apokrisis

You're speaking gobbledygook. Try focusing on the fact that my commitment is to an ontology of immanent causality, not a transcendent one. I'm not ano...

Presumably the authentic bill is issued by a central bank that keeps records of the total legal tender in circulation. So that information exists. The...

It is nothing like that. Nothing like what I said. Right. That is why I say it is a way to sharpen our models of nature in a rational fashion. If we d...

What kind of a question is that? Immanence and transcendence are logically derived as the dichotomous alternatives. Either the causes of being are int...

Peter Harrison wrote this great summary... https://www.academia.edu/16420900/The_development_of_the_concept_of_laws_of_nature His account shows just h...

Perhaps you are not stopping long enough to understand what is being said here. @"Wayfarer" is correct to point out that "the physical" is itself a so...

I'm trying to think of a simpler way to sum it up. So from a philosophy of mind point of view, monism would say either all is physics or all is mind. ...

The difference is that neural representationalism assumes an input-output data processing story. The display of a polished picture of reality is meant...

You should check Pattee’s “epistemic cut”. In a way, the mind is a state of information. It is virtual in being a model of the world. But it only stan...

Neuroscience hasn’t cottoned on to the term. But I highlighted the Bayesian Brain work. Or you could look up enactivism as the psychological level ver...

That’s easy for you to say. :wink:

Why are you still trying so hard to avoid justifying your claim that consciousness is just the brain doing data processing? :chin:

I never said that. But you have confirmed you have no interesting point to make.

You mean you ignored what I actually said. I described “consciousness” as a process of interpretance. An act of regulating the world through a semioti...

You are the one harping on about some homuncular observer. Not my problem if you don’t understand things better.

No. You brought it up. I’m asking what you mean. An explanation ought to be easy if you have a thought out position here and not just hand wavy “suspi...

What is this “observer” exactly. You appear to presupposed something here that I do not.

The explanatory gap is what a mechanical conception of nature creates. So “more mechanism” is never going to bridge that gap. Hence why biologists and...

I think you need more than a suspicion to have just cause to doubt a theory. You didn’t make any counter argument so far.

Ducking the issue again. Sure they can be deliberately arbitrary. But my point is that they weren’t in these cases. The fact that signs are by definit...

Representationalism fails to explain because it posits a sensory display that then demands the homuncular regress of the observer experiencing that di...

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So this thought experiment proved to you that the room understands rather than that the person outside the room had a false understanding that the roo...

Sounds legit.

Now you’re asking a difficult question. But the clearest thinker on the biosemiotic guts of it for my money has been Howard Pattee. So for example, ht...

The problem is that data processing is a completely mechanical way of looking at it. The Chinese Room argument blows that out of the water. The best g...

You can catch it just as it fades if you are awake quickly enough and are primed to make the effort. This was discovered in experiments where subjects...

If it ain’t data processing then it ain’t data processing. The question is why you would think it was? There is thinking - of a desultory and ruminati...

My iPad handles data. So that doesn’t feel particularly convincing. Why not reserve your admiration for a system that shows itself capable of handling...

Behaviourism got folk excited as an effective technology for controlling or fixing humans. It positioned itself against Freudian type explorations of ...

You are ignoring the fact that talking in terms of either abstract laws or mentalistic purposes aren’t accidental choices. They are quite deliberate i...

(Given I’m responding to your second good post, I should say welcome to the chat. :up: ) Anyhow, you could say that computer science kind of does meas...

It seems a big fail right after the first step of “approachable by science”. What is “representational qualia” being opposed to? The very idea of qual...

What Haldane said. :up:

Absentials are his way of talking about constraints. So I both agree with what he says, but don’t see it as original - at least within the systems sci...

I only skimmed his books as I was already deep into the same material. He was kind of an annoying figure as he was pushing the same line but as if he ...

But why are folk happy to call those same fundamental constraints of nature “laws”? Linguistically, laws might be considered as human-constructed abst...

So you say. But I wouldn’t agree. It seems pretty straightforward that the whole of the brain is simply embedded in the business of constructing a sel...

You could have a restrictive definition of the word that make purpose only what some conscious mind has decided. But science wants to model the causes...

Yes, I certainly know Deacon. He is taking the same systems science approach, using his own jargon. So he naturalises finality the same way.

Maybe the fact that we can't help but lapse into teleological language when talking about nature is a sign we ought to take finality more seriously as...

Again, the problem lies with this Romantic psychology. It may be "existential philosophy", but it isn't credible as psychological science. If I ask yo...

But you are making claims about the nature of societies that don’t fit the facts. It is essential to a complex system that it optimises a balance of t...

This is still a one sided reading of the story. A complex adaptive system like a society is the product of a local~global dynamic. Nature harnesses th...

My position is that consciousness is the result of nervous systems being in a modelling relation with the world. So I am talking specifically about th...

My perspective is based on the dynamic of competition~cooperation. So it recognises “egotism” over many scales of social organisation without lapsing ...

But this is wrong already. Sensory deprivation experiments demonstrate how depersonalisation sets in once the active relation between self and world i...

The problem with this panpsychism is that the weight of neurobiological evidence suggests that the processes are everything. Imagine you had a brain c...

You’ve not said anything to rebut my points, just restated your faulty conclusion.

But this is falling for the Cartesian division in which there is this "self" who represents "the world". So you are taking the self as something that ...