apokrisis

Given you are posting in a thread dominated by the like-minded, which of us would be in that conceptual safe space? ;)

Alongside? In what sense are they treated with the same scientific/therapeutic respect? Ah. So they are better because they don't paper over the essen...

Sounds legit.

Only the difference between the theory and its application. If the theory is right. Really? Do you speak for the entirety of humanity throughout human...

Alternatively, I simply speak to our best science-backed understanding of the reality. It makes a change to the literary or religious ways of addressi...

I don't follow. It is not about a destruction. It would be about a fluid negotiation. If the self is contextual, then it is the product of some dynami...

Cells are omnipotent in that they all carry around the same kitset of genes. But they become specialised in their expression of those genes so as to f...

I can see that you disagree. And that you failed to provide a counter-argument. So yes, you have bowed out as far as any conversation goes. Word play....

Well yes. I do what I do because it has extraordinary beauty for me. It is thrilling to grasp the true mathematical structure of existence. And it is ...

That's quite right. There is the epistemic version and the ontic version. There is pragmatism and then there is semiosis. So there is the Peirce that ...

Clearly the word you intended earlier was obtuse. It is my efforts to enlighten you which have proved otiose. But if you do have any further interest ...

You are talking right past my point again. The immortality of the germ-line had to be physically separated from the mortality of the stem-line to achi...

Yep. I was certainly wondering.

Good job I didn't claim that then. That level of eugenic control has only really become possible for human society. ;) I was talking about the death o...

In the context of what I said, it would be about working for those of us with the totalising metaphysical project of having a workable Theory of Every...

Wasn't that my point? Structural complexity depends on controlled death. And hydra are already complex enough for that to be a factor. Again, it is an...

I don't get you. Sure, the definition of an agent, of autonomy, would be the freedom to do something contrary or "other". But that freedom is still co...

But it is also true that hydra depend on apoptosis, or programmed cell death, to rein in what would otherwise become runaway tissue growth. So death i...

Yes. The theory is that evolvability itself evolves. If you want to achieve greater biological complexity, there is an advantage in dividing things sh...

You mean that the idea that it doesn't is derived from theistic necessity. It is an article of faith that there are gods and souls, therefore Aristotl...

I wish I could follow your leaps. You started making some kind of point about pragmatism’s notion of effectiveness. Now you are talking about mechanic...

You seem more interested in word games than serious arguments. Maybe you are making the point that all choices serve the interest of some ego - even t...

But you said it as if that was something I needed to give some counter to. So how exactly does that - as something particular - contradict the general...

I don't understand how that is a refutation. Adoption might be less egotistical. But that doesn't mean procreation is consequently egotistical. So you...

Not a good argument. To procreate is to have kids. But perhaps you are not seeing it from a mother's point of view. The male can pretend it is all rat...

You've lost me. How could that have been the gist of your argument? Are you claiming convenience store robbery is another trade - an actual kind of jo...

Don't kids give you a reason not to be selfish? Aren't they an antidote to egotism? So I don't think there needs to be moral grounds for procreation a...

Well there is in physics. You have the principle of least action which pretty much explains everything. Nature is ruled by optimality when it comes to...

But it is a system derived from the evidence. It is a system derived by others. It is a system with a pedigree as old as metaphysics itself. It is a s...

So you are no longer content with the idea that substantial being is definitely both material cause and formal cause? It would have to be now either t...

I can see you hoped to, but honestly I was hoping for a better organised challenge to my position. Again, you didn't make an argument against a triadi...

You're ad homing me again rather than addressing my arguments. These are the direct questions which you failed to respond to.... So first you diverted...

LOL. Double LOL. As far as I can make out, your position is that you have no position. Hence pluralism is your position. And that somehow makes this g...

Well, tell me what it is that you accept about a global, triapartite, holism exactly. Give an example of how it applies here. What I've been addressin...

Huh? A generality is a constraint - that which defines a level of indifference to exceptions. So what Pragmatism says is not this atomistic notion - a...

Yes, society is now large enough that we must all become some kind of specialist. We must all inhabit niches. This is in fact another direct predictio...

Wrong analogy. I did biology and found the dissecting of dead things a chore. I stopped going down the psychology/neuroscience path once I found what ...

Jeez. It's basic pragmatism. There is no choice but to have a belief that you can then test. So you induce from the particular to the general, and the...

Or move up to discover that there was the down, and vice versa.

As usual, I would point out that you are treating as a bug the exact thing I would call the feature. So for you, there is an obvious problem if one or...

It is a general prediction of a dichotomistic or dialectical view. Things that start with the initial thing of a symmetry-breaking then proceed toward...

I would draw attention to the deeper structural aspect of a dialectical or dichotomistic symmetry-breaking here. The animal mind is smart, but stuck i...

If you step back from things, you can see that much of this comes down to maths targeting form - structure, constraints, etc - and energy, or material...

Aren’t you confusing life and metaphysics? I don’t lose one by doing the other. They get to take turns. Surely Bloom is working at the dialectical lev...

Self driving cars were science fiction a decade ago. Now they are killing people. Check out Rifkin’s the third industrial revolution documentary for a...

Never a problem. Of course. I have a TOE - a holistic one. And it stands in opposition to other TOEs - like standard issue reductionism and standard i...

That is true. But if that is your main point, the problem would be that your OP didn't advance some particular argument. It is easy to google the answ...

Well doesn't regular logic depend on the commitments of an object-oriented ontology? Don't the laws of thought seem to work because they get something...

Being pedantic, is that the fullest version? It could be the case that you both don't speak English and you are also not neurotypical. So I prefer my:...

Your view. My view was formed by encountering the fundamental problems of neurocognition and philosophy of mind, then finding Peirce sorted out the ep...