Mark Nyquist

Putting mind into the universal form I mentioned yesterday seems to work as a theory of mind. That looks like this: Physical brain; (mind) A fairly si...

I don't think dualism is an issue as long as the relation is understood. But subject matter appears to drive the physical world both by our experience...

You can say everything is brain biology, brain state and brain process. My perspective is you can develope theory of mind a little more. A lot of what...

I referenced a University of Minnesota psychiatric intervention program in another thread. I'll give the reference again here. YouTube...search UMN ps...

I'm still agreeing with most of what you are saying. Everything is physically based. My issue is abstractions have specific parameters and recurrent n...

I actually agree with you in how brains do time perseption but there is more to it. In dealing with the past or future, brains are picking up on somet...

Can a brain existing in the physical present have time perseption of past or future? And what wound that mechanism be? Maybe some theory of mind is in...

The subject of neuroscience has come up here a few times in the last week or so and it seems relevant to physicalism so I was looking at the current U...

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Descartes idea of efficient causation is worth taking a look at. Mental circumstance can be traced to brain state but any change in mental circumstanc...

Here are some highlights on Wayfarer's book reference that I liked: From Descartes...explanation at the neurophysiological level will be in terms of e...

I'm someone who avoids the word metaphysical. Maybe I don't use it enough to be comfortable with it. It seems more of a word for academics and like yo...

I always thought Shannon Information was a poor choice of a word. It's a technical specialty that's made a huge impact but isn't good science or philo...

Your number 5 reference (just above here) is interesting. Information, the word, seems to have morphed and diverged a huge amount since it's origin. C...

When two clocks tick at different rates due to STR it doesn't mean the accumulating difference is moving one or the other outside the physical present...

There is a lot to this.... In the physical world we should use presentism The physical world is the basis for our mental worlds. In our mental worlds ...

Okay I did a little deeper look into what you are saying. A Google search says STR and presentism are incompatible. So you have company. What I'm seei...

Are you saying STR and growing block theory are compatible? No they are not. Whoever was arguing that was wrong. Seems like you left out a lot of cont...

Presentism works for relativity as I understand it. What am I denying? The only thing I can think of is different rates of time passage measured by tw...

Arguments for physicalism you mentioned.... What works for me is setting things into a universal form like this: Physical brain; (mental content) Phys...

I should correct your grammar. Yesterday the mountains were as physical as they are today. Isn't that the correct grammar? Interesting that you used a...

Okay, that's basically what I think. Could I say a property of physical matter is its physical presence? I'm just getting lost in the words.

I'd say your/our/my perception of historical fact is valid. The nature of physical matter is its physical presence. We rely too much on a mental pictu...

We have direct access to the present. It would be the easiest to defend. How do you prove past or future matter exist. And their origin is in your bra...

Okay. Presentism, Growing block, And eternalism. Are those the choices? Presentism works. I don't think our best physics even addresses the other two....

Can anyone show something that is not based on physical matter? I could give time perception, past and future that don't exist in physical matter but ...

There is no good argument for Budweiser. Unless we want to say that reality is one and that everything has both a Michelob and a Budweiser aspect to t...

You got me thinking about what time is. For our brains we might have a special case because we perceive events and construct time lines. Past, present...

Just what the physics profession thinks is the state of physical matter. I think quantum physics says matter exists in a somewhat fuzzy present 'momen...

You are missing the fundamentals. Or I think you are. Not going to argue with you.

Well I didn't sign up either. It has its uses though.

I'm lost. How does the past physically exist? Just a word problem? Past tense sort of existence?

By a moment of time do you mean a duration of time? To me a moment could be an instant or a duration. An instant can physically exist but a duration i...

I liked the video. My perspective is that computers use something like the definition of Shannon information and our brains use a type of information ...

Haha....the term hand waving will come up but what is the alternative? Another kind of hand waving probably.

You mentioned causal tendencies. I don't have any idea how it's done but we can do a black box sort of observation and say a physical brain can do it....

Good point. I've noticed that. We shouldn't assume everyone has the same abilities. Like some people don't know left or right or compass directions ev...

I can give a simple mental example of something brains can do in a different way than computers do. Imagine a sphere in front of you (tennis ball size...

Maybe we are thinking about the same thing.

I'm a ways back on your dominoes video and am wondering if it could be misleading on how computation is done. I agree dominoes can do it like computer...

Looks like you are active here but relatively new. This information question is nothing but trouble...round and round stuff much worse than this threa...

Just encoded physical matter that will be decoded by the receiver.

I was wondering what your view of information is. This is actually a good example of where physicalism and reductionism used as tools can keep you out...

I think on your very, very long post you went off the rails in your very first paragraph. A physical object is always going to be primary and it's def...

Just a thought, but to get away from physicalism, think of how a few calories of energy in your brain can direct millions, billions or trillions of ca...

Sounds like something I would say. I remember you warning about reductionism and I take that seriously. Actually, how we mentally interact with matter...

frank asked at the beginning of this if physicalism could be the grounding to your thinking on philosophy. I think for me that is the case. We can go ...

I was trying to be clear that I think everything is based on the physical. There is the question of what non-physicals are. They come up often. So whe...

I kind of agree. I sometimes slip and use the term non-physical. What I mean and how someone else might interpret it could be different. Mental subjec...

Yes, neural networks seem the right direction. I have some reservations though, a puzzle piece but a lot more is going on. I'm not agreeing that the b...