On Sunday, May 3, 2020 at 10:14:10 PM UTC-5, smitra wrote: > > On 03-05-2020 23:09, Philip Thrift wrote: > > The SSH > > > > https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/22/2/247 > > > > still lies in the "information turn" that plays in physics today.(IT > > FROM QUBIT, etc.) - a rejection pf materialism in favor of idealism. > > > > It is more interesting to me to stick to the vocabulary of > > materialist* physics - particles, fields, interactions, forces - but > > to approach CONSCIOUSNESS AS PURELY MATERIAL - adding a new > > force/interaction/particle/field as needed (like a sixth force/field). > > > > http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Field_theories_of_consciousness > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_theories_of_consciousness > > > > etc. > > > > * or physicalist > > > > @philipthrift > > Physicalism is a dead end. The hard problem of consciousness and other > philosophical problems can be considered to be no-go theorems against > physicalism. Abandoning physicalism solves all these problems in one > fell swoop. But that also opens the door to wrong theories as people > engaging with non-physicalist theories can too easily advertise their > pet theories because they don't suffer from all the diseases physicalist > theories suffer from. The bar has to be set higher, I would like to see > a derivation of the laws of physics, not some vague argument that it is > consistent with QM and unitary evolution but a lot more detail than just > that. > > Saibal
I think more likely this mean the hard problem or qualia are illusions. I have far more confidence in physics than I do in hopeful ideas about qualia, which are psychological form of elan vital thought in previous centuries to underlie biology. LC -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/fc14bd06-c600-4e6a-abf1-b73943d36617%40googlegroups.com.
