I prefer the loose interpretation of Heraclitus' "Life is Flux, all else is Opinion". Heraclitus was a material monist (fire being the substance all other "things" are somehow derived of... possibly presaging the E/M unity as elaborated for us by Einstein) > My guess is you're a methodological pluralist just like the rest of us. > > The trick is that monism is moot. Even *if* all things are somehow > organizations of experience, to be pragmatic, you have to be able to > *generate* 2 seemingly different things (like your experience vs. my > experience) by different organizations (or timelines, or historical > ephemerides, or iterations, or embeddings, or whatever). And so even > if there is only 1 stuff, there must be different ways of organizing > the stuff. So, there's, literally, no point in making a big stink > about the 1 stuff. Multiplicities will *always* creep in. So, monism > is one of: tautological, false, or useless, perhaps all three! > > Worst case, if we can't *show* (i.e. actually *do* it) how the 1 stuff > is differently organized into different things and are only left with > the different things, then reality may as well *be* pluralist because > saying it's not is pure fideism/imputation/speculation and does no > explanatory or predictive work. > > String theory and loop quantum gravity are *trying* to show how to > construct multiple stuff from singular stuff. So, they're setting the > bar pretty high. If you want to be a monist, why not work on those? > > On 11/17/19 8:42 AM, Nick Thompson wrote:> Gosh. So Stuff of Stuff > and plain old stuff are different stuffs? So Nick >> Thompson is a dualist? >> >> Damn! >> >> Perhaps to maintain my monism I have to become an "of" monist. It's >> "of's" >> all the way down. > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
