The evidence from quantum mechanics tells us already that the nonlocality which is illogical to your way of thought is the reality of how the Cosmos i...
Note how you want to cloak the prosaic in the dramatic. You are romanticising anxiety as a cosmic existentialist drama - passionate man against uncari...
Happy clappy bullshit. You wouldn’t believe the delusions of a schizophrenic. You wouldn’t think they had achieved some praiseworthy level of reality ...
My position on emotions is social constructionist and biological. One must build on the other. So yes, we already know people have genetic variability...
You mean it would operate non-locally? Like quantum physics? And thus operate retrocausally? Yes, that is essential to my view. Finality lies in the f...
Sure. I’ll get right on to it just as soon as you provide the units of measurement. Does it involve something like a stopwatch and ruler? Or is it mor...
What is your unit of measurement? You forgot something. If it involves an atomistic notion of consciousness, well best of luck. (Remember, you are cla...
So - the cosmological principle that theories of the universe are constrained by the necessity to allow human existence? All you need to provide now t...
It was a problem that got solved though. So physicalism prevailed. Where Does Pattee’s “How Does a Molecule Become a Message?” Belong in the History o...
You tell me what you might mean by an entity. That’s a mighty vague term. I will watch with interest as you try to justify some epistemic cut to separ...
Why are you telling me this when I’ve just told you how my position does not involve an interpreter but habits of interpretance? One can lead the hors...
Peirce stresses that it is not about an interpreter - as some kind of ego or subject. It is about systems of interpretance. And that is entirely diffe...
Sorry to say it ain’t the cutting edge of biosemiosis. I can tell that just from the authors and the titles. I just read Ball’s journalistic summary a...
What? The paper on biosemiosis? Is that the toipic we are meant to be discussing now? Have you read the Barbieri team mission statement?…. :rofl: :rof...
How is it not? You might be suffering from a faulty understanding of irreversibility though. Thermodynamic equilbriums are simply states were reversio...
Good lord. Maxwell’s demon is how classical mechanics introduces the epistemic cut that underpins thermodynamics and hence dissipative structure theor...
Actually this is excellent as an introductory text…not to full blown semiotics, but too a sensible Aristotelean systems science view. The appetiser to...
That is a hard one as the causal model is so different from the one normally supplied by normal culture that you have to relearn your deepest habits o...
Rest easy. I am well familiar with all this. :smile: The crude story is that it is a balance of oxytocin versus testosterone. Neuromodulating chemical...
It is by taking an information-only view that you arrive at idealism, representationalism, behaviouralism, disembodied cognition and other pathologies...
A mask or an injection are minor discomforts. But they have been made into binary symbols within a particular society already marked by its deep irrat...
Sure. Our identities are a self narrative. And that is a socially-constructed habit which has developed from the generally group minded world of exper...
Of course it does. It matters hugely whether a psychological level problem is a manifestation of an organic problem or a situational problem. Is the f...
But caution. The majority of languages do tend towards an SVO structure. However any order can work. What is key is the division of causal reality int...
Yes. Because the most important thing for the tribe to be talking about is the switching points where the application of a force will achieve its grea...
Biology is finding that enzymes rely on quantum uncertainty to amplify their ability to make desired reactions happen. Life and mind thrive on zones o...
Yes. This is one of the places Chomsky got it really wrong because he didn’t know his neuroscience. The brain Itself is a recursion-based structure. C...
As Pattee says, it comes down the the Janus-faced notion of a mechanical switch. That is where information and physics intersect at a fundamental leve...
The claim is that it lacks recursion. It does have a regularity of word order - a general subject-object-verb organisation. So the basic narrative str...
Linguistics devotes much of its energy to disproving Chomsky’s claims about universal grammar. The lack,of syntax in the Piraha Amazonian Indians is t...
Balls. I say the opposite. Selfhood is enactive both neurally and culturally. Cognition is all about constructing the self in a world. The epistemic c...
Where did I say that? If you mean that I can think in a grammar that is both linear and non-linear, then that is true. But I provide the social contex...
Yes. The load of conveying meaning is shared by a machinery that places constraints on uncertainty. And so this devolves into the familiar things of w...
It is weak to revert to claims about never really knowing whether or not something is the case. Can you offer good reasons to doubt the Big Bang is th...
That depends on your definition of an organism. I agree. But then follows a path from semiosis to pansemiosis. And are you arguing that cosmology’s tu...
It isn’t obstinate to understand the distinction between dissipative structure that is physical and dissipative structure that comes with added biolog...
And so we move the conversation from the tradition of metaphysics to the tradition of philosophy of language as an apophatic and anti-metaphysical str...
Instead of talking of some ultimate property - which is a monistic concept - we can instead switch to seeking some ultimate relation, or form of inter...
But doesn’t the discovery of the BIg Bang give the Cosmos a true starting point and thus justifies an inquiry into “whence it came”? When materialists...
You are thinking of a cancer. A cell is constrained by a body. It gets the plug pulled by apotosis as soon as it starts to falter in dectable ways. A ...
This is bullshit. But you seem happy enough with it. I didn't bother with the video as a glance at the thumbnail was already enough. The reply to thes...
But everything is nothing if it is just noise with no signal. So you are no better off until you take the next step of producing a theory that offers ...
Given I take a process philosophy point of view, that can’t be the case. Semiotics starts from the other end of the spectrum. It begins in the monolit...
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