anon_kyta

in thread "Going to bat for "hard materialism"":

The poster is describing Aristotelian hylomorphism, which was the usual Western metaphysical basis for natural science prior to the Enlightenment. I find it surprising that you would hold that this doesn't contradict hard physicalist reductionism, though n... 14mo ago

The poster is descri

Another question before I make a more substantive reply: do you believe that natural science should proceed using only efficient cause, or should it acknowledge efficient, formal, material, and final causality? 14mo ago

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Sure. I disagree very strongly with this:... 13mo ago

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I do not believe my aesthetic experience can be explained completely by reference to the physical as the physicality of the world, while real, is only revealed in my aesthetic experience. Following Whitehead I hold a panexperientialism, though not a panpsy... 13mo ago

I do not believe my

This assertion makes me doubt your commitment to hard materialism. If the principle of operation of an organism is supervened by its material properties, then its mind must be a property of that material. In order to believe it can be replicated on an alte... 13mo ago

This assertion makes

A Turing machine can be implemented on pen and paper. In fact, it is absolutely essential that the Turing machine be materially bound to pen and paper: it attempts to form-alize the rote activities of symbolic calculation that we used to rely on mentats fo... 13mo ago

A Turing machine can

The first acknowledges that a computer has some properties as we made it that way. The second takes those properties outside of the agent-relative viewpoint and makes computation as more fundamental than it is.... 13mo ago

The first acknowledg

Yes. I want to differentiate between circularity in self-production, and what I'll call "basal autopoiesis": the inherent circularity at the bottom of an organism.... 13mo ago

Yes. I want to diffe

Cells have a self-forming boundary while proteins participate in forming that boundary. I'm not sure cells are in fact the bottom though.... 13mo ago

Cells have a self-fo