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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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 ...
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...
Together they exhaust other possible limitations to that aspect of reality. And don't forget that what follows after a dichotomous separation or symme...
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 ...
No. I was meaning informationally efficient. Predictively efficient. Ideally the brain should be so good at predicting its world that it doesn't even ...
And interestingly, almost a Platonic way of talking. Conception sees beyond mere appearance. Or more pragmatically, the mind seeks out a way to impose...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Nope. My point was that talk of "states" usually already presupposes a particular metaphysical point of view - a mechanical or computational one. And ...
...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...
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