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And so it continues. Appear to be defending representationalism and then slide away into enactivism. Never stick to an argument so as to slither aroun...

Hah. Half your cites are people I knew and discussed their approaches with. This is where you already blew up your credibility. You mean like, hey lit...

So your demand for the “objective and best” inference has just been dropped? It was never what was being claimed by Peirce in his critique of Humean i...

Of course you won’t discuss this further. There is too much for you to learn before you could.

It is the one that reveals itself in making quick progress. It has that balance between being causally general and empirically verifiable. One can alr...

Still wrong. The maths of entropy/information elevates the level of abstraction to the point that contact can be made between the two sides of the equ...

You don’t seem to understand Friston. And you seem to understand consciousness as a substance to be accounted for rather than as a process to be defla...

But as I have laboriously set out, I move from the metaphysics of cause to the physics of cause. Or at least each informs the other, as it did with Ar...

if philosophy simply means critical thought, then sure. Why not. But history would suggest that ideologies are better evolved than invented.

Sure. So semiosis speaks to pragmatic reality modelling at four levels. The construction of a model of the world as it is with “us” acting in it. Even...

I think if you can see social structure as the expression of natural forces, then you will better understand the reality you must contend with. But th...

But is this a surprise? I suppose you could point to the level of public pretence we have got used to in international affairs. Trump might have chang...

What about persistence? I prefer persistence to existence as it speaks to reality as a process of coming into formed being rather than some existence ...

All very linguistic. Meanwhile semiotics generalises this to the level of all the codes that are the basis of our interpretative habits. Genetic, neur...

The USSR collapsed not because it was too Marxist but because the vigour and paranoia of the liberal west out-competed it. The USSR functioned reasona...

Or instead, the subjective basis of our cognitive projects is stating the bleeding obvious. We can move swiftly on to the how and the why when it come...

Thanks for the pointer. Newman and Peirce were saying much the same thing. Peirce developed it more broadly as the mathematical logic – introducing hi...

Exactly. Or unfortunately, any argument won't "compute" as there is not that kind of disciplined structure in the heads of those you might want to arg...

In fact what Penrose showed was that all the useful structure of fundamental of physics would break down if you pushed it to an actual zero point. And...

But my argument is to point out that this is no longer abduction but the full Peircean reasoning cycle - and so the one that hopes to arrive at the mo...

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Yes. The advantage of PF over the more focused private chats one might have with one's peers is that it is so wide open and the challenges come from a...

I just suggested watching Owens on Charlie Kirk for two reasons. The first is as a polished example of the new media. Tucker Carlson and Fox News in g...

I am arguing against any strong notion of first cause. Take the example of spontaneous symmetry breaking. A pencil balanced on its point. A ball resti...

Sure. And I was talking about how it would be better. What “best” might mean. I mentioned her as an example of conspiracy theory going mainstream in a...

Yep. I said boxing was in fact the deadlier. :up:

Where is the evidence for this in history? Which religion or even political structure because it was discovered to be a fiction? The Catholic Church l...

I realise you would prefer a public fluffing and then you might graciously dole out your little morsels of Davidsonian wisdom mixed in with exciting n...

Yep, one can’t avoid dichotomising. But it is the unifying that separates the reductionists from the holists. How and why don’t have to be a dilemma -...

Reductionism is always caught on the horns of a dilemma. Just as for PoMo, everything is mired in self-refuting paradox. There is a reason why the uni...

Of course. But I was discussing conspiracy theorising in general. As in the sociologic context of what can count as legitimate belief. In the modern w...

Or rather, there is a pragmatic need to be able distinguish the contingent from the necessary. The differences that make a difference from the differe...

Yep. Another resonating point. Especially as before Trump was on The Apprentice, he was part of WWE. I used to like old school boxing but find modern ...

My argument is instead the one to be found in Anaximander, Peirce and quantum field theory. The Cosmos exists as the constraint on possibility. It eme...

I couldn’t follow your question. Are you asking me to successfully define “the good” as something physically real and beyond the collective pragmatic ...

Of course. But my point was we still don’t know what actually clipped his ear. Shrapnel seems the likeliest. So here we have the double thing of the m...

It would be nice if that were true. But I think instead that people get used to living in a reality show. The fact that the dramas are made up becomes...

A good point and I agree. And yet what if all societies must construct some such transcendent fiction? - an argument I have made in this thread, and w...

Yes. I used to be reassured that governments lied routinely but that also the truth would eventually be declassified. Wait 20 to 40 years and history ...

But do we even know what really struck his ear and how the damage healed so fast? Everything was publicly witnessed in 4k and yet what are the facts? ...

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: I forgot to include the bits where the similarities were stressed. And that was the original point too.

For funs, I popped the question to AI. I well remember how aggressively dismissive you were of Peirce right from the start. Seems that Peirce's reappe...

So the problem is that it speaks to both sides? Curious.

Remember that life is a ratchet. And what better embodies an intent than a ratchet?

Biologists were equally obsessed over the debate whether evolutionary change was gradual or punctuated. And the best answer is that intermittently is ...

Long ago I noted that this was the “wombat defence”. Retreat into your burrow and turn your arse to the world. Block out all intrusive thoughts, But A...

But patterns have to be enduring to mislead us for longer than a few moments. A dog is hard to mistake for anything else as we can recognise it from a...

What difference does it make to instead say the question remains as to whether that structure is in the world or in the explanation? Again, your choic...

What seems to be missing from this discussion is that life can be full of accidents. So abduction has to be the kind inference that is filtering the e...

You can see the pattern here. When confronted by what seems like a dichotomy - description versus explanation - you feel a need to reduce it rather th...