apokrisis

You always have to make it personal Banno. Just stick to responding to the arguments and you'll be fine.

Here we go. Now the self-pitying soliloquy for the imagined onlooker. You forget I've seen every play in your book many times now. So just get on with...

Same general semiotic principle. Language embeds the notion of the self that speaks with meaning. So cultures do form vocabularies to serve their prag...

But I already sketched the argument in this very thread and have just elaborated it in terms of your latest mountain obsession, Uluru, Others have bee...

Is this what you mean by passive-aggressive? Time and again I give a full account of my position. And then you pretend I'm "refusing to explain". I'm ...

So what this summary misses is that our talk about Uluru is also talk that defines "the person speaking". This is obvious just in that the correct ter...

How so? If you want to say something Banno, you should learn to just spit it out. What have I been asked to explain? In what way is situating my posit...

Why do you think I don't know what I'm talking about? I had a ring-side seat on the whole neural synchrony saga.

Well, it seems that it is in fact a specific supervenient/identity theory story about neural synchrony and not some generalised notion of "brain activ...

LOL. I remember reading this far... ...and switching off. But thanks. The paper nicely places the metaphysics in the space of identity theories as I s...

Well Peircean semiosis is about placing value there at the heart of things. Of course Pragmatism has been misunderstood as being simply about the valu...

What, you don't think that identity theory and functionalism are positions in philosophy of mind? You accused me of misinterpretation. I am replying t...

OK then. I am familiar with what that would mean to both neuroscientists and in philosophy of mind. My comment stands. Talk of the brain having states...

Sorry but I’m more familiar with the language games of neuroscientists than your private language. So “brain states” is a phrase expressing a commitme...

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/145789

Again, if you want a discussion, say something interesting. There’s a post what I wrote not a page back, yet you just want reruns of your dullest one ...

Thanks for confirming that you can’t answer a direct question to save your life.

What waffle. The proof that we understood the past is the degree to which we can use it to predict our future.

Same old tune, Banno. If you want to say something, I outlined a position just a couple of posts back. Have a go at that.

So to think doesn’t require language, but to think about thinking does require language? Doesn’t really work, does it. If thinking is thinking, it eit...

It's like the little boy exclaiming the emperor wears no clothes. Except this little boy is standing so far at the back of a tall crowd he sees nothin...

Any argument based on inflation is speculative metaphysics. But it might be worth stepping back to think about how science can even operate at the lim...

I think that's a really important point. Language shifts belief into a timeless register. It makes a truth claim transcendent of the usual continuous ...

Fdrake is right. If we want to ask what i quantifies, it quantifies the number of dimensions that a number is constrained by. So i is a widget to rota...

Either people were triggered or they thought there are some good approaches worth discussing in philosophy of maths.

You’re right. I’m not bothered.

Eh? You can believe what you want without proof because you are free to ignore opposing positions when they offer proof? Seems radical. Peter Hoffman ...

A disposition is an untroublesome form of “Determinism”. But I guess a “problem of personal inclinations” doesn’t have quite the same dramatic ring to...

Using the English language.

equivocal - ??kw?v?k(?)l - adjective - open to more than one interpretation; ambiguous. "the equivocal nature of her remarks" - (of a person) using am...

Yep. They don’t act on a belief. Their actions simply show they believe. Where we - linguistically, hence metacognitively - can also speak of the beli...

This is an excellent summary. What I want to add is that even if the internal deliberation was as rational and optimal as possible - completely determ...

I see you started a similar thread just before this one. But I will quote a bit of that here... So I would say you are asking the right questions. Now...

This is a very standard line of thought of course. We believe in deterministic cause and effect. We believe in Leibniz's principle of sufficient reaso...

It seems a good assumption just looking around at the evidence. When things exist, we mean that they persist. They hang about in an individuated and s...

So when a radioactive atom decays, are you saying that was determined by a cause? Something suddenly made its decay more probable, nay inescapable, in...

There didn’t seem any point continuing when you just keep making the same bald claim and say nothing about how that could be the case in terms of the ...

Sorry. You are not getting it. Biology tells us that bodies aren’t deterministic devices. Life likes to control matter. So it has to separate itself f...

I was answering the question of how an inflationary universe could be considered large yet not infinite. So again you are speaking in non sequiturs. W...

Remember we are discussing freewill. Are you claiming there was a widely discussed problem before Newton’s mechanistic laws of motion? And while you c...

Hmm. To say that events are predictably unpredictable, as a wavefunction does, is merely to say they are constrained rather than determined. You can b...

But you were going to tell me how my next word could be predicted in principle by a prior neural state. Apparently the information is in my brain and ...

I don’t follow. Are you being sarcastic? So fill in the blank. The next word I’m going to write is the word ...

I’ve given you an explanation several times now. So you will have to explain what your problem with it is. Otherwise you are simply trolling. Well exp...

When you are so deep in a hole, stop digging. You've just cited a paper that is hypothesising about a non-inflationary scalar field that might explain...

Does science talk about discovering true facts or arriving at the most broadly based unfalsified beliefs? You are adopting an absolutist position on d...

What is it with your bad writing? Every sentence lacks logical argumentative structure. It's all a garble of buzzwords and not a proper response. How ...

Well you are in insisting that brain function is deterministic, even if that just means a deterministic computation, and even if that in turn just mea...

Explain to me how you think information exists in brains. What is brain information in your book - the kind that you are claiming to be mechanically d...

Cliched? Human language is articulate and syntactic. It is rule based symbolism so capable of unlimited combination. You are talking apples and orange...