Again, I would take the baseline position that mind, life and physics have purpose or finality in this specific deflationary sense - a sequence of dis...
But why wouldn't there be a direct connection between purpose and benefit? What would a benefit-less purpose even be? What would a benefit be except t...
Yes, it is as if that were the case. As if there was a sniffing out of all trajectories. So the metaphysical challenge would be to understand that as ...
That's what led me to the Kyoto School of course. I was googling for references. :grin: There is speculation about who influenced who as Anaximander w...
Or even less than that. It is a mere universal tendency. So yes, it is a deflationary view. But not an eliminativist one. And that is a significant di...
It might be instructive to consider the Kyoto School. That was a modern attempt to take a Westernised look back at the Eastern tradition to recover it...
You are talking about two incompatible things. I'm talking about two complementary limits. A dichotomy is logically that which is mutually exclusive a...
Hey, it was you who said it wasn't about stasis, except that it was. Remember that my own metaphysics is founded on vagueness, apeiron, quantum foam o...
Oh well. Stillness doesn't have to be dead emptiness. It is the disengagement that resolves the karmic cycle of engagement. But you are right that the...
I agree that Plato was trying to put a finger on the same general idea. Any causal description of nature is going to need some kind of global downward...
Yep. This is indeed a case where his trichotomania may have led him astray. ;) My metaphysics is content with accident and necessity - or freedoms and...
But how does that Platonism work? Yes, we have the allegory of the cave. But that points to a very unrealistic kind of reality-creating mechanism. Con...
...is pretty unreliable. :) The way I would look at it is that purpose and form are tied together by what, in modern physics, has become enshrined as ...
Well, Pierre-Normand was talking about almost zero amplitudes. But that is all part of the fudging when it comes to calculating using infinities. It i...
This is where we - SX included - agree. Just on the physics of brains alone, quantumness doesn't come into it as there is no evidence to suggest that ...
Huh? Of course an epistemic instrumentalism is always a sound default position here. So I'm fine if that suits people's needs. But I personally am int...
So all this stopping, starting and changing. Doesn’t it seem contradictory of you to assert that the forward motion represents the instability here wh...
Yeah. Some say it is going back to CI. But for me, that is ontic in that it puts the observer - or at least, points of view - in the spotlight as the ...
Quite. I am all for decoherence as the right general idea. It ties it all back to an emergent thermodynamical evolution in time. But you can't hide th...
And yet infinitely often, the zero-amplitude strikes will also happen in some worldline of the observer. Which screws any claim to have done something...
This would be a good starting point - https://www.nature.com/news/physics-quantum-quest-1.13711 This was a paper I particularly liked - http://iopscie...
Is the motion constant and long-run in terms of its direction or not? Make up your mind. Either the bicycle is going forward or it ain't. Simple logic...
No. Well you can analyse them that way and discover nothing about what makes them tick. But if you are a neuroscientist, you might hope to decode what...
Here we go.... What a horrendous self-contradiction. You claim that to be moving forward steadily is unstable? Next thing you will be claiming Newton ...
Again, you have to be generally able to centre if you want to be able to go off-centre for particular reasons. To ride a bike, you need to be able to ...
Yeah sure. There are many interpretations that try to recover that lost determinism. You can go that route too. In the end, you can hide what you can'...
The freewill problem arose out of the discovery of Newtonian determinism and its LaPlacean implications. So quantum indeterminism definitely challenge...
But aren’t I saying the process is fundamentally informational, as well? And that the source of the stably persisting identity of a mindful, purposefu...
To say life is managed instability is to explain the nature of the connection between matter and symbol, or metabolism and replication. The usual bott...
Life is managed instability. So homeostasis is central to that. The central problem is not about how to grow or how to fragment. It is about how to ho...
Sure. And the point about it being a metaphysics of immanent being is that it is founded on its dichotomies, not founded on a transcendent negating. N...
Respect would be the conclusion that in the long run, x is generally right. Tolerance would be the conclusion that in the long run, x is essentially n...
Yeah. And what would Nature be diametrically opposed to here. The Artificial? The Unnatural? The Supernatural? Which of these is your chosen basis for...
Deflection. I asked about the probability of your torturer/Stockholm syndrome applying. I asked what percentage you might actually claim as a reasonab...
Yes, DNA is the canonical example of formal cause or top-down constraint here. So my position - the semiotic one - is about generalising that. Thus I ...
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