(February 3, 2015 at 7:03 am)ManMachine Wrote:(February 2, 2015 at 7:55 pm)Surgenator Wrote: That is a bold claim, please show the evidence for it.
This is an extrapolation from available evidence. I accept there is talk at the moment that some fundamental particles may be divisible, notwithstanding that for the moment (ultimately it doesn't change my position just the make-up of the standard model) the standard model is considered to be the fundamental building blocks of the universe.
Electromagnetic force is part of the standard model and is part of what makes up of what we perceive of as 'matter' (such as the human brain), it also provides the electrical impulses that are our thoughts, however they manifest. Unless you are suggesting a more metaphysical construction, in which case I simply don't agree with you. That may seem like reductionism but the standard model is anything but simple.
MM
A thought/idea is a series of electrochemical processes in the brain. A fundamental particle is a thing. A process is fundamentally different from a thing. Eventhough a process is a composite of things, the things do not get the same properties as the process because the process requires interactions between things.