But you were talking about biology as the general cycle of life, not about the neurobiology or sociology that might particularise me as a human indivi...
So in what sense is that now any different from what the biologist would say? Except biology has the detail and removes the equivocation. So again, wh...
And is that a credible belief when we examine what it would entail? It may indeed function as a key narrative to justify and transmit the Buddhist way...
I've told you different too many times to count. But these days AI can take the labour out of refuting your theological nonsense. Exactly, potentialit...
Well firstness is actually vagueness in Peirce’s logic-based approach. That to which the PNC does not apply. And therefore where the symmetry breaking...
Correct. So it is a thermodynamic system, a mechanical system and an intentional system. Or at least part of a social and economic system that values ...
I would say that you are looking for a quantifiable definition, so one that is mathematically framed. One that is a geometry of relations. And a geome...
Opinions are worth shit. Make the argument if you can. Your whole schtick about “give me a fundamental definition” is crackpot talk. Systems science i...
I don’t agree but it’s not an issue. You are talking here about epistemic idealism and that’s near enough pragmatism. We are modellers of reality and ...
Two models as two perspectives on the same thing. One offers the synchronic view and the other the diachronic. So one focuses on how a hierarchical sy...
Its... In logic, the corollary of that is that value alone has no matter. And that is absolutist talk, matey! As a relativist or dichotomist, I would ...
This runs into a problem when science tells us matter is shaped by a thermodynamic purpose. The Big Bang could happen as it was a grand carving out of...
But all you keep doing is collapsing causality to the notion of efficient cause and then talking about the other thing of "context". There are always ...
Ah. You have a self-published theory to push. And you don't seem to have any interest in placing it within the 2500 year old tradition of systems thin...
A silly retort. My semiotic approach starts with accepting that life and mind exist by being in a modelling relation with the world. So that can be co...
No discipline involving inquiry could be monolithic. It has to be riven at every scale by its dichotomies - its dialectical factions. So by the time y...
But isn't my argument here that holism means all four of Aristotle's four causes. And reductionism just means material and efficient cause. Or even in...
As always, you confuse epistemology with ontology. There is what is and then how we could know. Putting the two together is pragmatism/semiosis. Pulli...
Well there is nothing wrong with efficient cause in itself. It is part of the Aristotelean package. And clearly it is the notion of cause that we huma...
Well dichotomies do disclose the limits of what can be the case. And fact-value is not a well-formed dichotomy. It is just a broken dualism. Idealism ...
Exactly. From our human point of view, we want to know about our causal freedoms. We want a notion of causality that puts us in the centre of the Cosm...
I'm well aware of how you read things. Science is always scientism. Nature must include the supernatural. Plug in the algorithm and print out the conc...
But did you mean to throw it down by throwing it out? Your own action only imparted a thrust that should have seen it travel on forever along that str...
Don't be so touchy. I simply pointed out that physics does deal in "abstract objects and physical objects" and so physicalists – as those committed to...
This is certainly right. And it is why Aristotle identified four “becauses”. So your constraints are formal and final cause. But you also need your de...
Utter bollocks. But go ahead and back your assertion up with the argument that might sustain it. :up: You are not sounding sufficiently familiar with ...
You just get angrier as the years go past. Again, just check out what I already told you seven years ago. Long before AI was around to deal with one's...
Since you asked so nicely I’ll let AI bring you up to date with how current metaphysics views current physics. And I already told you all this seven y...
Nope. I’m suggesting that if you want to talk sense about something, you need to start by understanding something about what it is. Would you take muc...
So two guys who ran the risks of heresy charges and book bans unless they made a show of still being good Catholics. Their moves towards materialist e...
In fact physics has got more rigorous in the sense of shifting the ontological burden from merely a materialist account to one that is instead fully s...
What would you be arguing over? The mathematical notion of subsets? That the set of two things is a subset of the set of four things? So what is this ...
Well exactly. But system science does. So at best you can argue that there are mechanical systems that exist as a subset of the more general metaphysi...
But this is just dumbing down the idea of a system to make it fit our idea of a machine as the canonical system. The metaphysical definition of a syst...
If you subtract a part from the system, does it cease to act as a system? So one could remove any cog in a watch and it would stop telling the time. B...
There’s a difference between two becoming one and and a dichotomy becoming stabilised as a pair of complementary actions - the asymmetry that can beco...
So again, you can see there is a dichotomy being discussed, yet then treat that as a paradox to be reduced to its correct monistic answer rather the a...
Yes. Christianity was a new social technology. It could break the old world with its tribal kinship structure by shifting hierarchical allegiance from...
But Fukuyama does a good job of illustrating how theology was just another important strand of the eventual pragmatic synthesis. Anthropology hardly d...
I came away with quite a different reading. For example.... So better and worse cash out here as creative vs slavish. One kind of system seeks the win...
You see where strong disagreement gets us? Clarity on your question now emerges. What came after liberal democracy as a pragmatic social enterprise? O...
Exactly! That is the central feature of my metaphysics. The one first sketched by Anaximander. Everythingness is impossible. Therefore somethingness e...
I’ve had years of academic stress-testing so I’m not too concerned. :up: Given the hegemonic world power is being run as a clown show, that question h...
When you say my approach, you are talking about a systems metaphysics that goes back to the start of Greek philosophy. Anaximander had already set out...
Exactly. Flourishing is a balance of two imperatives that at first blush seem antithetical. But arranged in the architecture of a hierarchy, we can se...
You are still strawmanning. My position is irreducibly complex and not - like yours - fundamentally simplistic. So balances can be “good” or “bad”. An...
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