RE: [PEIRCE-L] Metaphysics and Nothing (was Peirce's Cosmology)

2016-11-03 Thread Søren Brier
ritical Thinking Communication Studies LaGuardia College of the City University of New York C 745 718 482-5690<tel:718%20482-5690> On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 7:41 PM, Søren Brier <sb@cbs.dk<mailto:sb@cbs.dk>> wrote: Jon, List ​​ But if the Logos is logic as semiotics and is emerg

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Metaphysics and Nothing (was Peirce's Cosmology)

2016-11-02 Thread Søren Brier
Jon, List But if the Logos is logic as semiotics and is emerging as thirdness or the tendency to take habits in all nature of Secondness as Stjernfelt argues so Well in Natural propositions and feeling is present in all matter (Hylozoism) and all three categories arise as universes from pure

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Universes and Categories (was Peirce's Cosmology)

2016-10-23 Thread Søren Brier
Jeff, list Thanks. That is also my impression, but I was not sure. Søren From: Jon Alan Schmidt [mailto:jonalanschm...@gmail.com] Sent: 22. oktober 2016 05:29 To: Søren Brier Cc: Peirce-L Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Universes and Categories (was Peirce's Cosmology) Søren, List: SB

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Universes and Categories (was Peirce's Cosmology)

2016-10-23 Thread Søren Brier
are insufficient to relate the consequences to the antecedent causes. In other words and symbols and indexes and icons, the atomic numbers are facts and the addition of atomic numbers follow the conservation laws of physics. Cheers Jerry On Oct 21, 2016, at 7:32 PM, Søren Brier <sb@cbs

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Universes and Categories (was Peirce's Cosmology)

2016-10-22 Thread Søren Brier
Dear Jerry I think Einstein’s point is mine in Cybersemiotics. It seems impossible to reduce one aspect of reality to any of the others. Søren From: Jerry LR Chandler [mailto:jerry_lr_chand...@icloud.com] Sent: 21. oktober 2016 20:05 To: John F Sowa Cc: Peirce List Subject:

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Universes and Categories (was Peirce's Cosmology)

2016-10-22 Thread Søren Brier
, Søren Brier <sb@cbs.dk<mailto:sb@cbs.dk>> wrote: I can find no easy way from phenomenology alone - not even from Peirce’s triadic phaneroscophy - to the reality of an outer world and other embodied conscious subjects. I do not think Peirce solves this problem. Do you?

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Universes and Categories (was Peirce's Cosmology)

2016-10-21 Thread Søren Brier
Jon Yes it is both efficient and final causation and how they are related. I do know Peirce has several papers on that. But still how does it relate to the world as we know it today? Or rather how can we make a postmodern transdisciplinary framework that allows us to combine them?

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Universes and Categories (was Peirce's Cosmology)

2016-10-21 Thread Søren Brier
. oktober 2016 17:20 To: Peirce List Cc: Søren Brier Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Universes and Categories (was Peirce's Cosmology) Soren: Would it be fair to say that you seek to understand how CSP’s writings relate to scientific causality? I think it is fair to ask if Jon’s views on engineering wrt CSP

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Universes and Categories (was Peirce's Cosmology)

2016-10-21 Thread Søren Brier
/conference2005/pdf/nicolescu.pdf and he is pretty Peirce inspired and combines that with his knowledge of quantum physics and philosophy. Best Søren From: Jon Alan Schmidt [mailto:jonalanschm...@gmail.com] Sent: 21. oktober 2016 16:11 To: Søren Brier Cc: Peirce-L

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Universes and Categories (was Peirce's Cosmology)

2016-10-21 Thread Søren Brier
Sorry my last mail was an answer to Jerry not Jeff Søren From: Jerry Rhee [mailto:jerryr...@gmail.com] Sent: 21. oktober 2016 01:17 To: Søren Brier Cc: Jon Alan Schmidt; Peirce-L Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Universes and Categories (was Peirce's Cosmology) Soren, list: I

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Universes and Categories (was Peirce's Cosmology)

2016-10-21 Thread Søren Brier
of matter. How do we get from the three universes to the world we are in today, with its physically real problem of global warming? Best Søren From: Jerry Rhee [mailto:jerryr...@gmail.com] Sent: 21. oktober 2016 01:17 To: Søren Brier Cc: Jon Alan Schmidt; Peirce-L

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Universes and Categories (was Peirce's Cosmology)

2016-10-20 Thread Søren Brier
this is possible without a recognition of the independent reality of embodied conscious subjects living in language and culture. Søren From: Jon Alan Schmidt [mailto:jonalanschm...@gmail.com] Sent: 20. oktober 2016 18:22 To: Søren Brier Cc: Peirce-L Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Universes

