[MD] Experience, essentialism, physicalism

[Scott Roberts]

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 said: 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?

Scott:
I wouldn't know how to characterize them with surety. My guess is that the 
level of reinterpretation and options lies at a much broader level than that 
of rocks and pains. There isn't much in the way of reinterpretaion to be 
done with the letter 's' in the preceding sentence, but it is needed to make 
some of the words, which are needed to make the sentence. And even  though 
as a sign it is determined by the broader context, it does have some 
significance.

- Scott



moq_discuss mailing list
Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc.
http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org
Archives:
http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/
http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/