apokrisis

The familiar distinction between the old cogsci approach of the brain as a data display vs the embodied cognition approach where the brain is engaged ...

All you are demonstrating is that you don't understand your own sources. Consciousness as a neural process is as much about differentiation as integra...

Very familiar.

Yep. The basic distinction goes back a few thousand years to when H.sap stopped counting in terms of "one, a few, a great many".

I'm agreeing that some kind of dualism is needed. And I'm saying science has gone down that road - on its way to the triadic systems view that makes s...

Sure. But analog signal filtering or analog computation are not revolutionary in the sense of achieving the kind of strict dichotomous separation I'm ...

The confusion arises because metaphysics, and hence the natural sciences, must work their way to an answer by the logical structure of a dichotomy. Th...

Hah. I used to question Pattee about this dualistic framing. I was was with others like Salthe who stressed a triadic systems approach. But then Patte...

The problem is in the claim to know as that already presumes cognition has the aim of accurately representing the outside world. All the epistemic qua...

A relation is irreducibly triadic. Two things must be separated, and they need the third thing of their connection.

A man, a woman and a song. Can there be a tango with less? Does a tango need more? Can you count to three?

I’m just pointing out the political context within which the Fed operates. Technically, the Fed just makes rational decisions about matching money sup...

My comments reflect who I found to be making sense when I was sorting this out for myself in the l990s. It just happens that reaction time research in...

So note how this places perception as after the fact. The world happens. The brain processes it’s sensory inputs. Some state of sensation leads on to ...

If you buy and sell internationally, the deals are done in US dollars. To finance exports to the US market, you have buy treasuries or US debt. World ...

Never heard of him. :smile: Checking his publications I see that he was focused down at the molecular biology end and my interest was all at the gener...

It is those who argue against physicalism that keep bringing up colour experience as their best case. I’m just happy to take on anyone’s best argument...

Isn’t that my point? We don’t even notice saccades as that is noise habitually filtered out. It is already expected from reafference. If the world spi...

But the point was that you still employ a 1970s bastardisation of 1950s EEG tech. Brainwaves were already pseudoscience half a century ago.

But paying attention to fluctuations is a linguistically-scaffolded and socially-constructed human practice. Animals have the same brains but lack the...

Your precious EEG rhythms are an artefact of a measuring method that offers 1ms temporal resolution but 1cm spatial resolution. So all that alpha, bet...

That would be why nothing is leaking through the scalp to disturb the EEG coils then. In a dissipative structure, you can tell which half is the entro...

What are you talking about? Constructivism is just the standard social science position. It’s well founded in theory and evidence.

A snappier summary is that Peirce nicely reflects where the science of psychology was getting started with Helmholtz, Wundt, Donders and others who un...

I think the term affect is already pointing up completely wrong paths. An affect would be instead a habit of interpretance in a Peircean scheme. Carte...

Credentials become an issue to the degree we make arguments from authority rather than actual arguments. But I’m glad you could cite someone as good a...

That’s amusing. And I can easily believe Husserl had a sophisticated take which his followers assimilated to their more conventional prejudices. But y...

Ok. Philosophy professor and president of the CS Peirce Society vs some random angry dude on the internet. Gee, it’s tough to decide who to give great...

It is still the case that you are talking about the noise made by the process. So the material aspect of neural firing - the dissipation involved in m...

The three choices are the monisms of materialism and idealism, the Cartesian dualism of two varieties of substantial being,, and then the trichotomies...

An entirely science-free response,

Well you can’t even be listening to what I’m saying then. I’m arguing the biosemiotic position that is now constructed on the basis of dissipative str...

Not so. Life is something extra in being able to apply the logic of machinery to the entropic world. Nature has no machines. Life began by being able ...

The real story is Bretton Woods and how the US agreed to fund the recovery of the post WW2 broken colonial empires by making the US dollar the world c...

Yes. The argument is that open and “far from equilibrium” thermodynamics is the generic case, a closed and gone to equilibrium system is the particula...

LOL. Continental philosophy campaign for ordinary language and commonsense thinking. Perhaps it could start closer to home. :up:

I don't know exactly what you mean by that. But criticality and spontaneous symmetry breaking are concepts used to show that fine tuning is not such a...

There’s a good essay here on how the detail matters…. Is Peirce a Phenomenologist? - https://arisbe.sitehost.iu.edu/menu/library/aboutcsp/ransdell/PHE...

So in what way is a brain wave the same thing as a quantum wave? And what way is either like a ripple on a pond? A brain wave is a general way to talk...

You could say the departure point was similar to Kant and Hegel. But he saw that the obvious project was to fix their shaky conceptions of logic and s...

I'm thinking that because you are failing to show how it has. You are welcome to start showing any time soon.

I’ve read those books. I even argued the issues with McFadden when he was first pushing an EM field story in the 1990s. The sort of nonsense you are p...

Phenomenology compounds the Cartesian error by building up the barrier made between mind and world. Semiotics instead breaks it down as epistemology i...

Because folk see dichotomous opposition as a logical contradiction rather than a relation of logical reprocity.

I still have no idea on which side of any argument you stand. So I’m out.

It’s just quantum nonsense, an abuse of terminology rather than a concrete conjecture. Nothing to see here.

So the reaction is to an affect rather than the world as the thing in itself? Are you making my point that perception is a triadic modelling relation ...

Nonsense. The history of physics shows a continual revision of the suppositions in exactly the way I describe. Newton comes along with one mathematica...

Define reaction more precisely then. That way my disagreement, or agreement, would become clearer.

Psychologically, it is more complex. We react to what we think is important and ignore everything else as mere noise. So a perceptual response is a re...