Clark - i'm quite confused by this. Where do you get the idea that habits are
reversible? I would consider that they are non-reversible. To have reversible
habits - whew- that would deny adaptation, evolution, Thirdness as Mind....it
would make everything almost pure mechanics...
Edwina
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From: Clark Goble
To: PEIRCE-L
Sent: Monday, November 23, 2015 2:24 PM
Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Terms, Propositions, Arguments
On Nov 23, 2015, at 12:18 PM, Clark Goble <cl...@lextek.com> wrote:
It’s interesting that while everyone chimed in on the mechanics part of the
quote no one clarified to me the more troubling main part on habits being
reversible. I suspect, although I don’t know, that he may actually be thinking
thermodynamically here and the problem of reversibility there. Yet it seems to
me this runs up agains the problem of thermodynamics (in the statistical
mechanics version) being due to pure chance. Yet I’m not sure Peirce’s adopting
of the Epicurean swerve is pure chance in the same way. That is mind
traditionally was seen as something between determinism and pure equally
distributed chance. I’ll confess that I can’t recall of a place Peirce
addresses this though.
I’m trying to find something on this. Unfortunately none of my resources I
have at hand discusses this. Although Peirce and Biosemiotics: A Guess at the
Riddle of Life discusses the issues somewhat starting around page 88. They try
and frame it in terms of quantum decoherence. It doesn’t seem to quite address
the quote at hand though.
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