It’s funny reading. I’m now reminded of the Usenet groups of that time. And they were mostly drivel as the page says.... Then back when “a browser” ne...
I found a snapshot of philosophy sites in 1995... https://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/LocalFile/PhiloServ.html Psyche-D and Peirce-L are a couple of list...
This was the UK, so proper internet and email arrived around 1996. I tried bulletin boards earlier, but not the same thing. The forums were actually e...
It was revolutionary feeling. Woodstock for academia. It was like one year I was down at the British Library - sometimes sitting in Marx's old researc...
:lol: There was a golden age of internet forums back when only academics had computers and modem access. Every contribution was high quality. Well, I ...
So what is the first bolded thing that link says? "There are two fundamentally important functions of bile in all species...". The analysis in terms o...
So answer it. Let's see how that goes. Let's see what you leave out in terms of the full "four causes" model of systems causality that Aristotle first...
Again, they would say if you ask the question that way, it already locks in the wrong perspective. Is causality a "mechanism" as such? Would an organ ...
I asked what would be your criteria? That’s pretty vague. And the context provided by your OP suggested you hadn’t thought about the matter with suffi...
This is just an empty assertion, with no particular content. :cool: The question would be what interest was being served? That purpose would explain w...
We’ve established that you have no particular position. There is nothing substantial as yet to be refuted. Only multiple question marks you haven’t ad...
All I'm seeing on your end is either a trail of evasion or a constant failure to comprehend. So it is rich that you demand "answers" to questions you ...
So we need to be stable but plastic, clever but wise, young but old, etc. If you believe in dialectics, then a balance of oppositions is implied. And ...
By narrowed, you mean give my objections a wide berth? I've already said I have my ideas about an ideal education. My parents applied them to me. I ap...
That true. Platonic duality was the original theory welded on to Christianity. Descartes was trying to make things work while allowing for a post-Aris...
Yes. I mean dualism can't be completely eliminated as culturally that is just how we talk about things. It is a myth we live by. We learn to regards o...
It is probably safer to say that if you are asking the question of “what is consciousness?”, you are already making a rookie mistake. Most of the “the...
Yep. So it isn’t the ideal vs the materialistic. A pragmatic dialectic would stress these two things must be complementary. They have to be the two as...
Seems simple enough. Society invests in knowledge creation for pragmatic reasons. We need to know how to harness the material resources of the natural...
This simply suggests you haven't read what I said. I said you are being idealist because you are not understanding that Nature is also about the imper...
That is what I disagree on. It is too anthropomorphic. As individual minds, we humans believe that our destiny is to be self-actualising. We should gr...
I dunno. Hegel has just never grabbed me. Aristotle is a great as he covered both the organic and mechanical conceptions of nature. He did not finish ...
This is also pretty Peircean. The difference might be that we would have to switch out the word "consciousness" for something more psychologically gen...
He was certainly reacting to Hegel and read him in depth. But in his own words, he ends up more aligned to Schelling and Duns Scotus. So he spends a l...
This is all very idealistic. Knowledge is not something disembodied and abstract. At least not in the form that modern society is privileging it. Mode...
I’m liking your exposition. Frankly I find it difficult to draw a sharp line between any of these positions as they all seem to be generally right, bu...
The three Planck constants (Boltzmann's k reduces to the others) anchor everything, as Okun's Cube shows. So the reason the Planck scale has the Planc...
Not really. Genes can jump about and still function. The genome parasitising itself is a neat extension of Darwinian competition that Crick himself su...
But colour experience is a psychological construct. It is a reading we impose on nature. So yellow is produced by the brain as a measure of the relati...
:grin: ...is Woke Privilege a thing on PF? Is there a structural disadvantaging of other views that some entitled posters find it uncomfortable to con...
The Planck scale gives us a pretty dialectical answer on the notion of instants and distance. The Planck scale - in representing the shortest possible...
If you are talking about a flow, then it has a direction. It is approaching some destination by departing some place. But that then already adds the p...
Sure. So a cockroach has a nervous system. But it’s “consciousness” would be different not just in degree but in kind as its nervous system is more ab...
I found an interesting theory - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674205215001604 A likely reason for all the junk DNA is that DNA w...
Biologists knew that already. Cracking the genome was the easy bit. The hard work starts with working out how the information regulates the physics. A...
The way to dig into that is consider the proteome. How many different proteins does any organism actually use? Do humans beat lungfish on that score? ...
Does it work like that? Information theory proves that a "two bit" code can already encode infinite variety. A binary on/off switch is already capable...
God awful frankly. :grin: The fact that there is only 1% difference doesn't mean that a 2% difference would be just as dramatic. The difference betwee...
Rather than genes determining everything, it is better to say that they constrain it. To determine everything suggests a one to one relationship - one...
It depends on the level and type of anaesthesia. But as the following shows, the safe goal is aiming to reduce brain activity to 60% to 40%, not to ze...
For reference, this is a standard poser - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton%27s_dome You can see that in this example, once the ball starts to acce...
Not just something but everything. And everything is nothing by another name. The metaphor I use is the white noise static of a TV screen. A state of ...
Thanks. I spent a decade of confused groping after the basic principles while with the neuroscience types. Then I met up with the theoretical biologis...
The triadicism is boot strapping. So all three aspects arise together. That leads to the obvious question, arise out of what? The Peircean answer woul...
Can you elaborate on what you mean by this? I’m always arguing that metaphysics relies on dialectics. So we could be on a similar tack here. Especiall...
Maybe it would have been better to draw your implications from what l did say rather than what I didn’t? Even if I had been favouring transcendence ov...
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