Mind Definition and 268 Threads

Hello! What I'd like to ask is, whether there is a mathematical theory of consciousness in development or any promising serious research projects in describing conscious process mathematically or physically with sufficient mathematical background.

If, in fact we have to rely wholly on sentience in order to interpret our world, why should we deem sentience circular? If so, then our attempts to define who and what we are -- or, for that matter, anything -- is worthless. And, while we may stress the need for "empirical evidence," who or what...

What movies, animations, paintings, novels, poems, songs, etc. have you come across that transport you 'inside' someone's head? That is, what artistic portrayals have you seen or heard that effectively communicate a sense of what it is like to experience a certain set of perceptions, thoughts...

I am having an argument with someone else, and I want to see what you guys think. I believe that the mind perceives what it wants to percieve, and that your reality could be completely different than someone elses. for example: in person A's mind, or reality, he is talking to person B...

Can thought move or effect matter? Thought is said to be subjective, insubstantial, with no physical existence or extension. The ability for physical matter to be effected in any way by pure thought at first glance seems to be an absurd impossibility. Yet it happens everyday, virtually every...

I hear this phrase used quite frequently, but how true is it really? Have your travels made you any less provincial?

As is well documented the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is funding many progressive biotech research programs. One such program involves Brain Machine Interfaces and Muti Micro Electrode Arrays. Some people think that there is a hidden agenda of attempting some sort of mind...

I've been thinking about something for quite a long time now. A muon can decay into two electrons, right? Since the spin of the muon is zero, the total spin of the elctrons must also be zero. That means one of the electron has up spin and the other one has down spin. According to the Copenhagen...

For better or worse, for the thrill or the terror, what do you think are the most mind blowing jobs? At least one on my list is that of the helicopter lineman. http://www.helicoptermonthly.com/images/helinas2.JPG...

The Mind of Man There are many of us here at the Physics Forums who seem to think that the mind of man is nothing more than an emergent property of the electrochemical processes that go on in the physical brain; that any computer of sufficient size and complexity would develop...

try this. directions-try to read aloud these colors in which these words are printed, rather than the words themselves-and read them fast :biggrin: : red blue black yellow red green orange blue pink How'd you do? :-p

I'm coming to a realization that i really don't get how to do integrals. i understand the basic concept, it's an anti-derivative. when you evaluate them, you sub in the values that you want to evaluate, and subtract them bottom from top. i also understand that when you integrate, you get...

Speed is = to distance over time. That is fine. but what happenes when you reach speed of light? your time would =0 therefore you would have 0 infinet speed. :confused: These are just the things that I of last night whlest I was delivering Pizza. Can some one clear that up for me please?

I'm currently reading "Angels and Demons", by Dan Brown - the book is mediocre, but enjoyable, in case you're wondering. Anyway, I perused a sentence that stated the following: "Langdon felt a trace of self-preservation grip his unconscious mind." How can someone be aware of what is...

Consider the circuit shown in Figure P28.9. (R = 33.0 .) The question ask me to find the current flowing through the 33 ohm resistance and also the potential difference between point a and b. I consider the 10, 5 and (33+5) to be parallel; 33 is in series with 5. So the equivalent...

The Origin of Mind: Evolution of Brain, Cognition, and General Intelligence, 2005 Hello, I liked the book The Origin of Mind: Evolution of Brain, Cognition, and General Intelligence, by David C. Geary, 2005 because it not only discusses some of the latest research on human intelligence, but...

I know this might be a biology question. But I think this requires the problem solving minds of people in physics. The population of the wolves influences the change in population of the mooses. When the population of the wolves increase, the mooses' population also increase. From the...

6 men with their wives ( total of 12 ) in how many ways can they sit in a circular table but no man sits beside his wife ? needs smart people cheers abc

6 men with their wives ( total of 12 ) in how many ways can they sit in a circular table but no man sits beside his wife ? needs smart people cheers abc

When Descartes wrote: "The mind exists just as long as there is a consciousness, which is not an attribute of matter" was he saying that consciousness (and the mind) can continue even if the material body ceases to exist? I am quite certain that he believed the reverse to be true, that...

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How can we improve our Deductive Reasoning Power systematically? Do you have any strategies for it?

A train is moving relative to Earth at such a high speed that the clock on the train slows down to half rate compared to clocks on earth. A rocket is launched in the opposite direction train is moving to such a high speed that the clock on the rocket slows down to half rate compared to the clock...

i was just curious about this, well here goes. could the problem that doctors face when working with the body be a direct result of forgetting to include the mind within the process. i mean, could the reason why we haven't had breakthrough advances in human regeneration and what not, be a...

Okay... I am pretty sure this isn't a paradox, so my reasoning must be flawed somewhere. Could someone tell me where I am going wrong? Consider 2 electrons, traveling in straight lines, parallel to each other, at the same speed v, in the same direction. An observer in a stationary...

I think every action of the mind, as in conscious the mind can be explained to the most basic instincts. You guys give some actions and ill try and explain down to the basic instincts

Just follow the link and try:http://www.davidpbrown.co.uk/optical-illusions/missing-space-triangle.html There are a number of perceptional variants when the mind falls into the trap of measuring Geometric Forms.

