Do you understand what homeostasis means then? Don't you think that talk of flux, and talk of fluxes held in deliberate equilibrium balance, constitut...
Flux is a state of what though? And why have you suddenly changed the subject from homeostasis, or the intentional regulation of fluctuations, in purs...
Maybe read the discussion then. It's not about value theory. Or at least no version in which values would be something with an objective or transcende...
Exactly. And homeostasis is about having the goal of regulating dynamical instabilities. So that is a very organic conception of nature - to be able t...
The discussion shows that to talk about "states" introduces the false step right at the start. It is an information processing term. One derived from ...
That might be your subject. And the only way you understand any subject. What's so difficult? Being reciprocal is why the discrete and the continuous ...
That’s it. In case you are interested, there is this nice paper on the Metaphysics of the Principle of Least Action, Vladislav Terekhovich - https://a...
Do you understand the neurological difference between attentional processes and habitual or automatic ones? Is there something further to be explained...
I chose to talk about the same general distinction in another way so as to broaden the view you were taking. So try to understand it that way rather t...
Correct. This is a very subtle technical point in cosmology. The total entropy content of a “co-moving” region of space never changes. If the expansio...
I should mention that my physicalism is of the systems vairiety. So an imperative towards entropy is also matched by one towards negentropy. Thus nihi...
Nope. That is how you are talking about them. The way I would talk about them is relative to each other. So there would be a contents to the degree th...
I wouldn’t worry about that. The part played by a prime mover would be the thermodynamic imperative or least action principle. Modern physics tells us...
But in the process view, how would the contents be more real than their container? So you are trying to impose your own non-process view on an underst...
I’ve given the godless view quite a few time just in this thread. See the post just a few back on this page, for instance. Or on p2. Basically I draw ...
Well remember that here I’m using the conventional categories of Being rather than Becoming. So the discrete vs the continuous is talk about that whic...
Yeah. But I am arguing that both are practical conceptions. When we speak of them, we are only pointing to the fact that reality must exist between th...
Continuing that line of thought, I forgot to mention the importance of your employment of the notion of a convergence on a limit as the way to achieve...
That sounds pretty pragmatic then. So when it comes to the issue of an incommensurate world - as the thing-in-itself never fully grasped - we do have ...
Yes. Hylomorphism was a good early stab at understanding Being. The problem would be that there was a lot of scholastic rewriting of what it might mea...
Naturalism would be a distinctive position, especially in the systems science, hierarchy theory and theoretical biology tradition, where nature is und...
The delights and possibilities that have resulted have never been giddier. Hence FOMO and anxiety about losing it all becomes the pervasive mood. :raz...
Unreal. The posture I am calling you out on is the one where you want to act like you are doing me favours here. It is the posture you would call arro...
I'm pretty sure we had this whole semiotic conversation before. I would have posted the same links. And why not drop all the posturing if you want to ...
Right. So now there is a clear direction to concentrate on. Now next steps, avoiding false moves. OK. I see a problem here in claiming posteriority pu...
I'm addressing the confusions in your own questions. So your phrasing focuses on individuation. And I agree that is key. So is individuation something...
Existence in the sense you are using it here means to be individuated. So you are asking what causes individuatation. What are the options you are the...
What about metaphysics? What about philosophical naturalism. It doesn't matter to me if people want to go off in all sorts of esoteric directions. Wha...
Everyone has their umwelt. So the semiotic model applies across the board. That is what it says. Just as it then defines science in terms of the opini...
Why does it seem that? I say it seems that the alternative you just specified is then ontological immanence. So thanks for agreeing. If it ain't measu...
I did. "To the degree there is a constructed "self", there is a matching unwelt. So animals and newborns are clearly experiential due to their relevan...
You post links to stuff you haven't even viewed. Noted. Then when the content is discussed, you change the subject. Noted. I wouldn't call it arrogant...
It really doesn't. That has to arise as Thirdness. A meaningful perspective or point of view has to have the other thing of a stable context. I can kn...
No it bloody isn't. Not if naturalism is the position that there is something more at stake here than merely "interest". Some things are actually meas...
Yes, a semiotic one. And by that I mean a triadic Peircean one and not a dyadic Sassurean one. It is that bias. That is its point. So is Lord of the R...
Sure. Reductionist in the sense that modelling, and cognition, are about forming the umwelts that successfully distance "us" from the "thing-in-itself...
So you "honestly" think that. Thus you call me a liar when I explain otherwise. Last time I checked, I seemed a functional member of society. I past t...
Such pedestrian ad homs. Not worth a response. So what? I've always said my interest is in systems thinking. That is the particular philosophical issu...
Nice discussion. The core problem is that this is a tension that always exists because it speaks to an underlying metaphysical-strength dichotomy, and...
A very nice talk, but I'm puzzled by what you would see as its take home message. I would say it clarifies something important as far as I'm concerned...
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