apokrisis

The simple answer is that constraints develop. They are the historical breaking of physical symmetries. The past gets fixed as the result of an accumu...

So to be clear, you mean to deny that the block universe was already a consequence of SR? We had to wait for GR?

The block universe was consequence of Minkowski space, so no idea what you are on about in emphasising GR as your speculative basis here.

Well induction or generalisation may be fundamental to all animal cognition, but deduction would seem to be something secondary that it rather special...

I wasn't really focusing on the burden of proof question. The problem there is that naturalism takes on that burden as epistemically foundational - na...

Or instead, dialectics is itself dichotomous in a fashion that sometimes you have a unitary dichotomy - one in which the two poles are simply opposite...

Note how you are privileging perception over action. You are defining the dichotomy of subjective~objective in terms of an observer standing apart fro...

That is as nice a summary as any. But to build on that, I would generalise it to "constraints on instability or uncertainty" so as to better pick up a...

You mean SR? And you mean that SR is a physical model that hardwires in a global time symmetry by treating time as a spatialised dimension? So having ...

Linguistic structure does tend to account for the thinking that is linguistically structured. Your problem then is defining thought in a more general ...

Yes, but "laws" are a calculational machinery and so they have to represent the holism of nature indirectly. You get time-reversal because time itself...

Well at least we know who George Cobau is I guess - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/new-better-philosophy-george-cobau/ Good luck with your book.

These are not arguments. They barely qualify as assertions.

Huh? It says that information processing or computation is metaphysically general as a form of "mind-like" organisation. Now you can say the initial a...

And is your own pessimism based on any actual familiarity with the subject? Have you studied the issues enough to have a right to an opinion? Sorry to...

So are you now switching into anti-Platonism mode and saying that mathematical theorems, like Turing Universal Computation, are just arbitrary stories...

LOL. Aristotle did a decent job surely? OK George. It's great that you might be interested in these issues. But it is really lame that you seem to thi...

How is this not a general physicalist presumption? The only real dualism here is a certain semantic slipperiness that arises in the gap between some n...

Yeah. And isn't the physicalist problem allegedly to do with that sentience rather than that rationality? So you are saying that consciousness isn't a...

Maybe you haven't presented a position that is understandable as yet. You said your naturalism is dualistic in terms of believing in two kinds of subs...

You seem to be conflating reason and sentience here. The Hard Problem is that thinking should feel like something (when allegedly it could feel like n...

But the general scientific position would be that the mind part of the equation is broadly some kind informational process. So for a long time, there ...

Putting aside the merely rhetorical tactics that folk use, I'd say there is a largely unrecognised issue of logical structure in play. And that is tha...

Impressive!

Yep. The best bit of advice to the young is that to have a good death, you have to start with a good life. Death-bed interviews stress people's regret...

Yeah. Social and anthropological science may seek out the deep natural structures that are the organising forces beyond the mere passing contingencies...

Apparently.

So either the complaint is no response, or too much response. I get it. Nothing in this life will make you happy. :meh:

But if that is so, that is a sociocultural fact. We aren't born that way. We have to learn these things as skills. And so we have the possibility of m...

The social constructionist position would be more sophisticated than how you paint it. It is a co-construction story. Society shapes us as "persons". ...

But do you take my own position seriously - that structurally we would expect nature to produce a mental balance? A mixed bag would be the logical evo...

Both for most people much of the time. But anyway, here is my absolutely killer argument. :grin: Pessimists are selective and strategic in their attac...

Bullshit. The structural aspect is the dichotomy of the good and the bad, the rough and the smooth, the burdens and the transports. So the "subtle" re...

Yep. The further thing in play is a coherence angle on truth. Theories of truth - in the pragmatic view - arise out of the dynamical relation between ...

I see that Pseudonym has struck on the obvious point. Bryant's blog post is nice as far as it goes. It is standard pragmatism/modelling relations/cogs...

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For pity's sake. Can't you see you are just saying what I said? A line is a 1D edge to a 2D plane. A point is a 0D bound to a 1D line. So you are simp...

But the context of that is my own earlier posts in this thread. So I was specific that existence = persistence in the face of instability or chaos. I ...

So inference to the best explanation - the principle of least action in practice. We jiggle the bits about until it all snaps into place with a holist...

That was MU in fact. I agree with you that the fundamental structures of mathematical thought are the inevitable rules of form or constraint that are ...

So a point can be the edge to a line? Make up your mind. So if we cut away all the line to one side, it is bounded by a point on that edge. And if we ...

... and your insults are so lame as well. Quit complaining and put up a counter argument if you have something to say.

Insults and yet no argument. Curious that.

PoMo is going to get such a shock when it catches up to 1980s work on universality in dynamical systems. :)

Hmm. What then of the points that make the circle. Are they not the smallest possible straight edges? A point is the limit to a line - the zero-D term...

Great.

That's funny, given a circle is the most fundamentally symmetric type of unit. It stands as the limit to an infinite regress in terms of the number of...

Sure. If you read my posts, you will see I am a pragmatist. You’re talking about bread and butter epistemic issues. But again, do you want to claim th...

Yeah. I should have said something catchier like "intra-systemic imposition that responds to no genuine, worldly problematic".

... or gravitons aren't even part of the Standard Model yet. I'm not asking you to deny that the Standard Model is "only a model". The clue on that sc...