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Universes and Categories (was Peirce's Cosmology)

2016-10-20 Thread Søren Brier
University (o) 928 523-8354 From: Søren Brier <sb@cbs.dk<mailto:sb@cbs.dk>> Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2016 5:56 AM To: 'Jon Alan Schmidt'; Gary Richmond Cc: Peirce-L Subject: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Universes and Categories (was Peirce's Cosmology)

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Universes and Categories (was Peirce's Cosmology)

2016-10-20 Thread Søren Brier
I suggest that in a phaneroscopic process ontology the categories will develop into worlds. Søren From: Jon Alan Schmidt [mailto:jonalanschm...@gmail.com] Sent: 20. oktober 2016 15:34 To: Søren Brier Cc: Peirce-L Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Universes and Categories (was Peirce's

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Universes and Categories (was Peirce's Cosmology)

2016-10-20 Thread Søren Brier
Dear Gary, Jon and list I suggest that the problem is with a phenomenological foundation of his semiotics and Peirce’s attempt to build a realistic ontology. In the phenomenological view there is no basic difference between experience and the outside world because there is no fundamental

RE: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Cosmology

2016-10-12 Thread Søren Brier
Secondness. Best Søren From: Jon Alan Schmidt [mailto:jonalanschm...@gmail.com] Sent: 12. oktober 2016 04:28 To: Søren Brier Cc: peirce-l@list.iupui.edu Subject: Re: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Cosmology Søren, List: It is interesting that you mentioned

RE: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Cosmology

2016-10-12 Thread Søren Brier
.com] Sent: 12. oktober 2016 04:09 To: Søren Brier Cc: peirce-l@list.iupui.edu Subject: Re: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Cosmology Søren, List: SB: I think your problem is solved by Panentheism, which accept the divine to be both transcendent and immanent. Again, I am now leaning against trying to

RE: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Cosmology

2016-10-11 Thread Søren Brier
Dear Jon I have discussed this with Edwina before. I think the correct label for Peirce is a Hylozoism or Hylopathism inspired by Aristotle, which only indicates that matter is alive and in combination with his synechism that matter is a living field. Peirce writes: Has Time, or has Space,

RE: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Cosmology

2016-10-11 Thread Søren Brier
Dear Helmut I think your problem is solved by Panentheism, which accept the divine to be both transcendent and immanent. Thus the Tohu va Bohu or pure Zero is the transcendent, which as the first step in creation produces Firstness as real possibilities of forms of existence, combined with the

RE: [PEIRCE-L] [Sadhu Sanga] RE: I hope this provokes helpful thought

2016-09-12 Thread Søren Brier
. Rather experience is the prerequisite for producing geometrical explanations. Best Søren From: Jerry LR Chandler [mailto:jerry_lr_chand...@icloud.com] Sent: 12. september 2016 00:02 To: Søren Brier Cc: VINOD KUMAR SEHGAL; Peirce List Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] [Sadhu

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Dynamic/Immediate Object and Determination/Causation

2016-08-24 Thread Søren Brier
'Semiotic realism' is good - could we extend it to 'triadic semiotic process realism' ? Søren -Original Message- From: Clark Goble [mailto:cl...@lextek.com] Sent: 23. august 2016 23:27 To: Peirce-L Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L]

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Dynamic/Immediate Object and Determination/Causation

2016-08-22 Thread Søren Brier
I do also think that this must be what synechism means. But what then is the habit that drives evolution and the growth if mind. I have sometime compared it to Schopenhauer’s Will. Søren From: Edwina Taborsky [mailto:tabor...@primus.ca] Sent: 22. august 2016 18:40 To: Søren Brier

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Dynamic/Immediate Object and Determination/Causation

2016-08-22 Thread Søren Brier
Dear Jon and Edwina In a way I think that you are both right. But I think the focus on if matter or mind was first is not very fruitful and may come from our dualistic upbringing. I view Peirce as a synechist triadic process philosopher. He has accepted the term objective idealist for his

SV: [PEIRCE-L] [Sadhu Sanga] New Experiences

2016-06-04 Thread Søren Brier
I think that Peirce and Heidegger has a lot in common: 1. A phenomenological foundation in their philosophies, which Peirce calls phaneroscophy and 2. They are both process philosophers, an aspect that separates them from the young Husserl, with his absolutism. 3. The dynamical Dasein of

SV: Fwd: Fw: [PEIRCE-L] SV: SV: SV: SV: SV: [Sadhu Sanga] Paper Refuting Darwinism Published in Journal 'Communicative & Integrative Biology'

2016-02-02 Thread Søren Brier
the Sadhu Sanga site - and I don't think the Peirce-L site should be an appendage of that site. Edwina - Original Message - From: Edwina Taborsky<mailto:tabor...@primus.ca> To: Søren Brier<mailto:sb@cbs.dk> ; peirce-l@list.iupui.edu<mailto:peirce-l@list.iupui.edu> Sent

SV: [PEIRCE-L] RE: Can we encompass spirituality, democracy and science in one culture?

