For those curious about the paper I mentioned previously - you can find
it here :
http://www.klab.caltech.edu/~koch/religion-06.pdf
With respect,
Steven
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Dear Patrick,
My thanks for your interesting response.
At the start of the 20th Century it was, perhaps, still acceptable for
Peirce and Whitehead to contend that "that holding religious beliefs and
maintaining a responsible and coherent scientific attitude were fully
compatible with one anot
Patrick,
I'm don't know what in my post you're replying to. I don't keep my posts,
so I can't be sure, but I don't recall mentioning an "expression continuum,"
"segments" or "meaning continuum." I may have; I sometimes think I only
think I know what I say or mean. My post (I think) had to do wi
Re Crick and Koch and their theories of consciousness: What Koch
actually says in his recent book is "that consciousness emerges from
neuronal features of the brain" (p. 10). For a detailed review, see
http://users.vianet.ca/gnox/Koch.htm .
Koch and Crick are near the reductionist end of the co
Hi Steven,
You wrote:
Koch is fairly religious (Catholic) - and has recently written about
his religion on his web site - and without making aspersions upon
his integrity I do find that a number of scientists in the field
that are prepared to accept such magic are also religious. As a
resul
Dear Patrick:A few quick notes from Salzburg as I found your comments of interest and perhaps I can clarify some issues.My goals are more concerned with a coherent philosophy of science, especially a coherent relation between chemical philosophy and biological philosophy and medical philosophy. Pe
Hi Bill, you wrote:
I think it is not very useful to speak of signs as existing in the
same process as existential objects, but if we must, perhaps we can
say, "Yes, signs exist, but much faster than objects do."
Well yes I guess so. The sign function may be construed (rather
simplistically
Dear Joe,
WOW! :) Thank you for the comments.
Within Peirce's Systematic Philosophy, the scope of a visualization of
Peirce's classes of signs, as I develop in my thesis, is grounded on
mathematics (discrete or finite), assumes phenomenology (the
cenopythagorean categories), and only touches u
