RE: Mind is the brain?
March 17, 2016 at 11:24 pm
(This post was last modified: March 17, 2016 at 11:24 pm by bennyboy.)
(March 17, 2016 at 10:28 pm)Jehanne Wrote:(March 17, 2016 at 9:36 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Full disclosure: in terms of a material world view, I'd go with a kind of panpsychism, but I prefer a kind of idealism. I don't want to talk about that right now, but just so you can see where Rhythm and little_monkey are coming from with some of the comments they direct at me.
No scientific evidence exists for panpsychism; it is an unproductive hypothesis.
No scientific evidence exists for mind at all. It is a brute fact of the self, but is no more observable in the Universe than God. But you've responded to the wrong part of my post-- that was just so you can understand the historical context in which the rest of us are posting a little better. In other words, it's a kind of personal introduction and a welcome to this thread.
My post was asking on what scale, either in size or complexity, mind supervenes. And specifically, whether this is something that happens extremely rarely, only in very special systems, or something that happens extremely often, in any system capable of storing state data or receiving and transmitting information, or something in between.
