert social power? If you can’t get your way in reasoned fashion, then making up any old re...
My view is neurosemiotic. So it is more about the way an organism is embedded in its world via a modelling relation. An organism develops stable habit...
Well enough to know that questions of who-ness relate to the logically particular rather than the logically general. So you may wish to presume your a...
You said brain states are physical. I am asking in what sense does their physics determine a “progression” of states. If you agree it doesn’t do so in...
Does one ask “who” of the general rather than of the particular? But carry on with your efforts to champion nominalism. It must be at least 5 minutes ...
So in your view, the states of a computer are determined by its physics rather than its information? Complete measurement of its hardware state would ...
Yep. That is structuralism. It is why maths of that ilk - the maths of symmetry - has proved so unreasonably effective in physical theory. So plenty o...
Yep. But then also, hylomorphism is essentially triadic. The actuality of substantial being arises out of formal constraint on material uncertainty. S...
Hah. I just spent the morning on this point. DNA is necessarily physical, but also as little involved in the physics of the world as possible. Every c...
This doesn't stack up for me. And organic and immanent metaphysics instead emphasises the complementary nature of symmetry breakings and the reality o...
Why would the Big Daddy in the Sky go to all the trouble of pre-arranging an anthropically structured Big Bang that takes 13 billion years to eventual...
But if you study particle physics, you will find this isn't how it works. We happen to now live in an era where the Cosmos is ruled by its mathematica...
He means that life and mind transcend their worlds by being organisms with an intentional point of view. They are in a semiotic modelling relation whi...
He was pointing out how this way of speaking retains a transcendental framing that doesn’t make causal sense. The error of thought is in thinking that...
Aren’t you just re-mystifying the view that Tallis wants to de-mystify? The Big Bang falls within his description of Natural Habits. Regularity is eme...
Surely maths is what converts the intuitions into actual counting? It reveals the degree to which an idea works …. in terms of numbers to be read off ...
How are you defining “primordial” exactly? Is it an abstract term with some concrete meaning, or just a ritualistic and impressive noise one might mak...
The Universe was also expanding and cooling at an exponential rate while in that vanilla unbroken state - according to the simplest extrapolations. So...
If you're going to be so damn reasonable then I have to rescind that dogmatic comment. Bugger. :smile: Yep. Again, that's fair. It it just that the pa...
Planck was actually just thinking about the problem of why the heat radiated by an object didn’t add up to infinity like a simple extrapolation of kno...
You have clashing brane theories that make use of string theory’s higher dimensionality. So this is another example of reductionist desperation in my ...
You might be thinking just of space and not spacetime. Inertial expansion is flat but accelerating expansion is curved. But even Linde’s eternal infla...
The dogmatism relates to the assumption of a beginning/origin having to exist at some smaller scale/hotter temperature beyond the Planckscale event ho...
But they looked and found it has dark energy and so an "internal pressure" that means spacetime isn't contracting, nor even coasting to a gravitationa...
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