The points you raise are fair but also already incorporated into what I say. My position is Peircean (CS Peirce). So the dichotomous division of thing...
Hah! I’m deep in the weeds on this stuff as I’m catching up on the vast amount of the new biology that has emerged this past decade. But the simple id...
But biology tells us that every enzyme or other basic biological mechanism is both quantum and informational. So sure, biology is quantum in the sense...
Your confusions look to stem from thinking there is a problem with dialectics. Yet reasoning depends on being able to divide the world in a way that a...
I didn't pay the story any attention being too familiar with Sheldrake and his shenanigans. But a quick check shows he was talking about variation in ...
Yep. That link is exactly the kind of thing I am talking about. Even before relativity was discovered, Peirce was already proposing experiments to che...
It starts with an examination of our psychological processes - the habits of epistemology - and becomes a claim about logic as an ontological reality....
Yep. As I said, there is the triadic epistemology that is a model of psychological processes of reasoning. That ain't troublesome to any Popperian vie...
It might help to separate pragmatism as a triadic epistemology from semiosis as a triadic ontology. So both are metaphysical projects in concerning ho...
In the ecological or enactive approach to psychology, perception is a recognition of environmental affordances - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afforda...
If consciousness is understood as a pragmatic modelling relation "we" have with "the world", then this ever-larger ability to anticipate the actions a...
Yep. Zeno’s paradoxes also hinge on this logical issue of trying to reconcile what conventional logic has rent asunder. Is reality discrete or continu...
I can picture four grains without a problem. I merely point out the psychological machinery involved. It helps to have the simplest and most regular g...
It both might and usually does.... I think I was explicit enough. The problem is with the kind of monadic logical system you are championing. A logic ...
What? Visualising four grains seems easy. Especially if they are arranged as four corners of a square. An irregular group of four grains is more of a ...
What you are talking about is taking two different attentional points of view. So in general, the brain is evolved to characterise scenes in terms of ...
A spectrum suggest unbroken continuity. But the sorites paradox demands discrete acts of addition or subtraction. So we have the two poles of a metaph...
So as Don says, cognition is a hierarchical modelling of the world. We are psychologically evolved to divide the world according to the contrasting ex...
I thought I was clear that fruitful oppositions are what it is always about. So you can be too vague, and also too pernickety, in your language. As an...
Not sure what you mean. But what I wanted to emphasise was how a developmental view of logic leads to Peirce's pragmatism and even Aristotelean finali...
CS Peirce made a big effort to bring vagueness into logic. And ironically, in my view, this demands being quite precise about a definition of the ulti...
One can always add formal precision to a definition or constraint. And yet vagueness also remains. It is inherent in the world itself. In ordinary lan...
It is a feature rather than a bug that language is vague at base. So the paradox doesn’t need “solving”. Being able to speak in generalities is the po...
Watched part 2 now. Commenting on this, I would say that systems biology gives a more functional reading of the relation. It is true that an excess of...
Exactly. Fantastic archive material and lots of weird links. It is great as art video, but lacks grounding in theory. I’ve only watched first part, so...
The OP is about wealth rather than income. Income is going to be largely meritocratic and deserved you would hope. But wealth goes to being part of th...
Fundamental physics and cosmology are full of the most outrageous discoveries. And yet folk really seem to go for this dark matter mystery. Curious. I...
I see what you mean. If perfection is impossible, just give up. In fact even to try can be equated to fanatical Nazi euthanasia. Sounds legit. Hey, th...
Hah! But check out Peter Zeihan for the US view on why even a badly-run superpower can afford to get away with the kind of flawed politics that us sma...
Sure. With another reasonable person. :up: So good political structure doesn't scale? You could fix the comparison by combining all the Scandinavian-s...
Nonsense. Science doesn't even claim to "know", only to constrain uncertainty through an epistemology of theory and measurement. So - as Peirce explai...
As far as the US concerned, it is believe one thing and do another..... But then.... https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/The_Great_Gat...
The general trend is the 1% aren't self-made but inherit their wealth and social advantage. So personal qualities or broader outlooks are pretty irrel...
But how is this different in any respect from how we derive our knowledge of "bright" matter? Dark matter gravitates but doesn't radiate. Regular matt...
:grin: For someone with so much supposed psychological freedom, you seem rather constrained by your own cultural trope. But I guess whatever gets you ...
As dialectics, this happens to be hogwash. It takes global constraints to create local freedoms. The return part of the deal is those freedoms must be...
Yeah. It was back in the 1980s that Searle was making his case. And even then a criticism was that he overplayed the physics at this point. Although g...
I'm puzzled as that would be exactly my point. Neurons and synapses can't be understood except as prime examples of the irreducible complexity of semi...
It is very easy to head back into these kinds of confusions. That is why I advocate for the clarity of the formal argument - the irreducible complexit...
Yep. Words can constrain experience. But they can’t construct experience. Of course words also construct those constraints in rule-constrained fashion...
Yep. Pattee was drawing the parallel with the observer issue in quantum mechanics. And they still talk about whether the wavefunction collapse - the a...
But life and mind don’t “follow rules”. They are not dumb machine processes. They are not algorithmic. Symbols constrain physics. So as a form of “pro...
A simulation processes information. A living organism processes matter. It’s computations move the world in a detailed way such that the organism itse...
I think you just can't follow the argument. So let's break it down. You want to employ the least action principle to define the world of inanimate phy...
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