Mike, Jon, Gene, list, I'm not sure the article has much--if anything--to do with 'quasi-mind' as Peirce conceived of it, Mike, but I am intrigued, as I have been for some time, by the idea of 'panpsychism', to which the article's author's 'resonance theory of consciousness' suggests, perhaps, an approach to testing that hypothesis.
While Jon is, of course, quite right that Peirce wrote that matter was mind "hidebound with habits," and that matter was "effete mind," and while Peirce occasionally even suggested that matter was 'dead', he didn't always see it exactly that way, and even in the passage in which he referred to matter as "hidebound with habits":. 1892 | The Law of Mind | W 8:155; CP 6.158 …what we call matter is not completely dead, but is merely mind hidebound with habits. It still retains the element of diversification; and i*n that diversification there is life *(*in Commens* dictionary, emphasis added by me). I would suggest that holding, as the author of the article does, that mind and matter are "complexified" together, may re-introduce the very dualism which Peirce's philosophy is at pains to overcome. On the other hand, to insist that there is *no* life in matter, that it is completely dead, is to again risk introducing that self-same duality. And, I would suggest, Jon, that however things may be in consideration of logic in itself, let's not forget that the *science* is 'logic as *semeiotic'* and NOT 'logic as *semiosis*.' Which is to say that in the science there is necessarily a great deal of abstraction from living semiosis. Peirce, who, of course, knew nothing of the quantum realm, and so what might be 'happening' *there*, yet in the context of his tychism thought that atoms must 'swerve' a little. How else would there ever be variety in nature? So, now, looking at both the atomic and the quantum levels, it seems to me that there is indeed quite a bit of 'swerving' at every level at which one might look at matter. Or, as Tam Hunt, the author of the article writes: All things in our universe are constantly in motion, vibrating. Even objects that appear to be stationary are in fact vibrating, oscillating, resonating, at various frequencies. Resonance is a type of motion, characterized by oscillation between two states. And ultimately all matter is just vibrations of various underlying fields <https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/july-2013/real-talk-everything-is-made-of-fields> . I agree with Gene that the article you posted, Mike, is most thought-provoking. So thanks for sharing it with us. I think there may be, at least potentially, much Peirce-related thinking in it even it doesn't directly relate to Peirce's concert of 'quasi-mind'. Indeed, I hope we might find ways to pursue Hunt's resonance theory of consciousness further on the list. Best, Gary xxxx " *Gary Richmond* *Philosophy and Critical Thinking* *Communication Studies* *LaGuardia College of the City University of New York* *718 482-5690* On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 1:03 PM Eugene Halton <eugene.w.halto...@nd.edu> wrote: > Thought provoking article I can ... resonate ... with. Thanks for sending, > Mike. > Gene Halton > > > > On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 11:59 AM Mike Bergman <m...@mkbergman.com> wrote: > >> List, >> >> Speaking of quasi-minds, this reference is very thought provoking, >> though the author does not mention Peirce: >> >> >> https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/the-hippies-were-right-its-all-about-vibrations-man/ >> >> Mike >> >> >>
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