In what sense would a best social environment have nuclear families? Isn't that a big part of the problem? Besides, nuclear families have evolved to b...
Not getting it. Making the distinction of the noumenal is agreeing that we can't reduce reality to some claim of "direct perception". And then my semi...
Most psychologists would say it is down to a loving childhood environment. It is only the lack of that means you would have to make an effort on your ...
Are they wholly self-cultivated? They are supposedly top of the national school curriculum where I live. They are a basis of a healthy education and a...
Was there a difference? Again, is there a difference that matters? If fictional is specific to the literary, then fictive is perhaps more suitably gen...
I am saying this is the socially constructed aspect of human voluntary behaviour. We are taught that we have to be in charge of our every action. That...
Yep. The idea certainly would be. That is why I would accept a restriction on knowing the noumenal. But indeed I go further. I am saying the umwelt is...
You mean Freud played on Romanticism to turn it into a "scientific" theory? The Romantic movement did dramatise a conflict between self and society - ...
The reason would be that I have studied the relevant neuroscience and psychology. Self-awareness is a cultural meta-skill, a gift of language. And so ...
Why wouldn't a hierarchy be the natural form here? If we take brains to be about making smart decisions (on the whole), then desires will generally be...
Yet also, every habit was once being learnt at a conscious - that is attentional - level. So to use a bad computer analogy - computer analogies always...
Well first, very little of science is currently embroiled in string theory or multiverse speculation. It's a small, if prestigious, field. And second,...
It definitely rejects nominalism. But also Platonism. The key psychological shift for me is to see that the general can be just as real as the particu...
One of the mistakes would be to expect Aristotle to be giving a single dumbed down answer. He rather systematically explored the two key alternatives ...
Do you then simply believe that it is distantly relevant? Could that be a thing? Again, who do you think would claim this is the case? Surely you real...
Then there ain't anything to meaningful to talk about. Concepts have to be cashed out in their appropriate percepts. And it is clear that you are doin...
Your logic is a little out of whack. If you are framing matter as the indefinite - in opposition to the definite - then that is just putting matter in...
Huh? Science doesn't operate by citing ultimate authorities. You must be thinking of the doctrinal approach taken by the Church in medieval times. Is ...
If you keep rewriting your question, you will surely arrive at the answer you seek. :) If scientists were asked to vote on the most scientific philoso...
Enlightenment science was successful because it went with atomism as it metaphysical model, and the results of this simplification of causal modelling...
Matter and form are just the useful conceptions that divide reality for us. Being is a whole. So we are speaking of taking a dialectical opposition to...
Dfpolis was taking a position on Hyle. I disagreed with that, making the argument that he was treating the material principle as already having formal...
I'm simply not agreeing to your half-baked thoughts on the issue. Your view is familiar. Along with its defects. I'll repeat. A constraints-based view...
You are confused. The point I was pushing was how physics is no longer based on that kind of material atomism. It agrees that it is form that gives pe...
And so the crucial question becomes how do you measure intentionality in your scheme? Information and entropy complement each other nicely as measurem...
How does form in-form matter then? You are just repeating the usual issues created by your own particular notion of hylomorphism. It is because you pr...
I think I agree on these points. So we may be arguing towards the same general picture. Reading your other replies, I am clearer now that you want to ...
Why would we need to be agnostic when intentionality is something neurocognition studies? We have reason to make a definite distinction between brains...
Well, yes and no. The laws don't cause material events in the sense of a willing, planning, intending mind. So they can't be essentially intentional i...
Yes. Sorry to drop such arcane concepts into the conversation. For all those without access to google, here's a link that might just help - https://en...
OK. So define this other kind. What would be its difference that makes it a difference, while also not being different? You keep waving a hand vaguely...
Yeah. We don't mean the cliff or the electron are alive, model their worlds in terms of some interior system of sign, and hence felt something one way...
Great. First step taken. Now how are you going to continue on to show they are two ways of talking about the same thing? You mean like the standard Ba...
We are talking about bleeding electrons here. And therefore, why a description of electromagnetic interactions using experiential constructs is crackp...
But we have good reason to credit humans with "experience", even if it is just a folk psychology term. We know what we mean by the word, and we know w...
Of course. And ones that can be measured. That is the (scientific) point. As a construct, it is one with observable consequences. But you are claiming...
What do we hear from the box when we shake it? A dull thud or sudden feline screeching noises ... or something spookily both at the same time? There w...
Both QM and semiosis see information as part of reality. So Whiteheadian talk about particle "experience" - conscious or non-conscious - is dualistica...
So are you saying there is a fact of the matter that an electron or photon is alive or dead? With a cat, the behaviour tends to be reasonably differen...
Again, still no explanation of what non conscious experience is in this physicalist description of nature such that it makes a damn difference to anyt...
Comments