Mark Nyquist

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Well, yes, I see it as my brain holding or containing the physical or numerical attributes of an external material object. That's my view and thanks f...

I take this to mean you think numbers are metaphysical, however everything you listed as properties of numbers originated from your personal brain sta...

Sure, provide some links. I have checked your glossary links before. I do tend to avoid metaphysics because my interest is in physically based process...

That's the first and last time I will ever use the words Qualia and Quanta. I maybe don't understand parts of it. Thanks for the explanation. I can't ...

It almost seems this invisible intangible mental model is what you are arguing for. But I'm not sure. Since you mentioned Qualia and Quanta, do you vi...

This was a good one. I'm sceptical of the comments on information existing as 'form' where you still need a brain as a placeholder for form...forgot w...

Pop, this thread has been running a month now. Something that may be overlooked is the definition of the word definition. In the sense that informatio...

I agree. The example is just to show how someone could hold this view but in fact it would be held as a physical state...brain state.

BRAIN(I have an immaterial mind) = BRAIN(mental content) = brain state = specific information

I like the definition of brain state is information. It could be the case that brain function is so advanced that most people just think everything is...

This is new to me. I looked into it a little on Wikipedia and an extension of Turing patterns schematized for biology (to deal with cell structure) ca...

I'm thinking our ingrained definitions shouldn't override things that are primary. Or, another way, our definitions should be based on what is primary...

I took a good look at the second study you mentioned. Here's a link to the type of head/chin rest used for eye tracking in this study: chinrest.net Do...

I try to use the word dynamic as it's used in physics. A momentary state can be static or dynamic. Brain state wouldn't be functional in a static stat...

First, did you know the word 'literally' has two opposite meanings. Sometimes you can tell by the context and sometimes you can't. That's just a quirk...

That's a good name. My argument is that if brains are present and the commom denominator, then I give credit were it's due, to brain based information...

The first definition of information (if you must deal with more than one) should be brain information because it's what we use, what we are familar wi...

Actually what I linked to was a ridiculous example and it wasn't a simulation but recorded game play. Still something about the Push Me Pull You game ...

I was looking for math models of information and found this push me pull you game on Wikipedia. Push Me Pull You game If you play the videos it might ...

I found a little more background on the Donald M. MacKay that you referenced. The 'Ratio Club' can be checked on Wikipedia and you will see both Donal...

You're new here. Welcome to the jungle!

My view is brain supports mental content and mental content is a sort of virtual world that you might call mind. So if psychosis is brain based then a...

It's very posible that MacKay's work was covered by the Official Secrets Act. Maybe that's why Roger Penrose's books seem a little off. They can't pub...

I dunno, I'm still on MacKay. He could have been in early matter to mind programs. Alan Turing, Marvin Minski AI stuff.

I don't know. He was well connected and he fits a profile. His best stuff is probably in a vault. To bad he died young.

You know if he did anything really interesting it might be classified. You know, black bag, black op.

That makes sense, that's the man.

A question for you. Is the Donald Mckay you refered to the same as Donald MacCrimmon MacKay? A british physicist, 1922 to 1987. He's in Wikipedia. Do ...

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A static state is not a dynamic state and a dynamic state is not a static state. Both exist and both are states. What would be incoherent? Going from ...

Sorry, I can't always read endless threads to know everyone's positionn so sometimes I just ask. Thanks for your effort in explaining. I've used the t...

I read some Roger Penrose years ago and couldn't believe how bad it was. It wasn't well received but sold some books. Maybe he just needed some spendi...

I can't provide a single link. Everyone I've read is really screwing it up. It's a start from scratch problem. The Shannon approach is application spe...

As written here, I would agree with this entire section. For most people, defining information will follow their personal use and opinion, but this li...

Pop, Hi, I'm so glad I checked in and am so surprised at your last post. We are back in agreement but I suspect it won't last long. I'll check this mo...

We have material brain states and these brain states have the ability to hold abstract ideas, so you can have material brain states in a causal relati...

It's more like stress testing and you should welcome it. Anyway, I'll read what you write from now on.

You moved on to the second step too soon. You may understand it, but could you offer a little more so I could too.

Being published doesn't change the question. Is an information conversion necessary?

The reference to Bishop Berkeley came up a while ago and Bartricks knows about it. I would expect Bartricks would like to pay his debts in Berkeley Do...

So encoding onto a physical system gives you encoded matter and that can be decoded and played back as music. Can you explain the necessity of the mat...

I think this is on topic and a little study on how thoughts can go wrong. Philosophy might have something to add as far as insights into troubleshooti...

It sounds like a modern version of the Haman's gallows story from the Bible. One of my favorites

TheMadFool makes a good point and they can all happen to an entirely healthy person. The most likely scenario would be environments that are at the li...

My point in mentioning the physical present is that there can be no off board activity. Everything has to happen on the physical playing field in a pr...

By progression I meant an exact physical state of relevent matter changing through a duration of time. I was trying to explain it in dynamic terms rat...

I get your point though and agree with it. Some parts only.

No, I said what I said. If you want to make another point then make it and take credit for it. Don't take it personally. It's common around here.

Sure there is. If you back engineered your brains exact physical states in the moments you composed these quoted sentences, you would have a progressi...