2016-02-02 Thread Søren Brier
Dear Gary My question was to a Bhakti Vedanta apprentice who believe that the absolute truth was to be found in the Vedas and therefore doubted science, evolution and democracy. Although the quotes you have found are interesting I do not quite see how they answer the question?

SV: Can we encompass spirituality, democracy and science in one culture?Re: [PEIRCE-L] Individual universal spirituality and mutual respect.

2016-01-31 Thread Søren Brier
Fra: Gary Richmond [mailto:gary.richm...@gmail.com] Sendt: 30. januar 2016 18:20 Til: Peirce-L Cc: Søren Brier Emne: Can we encompass spirituality, democracy and science in one culture?Re: [PEIRCE-L] Individual universal spirituality and mutual respect. ​Stephen, List, I have taken the liberty

SV: [PEIRCE-L] Triadic Philosophy -- Sign

2015-12-30 Thread Søren Brier
papers on this to Cybernetics & Human Knowing. A special issue if there are several that want to attempt this difficult area. Best Søren Fra: John Collier [mailto:colli...@ukzn.ac.za] Sendt: 30. december 2015 19:09 Til: Søren Brier; Stephen C. Rose; Peirce List Emne

SV: [PEIRCE-L] Triadic Philosophy -- Sign

2015-12-30 Thread Søren Brier
not. Søren Fra: John Collier [mailto:colli...@ukzn.ac.za] Sendt: 30. december 2015 11:01 Til: Søren Brier; Stephen C. Rose; Peirce List Emne: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Triadic Philosophy -- Sign Søren, I have argued for some time that if Peircean thirds are irreducible they must

SV: [PEIRCE-L] [biosemiotics:8949] Re: Terms, Propositions, Arguments

2015-11-26 Thread Søren Brier
: PEIRCE-L Emne: Re: [PEIRCE-L] [biosemiotics:8949] Re: Terms, Propositions, Arguments (I broke out your responses to make them a little easier) On Nov 24, 2015, at 6:46 AM, Søren Brier <sb@cbs.dk<mailto:sb@cbs.dk>> wrote: Which order are you speaking of here? Plo

SV: [PEIRCE-L] [biosemiotics:8949] Re: Terms, Propositions, Arguments

2015-11-22 Thread Søren Brier
Søren Fra: Clark Goble [mailto:cl...@lextek.com] Sendt: 20. november 2015 21:27 Til: PEIRCE-L Emne: Re: [PEIRCE-L] [biosemiotics:8949] Re: Terms, Propositions, Arguments On Nov 20, 2015, at 1:01 PM, Søren Brier <sb@cbs.dk<mailto:sb@cbs.dk>> wrote: I agre

SV: [PEIRCE-L] [biosemiotics:8949] Re: Terms, Propositions, Arguments

2015-11-20 Thread Søren Brier
Dear Clark As I understand it Peirce’s God develops according to Agapism or the growth of love and reasonability. Here he has some similarity to Neoplatonism, but it is a universal philosophy of a religion of love combining mystical Buddhism and Christianity. Best Søren Fra:

SV: [PEIRCE-L] Aw: [biosemiotics:8949] Re: Terms, Propositions, Arguments

2015-11-18 Thread Søren Brier
I think that that what Piece was looking for was the connection between the evolving universe and the rationality of the human way thinking. I have tried to explain more here

SV: [PEIRCE-L] Empty space and knowing how to be

2015-10-09 Thread Søren Brier
Dear Stephen I have tried to give an interpretation of Peirce's view on what we are immersed in here Brier, S. (2014). Pure Zero, pp 207 in Charles Sanders Peirce in His Own Words: 100 Years of Semiotics, Communication and Cognition. Editors: Torkild Thellefsen and Bent Sørensen. Series:

SV: [PEIRCE-L] book launching: Turning Signs

2015-09-06 Thread Søren Brier
Congratulations for getting there after all those years and hard work. Look forward to read it. Best Søren Fra: g...@gnusystems.ca [mailto:g...@gnusystems.ca] Sendt: 6. september 2015 14:44 Til: 'Peirce-L' Emne: [PEIRCE-L] book launching: Turning Signs Hello friends (and

SV: [PEIRCE-L] A System Of Analytic Mechanics

2015-03-19 Thread Søren Brier
Dear Steven Are you aware of the work of Unger and Smolin where they argue for the evolution of laws? The Singular Universe….THE SINGULAR UNIVERSE AND THE REALITY OF TIME Cambridge University Press, November 30, 2014. Synopsis This is a book on the nature of time and the basic laws of nature.

