apokrisis

That is just pop sci hyperbole. Don’t believe the headlines, read the papers. Holography is far more subtle than that. And you have it the wrong way r...

On that, I've said often enough that my metaphysics is semiotic. The realm of ideas, or of formal/final cause, is now subsumed into the physics of inf...

Good point. But weren't they a group of conservative billionaires making the mistake of thinking they were buying themselves a controllable stooge? Tr...

But it isn't actually just that, is it? That would be the reductionist view. One that talks about the material rather than the purpose. I think for yo...

But my argument is not that they are doing metaphysics. They are doing society. The metaphysics serves only as a system of differentiation and justifi...

Isn't there a rational self-interest in voting in a demagogic bully at this stage in the US story? And so even if Trump turns out to be ineffective be...

Theologies compete and evolve. In the Christian world, Pentecostalism and evangelicalism are winning the race for bums on seats. So if you are talking...

Nor even a single method. And yet that would be the argument here. Some methods have proven better than others. Even within science, you have a broadl...

Well why that rather than down to the well investigated conclusions of a community of open-minded inquirers? Why would you privilege personal faith ov...

Yep no afterlife. But also perhaps an ensouled universe? Neo-aristotelianism would be a justification for seeing existence as a state of ecological be...

Hey, I didn't even realise. That is going to be a pretty technical volume though. There is this New Sci article - https://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/~karl/...

I agree that scientific theories are not conventionally about explaining "what it is like to be this particular thing" but about "how generally could ...

You seemed to think there was still something to address here? Well let's talk about organisms rather than machines. Can an organ exist without a body...

It is difficult to fathom your logic. Are you saying that reductionist locality can account for the quantum facts? My point was that no matter how abs...

You are deflecting. The issue was already the quantum one of Feynman’s path integral. I am the one arguing that it’s models all the way down. I am the...

That is now another shift in subject. And empirically, psychology supports that particular "dogma" to a large extent. How could genes even code for in...

Yes. And so now you endorse the necessity of an empirical basis to establish any connection. It just ain't a theory unless it is founded in matching a...

You would be talking the mind that has to climb out of ignorance, so not now really God-like and all-knowing? I would of course be happy with that as ...

The God's eye view makes more sense too as that emphasises the view is all about seeing the general purpose, the general necessity, that is cosmically...

I can't make you out. You seemed smart enough to have a serious conversation. Then you so quickly degenerate into time-wasting bickering. To deny holi...

I think you have a problem here in that you have to show how the imagined domain relates to physical reality. It is just like our other imaginary worl...

An argument is a model. Your problem lies in grasping the arguments.

Worth quoting Feynman probably.... So all your instincts on cause and effect go haywire apparently when you say that the particle decides to take the ...

You don't rebut nonsense. You laugh at it.

Sure, reductionism can have this other meaning. But the discussion was about four causes holism vs atomistic materialism. So why change the subject? A...

Interesting? Or entirely paradoxical for reductionist metaphysics? Great. Now is your chance to share them. In the context of Feynman’s path integral.

Note the reference to neo-Aristotelianism. Check the book we are discussing. You'll get it.

Seriously? In what sense does it actually take all the routes? You are confusing the method of calculation with the metaphysics. All the trajectories ...

Not really. Like all biologists, he sees the line defined by the combination of metabolism and replication. Life has to have both the chemistry and th...

So things want to take all paths, and in doing that, find it is not possible? I realise that the done thing is to eschew teleological turns of phrase ...

Fine. You have presumed a state of unlocated and omniscient mind. All the usual confusions will follow. Don't expect much sympathy. :) LOL.

So have you given up your Cartesian framing of the question - the one where the view would emanate from some now unlocated "mind" having "feelings of ...

But Feynman's great advance was to apply the principle of least action to the calculation of quantum probabilities. So he relied on the presumption th...

The naive idealist of course only ever sees his own twin, the naive realist. It is the face looking back in the mirror. If you read what I said, you w...

Sure. In a certain sense. If we have a sense of the intelligible, then it is only intelligible that we attempt to understand that itself in terms of a...

Yep. No figure without a ground. And the mind has to produce both in the same moment when making a sensory distinction. It's the Law of Form - https:/...

Yeah sure. But would you conclude from that that brains model worlds or that there is a realm of mind that is somehow getting it all wrong about how t...

You mean, as intelligibly opposed to the penetrable and squishy? There is never a monistic "merely" about it. All judgements are contextual or dichoto...

The third person point of view is really the search for what is invariant across all possible points of view. So it cashes out as distinguishing betwe...

To notice anything at all, there must be some intelligible sense of contrast already. So yes, for even the vaguest sense of there being "something", t...

This is still overlooking the point. You say you see the concept when all you can see is some set of physical marks. That there is a conception in pla...

A third alternative is that time is thermally emergent. So the story there is that any localised thermal event - like a photon being emitted and absor...

Ignore the first sentence and move on to the second. Is it circular to say rationality is pragmatic reasoning that aspires to some high ideal - some s...

So before beliefs are spoken as propositions, do they not exist in any fashion? Do we just find ourselves suddenly blurting out words with no inkling ...

Thanks. Looks on the money. :grin:

So doesn’t your account lead to two versions of hylomorphism? One where form creates change in inert material and one where form constrains change in ...

Well sure. I'm not here to speak for the authentic 300BC Aristotle. In his day, there was far less reason to take a strong developmental approach to C...

But that is my point. Once you realise that the world has accidental particulars, that is how you start to discover its necessary universals. So it is...

It is not exactly clear what you think that conception actually was. Are you saying it relied on the concept of the unit more than of deductive proof?...

Not so. We can talk about the unit triangle just like the unit one. The most individuated possible things are precisely those that are the most symmet...