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In the video of the chat from last Friday 1 November a VERY IMPORTANT point was raised by BlakeCosmos (the importance of this point cannot be overstated, to even call it crucial is itself an understatement) and this point was made clear via the question posed by Dr. Farrell.
In the video at time mark 6:16:40

Dr. Farrell – Q: What Happens? ….

Scarmoge – A: An Antinomy.

“The functional method of the sciences is a non-radical method of knowing because, while it recognizes only functional linkages, it presupposes other kinds of reality, the intersubjectivity of scientists and their assertions, neither of which are space-time linkages and neither of which can be grasped by the functional method. Therefore, when the functional method is elevated to a total organon of reality and other cognitive claims denied, the consequence must be an antinomy, for a non-radical instrument is being required to construe the more radical reality which it presupposes but does not understand.” – Walker Percy from “Culture: The Antinomy of the Scientific Method”(pp. 240) in The Message in The Bottle.

The IMPORTANT point, Semeiotically speaking, is that Triads can NOT be reduced to Dyads (and retain full meaning of the sign or the ability to acquire knowledge of other signs via the interpretation of the other signs through the previous sign). Concomitant with this Triads can not be produced from Dyads. Causal Functional explanatory resources (Dyadic Resources)
can, at best, provide only near meaningless explanations. Think of the level and type of knowledge that those who dwell in Plato’s Cave
have when all they “know” – are able to infer- is based on their “experience” of the shadows of the placards cast on the walls of the cave by the flickering light of the fire.

Aaaaahhh yeeesss, the blissfulness of being permanently locked in the unguided state of the Default Mode Network
(think Oxycontin or the perpetual habituation to The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality)