Mark Nyquist

No, Bartricks, you are obviously wrong. The mind you identify as non-physical is clearly physical or it couldn't interact with the physical. So we are...

And why do you think I would want your references?

You've proven nothing but demonstrated how brains can support strange ideas. You have a brain that functions. What you call mind is the normal functio...

I didn't know, How horrible for you!

Just giving back what I'm getting.

Yah, I should take a course in formal logic so I think straight like you.

I just modeled it. My brain. Murk's brain( Murk's jumbled thoughts )

Brain ---> Brain state --->BRAIN(mental content) ---> BRAIN(specific mental content) --->BRAIN(I have a mind). This model shows mind as an imagined th...

Can you defend that?

I was just looking at the page. I embellished the rest.

You brought up mind. You defend it. Pretty sure that's how it works.

I'm looking at the Wikipedia page on logic and there is a problem with formal logic in that it abstracts away from content in a way that becomes overl...

Both mind and brain are more basic elements than are needed. Show your logic for why mind is needed so I have an example. I'm thinking it's an imagine...

Ok, the Wikipedia logic page..Both are propositions.

Anyone know what P and Q stand for?

I do like the P and Q stuff, Might be useful. Hope it's not a distraction.

Personally, I like the method of working the problems of monism/dualism, information, brain states and a few other problems as one problem. Can your m...

I agree. Just so you know, I'm not classically trained.

Since you don't understand, there's no evidence, but you have lots of evidence and there is an actual situation and we should be interested in what's ...

I sometimes get into how the brain contained 'non-physical' can control physical matter. Your point in treating thought as a concept(disembodied) is u...

In the physical form that they exist, they are brain state. That's not a limitation. You just don't need a non-physical realm to explain them.

The OP asks 'Does thinking take place in the human brain?', not how. I think this is an excellent preliminary question to ask before asking how. It id...

So given some uncertainty, isn't the brain state model still the front runner. What are the alternate models or should we just work harder on the brai...

That seems like the fallacy Bartricks was accusing me of. I might try to review on my own what the science is. Science doesn't have a full explanation...

You might be right about brain state causing mental state being fallacy. I was giving an overview, not cause and effect. My second attempt was that th...

I agree that 'thoughts' are 'non-physical'. But this type of non-physical can only exist if supported by a sufficiently capable brain state. Like this...

Are you discounting the posibility that by a closer examination of brain state you could find states of mind within? Something like brain state expand...

So since thoughts have specific content you could estimate how many unique thoughts per day might be typical for a given persons brain. It might be fi...

That's why I brought up burden of proof. Proving the positive claim (thinking takes place in the brain) is hard enough. I can't do it. Proving the pos...

A thought is not just process, but also has specific content. That might be a clue. An affirmative or positive claim is easier to prove than a negativ...

Thinking takes place in the brains thinking areas. That seems circular but I'm ok with it.

Trestone, I looked at this yesterday and again today and I'm not getting it. Could you clarify if its application is to solve logic problems or is it ...

Brain state interacting with the physical environment gets you out the front door in the morning. Brain state interacting with the physical environmen...

I use this when I want to learn something new. It's usually difficult until you reach a point where it's easy. It maybe involves training new neural p...

Not only is a specific thought based on a specific brain state, but failure to grasp a specific thought is a failure to assemble a specific brain stat...

To identify yourself as a Brainist or Non-brainist you should have already run through the question of what is thought and answered the question. So I...

A doctor might check brain memory by asking a person to repeat 'banana, phone, door'.

If you can remember you birthday doesn't that confirm the information or thought is contained in your physical brain?

Thoughts are the things that occur in the brain region that has thoughts. Banno, I wrote that just for you.

As an example I could show how mental content can flash into existence in a way physical matter can not. Let's say you are driving along a dark road a...

I maybe painted myself into a corner. Brain state is entirely physical and the subject matter of mental content can be affected and based on physical ...

Did you miss that mental content (as contained) is unaffected by physical matter?

I agree. I tried to write it that way. As for 'non-physical' representations, it would be hard for us to function without them and we all use them all...

Maybe it's a logic problem. Fundamental thought is the only tool we have to explore fundamental reality. But the tool itself seems to emerge from fund...

You and Pop must go back a ways and I haven't read it all but I think you are saying logic first is a good principle to follow as you approach this pr...

Dunno.

I dunno, but our brains are at the top as far as we know.

See my recent answer to Prishon.

Ok. My definition of information is that it's the same as brain state. This isn't a common view so I'm starting from scratch to explain it. A physical...

I get that a lot. I use non-physical as a noun but it's more commonly used as an adjective. Does that help at all?