This is a writing about wholeness, meaning keeping awareness of our 3 centers: Physical, Emotional and Mental. This is in three parts: First, an ancient parable or brain-teaser, second, interwoven aspects meant to stimulate growth of awareness and understanding and third, commentary. Ancient...

It's bewildering. I earned a Masters degree in physics in 1986, long after scoring an 800 on my Math SATs in high school and studying intensive physics at Yale my freshman year. However, my "Social Quotient" seems to have had overtaken my "Physics Quotient" as I matured. I feel safer studying...

http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/javagif/gifs_thumb/20040428_1919_eit_304.gif Kaku saids:" We Physicist's no longer believe inthe Universe. We physicists believe in multiverse that resemble's the boiling of water. Water boils when tiny particles, or bubbles form, which...

This book of Penrose is short, so you can read it in a whole day (as I did) I first read "The emperor's new mind", and there's a continuation called "Shadows of the mind", but I have not read this, but the third part that carries the title of the thread I think that is a bit deceiving the...

- We sing. In this there is a 2 part sum = the song. That's my postulate. Now in this song. The second part is the inspirational feeling. - Music expresses our humanity, and is our link to other singing things like birds n stuff. - Thought expresses our humanity, and is also a link to...

Mind I am always looking for an interesting topic to study. Some time ago I decided that the brain--how it functions, what we do when we think, what is the difference between the activity of the intellect and the activity of emotions, etc.--would be a great subject to attempt to understand...

So I've been thinking about consciousness and such. If we say that complex systems obey a ruleset larger than the individual rulesets of each component, and we then apply this to our brain and chemistry etc, can we say that consciousness is a larger ruleset that guides its physical parts...

Recently, I went through a sort of "stage" where i wanted to disprove everything worth disproving, and we all know, if you move one card at the bottom of a stack, you change quite a bit. What i did was try to figure out the atomic theory structure. I wanted to see if it was right. I came up with...

Recently, I went through a sort of "stage" where i wanted to disprove everything worth disproving, and we all know, if you move one card at the bottom of a stack, you change quite a bit. What i did was try to figure out the atomic theory structure. I wanted to see if it was right. I came up...

Brian D. Josephson Department of Physics, University of Cambridge The point in regard to mathematical thinking, which motivates our model, is the following. Consider first of all what the brain does in visual perception. Here the primary information from the visual receptors goes...

Are sensations dependent on your impression of what the particular sensation should feel like? For example, pain. How do we know that pain generally causes hurt? Why does it make us feel uncomfertable? Zen priests are able to put an immense amount of pressure on their arms (about 1000...

According to the Webster dictionary the word Pheromone refers to a "chemical substance secreted and released by an animal for detection and response by another." Popular press you may recall have often referred to these hormones as the basis of instinctive reactions such as sexual desire and...

"Beautiful Mind" equation In the movie A Beautiful Mind, Prof. Nash introduces his class at MIT to a problem (below) on the chalkboard and states "...for others among you it will take the term of your natural lives." What is this equation, is it nontrivial, and does it have a solution...

Why do the minds of many fear or even deny death? The mere thought of death for some people trigger panic attacks. Granted the mind's instintual reaction is to fear the unknown as a means of survival, but shouldn't the mind have already evolved to accept death? Does this mean that the true...

Mind to Mind: Mr. Dennett & Mr. Gautama Exchange Ideas (NOTE: The main body of this thread, though written as a fantasy :cool:, prepares for earnest “test questions” posed at the end of the thread.) Good day ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Mind to Mind! Sit back and enjoy as we utilize...

im wondering what these images i see are. When i close my eyes and gently push the palmes of my hand into my eyes, after about 30 seconds, i start seeing swirling lights and strings and squares, and detailed contantly shifting shapes that i can't possibly describe accuratly. It is...

Does the mind have a limit to knowledge it can obtain or over time or can it do anything? More time depending on the persons skills of course? For example Math. I'm in Grade 10 I take normal Math. I have trouble with the occasional thing but if I do I practice it. There isn't any math I've...

This was a Brain teaser question, and i have no idea whatsoever why this is the correct answer. As i said in the thread title an uneducated mind

Is there any possibilites that we can command our computers through Mind?

Here's a few kickers for those of you who don't know a lot about the mathematics of relativity: The locus of all points equidistant from the origin is a four dimensional hyberbola given by: d^2=(y_1-x_1)^2+(y_2-x_2)^2+(y_3-x_3)^2-c^2(y_4-x_4)^2 where c is the speed of light. Also the...

yo man u seem really really smart. i was wondering if u don't mind me asking where did u go to school and what did u major in. i love math, its fascinating, and u seem to have a very in depth understanding of it so if u don't mind could u tell me? also i don't have a question. 2+2/2 wahts the...

I have this habit of always attempting to look at things from a different perspective. I've found it often helps me if I can understand the thought processes of someone else and how they arrive at particular conclusions. So has anyone ever tried to picture the mind of someone vastly...

when we see we can understand what we are looking at, we can also visualize what it is that we have seen if we commit it to memory. But why do we visualize our thoughts only to the front of us? for example visualize a train moving through your mind, do you see it right in front of you? well i...