I'm on vacation and have just scanned the recent exchanges.
You appear to know where I'm coming from with the language focus, but in order to avoid being caught in a word regress, I turn to Maturana's view of 'languaging' as a form of behavior which enables 'structural coupling'. This avoids representational issues by taking a 'systems view' of cognition. — fresco
an autopoietic system is autonomous and operationally closed, in the sense that there are sufficient processes within it to maintain the whole. Autopoietic systems are "structurally coupled" with their medium, embedded in a dynamic of changes that can be recalled as sensory-motor coupling.[5] This continuous dynamic is considered as a rudimentary form of knowledge or cognition and can be observed throughout life-forms.
observer-observed — fresco
the only realities possible are realities brought forth by an observer's operations of distinction.
cognition is not a means to acquire knowledge of an objective reality but serves the active organism in its adaptation to its experiential world.
[...] if we reflect upon our experience as observers, we discover that our experience is what we find ourselves observing, talking, or acting, and that any explanation or description of what we do is secondary to our experience of finding ourselves in the doing of what we do.
Regarding 'fundamental ontic reality' bear in mind that 'the observer' is not a fixed entity but may be multifaceted and transient. — fresco
The problem for me here is that you keep refering to 'existence' as a noun. — fresco
the only realities possible are realities brought forth by an observer's operations of distinction.
cognition is not a means to acquire knowledge of an objective reality but serves the active organism in its adaptation to its experiential world
What is added to our understanding by talking in terms of something's existence? — creativesoul
Does blue actually exist? — Merkwurdichliebe
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