SV: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Scientific Attitude

2015-03-12 Thread Søren Brier
Dear Steven Not quantum mechanics as far as I can see. Søren Fra: stevenzen...@gmail.com [mailto:stevenzen...@gmail.com] På vegne af Steven Ericsson-Zenith Sendt: 12. marts 2015 03:55 Til: Edwina Taborsky Cc: Steven Ericsson-Zenith; Jon Awbrey; Peirce List Emne: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re:

[PEIRCE-L] SV: [biosemiotics:7395] Re: Natural Propositions

2014-11-09 Thread Søren Brier
Howard, Frederik and list I agree with Ben that Peirce’s philosophy do have something to contribute to the understanding of Quantum physics. Peirce’s idea of Firstness, Secondness and thirdness combined with synechism and Haecceity can deal with a lot of the problems in the measurement

SV: [PEIRCE-L] [biosemiotics:6231] Re: biosemiotics is the basis for

2014-07-31 Thread Søren Brier
Dear Clark and list My I add a few thoughts? I agree that sign are reals, but when they manifests as tokens their Secondness must enter the world of physics and thermodynamics must apply. It is work to make signs emerge in non-verbal communication or as language from ones feeling and thoughts.

SV: [PEIRCE-L] The second law of thermodynamics

2014-06-29 Thread Søren Brier
forms I do not know. And I do not know any relevant Peirce text. Søren -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: Jerry LR Chandler [mailto:jerry_lr_chand...@me.com] Sendt: 28. juni 2014 21:44 Til: Søren Brier Cc: Evgenii Rudnyi; peirce-l@list.iupui.edu Emne: Re: [PEIRCE-L] The second law

SV: [PEIRCE-L] The second law of thermodynamics

2014-06-28 Thread Søren Brier
Dear Evgenii and list That fact is - as Schrödinger and Prigogine points out - that more and more complicated self-organized systems develop feeding on the general growth of entropy in the universe. These systems order more and more of their surroundings in order to support and prolong their

SV: SV: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science and religion: text 1

2014-06-17 Thread Søren Brier
...@ukzn.ac.za] Sendt: 17. juni 2014 16:28 Til: Søren Brier; John Collier; Edwina Taborsky; Catherine Legg; Gary Richmond; g...@gnusystems.ca Cc: peirce-l@list.iupui.edu Emne: Re: SV: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science and religion: text 1 Well, Søren, I would agree, as implicitly

[PEIRCE-L] SV: The edifice of scientismic cosmology is showing some cracks

2014-06-04 Thread Søren Brier
. They might even be obliged to integrate semiotics, which most of them considers to unscientific! Cheers Søren Fra: Stephen Jarosek [mailto:sjaro...@iinet.net.au] Sendt: 4. juni 2014 08:26 Til: Søren Brier; 'Helmut Raulien'; peirce-l@list.iupui.edu Emne: The edifice

[PEIRCE-L] SV: Japan?

2014-06-04 Thread Søren Brier
Sorry for this mistake. It was supposed to be an internal mail to a Danish linguistic specialist. Søren Fra: Søren Brier [mailto:sb@cbs.dk] Sendt: 4. juni 2014 17:12 Til: peirce-l@list.iupui.edu Emne: [PEIRCE-L] Japan? Hej Per Jeg fik slet ikke hørt hvordan Japan rejsen gik? Jeg håber

SV: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science and religion: text 1

2014-06-02 Thread Søren Brier
19, 2014, Søren Brier sb@cbs.dkmailto:sb@cbs.dk wrote: 1. God is real but does not exist: so the best way to worship him is through the religion of science I thought this sums up nicely Section 9.6 in Kees' book and was a good way to start the discussion of: God, science and religion

SV: SV: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on Mind, self, and person

2014-06-01 Thread Søren Brier
PM, Søren Brier wrote: I did read this long post and in the end I did not find a question for me and my subject. So what question did you mean? Søren - PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on Reply List or Reply All to REPLY ON PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts

