Hi Danko, Before I responded to your post, I decided to read your paper, "Practopoieis: Or bow life fosters a mind" (JTB, 2015) and I am about half done. So far I agree with most of your ideas described in the paper, since some of them are consistent with or related to similar ideas I have published, albeit in different idioms.
One question. Why did you adopt the term "top" in your tri-transversal model of mind ? What does "top" mean and how is it different from "level" ? Al the best. Sung On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 4:57 AM, Danko Nikolic <[email protected] > wrote: > Dear all, > > When I presented the list with the theory of practopoiesis and suggested > that the three traverses can account for abductive reasoning, I also > received a number of questions regarding Peirce's work to which I had no > answers. The reason I had no answers was that I did not know much about > work of Peirce other than abductive reasoning. > > Now, I would like to share with you that I have made a bit of a step > forward. One of the questions (or suggestions) that I received was that > perhaps the three levels of organization that I proposed (three traverses) > correspond to the three Peirce's categories: Firstness, Secondness, and > Thirdness. > > Meanwhile, I have learned more about Peirce and I think that the answer > is: No. The three levels of organization do not correspond to these three > aspects of our consciousness. Actually, it seems that all three categories > should be assigned to the same level of organization, and this would be the > middle level, which I named anapoiesis. > > I always thought that this middle level is the most interesting part of > the theory, as it can produce a fascinatingly rich dynamics to explain > consciousness. Now, it seems to me that 1ness, 2ness, and 3ness correspond > very nicely to different aspects of its dynamics. So, it appears that this > aspect of Pierce's work will be extremely helpful in the future in > describing different aspects of adaptive processes in tri-traversal systems. > > Peirce's philosophy (at least a part of it) may even get some sort of a > foundation in hard sciences, which would be amazing. > > I hope that someone finds this useful. > > Best, > > Danko > > -- > > Prof. Dr. Danko Nikolic > > > Web: http://www.danko-nikolic.com > > Mail address 1: > Department of Neurophysiology > Max Planck Institute for Brain Research > Deutschordenstr. 46 > 60528 Frankfurt am Main > GERMANY > > Mail address 2: > Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies > Wolfgang Goethe University > Ruth-Moufang-Str. 1 > 60433 Frankfurt am Main > GERMANY > > ---------------------------- > Office: (..49-69) 96769-736 > Lab: (..49-69) 96769-209 > Fax: (..49-69) 96769-327 > [email protected] > ---------------------------- > > > > > ----------------------------- > PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on "Reply List" or "Reply All" to REPLY ON > PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts should go to > [email protected] . To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message not to PEIRCE-L > but to [email protected] with the line "UNSubscribe PEIRCE-L" in the > BODY of the message. More at http://www.cspeirce.com/peirce-l/peirce-l.htm > . > > > > > > -- Sungchul Ji, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy Rutgers University Piscataway, N.J. 08855 732-445-4701 www.conformon.net
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