I have developed my own approach over the years, the best place to look is on my website: dr-stegemann.de You can have it translated. I see the differ...
So you mean you have a brain and there's still a mind in there? Even Descartes couldn't find it. Or do you think there are two descriptions of the sam...
I have problems with terms like "nature as a programmer" or "meaning", "information" or "software". We must not make the mistake of ontologizing our c...
I think Pattee is connecting conceptual worlds here that have nothing to do with each other. When we speak of the genetic code, we mean that nature ha...
The question that can be asked of biological life is why does life move on its own and why does it do so in a structured manner. Two possible answers ...
With his dissipative structures, Prigogine further developed thermodynamics and formulated an ontological principle. But if you want to understand lif...
Thermodynamics is a concept in physics. However, physics is not suitable for describing living systems. Because life follows other organizational prin...
It's always the same nonsensical questions because one tends to ontologize the own phenomenology. That is unscientific. If you want to know why we exp...
The west is stupid as bean straw. In 2014, the Maidan riots are escalated, conscious of the fact that the Crimea for Russia is of central strategic im...
One should consider the term reductionism in a differentiated way. Those who cannot imagine the mundane physiological activity producing consciousness...
You put yourself at the center of your considerations and start with the thinking. This is arbitrary and only works with logic. Why not start with thi...
Qualia and reductionism The problem can be solved quite simply by 1. Depicting the difference between life and inanimate nature 2. Realize that subjec...
The fault of many, if not most, philosophies is that they start with thinking and not with things. The Kantian question, for example, what can I know,...
How about the following consideration: Of course there is an external reality, I notice that at the latest when I drive my car in front of a tree. But...
You're absolutely right, determinism depends on perspective. Everything is deterministic from the perspective of the Big Bang. The further I zoom in, ...
It is an epistemological question how to describe something. Of course, psychology describes consciousness from a very different angle than biology do...
Imagine a tree. A painter will describe its form and color, a physicist its atomic structure, a biologist its biostructure, etc.pp. It's always the sa...
No, nothing goes beyond biology. It's just the descriptive level. Imagine someone threatens me with a gun, I see that and run away. Described biologic...
Imagine a stimulus hitting the eye and being passed on to the brain. There it is associated with patterns and triggers an afferent stimulus that leads...
how did you get the idea that I wanted to separate the brain and the mental? Exactly the opposite is the case. I've said it umpteen times here, there ...
Yes, neurons generate mental content. But that is nothing more than everyday understanding. If you want to argue with scientific precision, you have t...
If by non-physical things you mean psychology, we have a different sign system than biology. Biology creates the ontology, thus answering the question...
I have presented the mind-body problem as a pseudo-problem using an equation that makes no sense. This equation represents exactly the mind-body probl...
As long as the difference between animate and inanimate nature is not seen and only physics is used to clarify both, one will never understand the pri...
'The whole is different from the sum of its parts' is a very general expression that applies to life in general. Thinking, on the other hand, is a ver...
Unfortunately, you don't understand the whole thing. It was just about showing that you can't explain philosophy with physics. But this simple connect...
I wanted to point out two things in my post: 1. The mind-body problem is based on a misunderstanding in which two different languages are related to e...
Although Spinoza saw a unity of body and mind, he also believed that both were two sides of the same, but could not explain this unity. My approach sa...
Life consists of molecules and can be adequately described with them. The quantum level is not necessary for this. Imagine you drive your car into a t...
I think life can be explained by the way (dead) molecules work together. That is, the lower level of life is molecules. Consciousness at the level of ...
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