apokrisis

You are the one referring to the "application". And the obvious answer from my point of view is that the constraints are self-applied. The regularity ...

If your "saying" is based on metaphysical reductionism, then of course it can't speak to the holism that is the greater attainable view. You might be ...

So the disproof of the Gestalt argument is ... a Gestalt argument? There is no difference that makes a difference in the stimulus as such - from your ...

So isn't this another false dichotomy we have to break through to discover the right dichotomy? One can oppose science and the arts as both being form...

A graph of the reciprocal function might help give a better visual representation of my argument about the start of time. https://www.mathsisfun.com/s...

These don't have to be two incompatible views. They could be two extremes of a continuum. The general algorithm is a logical division of things into f...

If I visited another planet and found all these ruins and artefacts, I would feel they could only be explained as machinery constructed by a race of i...

Success! Fail! Troll! Hyperbole! Alternatively I have put in the work and know what I'm talking about. And I am up for well-crafted counter-arguments....

If you want to be funny, it has to achieve the kind of "surprisal" I was just speaking about. You have to start the listener on one path and then refr...

The brain is always "online" if you are alive. All neurons are firing all the time even in your deepest sleep. They have to as otherwise all the biolo...

One way to spend your Saturdays.

Sure. What goes missing is entropy dissipation at the organismic level. You no longer turn any food shoved in your mouth into useful work. But leave y...

Electrical current flowing in the brain? And the electrons are firing along at relativistic speed while we are still awake and alive? :rofl:

That is only a problem from your theistic presumptions. It is the basic inconsistency in theism or idealism that my version of physicalism resolves. F...

How did you manage to extract that as something I might assert as being otherwise? Do you not think that was an omission of the bleeding obvious? :gri...

Case closed then surely? Well obviously no. There is every kind of physically-relevant difference. For a start, for one you need to be wearing a space...

I agree with the trajectory of your argument. But I say it needs to go further. Logical analysis does its usual useful trick here of finding the diale...

You mean the symbolic aspect? The mind is an organism’s model of the world. To the degree it can symbolically model space and time situations, it is o...

It takes about half a second to form one mental image and then start replacing it with the next. This is no surprise as neurons conduct their signals ...

They are used outside of any grammatical structure. That was my point. What is the future perfect of “shh”? “I will have shh-ed John before he could s...

I see it as many people all feeling the same elephant. So they create different jargon, different metaphors. But they are trying to get at the same th...

Seems a bit grand to call them words. Is anything much lost by calling them social signs or expressive vocalisations? I associate words with being par...

Or rather that the past is the determining context. The future is created by what then becomes determinate due to the application of these constraints...

Hah, that takes me back. Symbolic interactionism! After the standard indoctrination into the psych department cults of behaviourism and cognitivism, a...

In fact a huge amount of learning must take place for a new-born brain to be able to "process" the world in intelligible fashion. This blog posts desc...

The Peircean answer is when it becomes "my truth" rather than "our truth". Language binds us as social animals to a collective identity, a communal po...

As I have argued, it seems more like basic psychological science. Understanding cognition and "truth making" has been a major human endeavour of the l...

Heh heh. The flat earther is the ultimate naive realist. Their point of view is the most subjective possible. It avoids all revisionist fact.

One point to consider is that perception is possible because it is the brain forming a model of the world with "you" in it. The brain is not trying to...

Zing!

Interesting example. What does it highlight then? For me, it demonstrates the developmental trajectory from iconic to indexical to fully symbolic leve...

It’s been 30 years since I was digging into that particular literature so I am sketchy on the details. And I chucked out all the papers long ago. This...

Experiments have been done to test apes for a capacity to learn simple logic rules. The evidence is they struggle to master more than a step or two of...

The conclusion I draw is that yes, we can't presume complete determinism. But nor do we then need to lapse into complete indeterminism. Pragmatisim is...

It's a big deal to me as it was the central issue I was dealing with when I first ventured into mind science as a youth. :grin: Artificial intelligenc...

That's just restating supervenience as a claim. The claim only holds if "states" actually exist in the world rather than in the scientific imagination...

The flaw in the argument would be the suppressed premise of what kind of communication the second kind is? If brain state vocabulary is "scientific", ...

The whole "meaning is use" shtick is not wrong, but clearly also not the final word on language as a semiotic phenomenon. We want a properly general t...

What's your problem in answering this question exactly? Does one say “not everything” to mean “almost nothing”? Or to mean “well, there are exceptions...

Clearly. Will you pretend not to see it? Undoubtedly.

Does one say “not everything” to mean “almost nothing”. Or to mean “well, there are exceptions”. A simple exercise in the logic of quantifiers one mig...

If you say that isn’t the logical corollary of your proposition, then you are agreeing the statement was vague. Sounds legit.

So the corollary is that every thing we do is largely pointing? Harry is thus largely correct?

A better visualisation of the motion here - https://youtu.be/JSBw-JyFgZkhttps://youtu.be/JSBw-JyFgZk

This paper might help explain it better for you - https://www.academia.edu/12890563/Peirces_Entanglement_with_the_Principles_of_Excluded_Middle_and_No...

I’m not sure what you mean there. For what I have in mind, refer to figure 6.2 in this excellent paper - https://www.mso.anu.edu.au/~charley/papers/Li...

I was trying for a simple explanation. Obviously too simple. As the gif illustrates, the plane of rotation is orthogonal to the plane of translation. ...

The disc rotates around, and rolls along, its origin. Check the gif I linked to.

You are reading it backwards. A logical definition of vagueness (and generality) is what helps ground your desired "truth-telling" apparatus. It tells...

It is more complicated. The simplicity is about the Universe being in a state of perfect thermal equilibrium. That means its expansion - or its "cooli...