Mind/matter duality

[TheBigOhMan]

tl;dr

I know what all the parts of that word mean, but I do not know what the word means. It almost seems a propos to the subject in a strange way. By panphysicalism, I take it you are referring to a physical monism-- everything is physical. But I don't know how to apply "proto-" to that concept.

Woops, sorry, my mystake, it was "Russelian Panphysicalism". I read it from one of Chalmers paper ( http://consc.net/papers/panpsychism.pdf ).
Chalmers describes "Russelian panphysicalism" in the following way:

Another important variety of panpsychism is Russellian panpsychism. This view takes its name from Russell’s insight, in The Analysis of Matter and other works, that physics reveals the relational structure of matter but not its intrinsic nature. According to this view, classical physics tells us a lot about what mass does—it resists acceleration, attracts other masses, and so on—but it tells us nothing about what mass intrinsically is. We might say that physics tells us what the mass role is, but it does not tell us what property plays this role. Here we can say that quiddities are the fundamental properties that play
the fundamental roles specified in physics. Alternatively, we can say that quiddities are the categorical bases of the microphysical dispositions characterized in physics. We can stipulate that quiddities are distinct from the roles or the dispositions themselves. A view on which there are only role or dispositional properties, and no distinct properties playing those roles or serving as the basis for the dispositions, is a view on which there are no quiddities..

It's in a sense the view that reality is trully phenomenological ( or "concepts" ) but we just see things like mass, spin, color charge in turn.

If pressed to define myself, I'd say I'm an ambiguist. I think things can often be interpreted through opposing viewpoints, with nothing to decide with view is correct. I'd argue that the universe is completely idealistic as well as completely objective, and that the only resolution to paradox (or ambiguity) is a change in perspective.

Well, thats indeed strange .

For example, which is "correct": light as a particle, or light as a wave? Obviously, anyone choosing just one answer is a bit dense. Instead, you have to accept the (pretty woo) reality: that a photon is both particle and wave, and also neither. I believe that mind and matter are much the same: the dualism between subject and object gets inverted and turned around, until you can't really tell which is which.

*coughs and passes joint to next guy in circle*

My mind prefers the "wave-only" approach (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave%E2%80%...-only_view) on this one . But indeed, Quantum Mechanics pose counter-intuitive views.