SV: SV: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on Mind, self, and person

2014-06-01 Thread Søren Brier
. --Jeff Jeff Downard Associate Professor Department of Philosophy NAU (o) 523-8354 From: Søren Brier [sb@cbs.dk] Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2014 5:52 AM To: charles murray; Peirce List Subject: SV: SV: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on Mind, self

SV: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science and religion: text 1

2014-06-01 Thread Søren Brier
...@gmail.com] På vegne af Steven Ericsson-Zenith Sendt: 1. juni 2014 19:57 Til: Søren Brier Cc: Steven Ericsson-Zenith; peirce-l@list.iupui.edu; Kathrine Elizabeth Lorena Johansson; Claudia Jacques (c...@claudiajacques.org); Elisabeth Sørup; Seth Miller; Leslie Combs Emne: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar

SV: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on Mind, self, and person

2014-05-31 Thread Søren Brier
do look forward to read your development of these thoughts in an article. Cheers Søren Fra: Jerry LR Chandler [mailto:jerry_lr_chand...@me.com] Sendt: 30. maj 2014 20:48 Til: Søren Brier Cc: Peirce List; charles murray Emne: Re: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9

SV: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science and religion: text 1

2014-05-31 Thread Søren Brier
have not been able to put my finger on it. Maybe you can? Cheers Søren Fra: stevenzen...@gmail.com [mailto:stevenzen...@gmail.com] På vegne af Steven Ericsson-Zenith Sendt: 31. maj 2014 01:19 Til: Søren Brier Cc: peirce-l@list.iupui.edu; Kathrine Elizabeth Lorena

SV: [PEIRCE-L] I'm not sure how much this has to do with Peircean triadicity, but...

2014-05-31 Thread Søren Brier
Dear Ben Extremely interesting, but very difficult to connect to semiotic pragmaticism at the moment. Cheers Søren Fra: Benjamin Udell [mailto:bud...@nyc.rr.com] Sendt: 31. maj 2014 03:37 Til: peirce-l@list.iupui.edu Emne: [PEIRCE-L] I'm not sure how much this has

SV: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science and religion: text 1

2014-05-23 Thread Søren Brier
. Enough for now! gary f. From: Søren Brier [mailto:sb@cbs.dk] Sent: 20-May-14 9:19 AM To: Gary Fuhrman; Peirce List Subject: SV: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science and religion: text 1 Dear Gary I think this problem you bring up here hinges on the definition

SV: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science and religion: text 1

2014-05-21 Thread Søren Brier
! gary f. From: Søren Brier [mailto:sb@cbs.dk] Sent: 20-May-14 9:19 AM To: Gary Fuhrman; Peirce List Subject: SV: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science and religion: text 1 Dear Gary I think this problem you bring up here hinges on the definition of mystical. I agree

SV: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science and religion: text 1

2014-05-21 Thread Søren Brier
Dear Gary and list Your quote made me think of John of the Cross famous poem of the dark night describing the mystical union. http://www.ewtn.com/library/SOURCES/DARK-JC.TXT . I have italicized the places where the a-personal in the union is described though the poem is within the frames of

SV: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science and religion: text 1

2014-05-21 Thread Søren Brier
Sorry, It was Ben who found the quote about walking in the garden. Søren Fra: Benjamin Udell [mailto:bud...@nyc.rr.com] Sendt: 21. maj 2014 20:18 Til: peirce-l@list.iupui.edu Emne: Re: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science and religion: text 1 Quick

SV: SV: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science and religion: text 1

2014-05-21 Thread Søren Brier
. maj 2014 23:00 Til: Søren Brier Cc: g...@gnusystems.ca; Peirce-L@list.iupui.edu Emne: Re: SV: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science and religion: text 1 Soren: Forgive my intrusion and brevity. This is a beatiful message. In Spanish we would say: muy hermoso. Eduardo

[PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science and religion: text 1

2014-05-19 Thread Søren Brier
Søren Brier Professor in the semiotics of information, cognition and commmunication science, department of International Business Communication, Copenhagen Business School, Home page: www.cbs.dk/staff/sbibchttp://www.cbs.dk/staff/sbibc. , Cybersemiotics.com

SV: [biosemiotics:5904] Re: [PEIRCE-L] de Waal Seminar: Chapters 7 8

2014-04-28 Thread Søren Brier
Dear Sung Prigogine can be said to deliver a physical support to Peirce's evolutionary worldview except that he does not have a theory of signification and meaning. Best Søren -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: Sungchul Ji [mailto:s...@rci.rutgers.edu] Sendt: 28. april 2014