#ontology — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #ontology, aggregated by home.social.
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talking metaphysical and mythical... what if this (PHYSICAL HEALTH/SURVIVAL OF WORLD/HUMANS) is what that (ETERNAL LIFE) meant? Perhaps not about individuals at all, or any post-body, ghost experience of eternity, but regarding eternity versus extinction for the #world #humankind #heaven #hell #doomed af #poetry #ontology
https://rant.li/atmercurialatrant-li/everlasting-life-of-the-world -
(hash tf outta these tags, mate), I'm #talking #metaphysical and #mythical... what if *this (see: #holistic HEALTH/SURVIVAL OF WORLD/HUMANS) is what Jesus meant by #ETERNAL #LIFE? Perhaps it's not about individuals AT ALL, or any post-body, ghost experience of eternity, but regarding eternity versus extinction for the #world #humankind #heaven #hell #doomed af #poetry #ontology
https://rant.li/atmercurialatrant-li/everlasting-life-of-the-world BTW this (rant.li) works well as a #blog #host #rant RIP #antifascist #org in Italy. This is kind of like a #freewriting exercise for survivors of #christian #cults (all of it). -
talking metaphysical and mythical... what if this (PHYSICAL HEALTH/SURVIVAL OF WORLD/HUMANS) is what that (ETERNAL LIFE) meant? Perhaps not about individuals at all, or any post-body, ghost experience of eternity, but regarding eternity versus extinction for the #world #humankind #heaven #hell #doomed af #poetry #ontology
https://rant.li/atmercurialatrant-li/everlasting-life-of-the-world -
(hash tf outta these tags, mate), I'm #talking #metaphysical and #mythical... what if *this (see: #holistic HEALTH/SURVIVAL OF WORLD/HUMANS) is what Jesus meant by #ETERNAL #LIFE? Perhaps it's not about individuals AT ALL, or any post-body, ghost experience of eternity, but regarding eternity versus extinction for the #world #humankind #heaven #hell #doomed af #poetry #ontology
https://rant.li/atmercurialatrant-li/everlasting-life-of-the-world BTW this (rant.li) works well as a #blog #host #rant RIP #antifascist #org in Italy. This is kind of like a #freewriting exercise for survivors of #christian #cults (all of it). -
Just published: a systematic comparison of Graham Harman's Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) with my own Conference of Difference (CoD) model.
Alexander Stepanov said Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) obscures process behind static objects. Does the same critique apply to Harman's OOO?
Does objectification hide the relational flow that actually constitutes being?
👉 https://www.johnmackay.net/cod-thesis-c0360-graham-harman.htm
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The #Paradigm Shift – Renovating the Dualistic Structure of Science
🏗️ Does #Science have a structural problem? 🧬
The classic science building is showing deep cracks! For centuries, the #paradigm of #dualism has permeated #ontology and #epistemology.
🎧 Listen to the new podcast episode right now in your Studio Panel!
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2aWB30JYbEhGkTzK7IQmaN?si=6_P7U43eT-aQ_C2tOxNnYw
#PhilosophyOfScience #ParadigmShift #StructuralRealism #Philosophy #Podcast #philosophies_de
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The #Paradigm Shift – Renovating the Dualistic Structure of Science
🏗️ Does #Science have a structural problem? 🧬
The classic science building is showing deep cracks! For centuries, the #paradigm of #dualism has permeated #ontology and #epistemology.
🎧 Listen to the new podcast episode right now in your Studio Panel!
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2aWB30JYbEhGkTzK7IQmaN?si=6_P7U43eT-aQ_C2tOxNnYw
#PhilosophyOfScience #ParadigmShift #StructuralRealism #Philosophy #Podcast #philosophies_de
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The #Paradigm Shift – Renovating the Dualistic Structure of Science
🏗️ Does #Science have a structural problem? 🧬
The classic science building is showing deep cracks! For centuries, the #paradigm of #dualism has permeated #ontology and #epistemology.
🎧 Listen to the new podcast episode right now in your Studio Panel!
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2aWB30JYbEhGkTzK7IQmaN?si=6_P7U43eT-aQ_C2tOxNnYw
#PhilosophyOfScience #ParadigmShift #StructuralRealism #Philosophy #Podcast #philosophies_de
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The #Paradigm Shift – Renovating the Dualistic Structure of Science
🏗️ Does #Science have a structural problem? 🧬
The classic science building is showing deep cracks! For centuries, the #paradigm of #dualism has permeated #ontology and #epistemology.
