Yes. The mind is there like the world is there. You are not your mind or the world, but you can't live without them. It's not you who does the thinkin...
To say one knows nothing is done with the same megalomaniac attitude as saying one knows everything. Sometimes it feels like the eye is too small, som...
I think this is a crucial point. You perceive the mental content, while someone else (or you looking in the mirror) sees looks at it from the outside,...
The only thing left to do is to accept the wrath of the almighty Creator, succumb to His Divine Word, bow to His Infinite Creation, and show eternal g...
There was light from the very beginning. But it was continually scattered by electrons and protons. The photons that scattered for the last time were ...
I think there are two truly elementaries. The absolute minimum. From these massless units, all quarks and leptons, and their excitations, the families...
Maybe we should confine rational thinking to mathematical thinking. I think this can be regarded as the highest form of pure rational abstract thought...
That is probably the state of the massless particles in quarks and leptons. There are only two kinds of them, the minimum needed to construct all of m...
We all have our teeny weeny pebble bedrock. For one it are quantum fields of massless 6-dimensional preons interacting by massless gauge fields on a c...
The will is the will. Claiming it to be free is just as stupid as to claim it to be not. It's not determined by natural laws standing above it and dir...
We can measure distance and we see what it is. A charge can be measures by looking at the effects it has on the distance between particles. But the na...
The chaos mentioned by the OP has nothing to do with the chaos as is seen in physics. It is the chaos as comes about if we construct a physical order ...
I don't think if we are constructed by the blind watchmaker of evolution. Genetic evolution might just as well be structured by the organisms themselv...
In quantum field theory they are still considered point particles. As the wavefunction is a cross section of all the histories, also for QM they are c...
Like I said, the charge in particles. Two color charges, giving rise to colored quarks, and colorless electrons and neutrinos, and electric charges lo...
Why can't the mind be a non-material thing contained in matter? Things don't have to be material. It can relate to the brain the same way charge relat...
The mind an abstract non-entity? It is as real an entity as the material processes you take for the real non-abstract entity. You can even say that th...
The brain and the mind are two sides of the same medal. You could just as well keep up that it's the mind that causes new states of the brain. Does th...
Brain and mind are just two aspects of the same thing. The owner of the mind feels the content, the person looking from a safe distant will look at it...
Panpsychism: "Panpsychism is the view that mentality is fundamental and ubiquitous in the natural world. The view has a long and venerable history in ...
Change is a relational property I guess. It's a property existent between invariable elements. If the distances between the elements vary irreversibly...
I don't think so. It's just a convenient way to solve the problem of how mind can emerge from material processes. If you consider material processes t...
I'm not sure if processes have to adhere to any principle. That's just our way to say that these processes have to obey to our principle. If we mental...
I like to contradict, be it myself or others. Keeps things going. What's wrong with that? I just don't like to contradict. What do I seem to contradic...
Taking an even longer look shows that the attempts are in vain. The fundamental bedrocks philosophers have come up with sofar, be it Popper's falsific...
The map is the territory. What we think we see is what we see. There is no epistemic divide. This leaves reality out of reach forever. The interpretat...
Spin has at least an analogue in the everyday world. It's associated with rotation. Rotate a fermion particle twice in space and it's spin has rotated...
Koyaanisquatsi-life out of balance. The Hopi saying is the title of the first out of a trilogy, criticizing the western way. Not as inherently wrong, ...
Very true. But their contents are interchangeable. The religious belief of one can be factual belief for others, and the other way round. God(s) can b...
Isn't the evil exactly the opposite? Isn't it the order imposed on nature by human activity that threatens the creation of our Creator, praise His Nam...
Charge is attached to a particle. So both have to be at the same place. Always. They can't be pulled apart. So charge always has the same spatial rela...
Already here he is wrong (well, as he sees it that way, it's up to him). This is total nonsense. I don't know what he is supposed to eliminate but vie...
There is no physicist who is not confused by this concept. You can name or label it. But that's it. Explaining it as a vibrational mode of a string re...
The question is: when is it justified? A new theory can always justify itself by the simple fact of being there. It might or might not relinquish the ...
Why shouldn't it be a meaningful statement? Is it meaningful to state electric or color charges reside in a particle? I think it is. Likewise with men...
I totally agree. It's the mental content of matter which we are talking about here. Like physical charge contained in physical matter, this can't be e...
I don't think this problem is hard to solve. If the mental resides in the physical, all problems are solved. The mental, like electric charge, or one ...
How much weighs a thought? Per day the brain uses about 1500 Joules. This is about 1500/(9x10exp16) or about 1.4x10exp-14 kilograms. It depends on the...
Natural processes just are. There is nothing that accounts for them. One can say they are completely determined by the laws of nature, but that's just...
Comments