creativesoul

There is a causal relationship between touching fire and the sudden onset of pain. That relationship need not be thought about. When a creature draws ...

I would not agree. Everyday events count as more than adequate ground. We just have to know what to look for.

It's the difference in becoming meaningful and being meaningful. All signs are already meaningful. The clouds were clouds prior to becoming a sign of ...

Saying that we know, as a result of enough testing results/data, that some creature or another will probably act this or that way when presented with ...

Well, I've not been using such language. However, the language I've been using effectively exhausts all 'mind' talk I am aware of. Human thought and b...

I did not say that though. A sign becomes such as a result of being part of the correlation.

Truth, meaning, thought, and belief all exist in their entirety prior to our ability to become aware of them. When my cat expects treats and gets them...

Too broad a brushstroke. Some relationships exist in their entirety prior to our naming and descriptive practices. Some of those, yet still... exist i...

What does they refer to? Seeing the clouds may influence subsequent behaviour. The notion of probability does not play a role in all belief. I agree t...

For the most part, the marks are arbitrary maybe. Some are not. A sign is always meaningful. Clouds are signs of rain when, and only when, a creature ...

The above is prima facie evidence that there is a conflation of two completely distinct things hard at work. Uncertainty is not equivalent to probabil...

Enough for what? Sure. I would not argue against that notion at all, aside from pointing out that our language is much more than noises and marks, but...

I suspect that we're in agreement here on some basic level anyway... I do not understand which idea is being challenged. I'm hesitant to talk in terms...

Could be a number of similarities... I dunno. The ability of drawing correlations between different things has a few necessary prerequisites, so t spe...

Ok. It becomes clear sometimes when and if we know what to look for. We can determine, for instance, at least one of the things being connected by the...

Not mine.

What 'mentalistic talk'? We can drop the "mental" qualifier if you like. I reject the mental/physical dichotomy anyway. It's not a problem. Talk of co...

Earlier you described a group of professionals that were open to suggestions... I suspect it is as a result of the lack of consensus. My stance is nov...

You value my input.

That is based upon the idea that it is possible to take something for granted that is otherwise completely unknown. Makes no sense whatsoever to me. B...

Hopefully you'll be ok with the idea that I do not have the time to go through those studies as I've done in recent past. I've seen a number of docume...

Some nice stuff in this thread.

I have no clue whatsoever what you're talking about. "The divine spark" is a name. To what does it refer? Make that connection for me, and we'll arriv...

I would say that in order to take something for granted we must already have become familiar with it. I do not see that that's the case here.

Some belief is either true or false. Your belief is well tempered as a result of your knowing that not all houses have front doors, and Banno's could ...

What makes you say that meaning is non-physical?

So, are you claiming that someone can hold belief to one degree or another, to some specifically quantifiable percentage despite the fact that that in...

All belief are meaningful. Some belief are formed prior to language. Some meaning is prior to language. Describe those belief for me. This post is not...

We're supposed to be discussing what counts a bedrock belief. I am strongly asserting that we form, have, and hold beliefs long before language acquis...

Ok. Granted. What does it have to do with bedrock belief?

Is that an official academic criterion/standard/definition for what counts as a statistic, of what it takes to be a statistic, from an otherwise reput...

Not all cops.

There are cops all over the country standing in solidarity with the protestors... check your sources my friend. I'm impressed by the overall populatio...

Sure... Language acquisition is learning how to use the naming and descriptive practices that have long since already been in use prior to becoming a ...

Nice pic trick!!!

The world is already meaningful.

So... That's close, but not quite on target.

Good to see your values being well placed... :razz: What themes?

The hero was just another example of a white guy going into a foreign community and doing what they do better... The belief system of those people was...

We all adopt our first worldview. We're thrown into the world in this way.

That passed. Who wins?

:razz:

I do not claim to have a Turing test.

Yeah. Thanks for the support, comrade! :wink:

I am neither. "Fog" refers to something other than me. As does "a point". Not to my understanding... The beetle-in-the-box is about (self-professed)cl...

Ya know... Adding more words doesn't serve to help when there are already far too many unknown variables in play. I could see how Witt's remarks again...

Here and now Banno... Is that a bot? Possibly. Could be a human using a translation program as well. I'm beginning to believe that something is quite ...

This looks like nonsense to me.

What move? :brow:

Sorry but there is nothing clear about that use of those names.