🎧 Listen to the new podcast episode right now in your Studio Panel!
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2aWB30JYbEhGkTzK7IQmaN?si=6_P7U43eT-aQ_C2tOxNnYw
#PhilosophyOfScience #ParadigmShift #StructuralRealism #Philosophy #Podcast #philosophies_de
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The #Paradigm Shift – Renovating the Dualistic Structure of Science
🏗️ Does #Science have a structural problem? 🧬
The classic science building is showing deep cracks! For centuries, the #paradigm of #dualism has permeated #ontology and #epistemology.
🎧 Listen to the new podcast episode right now in your Studio Panel!
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2aWB30JYbEhGkTzK7IQmaN?si=6_P7U43eT-aQ_C2tOxNnYw
#PhilosophyOfScience #ParadigmShift #StructuralRealism #Philosophy #Podcast #philosophies_de
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When the #semanticSpectrum was introduced 25 years ago, it was meant to be a conceptual tool to help programmers and architects understand the relative benefits of different levels of semantic effort.
Now, a couple of decades later, Jessica Talisman has repurposed the model as a way to organize the actual process of developing enterprise #knowledgeGraphs, which she shares in her new book, #Ontology Pipeline: A Framework for Knowledge Engineering.
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Seeing red? Colour exists – sort of. What's the catch?
I discuss the encounter of colour in this article, which builds on The Architecture of Encounter. Colour theory, to arms!
#philosophy #perspective #perception #colour #cognition #ontology #disintegrationism #blog #substack #encounter #red #vision #eyes
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🌐❓Why #Reality is #Relations Not #Objects – Do We Need a New #Philosophy of the #NaturalSciences?
Modern #metaphysics does not need to hide behind the natural #sciences. Rather, it serves as a compass for a scientific-theoretical framework.
🎧 https://open.spotify.com/episode/665z013tMwIWapuuFHTxnb?si=TtTU5o68SmC25QDH93WTsw
#StructuralRealism #PhilosophyOfScience #Physics #AI #Cybernetics #MindAndMatter #ParadigmShift #Ontology #ScienceEthics #PhilosophyBlog #Podcast #philosophies_de
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🌐❓Why #Reality is #Relations Not #Objects – Do We Need a New #Philosophy of the #NaturalSciences?
Modern #metaphysics does not need to hide behind the natural #sciences. Rather, it serves as a compass for a scientific-theoretical framework.
🎧 https://open.spotify.com/episode/665z013tMwIWapuuFHTxnb?si=TtTU5o68SmC25QDH93WTsw
#StructuralRealism #PhilosophyOfScience #Physics #AI #Cybernetics #MindAndMatter #ParadigmShift #Ontology #ScienceEthics #PhilosophyBlog #Podcast #philosophies_de
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🌐❓Why #Reality is #Relations Not #Objects – Do We Need a New #Philosophy of the #NaturalSciences?
Modern #metaphysics does not need to hide behind the natural #sciences. Rather, it serves as a compass for a scientific-theoretical framework.
🎧 https://open.spotify.com/episode/665z013tMwIWapuuFHTxnb?si=TtTU5o68SmC25QDH93WTsw
#StructuralRealism #PhilosophyOfScience #Physics #AI #Cybernetics #MindAndMatter #ParadigmShift #Ontology #ScienceEthics #PhilosophyBlog #Podcast #philosophies_de
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🌐❓Why #Reality is #Relations Not #Objects – Do We Need a New #Philosophy of the #NaturalSciences?
Modern #metaphysics does not need to hide behind the natural #sciences. Rather, it serves as a compass for a scientific-theoretical framework.
🎧 https://open.spotify.com/episode/665z013tMwIWapuuFHTxnb?si=TtTU5o68SmC25QDH93WTsw
#StructuralRealism #PhilosophyOfScience #Physics #AI #Cybernetics #MindAndMatter #ParadigmShift #Ontology #ScienceEthics #PhilosophyBlog #Podcast #philosophies_de
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🌐❓Why #Reality is #Relations Not #Objects – Do We Need a New #Philosophy of the #NaturalSciences?
Modern #metaphysics does not need to hide behind the natural #sciences. Rather, it serves as a compass for a scientific-theoretical framework.
