Francis

Yes, absolutely. Its late where I am and there is a quite a lot of to unpack regarding this theory. It the next couple of days I should have a detaile...

The free energy principle and Bayesian probability does NOTHING for the Mind/Body problem. It explains why perception would be evolutionarily benefici...

Calling it a neural model doesn't explain anything, though? Its like when Dennet calls it an illusion. HOW and WHY are a bunch of atoms able to, toget...

But the whole point I'm making is of the behavior of matter in the brain. If the atoms in the brain continue to exhibit the exact behavior you would p...

There is zero reason to think that any algorithm, or more precisely, a complex series of electric charges flowing around in order to perform a certain...

I wouldn't, spin and charge are two separate properties of particles. Physicists have actually managed to model the behavior of some particles by sepa...

More importantly, it doesn't address how "something it is like" ends up being able to influence the behavior of the particles that make up the brain s...

But it is simply a fact that particles have aspects about them that determine their behavior that are not their shape or location. This is not a wease...

My website is very imperfect and is a constant 'work in progress' so to speak but thanks for reading it. I should start by saying that I believe the a...

What are the predictions of your theory?

This is a very interesting question and something people ask me all the time when I tell them I study the mind/body problem. First of all, inversion o...

Observation is used in a way in physics such as that it is not limited to conscious observation. Wave functions have been collapsing since before the ...

Fair enough. I would just be careful using universe and reality interchangeably. For example, I think matter is the fundamental building block of the ...

Your poll is very vague. You ask if reality is either made up fundamentally of mind or matter but this is a false dichotomy. You could ask more specif...

Before life ever existed, who was being informed? These theories seem to make the term information so encompassing and broad that it becomes almost us...

I browsed it and you claim your theory does not explain the existence of Qualia (phenomenal experience). You do not deny the existence of phenomenal e...

But why would such a zombie ever come to exist evolutionarily even if it was technically conceptually possible?

Pretty nearly yes. It would only be possible under extremely unlikely circumstances in my opinion. I talk about this in my thought-experiment thread.

Hello everyone, sorry it has taken me a while to respond to these posts I have been busy. Thanks for the replies, I may alter this thought-experiment ...

I have believed for some time that moving forward with the hard-problem involves understanding if and how consciousness/qualia effect the matter in th...

Yeah but that isn't too different than what I'm saying. Perhaps it would be better to say there are objects with properties such as their shape, and t...

"The Mind, in the sense of Beliefs & Emotions, definitely has causal effects (psychosomatic) on human behavior. And in order to influence behavior, th...

I agree with him that consciousness is non-computable. Certainly any process in the brain could be considered a candidate for the mediator of consciou...

Relax bud I was just curious what he was asking for, I have a finite amount of time.

Well at that point you have to look at the word exist. Looking at philosophical dictionaries the definition of exist is almost more a series of debate...

Defend that things can exist as properties of physical objects or defend that properties of physical objects do not occupy space?

Because there are things which exist as properties of objects but not as objects themselves. If I got rid of all the particles in a region of space I ...

Yeah I would agree with that, although I wouldn't put the mind in the same category as a concept projected onto an object such as a mortgage.

No, in my viewpoint things like Qualia do not have locations but they exist as properties of things that have locations.

Yeah but that's only true for objects which have meaning projected onto them. An objects mass doesn't take up any extra space but mass still exists, b...

The electrons which correlate with the concepts that humans have mentally assigned to them certainly do occupy a space within computers and microchips...

Yes I am using having a location synonymous with occupying a space. Whether or not an electrons absolute location can be established scientifically is...

It depends on your view. In the view of Monism mind and brain are the same thing so the mind does occupy a space, that of what ever space the brain ma...

A lot of it has to do with the fact that we operate in an environment that we did not evolve for.

Whether or not the universe is 'good' is completely subjective. The universe simply is. Free Will has always been a strange concept for me because I a...

This is old but it made me laugh. No I don't think he or any other person is the so-called philosophical zombie. I personally think he may be playing ...

How consciousness evolved overtime depends largely on the view on consciousness you take. Most importantly is the effect you believe consciousness has...