The problem of the soul

[vulcanlogician]

I just read about aspect dualism.  Basically it says that mind and matter as aspects of something else.

As a mystical position, positing "something else" as an explanation for the what we CAN perceive is a cop-out.  On the other hand, if mind comes from matter, and matter comes from something more fundamental, then I guess you could say that both come from something else.

I am drawn to the model that information is more fundamental than matter.  I don't know if it is the "most" fundamental -- it probably isn't.  If information is more fundamental than matter, then what is the problem with mind coming from matter?  Mind is about information processing, in way that produces the impression of a "self".

"Information" when used this way seems highly Platonic without any better way of approaching the ancient dilemmas around concepts like universals, Ideas, and essenses.

That's what I thought. Maybe even a little Pythagorean.

I hear what @HappySkeptic is saying though. It's a reduction that a physicist may be prone to make. A line of criticism, though, is that it may be too reductionist. I myself am a hopeless reductionist though. So I can sympathize, lol.