Mark Nyquist

This I like. My interest is in brain only information and this is relevent. This I don't like. If we are going to study information we need to have so...

If you think of how information really exists in our brains you shouldn't be thinking of generalized information. The way it is would be a singular co...

The subject of nested hierarchies is fundamental to how the brain functions and what information is. It's the first I've seen it come up. Another subj...

If you think they are you could point that out. I'm thinking about the turning test. Biology and electronic computers each have unique parameters.

I'll give you my version of this using my model notation: A physical poodle enters the room--->Physical light travels from the poodle to your eyes--->...

No, the 12 inch Tinker Bell Classic Doll has a five star rating and costs $26.88. Sorry, that's more than I can afford...I'm on a fixed income.

My opinion is you've taken a wrong turn somewhere and are trying to rationalize it by using technical terms. You're trying to make everything informat...

I could add there is a lot of free math content online now. Tutorials, calculators, simulators, on and on.

Eudoxus of Cnidus. This is a good one...astronomer, mathematician...connections with Socrates, Plato and taught Aristotle...Built an astronomical obse...

Here is my experience with calculus. A few years after taking undergrad Calculus I and II at a state university (about 40 years ago) cheap graphing ca...

Your comments are an excellent example of 'Showboating' and I especially liked this paragraph. Do you have a room with technical terms tacked to the w...

We fight like pirates but go home in one peice.

So in your OP which did you intend? I would have stayed away from the Shannon version.

Something that comes to mind is Zeno's paradox. Zeno of Elea born c. 495 BCE. A detail I recall, but can't reference, was that it was intentionally me...

Something for monists to consider is the class of non-physical information, for example philosophy itself, beliefs, ideas, political views and general...

I fear Claude Shannon's work has entered pop culture as it never was intended. So you are saying information is NOT a non-physical, IS a co-element of...

Another thought is that the monism/dualism question and the what is information question should be considered and solved together.

Pop, something I noticed yesterday (and correct me if I'm wrong) is you claim a monist view but propose that information is a co-element of any substa...

The Carl Popper method of negating an argument is dependent on how you define information and your definition is clearly untestable. Your perception o...

So (Matter-Information)? That seems like a new kind of dualism. Are brains even required? This is better: Matter--->Brain(Information; the perception ...

I'm trying to understand your meaning of the word 'integrate'. Do you mean processes? Or combines/mixes? Some dynamic process? This didn't help. Do yo...

Here is something to watch out for...since I did a search on Google for quantum consciousness, news articles on quantum consciousness are popping up o...

Sorry I deleted that. My mistake. When I posted it showed up triple so I started deleting. I had checked ATP on Google and Wikipedia and tried to summ...

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I'm a little skeptical and even paranoid that the authors of books on quantum consciousness were either told by their publishers or figured out on the...

What I like about a consciousness model built up from the neuron level is there are known events such as the firing of neurons that correlate to menta...

This "Minding" (verb) is worth looking at. So as a process: Brain state (1) --->Minding process ---> Brain state (2). Also, Brain state (1) is Mental ...

There are not just two choices here, the mind being physical or non-physical. A third choice is "do brains have the ability to contain the non-physica...

Ok, I'll take that as a counter argument. But we shouldn't get so bogged down in theory that we forget we can examine its workings directly.

Yes, we have direct access to it, which is better than any possible definition or theory. Would it be empirical verses a priori or some terms like tha...

This suggests a singular dynamic network since (Item A) can always interact with (Item B) and again it's useful to consider change of mental content a...

Have you ever used a contour gauge? They are made of flat, parallel strips in a frame and when applied to a curved surface the shape of the curve is r...

I'm just not seeing how quantum scale can effect consciousness. A human DNA strand is estimated at 204 billion atoms. A small part of this would encod...

I'm wondering what physical scale and what mechanism is at work. A neuron has about 100 trillion atoms and has an active state when firing and an inac...

You can't reduce a physically instantiated non-physical to a non-physical. It can't exist in that form. It's always a two part relation and irreducibl...

So what is the basis for nothing being known? A philosophical position, sleep, incapacitation? It seems by observation that knowing things is necessar...

I see option 3 as all-encompassing since mental content covers the non-physical. I'm drawing a blank on what other categories there could be. If you a...

Ok, but in the context of this problem that is how I think of it. Do you disagree that the non-physical is physically non-existent? And can the physic...

I agree and by observation we should conclude this state is not nothing. You could also consider what knowledge is. 1. Is knowledge physical matter? n...

There is a basic form that can account for many specific cases in philosophy which is: BRAIN( mental content ), such as, BRAIN( information ) BRAIN( t...

Ok, The 1990's movie "Wayne's World" has a scene where the media executive Benjamin is asking Garth how he would feel about a change and reminds him i...

Here is my version of how psychiatry research is funded. The big pharma company donates to a reputable philanthropic organization but with earmarks an...

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Ok, you are much closer to this issue than I am. It comes up in the news sometimes where someone is court ordered (approved???) to be treated by ECT a...

I was thinking 1955 was about the peak of the lobotomy era. Here is something current to consider: Advocates of Electroconvulsive Therapy claim memory...

This is an interesting post for philosophy and it should be on all our radars. Be glad you didn't have a bad day in 1955. It could have been step one ...

Another line of thought would be that some philosophy itself could be a form of mental therapy. Just considering that our brains are limited in capaci...

Are you saying Buddhism or religion are a treatment for mental conditions? I don't have a clue. Some people find their own solutions and others can't.

It certainly does! I doubt any type of dualism would get far in most psychiatry programs (academic) but psychosis cases always involve mental content....