apokrisis

No I don’t.

You are still talking as if I said something different. If we have all the information, we can strike the balances which best satisfy our mutual inter...

You lost me at the prisoners dilemma. Game theory studies competition and cooperation. You chose the set up that makes cooperation impossible due to l...

Plainly.

But to the degree these are models of how collaborative good can arise out of selfish actions, then they are hardly egocentric. They speak to the soci...

It's something of both. As soon as there is any definite development towards something, it counts also as a definite move away from something. So it i...

Well again, do you have a proposal that doesn't retreat back into vague indeterminism every time I give it a prod? You are happy to be sort of flat, b...

I don't really see that at all. Freudian psychology might be highly egocentric perhaps. But regular psychology has been focused on society's need to j...

This just seems an example of what many have realised - we are socially constructed beings. So the focus of treatment for many psychological complaint...

But I am arguing for pragmatism. So not only am I arguing against an exhaustive account, I have argued that the very logic is instead to find the acco...

So it seems you want the benefits of my structured system without having to commit to the notion of that structure. It is to be left "flat". That is v...

And yet it is externalist language you keep using against my account. Just calling any explanation "wrong" is a sound tactic I guess. But you could in...

So I can keep saying that I am attempting to describe a limit and you will keep ignoring that? I am trying to do justice to an internalist metaphysics...

As usual, folk try to make it reductionistically a case of either/or when it stares them in the face that it is holistically both. We can see the same...

Our experience of time is anticipatory. The brain works by guessing what is just about to happen (which is mostly going to be a continuation of what h...

And so you burble on and on....

I’m not relying on the principle, just explaining why multiverse thinking gets associated with it. Multiverses are the product of locally deterministi...

OK. So there is your mystical version and then there is the scientific rationalist version.

But the anthropic principle is only required if the multiverse is the case. We exist in a universe that just by pure accident had the characteristics ...

At the Big Bang, all you had was a cooling~expanding bath of radiation. Too hot for any stability. There was no effective difference between all the d...

You are trying to assimilate the Apeiron to a materialist ontology. So you are thinking of causality in terms of constructive action - everything star...

Oddly, you seem happy with what this "uneducated metaphysical speculation" - ie: physics - has to says about perpetual motion machines, but not what i...

Exactly right. That is what I am saying. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organization

I am taking a constraints based approach. So that would start from a state of unbridled everthingness. It would be action in an infinity of directions...

Isn’t that why Platonism ran into problems? We can imagine the ideal triangle. We also accept that no actual triangle would be so perfect. So we can i...

That was my point. Folk take crispness for granted. The PNC applies without a second thought. I am saying it will always be relative to a point of vie...

Time is change with a general direction. That general direction is what emerges due to symmetry breaking. So time does not pre-exist change as such wh...

The vague is to be understood as dichotomous to the crisp. So if we understand what it is to be determinate, then we can understand what can be said a...

I'm saying time emerges. A global temporal organisation emerges as a symmetry breaking (or indeed, a series of them in which time takes on an increasi...

Can one point to what ain't there? Sure. People do it all the time when it comes to negation. From our vantage point - observing from our state of det...

But didn't you slip up in presuming that time always exists? My approach says it emerges. So when there is only the originating potential in "existenc...

Thanks, Galuchat. Much appreciated.

There are really two stories here. Kauffman originally came up with the adjacent possible as a law of life and complexity. So it has a semiotic twist....

Just quickly, the problem here is that you still treat meaning as something to be discovered. You simply place that discovery in the individual, rathe...

What do you think it means that all our knowledge of the physical - SR, GR, QM, QFT, QG - boils down to what we can measure? The best we can do is say...

But doesn't this come back to our usual sticking point? I say the problem with the Aristotelian telling is that is seems to put actuality before poten...

Somewhat irrelevant, but surely there is the earth mother also in the metaphysics of any agricultural society? So always that duality of the thunderou...

That's fine. You've got a good understanding of stuff from the science side - you kind of got me from the moment you mentioned Karl Friston, certainly...

Of course. But are you prepared to enlarge your notion of physicalism to match? Again, what is actually happening in physical theory? First biology re...

I'd just mention that you are conflating two things. There is nothing that special about human brains when it comes to its neural architecture. It is ...

MU set you a good challenge relating to a physical understanding of time. Even if Aristotle could be considered wrong on other things, this was the th...

I support the structuralism that is the essence of Peirce. He himself was dismissive of any aesthetic imperative - a good test of where he stood. And ...

LOL. The windmills were Don Quixote's imaginary foe. "Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants?" So no. The need is for a...

But your language betrays the totalising framework that is in play for you. And that is what I would challenge. You talk of coercion, institutions, fe...

Or we can go extinct. The issue here is that there may be a good reason why you are dreaming. Life is actually a manifestation of the second law and s...

What is actually being protested here, I would say, is the machine model of constraints where our individuality would be completely suppressed by the ...

So isn't there some irony here that string theory is good evidence that science is Platonistic enough to bend its own alleged empirical rules when the...

Again, this is something I have replied on multiple times. The answer is the same. Life and mind - as natural systems - can be understood to have a pu...

Surely it must be the opposite to believe nature is imbued with an over arching purpose?

Yes. I’ve said exactly that plenty of times surely? That is the most fundamental global cosmic tendency. That doesn’t stop complexity arising along th...