Clark, lists,
you wrote:
"Yet his broad notion of mind and habits actually fits cosmology quite well."
I always have a problem at this point. Isnt it so, that natural laws and natural constants havent change at all since the big bang? I like tychism, synechism, and agapism very much though, as the idea of love behind everything is very appealing. About natural laws changing, there is a story from Stanislaw Lem: "The New Cosmogony". To rescue this idea of natural laws as being due to some sort of arbitrariness, changeability, or choice, I once had uttered the idea, that maybe there is a meta-universe, in which there once was an elementary-school-class of young Gods, each pupil given the job to construct a little universe, and now ours is one of them. Unfortunately, I had uttered this not totally seriously-meant idea in a christian forum. I never, before and after, have received verbal attacks with the worst of bad words you can imagine, like thereafter. But I never have cared so little about being insulted like then, I only mention it, because I find it a funny thing to tell.
Best,
Helmut
30. November 2015 um 20:09 Uhr
"Clark Goble" <cl...@lextek.com>
"Clark Goble" <cl...@lextek.com>
On Nov 30, 2015, at 12:05 PM, Sungchul Ji <s...@rci.rutgers.edu> wrote:It seems to me that your remark here would be true if all structures are mind (or mentality)-dependent. But I believe that the astrophysical evidence we have suggests that there were structures in the Universe that existed even before we appeared on this planet and will continue to exist long after we are gone following the extinction of the the sun.
Remember that for Peirce it’s all mind. It’s nearly a type of pan-psychism. Not in a strong sense of that term but in the sense that a bee-hive or even crystals have mind-like aspects. So never confuse mind with human mind in Peirce. Often his examples are human mind but he means something much more broadly.
So one way to think about early cosmology when symmetry breaking takes place is mind acquiring habits. Peirce of course lived before anything like contemporary cosmology was known. Yet his broad notion of mind and habits actually fits cosmology quite well.
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