[MD] Experience, essentialism, physicalism

[David M]

Scott wrote:

The problem with 'source' talk is that it tends to imply causality, but I 
see causality as a characteristic of the semiotic, not of 
Consciousness-without-an-object. That is, it within the semiotic that one 
gets spatiotemporality and causality (and other forms).


DM: I have a question/problem with this. Sure most interactions can be
characterised as information, but all? Sure patterns interact, information
is exchanged, resulting in change. But some messages do not come with
a reinterpretation or a open to being ignored option. How would you 
characterise a rock falling on my head or the oven burning my bottom?