Mind Definition and 285 Threads

IS the mind body problem a theoretical problem?

So I'm on my school's debate team. The topic we're preparing for is stated as the following: "Resolved: In the United States, public high school science curriculum should include the study of the Theory of Intelligent Design." This is my case affirming the resolution, I'm arguing ID should be...

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Is it possible to say that we are not a bi-product of some extremely advanced civilizations technology, and we are just biological computers... I really don't like this idea, i just had this pop into my head one day and me and my friends started discussing it, and we came to the conclusion that...

Aghhh.. I just had to reinstall my windows because I was having some problems with it, it´s a windows xp, as I try to reinstall windows, it seems to go fine, and it deletes the old files, and prepares for windows installation, then it does a restart and then I´m back on the windows setup screen...

The limits of the human mind... Can you perceive the fact that there is no end to space or the thought of God always being here and always will be or maybe the thought of there being nothing it can't be nothing it has to be something even being nothing its something,just like there has to be an...

I was bored so I am deciding that since I am only at the level of undergraduate real analysis, i wonder if anybody could solve this problem. In the movie it said that it would take someone months or many yrs or even a life time. Wonder if this is true or not? V = \{ F : \Re^3 \setminus X...

As I sit here working and popping in on PF from time to time, I find myself busting at the seams and unable to keep this to myself any longer. According to those who would know [and have the contacts], after twelve long, often gut wrenching, once or twice terrifying, always sleep deprived, often...

I know, I'm years behind the rest of the world, but I just saw this for the first time. I've been wondering what the problem is he writes on the board that Jennifer Connelly tries to solve.

Why is the mind motivated to do certain things? What drives you to do an activity or to accomplish something? And can this be what causes boredom?

does nothing exist apart from my mind?

Their view seems to me 'computational.' They are associating thinking with computation and think if you just get nanotechnological about it, you can achieve consciousness and thinking. Seems to me, this is similar to thinking that the universe is just a computer simulation of 'physics'...

What is your iq, 120, 130, 140, huh ,well that's nothing, i am so intelligent my mind fills all of spacetime, is it any wonder then that i seem a little dim locally with a mind spread so thin.

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...

Do you people believe in them? Do they have any scientific bases? As for me, I myself think that they are nothing but non-sense.

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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...

I remember reading somewhere that there was once a man who could bend spoons & forks by just gazing at them using his so called 'mind power'.. Can this be done?? I actually believe that there are so many hidden powers in the human brain that we can't even think of..brain waves is one...

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...

Most of you would have had the experience of setting an alarm clock to wake you early one morning, only to find that you could really do with some more rest, and your mind doesn’t want to wake. Then of course what happens when the alarm starts to sound is that instead of waking you, your mind...

- 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...