Mark Nyquist

Your thumbs upping and vague referencing doesn't always register unless I go deep into the comments...so what are you? A Hindu monist? None of us agre...

If the mind is immaterial then it is not physical and in fact non existent. So the problem is how do minds exist, right? If you define minds as physic...

There is something to work out as far as the specific mechanics of materialism producing mental content such as ideas, thought and the components of c...

How does your model handle the transfer of ideas? Something as simple as a short text seems to do the job and uses conventional, well understood means...

Psychologically I think of time as most people do. Past, present, future, clock time and calendars. We can't escape our mental models of time even whe...

I'm guessing you went to public school. Am I right?

I grew up not believing in time so that's my bias. I sometimes change my view but have to be convinced. My mindset is that it's always the physical pr...

I tend to scold people here on their use of the word " information " without much result. Could you explain ( your basis for and physically how ) ener...

Response to Metaphysician Undercover, Progression of physical matter. Clocks are physical matter that can delivery a number. The idea of duration of t...

Good points on preconceived theories. I was thinking more of a model for understanding and troubleshooting. And generally, good models of how our brai...

My view is information exists only in deep brain functions so our senses just pass signals not information. I don't follow why you mention external ca...

As for psychology, there can be endless models of time and there are. So what is time physically? I see continuity of physical matter. Continuity of t...

I might have muddled that because the computer models I know ( not my thing ) are off the shelf for things like viruses on computer networks, the outp...

I think most people know cuckoo when they see it and we mostly would like to avoid being affected by the condition The psychiatric profession would su...

Any physical unit that cannot exist in the physical present is problematic ( because it cannot exist ). A mass of a given unit measure can exist in th...

I am just pointing out a human tendency to bestow "information" on physical objects.

Ok, you have wand, you aim at things, magic sparklers fly out and your name is Tinker Bell from my perspective.

You might be referring to what physicists term physical information and you should not mix definitions. Physical information has gotten into general u...

Physical matter exists in a perpetual physical present so for matter alone time might not be a fundamental component. Perception of time requires cons...

Has any one heard of psychosis showing up in advanced artificial intelligence? If that is the case it would be evidence that psychosis is algorithm ba...

And aluminum foil hats are okay but copper foil is better if you can get it.

Red Rider, Lunatic Fringe is another one of my favorites and don't claim to be Jesus. Michael the Arc Angel is way better.

I just had to look up the lyrics to the Dire Straits song Industrial Disease. They seem to fit the discussion.

Interesting. I see people in general as feeling oppressed and not knowing why, but to me it seems the world's central banks have a lot to do with it a...

I here you complaining about the fundamental irrational nature of human activity and somewhat agree so what is your take on that and why does it exist...

A two minute search will show that dopamine levels in psychosis patients will be elevated...and dopamine levels during and after normal test taking wi...

You are too easy on psychiatry. This profession has no one to blame but themselves for their bad reputation especially in the areas of psychosis and s...

I shouldn't point at anyone but you can raise your hand if it's you. Wikipedia defines information as an abstract concept so that is a good indicator ...

For a person experiencing psychosis, song lyrics can take on overwhelming personal significance and is often present with other symptoms. This should ...

It would be helpful if the philosophy of mathematics was ungraded to address the problem of abstract concepts. Information does not, can not, exist as...

To understand psychosis we should remind ourselves that our brains have the capability to do what can't be done physically. For example the square roo...

So I brought up a few things in psychiatry's past that have been discredited like lobotomies and insulin shock therapy. Ice baths are still around so ...

Lobotomies??? The medication protocol of today is no better.

Insulin shock therapy??? Let's bring this profession to account.

Of course sometimes drugs or alcohol are involved and, of course again, the conclusion is the psychiatric profession is completely incompetent.

Has anyone here noticed that Information Mechanics: Where information = brain state = , this being an irreducible unit where the parenthesis show a re...

NetLogo has a virus on a network model that is analogous to false information in psychosis if anyone likes simulations. These types of computer simula...

This power dynamic comes into play because the patient has an inate sense that his treatment/forced medication are inappropriate for his conditions of...

If you don't know what causes psychosis or schizophrenia then how should you interpret recovery rates. Since a person can show symptoms based entirely...

Language and mathematics cannot exist without brains to support them. By observation, they exist as mental content and are emergent from and dependent...

Your use of the term 'disordered perception' reminded me of something involving racing thoughts. If someone thinks they are being sent coded messages ...

Do you see any other medical profession receiving so much negative feedback from the patients they treat as psychiatry. Burning down the asylum, assau...

You seem comfortable with information as an abstract concept even in areas of science. Abstract concepts in the absence of biological brains reduce to...

There are some good reasons a philosophy forum should pay attention to the profession of psychiatry especially in the area of psychosis. Within psychi...

A hunch or my opinion. I didn't short you on the philosophic details. They're in my previous comments. If psychiatry has a good working understanding ...

My hunch is the psychiatric profession will be discredited.

As a best practice, I would recommend any practitioner or researcher in psychology or psychiatry abandon physical monism as a philosophy because of th...

To really make us slaves, a two part program would work best. Pump money into the economy through central banks and pull civilian resource out using i...

The counting process is a brain process. And not just an abstract process. To count to ten takes me five seconds and counting to 100 would take 50 sec...

Something to test any model of material numbers is to understand that material numbers can only exist in the physical present. Any numbers that refere...