Marc Carvalloc~world university · philosophy of religion
Marc Carvallo
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Marc Carvallo currently works at the philosophy of religion, c~world university. Their current project is 'C~World'.
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-by catching the uncatchable, namely the content of the dream-experiences in fragments, every night (when they happen to me);
-this is on more reasons impossible since dreaming is impersonal, and moreover at least fluid, if not airy...
Concisely, Nature, Cognition and System holds for:
-Natural systems (so, physics);
-Cognition: for Cognitive Science;
-System: for Artificial Systems (so, AI, AL, Systems and Cybernetics).
To talk about Bohr’s idea of complementarity is not an easy task. No idea put forward to solve the paradoxes of atomic physics
is so difficult to grasp, and at the same time so far reaching, as Bohr’s notion of complementarity. It seems fair to say
that few physicists ever fully understood the idea, and this is particularly true of the physicists o...
An exploration of the meaning of non-locality is made in physics and thought. It is suggested that non-local correlations may play an essential role within the nature.
Although quantum mechanics, as a physical theory, has been well understood for more than 60 years, its ontological implications
have remained unsettled. Physicists, in general, have not been interested in questions concerning the basic nature of reality.
Wolfgang Pauli was the most consistent representative of the “complementarity philosophy” char...
It is a major purpose of this symposium to go beyond the classical distinction between nature and cognition. My contribution
to this theme rests upon work done by myself and numerous others on a theory of fundamental physics in which the basic stuff
of the world consists of branching processes with decision points. The decisions include conscious d...
Support is provided from the theory of Lie computability and machines for Sir John Eccles hypothesis based on extensive neurophysiological
evidence, that, “Mental events (may) cause neural events analogously to the probability fields of quantum mechanics” (1).
It is postulated that Lie computability, defining a model of quantum perception and cogn...
In the present study we are using a conceptualization of a General Theory of Systems of Symbolic Expressions and Representation
to discuss complementarity in language. This conceptualization reconciles our factual knowledge of neuronal control in biological
systems with notions of computability and decidability in artifacts as well as living organi...
In the science of cognition, as in many other sciences, it is often assumed that the biggest problem of cognition is the lack,
loss or distortion of information. Were it not for human limitations in information processing capacity, cognition would not
be worth studying. Much of our cognitive development in childhood seems to be geared to mastering...
The problem of dynamic memory organization, one of the main challenges of theoretical neurobiology, of cognitive psychology,
and of computer sciences is discussed. Semantic memory is interpreted here in terms of hierarchical dynamic system theory.
Both neural and mental memory architectures are considered.
Important conceptual models of semantic m...
In order to make sense of this paper, to readers who are not familiar with Conversation Theory and its proto-lanquage or proto-logic,
this introduction contains a terse account of their essentials, insofar as they are relevant to the main topic of complementarity.
Henceforward, the abbreviation C.T. will be used for “conversation theory” and Lp for...
It is shown that the probabilistic organization of quantum mechanics involves a tree-like structure which we have called “the
probability-tree of a state preparation.” Though this construct emerges by systematic reference to the abstract theory of
probabilities as it now stands, it transgresses this theory. The quantum mechanical transformation the...
Deeply rooted problems of opposition vs. unity are discussed regarding their manifestations as thought and reality figures,
like (a) complementarity, (b) polarity and (c) dialectic, respectively. They reveal themselves as autological, i.e. self-referential,
and show also some connections with paradoxes. Mostly, autology constitutes an “infra-struct...
Thomas Aquinas once gave theologists the sound advice not to expatiate on questions of physics that they did not understand
enough about. In so doing he certainly had people like me in mind, the only difference being that, unlike the doyens of High
Scholasticism that he was castigating, I cannot even begin to flatter myself that I understand anythi...
Philosophical analysis of axiomatic methods goes back at least to Aristotle. In the large literature of many centuries a great
variety of issues have been raised by those holding viewpoints that range from that of Proclus to that of Hilbert. Here I
try to consider in detail only a highly selected set of ideas, but they are ones I judge important....
Two types of brain model are currently the center of a fundamental controversy in cognitive science. Traditional artificial
intelligence models are based on the discrete, programmable symbol systems normally associated with Turing/von Neumann computation,
and for which language and logic are the essential tools. This type of model is now being chal...
Bohr’s framework of complementarity should be understood as a realist interpretation of quantum physics, but in order to defend such a reading of Bohr, the epistemic goal of representationalism
as applied to atomic objects must be abandoned. This implies that complementarity rejects the meta-epistemic presuppositions
of the Cartesian spectator epis...
As has been shown clearly (cf. e.g. Jammer 1974; Honner 1987; Murdoch 1987; Folse 1985; 1989; and in this volume), the “complementarity interpretation” or the “Copenhagen interpretation” of quantum-mechanics
is not a single, clear-cut, unambigously defined set of ideas, but rather a common denominator for a variety of related viewpoints.
Within the...
is both a player and a spectator, is explained here illuminatingly. With regard to logical ambiguities and paradoxes, which may show up in all these topics, he, like Locker, is of the opinion that, philosophically speaking all apory of a lower level have to be accepted an a higher level of thinking. After the above expositions of a more general pur...
The relation between nature and cognition, which is taken to be metaphoric for the relation between religion and science, is described by three models: the model of bifurcation (subdivided into the Homeric, Platonic, and Cartesian variants), the model of convenance (subdivided into the conversational, vitalistic, and animistic variants), and the mo...
Erich Jantsch’s theory of natural systems might be summarized in the following three interconnected major propositions: 1 natural systems are evolving systems; 2 natural systems are dissipative selforganizing systems; 3 natural systems are selftranscending systems.
The main thrust of the first proposition is that the vision on reality, beautifully...
The contribution of Lars Löfgren: TOWARDS SYSTEM: FROM COMPUTATION TO THE PHENOMENON OF LANGUAGE within this volume has been written after my revised and completed version of my paper thus that a discussion about the possibly different meanings of our complementarity concepts could not take place. Lars Löfgren has added a postcript to his paper and...
usually called the classical (scientific) attitude (according to which there is a dichotomy between nature and cognition) and suggestions for better understanding of their mutual encroach ment. The authors belong more or less to the non-standard systems science, the third order cybernetics, or find themselves already beyond the third stage in the...
The aim of the paper is: a) to gain some knowledge of the so-called ‘natural systems’ as interpreted or defined by modern systemsscientists; b) to discuss these descriptions and definitions from the viewpoint of modern philosophy of science. In the course of both a) and b) the interwovenness of the classes of natural systems and the controversial i...
Questions
Questions (91)
-subjectivity (in science) includes experience, perception, consciousness, etc. in science. Science is always objective/objectivity; but recently tries to plunder subjectivity as well into its own domain. Recently many phenomenologists and cognitive scientists are trying to introduce subjectivity into science (see e.g. Searle).
-I myself am interested in this discussion, because of my research project has to do with this subject. Maybe you can help me. Thanks in advance. Marc.
-Time: (i) what 'time' is, no-one knows; even scientists are searching after the correct definition of time; see ,for instance, the astronomers are hard at work to define the 'what' of matter, space, and time; (ii) from the 2nd law of thermodynamics we know that time is the sequence of hours, minutes, and seconds.
-Thing: is a discovery of human subjects, and the 'objectivity' is the result of a definite subjective praxis. I may distinguish between 'natural systems' (consisting of solid, fluid, and gaseous), and 'artificial systems' (consisting only of solid, think e.g. of particles which are nothing but small ordered solids). 'Artificial systems' might result in Hegelian Verdinglichung (reification).
-A human being is an identity of materiality (biology, for instance the neural correlate of consciousness, the famous ncc) and immateriality (the consciousness itself).
-identical to is closely bound to the first logical law of identity.
-aliens are clear cut for everyone.
I am looking this question for my research project. Perhaps you can help me. Thanks in advance for the latter. Marc.
-A technical question is a question of the instrumental reasoning, and regards the 'how'.
-A metaphysical question is a question about the 'essence' of things and human beings, for instance, Husserl's question of 'Wesenschau', or Heidegger's question of the 'forgottenness of being' question.
Thanks for all answers. Marc.
-The question is clear enough.
- I would like to follow that research project.
- Thanks (in advance) for all added replies. Marc.
-Identity is more than quantum parallelism, because quantum parallelism is liable to the 2nd law of thermodynamics: its sequence, whereas the identity is closely bound to the Aristotelian logic: the law of identity (where there is completely no sequence).
-Materiality and immateriality is at least contradictotrial, if not a paradox. It belongs to subjectivity, about which our contemporary scientists are searching after; researchers on subjectivity (against the science's objectivity) are quite a lot, and researching a.o. phenomenology. However, their immaterility is more materiality, for instance, brain and the brain's neural correlates (see Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Artficial Life (AL)); in other words, the immateriality is non-sensory based, not visible, e.g. consciousness.
Thanks in advance for your adding answers. Marc.
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-since 20 may 2019 the project has been changed into 'In Search of the Logic of the Catholic Faith' on account of the following reason:
all my a-priori's are catholic, and I would like to contribute to the catholic scientific formation as a sort of a give-back. The question is however interesting. The only poignant reason consists of these two clauses {every catholic is a christian}, {but not every every christian is a catholic}. So, I have to cut this Gordian knot. I choose for the first clause for the only reason that it is my own metaphysics into which deserves my indulgence; whatever is suitable to the second clause is its own decision which ought to be esteemed.
Moreover, there are points to be further researched by the established mainstream science since its recent introduction of the subjectivity into itself (as the 'objective knowledge'), referring to my hypothesis of the sevenfold logic.
Finally, my choice is closely connected to: (a) every catholic is called promulgate the revelation through the gospel (which I sorely missed in the handbook used during my more than 14 years of lectureship in philosophy of religion); I will do it by now; this might promote the ecomenical trials; (b) the recent growth of science introducing the subjectivity into the objective knowledge in that it tries (by it self) turns out to be a scientific 'theological turn'; (c) there is no any necessity to be a cleric, if you are not called to be that (see (a) again), for everyone is called to be holy, i.e. the general christian wholeness (which is, by nature, mereological).
The research doesn't avoid any intra-christian controversies, even intra-catholic controversies.
It is a sort of the unwritten letter of St. Paul to the Cretans about the paradox (wherein all subjectivity is implied, or its reverse) in the catholic logic which has bearings for all catholics specificly, for all christians generally, and for everyone. That means simply a complete conversion of our natural/biological logic and the scientific logic based only on the naturalistic worldview that implies the unavoidable purification of logic in this {matter;space;time}, either, in the (fore)life, or in the afterlife, i.e. beyond {matter;space;time} that catholics voice as the purgatory. It is therefore even for everyone, because we are naturally against any paradox and for consistency, definiteness, etc.
This leads me to the discourse on the 'rhizome' and the second law thermodynamics that in my hypothesis depends on and introduced since the general christian and particular catholic original sin. The implicative structure of this hypothesis says much about our logic (the truth), being (essence), ethics (goodness), and their concerted execution (if their identity holds wholely, i.e. catholicly as holy) as the christian medievals alleged.
