Hi Richard, >> > A common criticism of dualism is the problem of interaction. If mind is > >> > outside the physical world, how does it interact with body? Any > >> > mechanism of > >> > interaction you can propose would make mind part of the physical > world, > >> > thus > >> > negating dualism. > >> > > >> > I appreciate and share the sentiment that there is something extremely > >> > weird > >> > about consciousness, that cannot be explained by current science. I > >> > don't > >> > buy into the idea that consciousness emerges from neural activity. > Yet, > >> > any > >> > explanation must place consciousness inside the real of physical laws > >> > (or > >> > vice-versa), otherwise the previous paradox arises. > >> > > >> > >> Telmo, String theory monads, the particles of compactified extra > >> string dimensions, 6 dimensions each, called Calabi-Yau compact > >> manifolds, are uniformly distributed in space in a rather crystalline > >> structure, yet are effectively outside spacetime because each monad > >> maps the universe instantly to its interior; and if that were not > >> enough, the monads being space precipitating from space in the big > >> bang, they are motionless and therefore form a Bose-Einstein > >> Condensate BEC in which light can propagate at any speed including > >> infinite speed. Those monads also contain the laws and constants of > >> physics and they regulate physical particle interactions. > >> > >> Bet on string theory and you get everything in one package. > >> BTW the instantaneous monad perception is my hypothesis. > >> A 3-D solution is not available yet. > >> > >> But the other properties of CY compact manifolds are well known in > >> string theory. > >> Richard > > > > > > > > Ok, but where's the dualism there? What you're describing is a physical > > model. Everything in it is still in the physical world, it's just that in > > this model space has more than 3 dimensions and a weird topology. > > > Telmo, > If you mean a dualism like the wave/particle dualism, there ain't > none. If you mean a mind/brain dualism, which is really not a dualism > at
I mean mind/body dualism in the Cartesian sense, i.e that the mind is made of non-physical stuff, which was the one that Roger Clough alluded to. That form of dualism suffers from the interaction paradox because if non-physical stuff interacts with the physical world, it necessarily becomes part of the physical world, so there's no valid distinction to begin with. > all as the physical consciousness of the brain is very different > from the consciousness manifested by the compact manifolds (which is > the basis of our individual minds as well as a universal mind, much > like comp) even though the two consciousnesses are connected and often > copies of each other. > > The space of this model is 3-D. The extra dimensions have precipitated > out into very tiny balls some 1000 Planck lengths across. Everything > is in the physical world, but the compact manifolds each instantly > image the entire universe within themselves which puts them > effectively outside spacetime. > Let me know if you cannot see that and I will try to explain it to you > some other way. > I don't get this: "the compact manifolds each instantly image the entire universe within themselves which puts them effectively outside spacetime". Especially, why does that put them outside spacetime? > Richard > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Everything List" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
