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Optimise speaks to the idea of finding a middle path between dichotomised limits. Finding balance within a system of dynamics. You may read it as find...

You are using paradox to argue against itself. You say liberalism is contradicted by the fact that complete individual freedom isn't even desirable. A...

This discussion can go nowhere I believe because of a basic difference in our metaphysical logic. I've said it before, but I will repeat. There are tw...

What survives is the fact we can examine. We can use it to ask the larger question of why that general kind of thing might be what emerges from the te...

Interestingly, Wrangham’s self domestication story I just mentioned argues that the genetic change in favour of empathy/cold blooded predation was ach...

How can you not see that this kind of attitude is relatively modern? In more traditional times, it was more likely to provoke laughter, amusement and ...

Thanks for telling me what I believe rather than listening to what I say. I argue for pragmatism/semiosis as ontic structural realism. The final Plato...

Social theory tells us why humans have to organise under transcendent narratives. We have to believe in something bigger than ourselves to accept that...

Argument by bogeyman, eh? The ur-cause here is the evolutionary principle. What works is what survives. What can sustain itself over time through a ca...

But if there is no God and we know “the good” to be a necessary organising idea that is always socially constructed, then that puts moral philosophy o...

So why is it filed under General Philosophy then? If you want the grounding assumptions of the argument to go unchallenged, perhaps you ought get it s...

You are making an argument premised on the belief that there is actually something more than just pragmatism when it comes to living life. You name th...

I think if you check my posts you will see I am here to mock the AI hype and not endorse it.

In what. way is that different? Be as specific as you like.

It ain’t about us being able or no to predict where it all goes. It is about what it means when it becomes a self-driving feedback loop where us human...

That would make things too easy. It takes us back to Newtonian physics. We wouldn’t have quantum tunneling or superconductors or lasers or other techn...

The problem there is that you have to place those entangled particles in the same containing spacetime box. So the quantum description already has to ...

The idea of the sovereign individual is a useful social construction. It framed the world in a certain light that allowed for the explosive growth tha...

And I do make that structuralist claim about human social organisation. The same hierarchical systems logic applies right through history from prehist...

Yep. If you are just averaging over the collective scribblings of humanity – even if doing that math in a split second of "thought" – then that puts a...

Like all technology, it becomes another way we can screw ourselves if we do dumb things with it. But I’m not worried about human replacement, just the...

It is clear that you want to take a “great figures in history” approach to understanding human affairs and I prefer the Hegelian structuralist approac...

Nope. It has much more to do with the business case that someone has finally come up with a credible demand for all the next generation chips that we ...

That is why I stressed pragmatic realism from the start. Liberal democracy was a rational exercise in expanding the scope of opinion so that society c...

Observations don't make the world. Reading the numbers on a dial don't change anything except how you might think about the state of the world. But ma...

Just to remind you what was actually said… You are not much interested in anything but misrepresenting my position and avoiding awkward questions abou...

I’m asking again how you think the notion of liberal democracy arose and took hold on human affairs. You have neither refuted my account that is the s...

You haven’t answered my question yet. What are you saying is some other convincing story of how the path would have been followed? And how is that in ...

Did I say holomorphic? I could have quite easily as my head is full of spinor maths at the moment and thus how “complex number magic” does lead on to ...

Via pragmatism. :roll: As I have said any number of times, my metaphysics is naturalistic. I understand society as a biosemiotic organism. An organism...

You need to set out your position rather than expecting me to guess why you can’t see that folk need some method by which to agree on the facts. And t...

…based on asserting that social order should follow from the reality of human interactions rather than claims about divine will.

The membrane is certainly one of the expressions of a biosemiotic relation. But what does it represent? It speaks to the organismic imperative of bein...

You seem to be understanding “realism” as “political realism” here. And I mean realism as in knowing the rational truth of the matter. Pragmatic reali...

As a pansemiotician, it is heartening that physics has arrived at this dichotomy of information-entropy. An Aristotelean tale of form and matter that ...

What if the best outcome is to be a pebble that makes the least ripple on the surface of the pond? There are two ways of coming at this question. Eith...

So you don’t see realism assumed as a foundation of the social package but rather an optional flavour? Institutions such as independent courts and a f...

Many commentators have said the US has had these kinds of convulsions regularly. The old always has its fossilising tensions. The system must appear t...

Liberalism is about freedom of association. Democracy is about the wishes of the people. It is all about recognising that a complex society has to be ...

Nope. What has changed is that liberal democracy has given up on its commitment to pragmatic realism. Citizens have been empowered to invent their own...

Yep. As a pragmatic ideal – as opposed to a transcendent belief in "human goodness" – it does see life as a balance. A trade off. It recognised the ac...

Also it could be that liberalism as a philosophy gets a little messy when we apply it both as a social theory and an economic theory. The two should g...

I would paint a picture of three related themes. There is the death of the humanist dream of a single planetary civilisation. There is the emergence o...

OK. So is your case that wisdom is indeed being skilled in a practiced habitual way? That defines it cognitively in distinction to ... other things. A...

You've been beaten to it. :roll:

I covered this in the post above. The systems view has to be able to say what it means by transcendent or immanent. They are patently different, yet h...

That misrepresents. I argued that the logic of dichotomies is the general logic of Nature and demonstrably the logic of brain architecture. So it is n...

I am certainly interested in folk actually setting out their ontological commitments. And talk of "good and bad" could mean adaptively optimal and its...

You made no points that go to the central point. And that is if wisdom and cleverness are cognitive processes, then how does that relate to the evolve...

I was confused by what you were directing an argument against. It seems that you were attacking misconceptions shown in some other thread. So sure, it...