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↪Gnomon I read Federico Faggin's 'Silicon' last year, and have started his ' Irreducible '. This last one is difficult material and there's a lot about it I don't understand , but there are some elements beginning to crystallise. — Wayfarer Since you have already started, maybe I should leave it to ...

Quantum Physics and Classical Physics — A Short Note Folllowing this and his awakening , he rejected scientific materialism as an inadequate foundation for exploring and understanding the nature of consciousness , which has significance for both AI and the relationship of the quantum and classical ...

If it was either of the options you gave, it would be part of the Mind element. Now what I call the reputational self is internal and is about how you see yourself, and how you perceive (ie estimate, hypothesize) that others see you. I think those two things are closely linked and can be confused o...

Three stages of self - Damasio — Gnomon Thanks for the link. Note that the figure you provided is not Damasio's, it's one of the other figures from the linked article. — T Clark Sorry. Under the heading of "Three stages of self - Damasio" I picked the one that looked most like a diagram instead of t...

Diagram : Structure of the self. — Gnomon That is a diagram of something else, but it is good to see reputation being mentioned. (I might say more later.) — GrahamJ Here's a Diagram of the Self as proposed by Damasio --- also from ResearchGate. It's much more complex than the previous image, but may...

Notes on the self https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/15569/notes-on-the-self/p2 Descartes' self: Maybe this self is a result of the subject/object, cause/effect structure of thought. To explain a thing is to divide it into parts and then relate the parts. ___ frank It would be nice to have s...

Is the forum biased toward metaphysical Materialism by its common language? — Gnomon Philosophy Now magazine (Oct-Nov 2024) has an article somewhat related to the Metaphorical Language problem in technical philosophical discussions : Naturalized Metaphysics , as contrasted with Classical Metaphysic...

Language is Metaphorical and Materialistic I have long assumed that many of our polarized disagreements on The Philosophy Forum are due to the "fact" that the common language of TPF, English, is essentially Materialistic (concrete & deterministic) and Metaphorical *1 (as-if), while the language of ...

Wayfarer *1. Heisenberg later stated that "My mind was formed by studying philosophy, Plato and that sort of thing" and that "Modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the ordinary sense; they are forms, ideas which can ...

"Hence, interpretation of meaning is the purview of Philosophy, not Science." — Gnomon It's a philosophical question which most philosophers are not equipped to even begin to answer. Understanding what the mathematical concepts mean at root takes quite a lot of effort and study, and I fear most phi...