Mark Nyquist

It takes some work to explain this and I'm working at it. So non-physicals can't exist (that's my philosophical opinion) but mental content of things ...

I have the view that signifIcantly more is going on. If you expand brain state to BRAIN(mental content) and further expand to BRAIN(content representi...

I agree, in practice we cannot. We can define brain information as physical brain state. It's completely different than Claude Shannon information the...

My method was a guess based on some known rates. For example typing rate is evidence of a rate and content. This is what I thought was significant - d...

I was trying to think of something new about information that hasn't been covered and I remember doing a rough calculation of how many 'items of infor...

Hi Pop. I was thinking a week ago that this thread was reaching a point of exhaustion. That's not the case. Sometimes I check a few times a day but ev...

Then I agree.

I would give the choice of construct or physical matter like this: 1) BRAIN(mental content) or BRAIN(information as a mathematical construct) or BRAIN...

I'm not sure what your reference is to. So wavefunction is total information about a system. Is information then a mathematical construct or a physica...

I googled 'physicists definition of information'. What is information? - Physics Stack Exchangehttps://physics.stackexchange.com › questions › what-is...

Another view is: Paper is physical matter. Ink is physical matter. So paper and ink (the combination) is physical matter. Information (brain states) i...

Might have missed a lot. Like in school I missed subtraction using the Venn diagram method.

What you don't know- that's a strange way to define a set. Ok, it's an unknown set. What remains to be known given what you know- that's even worse! H...

Ok.

I understand his work was communication theory.

Harry Nyquist preceded Claude Shannon in his work.

If you are referring to neural corralates I would stick with brain states unless they mean exactly the same thing.

Sorry, no.

The way I was thinking of it (but didn't explain) is brain state would be only the basic minimum physical elements and configuration necessary to cont...

For the equal signs to make sense you should look at it backwards. The specific mental content is evidence your brain state has the ability to contain...

Just saying it's something to consider. It's my approach and I've already commented. I've never been a monist or a dualist because I think they are bo...

It helps. The thread is getting so long I forget who made what comments.

Does anyone see the logic of studying, understanding and defining brain based information first? It's an order of analysis issue. Brains are the tools...

I'm not getting this. Change would be form(1)--->form(2), or f(2) - f(1), right? Is this supposed to be tied to something in the physical world? Can i...

Pop and I go way back...like three months of fighting.

I don't always agree with Pop except by randon chance.

I see this (brain states) as the frontrunner of what information could be. Pattern and form just don't cut it. If you need to deal with the complexity...

Is 'information' physical? Unless you are a dualist, the question seems moot. Only a dualist would classify things as physical/not-physical. To an ant...

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I'm into your monster thread. Really interesting. Four years ago and a bunch of the commenters are around now. Understanding your view better from the...

Yes, monster thread. 48 pages. I was wondering about that so thanks for the link. I'll take a look. Thanks. Your grammer is fine. I think you wrote wh...

So what's the starting point for encoding and are you using the correct grammar when you write 'encoded information'. I read encoded as a modifier.

I like this. Good point. I think you are saying input or a message sent may not be fully received.

Are we encoding information or are we encoding matter? If I start with a brain state(information) and wish to communicate that brain state to person(2...

The various models of monism and dualism are inconsitstant in what they model. Some model physical matter and others model mind. I think it gets broug...

The graphic given doesn't break down P, Physical matter into the special class of brain matter that can contain mental content. M, Mind and mental con...

So I think dualisms is an expansion of monism and monism is an abbreviation of dualism.

I used an equals sign to mean 'is the same as'. It's my take on monism and dualism and might not be consistent with traditional meanings. But it's a b...

You have taken a wrong turn somewhere and are doing mental calisthenics to remake physical matter into information. Why not just admit we can observe ...

Descartes thought process: Brain state(1) = BRAIN(mental content(1)) = Descartes BRAIN(Do I exist?) Brain state(2) = BRAIN(mental content(2)) = Descar...

I think my approach gives a good perspective on the Monism/Dualism question. Brain state, if entirely physical, is monism. The equivalent expansion of...

I had to Google this. It's a reference to the 1999 film "the Matrix".

I see this as an artificial limit were you are enforcing both a dualist form (information is extra-physical) and also brain restricted. Since the enti...

I enjoyed reading your comments. I had a few of the same thoughts. I get the feeling you 'weren't born yesterday' and 'this isn't your first rodeo'. I...

Non-physical is a tricky concept because it implies non-existence. There is a work around. If you start with brain state that is entirely physical it ...

Maybe in some ways information about time is held in our cerebral cortex just like 'that's a tree' or 'that's a rock'. Someone commented in my time pe...

I did a post on time perception a few months ago and it died. Here are a few examples of that. If you consider information takes the form BRAIN(mental...

Great!!! You agreed with me on something. Like you said a few months ago, we are usually oceans apart.

Sorry I'm quoting myself here. There is a question of if mental content exists, what it is and is it falsifiable. I sometimes write BRAIN(mental conte...

This was the chemical paradigm view of information from the Barbieri paper. "supporters of the chemical paradigm have argued that the concept of infor...