jorndoe mentioning Iran reminded me of the Shaw of Iran being deposed and the Iran hostage crisis. I was in a college dorm at the time and about 6 Ira...
Maybe listing some guesses at how body/mind exist would show what the problem is. 1) All is physical and body and mind are the same thing. -problem- H...
Sorry you are leaving. It isn't a bad post and we wouldn't leave comments if we weren't interested. Looks like you are new here so don't let the negat...
Alright, we agree neurons generate mental content. But I see a problem with any attempt to separate brain and mental content because mental content ca...
I'm not arguing that non-physicals exists. Non-physical means physically non existent. But the real state of things is that non-physicals (mental cont...
Ok, I was almost there but needed to check. Another question that follows is if the biology is strictly biology only... or...biology with the emergent...
What I see is the people in power play a zero sum game but they need to control the means of production of their own populations or base. So if we are...
I was not familiar with Hersh or his writing until it came up here. So Hersh might have a history of being anti US military so just asking others what...
Why, at the start, do you write mind-body dualism- solved and then give an equation that makes no sense? I give anyone a hard time that claims inanima...
I would try a relations approach instead of an equation approach: X is the physical universe x is all physical matter we access Y are are all the neur...
Thanks for mentioning dual aspect theory. I've never run across the term before. I looked it up and am trying to understand it. I'm okay with it up un...
Shouldn't have called you a nihilist. Yes, no shortage of dumb at every human level. How do we avoid it? We are tiny specks in an endless ocean of mat...
You might be a nihilist. However, it seems worth while to send up trial balloons to see what flies and what gets shot down and try again. That's what ...
If you are of the opinion that information exists outside our minds I'll tell you that is in error. The correct view is that information exists as our...
Has anyone considered that the ability to manipulate information (and information itself) and consciousness are one in the same. Of course they are an...
Any study of consciousness using neuroscience alone will surely fail and here's why. .Our brains contain networks and catalogs and hierarchies of biol...
Who thinks the professors at your state universities using fMRI machines to study psychology are on a fools errand? I'll raise my hand. Without some b...
I cycle, I'm happy, then people annoy me and I get cranky, then they leave me alone and I'm happy. Sometimes I just need to find solutions involving o...
Maybe the unreasonable man is thinking outside the box to find new ideas even if by accident. My view of psychosis or schizophrenia is it's likely mor...
I.think you mentioned awhile back you had some formal course work in philosophy. I did also some decades ago and it seemed so disjointed and inconsist...
Okay, I don't disagree too much. I'm just saying that where there is a conflict the motivation of both sides/all sides should be understood. Maybe a n...
Maybe introversion and psychosis are an adaptation to the political ideologies you mentioned. They (ideologies) seem to universally take the form of p...
As for the classical or quantum problem, it's a switches and relays problem. What size are the switches and relays? Neurons and nerves seem to be the ...
Are you looking at all options? Here is my list: Mind is physical matter Mind is non-physical Mind is physical matter containing non-physicals I can't...
I started using the term non-physical last week and what I mean is if you see a rock then your brain holds the rock as mental content. If you need fou...
The fact that we have memories of the past is evidence for mental content being a component of consciousness. Neither neurons or micro tubules would h...
I am reading your OP for background. The Roger Penrose books were out thirty years ago and I have them so I might dust them off. Also I Googled some o...
Don't know where you are in the world but I'm in the USA and it's Thanksgiving holiday here and I had a good day and few glasses of wine and ...lost m...
I am repeating myself, but the non-physical does not exist. So I do not disagree. What does exist are our brains that have the capacity to deal in the...
Enrique, I think my issue with you is an inability to grasp that brains have the ability to grasp the non-physical...Take something from nothing and t...
I case you are wondering where I'm going with this... I want you two to either make good or do a complete 180 U turn or you will never hear the end of...
Hey you guys, Enrique and Gnomon, off the top of my head a neuron is something like 10 to the 12th power greater in scale that the atomic level so wha...
You are right to question the immaterial and immaterial events. On their own they are non-existent and can not experience events. But as they exist th...
I hold the view that our brains have the ability to hold and put parameters on things that don't exist, are immaterial, are physical impossibilities o...
I don't see the conservation of energy as all that relevant. What is more interesting is the small amount of energy used in our brains can have a mult...
I was thinking abstract concepts can only exist in our brains but not externally. For example information is sometimes defined as an abstract concept ...
I spoke too soon. Emergent materialism has no theory of information so is deficient in that area. If you added a definition of information being brain...
I looked around Wikipedia and sort of agree with emergent materialism. Starting with physical matter as the fundamental seems reasonable but there is ...
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