Mark Nyquist

I change the wording and grammar too often. I think you got it right though, as far as understanding the context. I would equate the skyscraper exampl...

Does memory involve neurons? Does memory involve mental content? If yes and yes then memory is in the form . Does executive function involve neurons? ...

Also, based on observation, our mental process does have full input/output capabilities and this model accounts for those capabilities.

You got me thinking about something. In my OP, I used the notation . Would changing the words to be more understandable? And give an example of how th...

Enrique is a genius. He's invented the sport of math guy chain jerking. It might catch on with high school students. Ultimately a good thing that keep...

Ok, you're new to me but looks like you've been around awhile.

Ok, you're new to me, but looks like you've been around awhile.

Ok, neuro philosophy and evolutionary psychology checking in. I'll check through the names to learn more...might take awhile.

The math here keeps shifting. I thought the plane in 3 dim was the best answer now everything has changed with iterations thrown in. Convince me you'r...

I could back track on saying physicalism fails, but I would need to look deeper into what reason, information, memory, mental process, perception mean...

In mathematics, a limit is the value that a function approaches as the input approaches some value. You are starting with an equation. Would it help t...

Ok, I've looked epiphenomenalism and I don't like it. It's a form of dualism were the physical brain supports an immaterial mind that has no output ca...

I agree the question stated your way is a hard problem that science doesn't have an answer to. There is a simpler question I was thinking about. That ...

This is just the thing I'd like to sort through with a birds eye view of the problem. My approach would be to develop physicalism to the point that th...

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I didn't use the term non-physical neurones, you did. I think information cannot be non-physical. For example, thoughts have a non-physical aspect but...

I could set this up differently. If I set the big circle as the universe, a second circle as a brain, and a third inner circle as the cerebral-cortex ...

You are right, a bit of a gulf. The point of the list was to show a universal principal or mechanism at work.

Sorry, didn't mean to chase you away. I could be the the only one here who sees it this way and it must not be a common view by the reactions I'm gett...

That gave me hiccups. To answer your question in a roundabout way and re-establish my original premise, I made up this list: An idea is a neuron conta...

Physicalism doesn't go far enough in exploring what non-physicals are or in what form they exist. I could be wrong, maybe you know some references. I'...

Thank you so much! Very good to know.

Here are my thoughts on this: Maybe, like in physics, philosophy should be looking for a theory of everything. So my opinion is that neurons, mostly c...

http://blob:https://drawisland.com/e150538f-5a00-4e6a-8046-c813abc5928a Sorry I don't think this link works. Something about posting an image to the w...

I actually did draw the Venn diagram you described on a cheap graphics program. The basic question I would ask is have some of our neurons evolved the...

You see that number under my name? It might read 16 or 17, not too much so maybe that's my one time excuse. With models you might not always know the ...

I like the word instantiated but it's not a joe schmoe word. The subject of strong AI is possibly an exact analogy in containing non-physicals. The fo...

As far as the time perception model goes I could restate it in sentence form. The past is an idea held by present neurons. The present is an idea held...

Yes, words sometimes fail. I'm trying to think of analogies that fit the relation. I could say my hand holds or grasps a physical object but how do I ...

You are right. That part does need defining and I don't remember doing it before. So non-physical (as in having no physical form, mass, location, ener...

Please, if you are trying to sort this, go back to my original posts and not the paraphrased misquotes. In particular, I don't model neurons containin...

I just love having people self document.

And your reasoned opinion exactly why. You not think of bipartite form ever before Mr. 11.8k?

Oh, my model, outside the circle, is physically non existent. So that's not right. The neuron part of a neuron contained non physical is physical. It ...

Did you consider that because a neuron contained non physical is irreducible it must (as a rule of logic) be considered a physical object? Therefore n...

You're not another entropy guy, are you?

So the three ducks never existed but were a non physical contained by your neurons. As a second example you give the cat and the mat that never existe...

I hear you on the words and definitions problems. To keep things focused, do you think in a biological evolutionary process organisms could gain the a...

So information is not even a thing, non existent, and cannot be placed in the Venn diagram. I'm trying to identify a hierarchy of things.

So is information physical, non physical or a physically contained non physical or something else?

Just by definition specific to this model. I really don't want to take on all definitions of information. The problem is non physical information does...