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I find Crowther’s presentation very confused - upside down indeed. But anyway, the essential point about superconductivity is that QM gets restored as...

Yep. So at best, this is an ongoing controversy. The consensus continues to advise caution. Sorry to be harsh, but the title of your OP suggests some ...

How is that particular claim bearing up?

Nope. Whatever dark energy is, it would have to be distributed absolutely evenly across every point of space (to match with the astronomical observati...

So does Jack have a mind? If not, really? If so, what is it for?

That’s covered by calling us social creatures. Yes, we are biological individuals as well. But the context is the OP and it’s Romantic suggestion that...

That is a bit defeatest. The very fact that we can see we have allowed the economic machine to take over our lives is already the start of imagining w...

Well yes. And through our actions we can make choices too. So why would we make a general choice of being a pessimist rather than an optimist? That is...

Hah, Bitbol's paper is one of those lined up in a crowd of browser tabs waiting to get read. I certainly liked his earlier downward causality paper - ...

Nice. Cooling causes contraction. Hexagonal cracking expresses the outcome which distributes the effort of rupture in the most symmetric or general fa...

The philosophical tension here would seem to be the issue of how closely do our models of the world match the actuality of the world. And - in the nam...

Yep. Reductionism can mean two different things. All modelling involves a reduction of a world to a model. So even holism is a reduction of the lived,...

So Aristotle did argue against atomism and in favour of a full "four causes" systems ontology. And atomism then made its roaring return as Enlightenme...

Yes and no. Biology is my training. And I've seen it become normal to think of life as an essentially thermodynamic phenomenon. So back in the 1960s, ...

So this is arguing a constraints-based or pan-semiotic view. But it wants to reject the reality of forms and talk about the reality of materiality. I ...

Yep. Instead of talking about life having the purpose of flourishing, you need it to be all about blind and pointless survival. You need it to be the ...

You still have the problem that you are employing a value-laden argument to argue against value laden arguments. If I am saying life has the point of ...

It has to be one or the other. Either you are saying something righter than us, therefore we all need to take notice of you. Or you are saying you are...

I would reply the big mistake is asking what we think in. The real issue is what constrains our thoughts to be about some thing in some particular way...

This sums up a representational position on consciousness. There is a world, there is the data processing, and then third, mysteriously, there is a se...

It literally means to measure. So I am pointing out the irony of you using such a scientistic term to lend prestige to your argument against Scientism...

Dimensions are things that imply measurements. Do you mean to make that kind of scientistic claim here? Great if you do, but you then need to spell ou...

So was the pre-modern mind actually an enchanted garden or is that the Rousseauian myth of the noble savage? Do these archetypes actually reside in th...

We can start by replacing the dualist conscious~unconscious distinction with the neurobiological distinction of attention~habit. Volition then speaks ...

I’m surprised that you would even target universal consensus so strongly here. In another era, there might simply be a notion of good taste or artisti...

Yep. I highly recommend it.

Yes, it all comes back to constraints-based thinking. ;) Again, pragmatism already says this. So the only place where we can differ is that you want t...

You missed out callous and brazen. Those especially amused me. I could only read that bit in the tone of a communist Chinese denunciation of the Weste...

Define art. There is a reason why modern fine art departments sell their courses as applied critical thinking these days. Just like philosophy departm...

That is a fair point. But it is a general one. Religions might treat prayer or mediation as the universal solvent of problems as well. Maybe some thin...

You are the one who needs Scientism to justify your anti-Scientism. My position is different. Holism doesn’t have to reject reductionism. It just has ...

Hence semiosis - as a science. Hence dualism giving away to the trichotomy of the generalised modelling relation. So yes, cracking holism is all about...

So how are you defining philosophy here? To me, the disicipline of philosophy exists to teach a particular method of critical thought. It is about the...

My own definition of what characterises Scientism is that it is a dependence on Newtonian metaphysics. We can recognise it as that metaphysical packag...

Poor SX. Always peevish to discover he has been re-inventing the wheel.

Funny. I see them as diametrically opposite. One is about immanence and causal emergence, the other is about transcendence and causal mystery. Well th...

For interest....

Sorry, there is a misunderstanding here. I agree that "law" is a rather odd term to use. It does have misleading connotations. The reason that nature ...

If you don't want to mention the word "law" for some reason - and remember it's not me that defends the term - then what exactly would you like to cal...

The deepest physical laws look to capture mathematical symmetries. This is in fact a theorem - Noether's theorem. All the conservation laws that have ...

Constraints are apophatic in this fashion. Only that which could be predicted can also be forbidden. So possibilities could be ruled out as picked-out...

Howard Pattee did this nice critique of how Rosen turned overly Platonic and mathematical in his last work... https://www.researchgate.net/publication...

This is an interesting insight into a Chinese approach to good citizenship...source: New Zealand Institute.

Yeah. Anyone not standing alongside you is a douchebag. Skillfully argued. The background to this thread was SX promising to show how the enemies of t...

Should be simple enough to demonstrate. Just give us an example.

Nature is always being hi-jacked to serve the political agenda of folk. In the good old days, morality was based on what God told you in chiselled sto...

So as I have argued, the emergent law approach taken by Peirce would see contextuality as irreducible. Thus it is certainly right to point this out ab...

As SX says, Pomo neo-Marxist socialist political correctness. Both left and right like to make their own readings of naturalism. And nature itself get...

Ah. It's all mere bricolage. The political agenda shows itself.

You will find that Banno will never answer you on this. He is trying to arrive at naive realism via Witgensteinian quietism. So the pretence is that t...