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I like your focus on entropy, but we would need to make a distinction between physical entropy and informational entropy here. The point of neurons is...
July 09, 2018 at 01:09
But that is the mistake that leads to strong Platonism. So it would be the other deplorable fault that pervades this forum. :) The interesting thing a...
July 09, 2018 at 00:13
But aren't you just deferring the essential issue by creating another reader of another pattern of marks? You keep refocusing on a set of observables ...
July 08, 2018 at 22:00
Sure. And that's no mystery. Anthropology explains it. Art is semiotics. It is all about the necessary thing of the social construction of the self. B...
July 08, 2018 at 01:38
You are doing what I described - telling me all about the computational syntax and nothing about the semantics that are the only reason a system of ma...
July 07, 2018 at 23:32
The key question you might need to ask is whether the meaning of a mark is physical, even if the mark itself is surely physical, and furthermore, mark...
July 07, 2018 at 21:52
Stick to the subject - Whitehead. I gave you a specific argument why I say it is the wrong sort of metaphysics. The clinching evidence is that feeling...
July 07, 2018 at 11:35
And that is my claim. The definition of a theory is that it is empirical in some meaningful fashion. Theories are generalisations capable of having pa...
July 07, 2018 at 03:07
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Really?
July 06, 2018 at 22:39
That is why I don’t take him seriously. A theory of anything must have crisp counterfactual structure. It must impose a measurable definiteness on the...
July 06, 2018 at 22:33
So what is a first person point of view in your metaphysical scheme?
July 06, 2018 at 08:32
I don't see how he gets beyond being a panpsychist. If experiencing is a process, then what is its structure exactly? Where is the precise theoretical...
July 06, 2018 at 04:42
So what is a first person point of view in your metaphysical scheme? Give us a useful definition that excludes interpretance as something models do. L...
July 06, 2018 at 04:11
Why do you think "where" is a meaningful question if we are no longer talking about a materialist notion of space or time? As I've already said, the e...
July 06, 2018 at 01:09
This is fine but my reason for preferring Peirce is because he starts with some actual bit of mechanism or structural relation that we can all underst...
July 06, 2018 at 01:05
So stop going on and on about material substrates. Start talking about the process ... of modelling ... What has physical space got to do with it? The...
July 06, 2018 at 00:53
Aren't you going to even make a single solitary attempt to justify your position against the claims of modelling? Why wouldn't an umwelt-style modelli...
July 06, 2018 at 00:10
You got it. It is just the same as the equivalent cosmological question of "why anything?" or "what is being?". We can only answer any such question s...
July 05, 2018 at 23:45
Defeatist. Sure I do. You keep running from the question of why all that umwelt-style modelling wouldn't feel like something.
July 05, 2018 at 23:31
I've explained these things 1000 times. Look up umwelt. Look up proprioception. Look up enactive perception. If you want to discuss these issues, you ...
July 05, 2018 at 22:58
An umwelt is a model of the world with a self in it. It is a world modelled from a point of view that expresses a personal set of interests. So it is ...
July 05, 2018 at 22:25
And why wouldn’t the kind of world and self modelling that brains do, not feel like something rather than nothing? You’ve never said despite being ask...
July 05, 2018 at 20:26
Yeah. I did. The spontaneous part of "spontaneous symmetry-breaking" refers to the fact that any old material nudge is going to tip everything in some...
July 05, 2018 at 02:14
Right. So now you are asking what was the first internal experience? :lol: But perhaps if you understand your question to be, "what was the first inte...
July 04, 2018 at 23:31
You are presupposing that mental states are a thing. And so you presuppose their dualism to physical states. The whole state-based conception of reali...
July 04, 2018 at 22:13
I'd point out how this all stems from analytic philosophy taking a Newtonian view of ontology. And that sets things up for an odd dualism that is at t...
July 04, 2018 at 22:01
They form membranes spontaneously. You forgot, or never understood, what was said. Godless nonsense I’m sure. :grin:
July 04, 2018 at 11:20
It probably isn't given it is a view that comes directly from Stan Salthe, the one person to have had the greatest personal influence on any metaphysi...
July 04, 2018 at 04:43
So do lipids have eternal souls that bring about their existence in nature? Tell us more. You don't seem to understand the scientific version of hylom...
July 04, 2018 at 03:19
Not that it matters, but there were the usual technical reasons for the choice of words. We accumulate wise habits like sedimented states of thought. ...
July 04, 2018 at 02:36
It would have to be some dissipative process that the protein could regulate. So for example, a really primal step would be the appearance of protein ...
July 03, 2018 at 23:24
Again, I would highlight the two different ways of framing what is going on. The overly biological view would be that good concentration is an evolved...
July 03, 2018 at 22:36
Together they exhaust other possible limitations to that aspect of reality. And don't forget that what follows after a dichotomous separation or symme...
July 03, 2018 at 04:52
What @"Bitter Crank" said. Also, if you say an obsessive pursuit of truth is some kind of grand delusion, who would disagree with that diagnosis - to ...
July 03, 2018 at 04:39
No. I was meaning informationally efficient. Predictively efficient. Ideally the brain should be so good at predicting its world that it doesn't even ...
July 03, 2018 at 04:35
And interestingly, almost a Platonic way of talking. Conception sees beyond mere appearance. Or more pragmatically, the mind seeks out a way to impose...
July 03, 2018 at 03:41
Or it could be that Pattee is adopting a useful rhetorical position in which the glass is half-empty rather than half-full. It is definitely part of h...
July 03, 2018 at 01:30
Another really important popular science account - maybe even more important as a glimpse into the future of biology - is Peter Hoffman's Life's Ratch...
July 03, 2018 at 00:21
Who would'a thunk? Science has to generate speculation to give its experiments something to knock down. I guess some folk still believes science works...
July 03, 2018 at 00:17
You seem caught up in your own version of the liar's paradox. "It is true that truth isn't true but a delusion. Listen to me. I'm telling you the trut...
July 02, 2018 at 23:42
You seem not to understand that laws are simply constraints that are universal - baked into the fabric of the Universe as a result of its history of d...
July 02, 2018 at 23:35
Yes. Let's see if you can just remember the definition of a dichotomy as that which is "mutually exclusive and jointly exhaustive". So there is a proc...
July 02, 2018 at 22:42
So some constraints are global. And other constraints can then be local. Where's the problem? The Cosmos has its universal constraints on action or un...
July 02, 2018 at 22:27
True. So habits are the mid-brain doing its thing of automating responses so "you " don't have to think about them, or attend to them. That is one asp...
July 02, 2018 at 22:20
Correct. What are you talking about. This is modelling. So to the extent that we know the thing-in-itself, the dichotomy of the discrete and the conti...
July 02, 2018 at 03:25
Why do I bother.
July 02, 2018 at 02:31
Err, reality as a process. I just tried to prevent you going down your same old rabbit hole of non-process assumptions. Huh. The relationship is preci...
July 02, 2018 at 02:13
Nope. My point was that talk of "states" usually already presupposes a particular metaphysical point of view - a mechanical or computational one. And ...
July 02, 2018 at 01:57
So is a flux itself a state of balance according to you? Help me understand your understanding of homeostasis here.
July 02, 2018 at 01:11
...which wasn't the subject under discussion here. I have indeed pointed out the unintended irony that in eliminating those unwilling to breed, that w...
July 02, 2018 at 00:57