Timeline for How might a physicist define 'mind' using concepts of physics?
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| Jun 8 at 6:02 | history | edited | Olivier5 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 7 at 21:40 | comment | added | lee pappas | @IoannisPaizis, μυαλό=brain (with the physical sense) νους = mind, πνεύμα =spirit. I'm thinking 'mind' is a part of a whole brain, branching out from the self. | |
| Jun 7 at 21:28 | comment | added | Ioannis Paizis | @lee pappas, perhaps you are confusing mind with brain. mind is not μυαλό (με τη φυσική έννοια), it is νους, πνεύμα. | |
| Jun 7 at 21:26 | comment | added | Olivier5 | No, but I am a biologist by training. | |
| Jun 7 at 21:20 | comment | added | lee pappas | are you a physicist to say such a thing? | |
| Jun 7 at 21:17 | comment | added | Olivier5 | @leepappas Indeed, biochemistry is a long way off, but physics is further away still. | |
| Jun 7 at 20:20 | comment | added | lee pappas | my position is physicists can understand anything in the physical realm, and. Our minds are made of matter, so physics can be used to define mind. Biochemistry is a long way off from answering my question | |
| Jun 7 at 20:10 | comment | added | Olivier5 | @leepappas There's indeed electricity involved, as well as radio waves, but there's also a humongous amount of biochemistry there. The brain is something of a hybrid between a radio, a computer and a hormone engine. | |
| Jun 7 at 20:03 | comment | added | lee pappas | @physicists most certainly can understand consciousness, which is part of the fuzzy definition. There's electric current running through a specific part of the brain when you're conscious that is off when you aren't. | |
| Jun 7 at 19:51 | history | answered | Olivier5 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |