Amalgamating explanations and justifications 4 mars 2010

Scientific investigations and ethical justifications are two different things and they both relate differently to scientific explanations. In the former you are using the scientific method to produce an explanation, in the latter you are using these explanations, as product of the scientific method , to justify an ethical position. Usually, from a sample of [...]

Matt and attribution of intentions to particles. 22 novembre 2008

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImY9Xw-af_o&watch_response Hi again Matt, I think in this video you get at the core issue that distinguish your ideas from mainstream sciences. Even if your argument seems to imply that your infroming yourself from the recent sciences, in fact, I believe you’re returning to an antique mythological paradigm by metaphorically anthropomorphizing particules since you’re refering [...]

Neil Stephenson on metaphysics 14 septembre 2008

http://www.reason.com/news/show/36481.html "One could argue that people like Leibniz and the others were able to come up with some good ideas because they weren’t afraid to think metaphysically. In those days, metaphysics was still a respected discipline and considered as worthwhile as mathematics. It got the stuffing kicked out of it through much of the 20th [...]

Conscience phénoménale = cognition évoluée + apprentissage + culture ? 8 janvier 2008

Ponty stress something interresting about the unifying EGO : I see is work as an attempt to unify the 3 levels of consciousness/language, I was talking about (science,creativity and phenomenology) in a framework of culture and the historic and dialectic evolution of this culture. What it mean, for me, is that the EGO, is the [...]

Science et expérience phénoménale 2 janvier 2008

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbe6WrufAqw What if being irreducible to objective mecanism do not mean being inexplicable ? I can explain how Jo died even if the meaning of his dead is not reducible to biological mecanisms. In this sense I can’t reduce the meaning-qualia of the death of Joe to neurology but I can explain it. What that [...]

Naturalisme et expérience consciente 1 janvier 2008

En réponse à Matt et Charles Taylor :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XttVwRLjA1Y I agree that naturalism can be motivate by ethical motive. But this ethical sense of dignity and control that drive my naturalist tendancy, can probably also be induce by an electric stimulation on my neurons, so why not try to understand how this meaningfull ethical drive I [...]

Answer to our lost Matt 28 novembre 2007

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=lznhU4PfNWc&watch_response Since 1950, with Quine, it’s well accepted by philosopher that language is constitutive of what we call "nature" but that this "nature" also constrain our language. Both are interconnected. Quine even considered that scientific entity are fondamentally no more different then Greek god. But since we all know that science is not giving an [...]

Dieu : logiquement possible mais empiriquement improbable 8 novembre 2007

The possibility that an improbable intentionnal designer is responsible for my improbable existence is improbable cause our brains have probably evolve to assume intentionnality to explain thing we don’t understand.

Théorie de la communication et multidisciplinarité 7 mars 2007

La théorie de la communication présenterait une plate-forme où les tenants des diverses tendances pourraient se rencontrer : un endroit où la rigueur scientifique aboutirait à la nécessité, toute humaniste, d’intégrer autrui et soi dans un large système, et d’étudier dans ce système autant l’interaction et son évolution que la structure particulière de chaque participant. [...]

Quand l’action aveugle devient une réaction défensive face à trop de rationalisations éclairées… 7 mars 2007

"La théorie de la communication [de Bateson et Roesh] propose de définir la maturité comme la connaissance de la valeur et de la signification relative des choses. La foi (en quoi que ce soit) serait une défense contre ce relativisme." http://perso.orange.fr/andre.tricot/TricotPouget_Watz.pdf Avoir foi en ses convictions, ses valeurs,  permet dogmatiquement d’agir et de se défendre contre [...]