I disagree. Ideology is not prior to information nor to consciousness. Personality may be the summation of social, ideological, & effectual relations but personality does not encompass the self.
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I mean then self is just some absent signifier posited to exist prior to something it possibly couldn’t—socialization, language, culture, human action, contexts & relations. Now *that’s* moralism.
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That's not moralism. I don't understand how you can characterize an ontological claim as a moral claim. There's no connection.
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Actually there is, because the self concept isn’t really coherent, it’s an aesthetic and stylistic imposition masquerading as an ontological claim.
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"Self concept"? The concept of the self is not the self. The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; The name that can be named is not the eternal name. Ontologically, I consider information as prior. From your arguments, I surmise that you're ontologically a materialist.
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At the level of a realist monism, the difference between information & materialism is basically moot—which is why there are scientific materialists who subscribe to informational physics’. That said, that has very little do with my view on the self. ^__^
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Informational physics? You mean digital physics? Digital ontology and informational ontology define information differently, if I'm not mistaken. Matter and mind are products of information according to informational ontology.
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