🎧 https://open.spotify.com/episode/665z013tMwIWapuuFHTxnb?si=TtTU5o68SmC25QDH93WTsw
#StructuralRealism #PhilosophyOfScience #Physics #AI #Cybernetics #MindAndMatter #ParadigmShift #Ontology #ScienceEthics #PhilosophyBlog #Podcast #philosophies_de
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Did you know? ”Privatisation” is a word invented by the German Nazi party, for their policy of selling off public assets and those seized from political enemies to new owners of proper aryan descent? 🤔
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I critique and Dis–Integrate Alex O'Connor's Cartesian argument for Panpsychism.
Many philosophers I respect support Panpsychism, but Homey don't play dat.
#philsophy #panpsychism #video #youtube #physics #emergence #consciousness #podcast #magic #blog #ontology #reductionism #deflationary #metaphysics #awareness #phenomena #experience #qualia #idealism #materialism
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I explain my path through metaphors of ontological grammar with examples.
#philosophy #substack #blog #podcast #optics #lenses #water #refraction #software #firmware #ontology #judgment #metaphor #grammar #ontologicalgrammar #perspective #physics
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A Quick Look at 'The Mind’s Eye'
Intro
"Behind your eyes, there is a feeling of a solid, continuous 'you'—the pilot steering the ship. But what if that feeling is actually a beautiful, complex illusion? In this quick 8-minute exploration of the classic text The Mind’s Eye by Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel Dennett(see ALT txt)
#self
#consciousness
#ThoughtExperiments
#philosophy
#ontology
#neurology
#brain
#reductionism
#Hofstadter
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BlueSky’s Solution To Moderating Is Moderating Without Moderating via Social Proximity
I have noticed a lot of people are confused about why some posts don’t show up on threads, though they are not labeled by the moderation layer. Bluesky has begun using what it calls social neighborhoods (or network proximity) as a ranking signal for replies in threads. Replies from people who are closer to you in the social graph, accounts you follow, interact with, or share mutual connections with, are prioritized and shown more prominently. Replies from accounts that are farther away in that network are down-ranked. They are pushed far down the thread or placed behind “hidden replies.”
Each person gets their own unique view of a thread based on their social graph. It creates the impression that replies from distant users simply don’t exist. This is true even though they’re still technically public and viewable if you expand the thread or adjust filters. Bluesky is explicitly using features of subgraphs to moderate without moderating. Their reasoning is that if you can’t see each other, you can’t harass each other. Ergo, there is nothing to moderate.
Bluesky mentions that here:
https://bsky.social/about/blog/10-31-2025-building-healthier-social-media-update
As a digression, I’m not going to lie: I really enjoyed working on software built on the AT protocol, but their fucking users are so goddamn weird. It’s sort of like enjoying building houses, but hating every single person who moves into them. But, you don’t have to deal with them because you’re just the contractor. That is how I feel about Bluesky. I hate the people. I really like the protocol and infrastructure.
I sort of am a sadist who does enjoy drama, so I do get schadenfreude from people with social media addictions and parasocial fixations who reply to random people on Bluesky, because they don’t realize their replies are disconnected from the author’s thread unless that person is within their network. They aren’t part of the conversation they think they are. They’re algorithmically isolated from everyone else. Their replies aren’t viewable from the author’s thread because of how Bluesky handles social neighborhoods.
Bluesky’s idea of social neighborhoods is about grouping users into overlapping clusters based on real interaction patterns rather than just the follow graph. Unlike Twitter, it does not treat the network as one big public square. Instead, it models networks of “social neighborhoods” made up of people you follow, people who follow you, people you frequently interact with, and people who are closely connected to those groups. They’re soft, probabilistic groupings rather than strict labels.
Everyone does not see the same replies. Bluesky is being a bit vague with “hidden.” Hidden means your reply is still anchored to the thread and can be expanded. There is another way Bluesky can handle this. Bluesky uses social neighborhoods to judge contextual relevance. Replies from people inside or near your social neighborhood are more likely to be shown inline with a thread, expanded by default, or served in feeds. Replies from outside your neighborhood are still public and still indexed, but they’re treated as lower-context contributions.
Basically, if you reply to a thread, you will see it anchored to the conversation, and everyone will see it in search results, as a hashtag, or from your profile, but it will not be accessible via the thread of the person you were replying to. It is like shadow-banning people from threads unless they are strongly networked.
Because people have not been working with the AT Protocol like I have, they assume they are shadow-banned across the entire Bluesky app view. No—everyone is automatically shadow-banned from everyone else unless they are within the same social neighborhood. In other words, you are not part of the conversation you think you are joining because you are not part of their social group.
Your replies will appear in profiles, hashtag feeds, or search results without being visually anchored to the full thread. Discovery impressions are neighborhood-agnostic: they serve content because it matches a query, tag, or activity stream. Once the reply is shown, the app then decides whether it’s worth pulling in the rest of the conversation for you. If the original author and most participants fall outside your neighborhood, Bluesky often chooses not to expand that context automatically.
Bluesky really is trying to avoid having to moderate, so this is their solution. Instead of banning or issuing takedown labels to DIDs, the system lets replies exist everywhere, but not in that particular instance of the thread.
I find this ironic because a large reason why many people are staying on Bluesky and not moving to the fediverse—thank God, because I do not want them there—is discoverability, virality, and engagement.
In case anyone is asking how I know so much about how these algorithms work: I was a consultant on a lot of these types of algorithms, so I certainly hope I’d know how they work, lol. No, you get no more details about the work I’ve done. I have no hand in the algorithm Bluesky is using, but I have proposed and implemented that type of algorithm before.
I have an interest in noetics and the noosphere. A large amount of my ontological work is an extension of my attempts to model domains that have no spatial or temporal coordinates. The question is how do you generalize a metric space that has no physically, spatial properties. I went to school to try to formalize those ideas. Turns out they’re rather useful for digital social networks, too. The ontological analog to spatial distance, when you have no space, is a graph of similarities.
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Ever feel like "you scratch my back..." has an invisible price tag? What if reciprocity isn't just social but how the universe holds itself together? Explore the regulating principle of existence.
👉 https://www.johnmackay.net/on-reciprocity.htm
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Many disagreements don’t persist because people are irrational or uninformed. They persist because the parties involved are not standing on the same conceptual ground.
New essay on ontological incommensurability, moral disagreement, and why convergence is sometimes the wrong expectation.
Disagreement Without Referees
🔗 https://philosophics.blog/2025/12/16/essay-disagreement-without-referees/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social#Metaethics #Philosophy #Morality #AntiFoundationalism #metaethics #referee #ontology #redcard #disagreement
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I am currently viewing “Ontology of the Gene, Information in Biology, Units of Selection” by https://youtube.com/@twohandsphilosophy#.
[ #WatchAlong #LiveTooting ] I will be quoting this Toot with #responses to and #questions about the information presented by the #video.
The description of the video at https://youtu.be/tdtRNff44jY# is as follows (note that hashtags have been included for ease of federated topical searches):
This is Two Hands #Philosophy, in which my friends and I discuss philosophical topics to #learn from each other and from our readings. This #discussion with Rodrigo Vanegas and Theral Timpson considered the following topics and philosophers: the #ontology of the #gene, information in #biology, and units of selection after reading papers by Paul Griffiths, Karola Stotz, Peter Godfrey-Smith, and Elizabeth Lloyd.
Hull, Ruse (2007) The Cambridge Companion to the Philosophy of Biology - https://philpapers.org/rec/HULTCC-2
Griffiths, Stotz (2007) Gene - https://philpapers.org/rec/GRIG
Godfrey-Smith (2007) Information in Biology - https://philpapers.org/rec/GODIIB
Lloyd (2007) Units and Levels of Selection – https://philpapers.org/rec/LLOUAL-2
Thomson (1971) A Defense of Abortion – https://philpapers.org/rec/THOADO-2, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Defense_of_Abortion
Pande (2018) How to Engineer Biology – https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/observations/how-to-engineer-biology
Timpson (2024) The Gene and The Podcast - https://www.fivewiththeral.com/p/the-gene-and-the-podcast-interview
Mendelspod – https://www.mendelspod.com
Information – https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/information
Biological Information – https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/information-biological
#Reductionism in Biology – https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/reduction-biology
#Nominalism – https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nominalism-metaphysics
#Mechanism – https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/science-mechanisms
Beauty - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/beauty
#Dawkins (1976) The Selfish Gene – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Selfish_Gene
Dennett, Daniel – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Dennett
Dupré – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dupr%C3%A9
Bacon, Francis – https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/francis-bacon
Popper, Karl – https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/popper
Scruton, Roger - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Scruton -
#DavidAlbert - What #Exists?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyfIm9tWIT8&ab_channel=CloserToTruth
#Philosophy #Science #Physics #PhilosophyOfScience #Ontology #Metaphysics #Realism #Numbers #Nominalism #QM #QuantumMechanics #QuantumPhysics #Particles #Fields #Electromagnetism #WaveFunction #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn