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The relationship between mind and physics is explored through the mechanist view that the physical world is closed under physical laws, leaving no room for the mind to interfere [1]. Furthermore, academic discourse attempts to bridge these domains, such as in R. Swenson's unified theory of physics and cognition [2], and through philosophical debates regarding whether the mind can be reduced to physical brain processes [3].
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Consciousness studies : cross-cultural perspectives - Internet Archive archive.org 1 fact
referenceThe book 'Consciousness studies: cross-cultural perspectives' organizes Western traditions of consciousness into several key areas: primary awareness, paradoxical and pathological awareness, paranormal awareness, philosophical discussions on consciousness, mind and intentionality, the relationship between consciousness and the brain in physics, and various psychologies of consciousness.
Dualism, Physicalism, and Philosophy of Mind - Capturing Christianity capturingchristianity.com 1 fact
quoteAlexander Rosenberg states: “if the mind is the brain (and scientism can’t allow that it is anything else)… we have to stop taking our selves seriously… We have to realize that there is no self, soul or enduring agent, no subject of the first-person pronoun, tracking its interior life while it also tracks much of what is going on around us. This self cannot be the whole body, or its brain, and there is no part of either that qualifies for being the self by way of numerical-identity over time. There seems to be only one way we make sense of the person whose identity endures over time and over bodily change. This way is by positing a concrete but non-spatial entity with a point of view somewhere behind the eyes and between the ears in the middle of our heads. Since physics has excluded the existence of anything concrete but nonspatial, and since physics fixes all the facts, we have to give up this last illusion consciousness foists on us.”
Quantum Models of Consciousness from a Quantum Information ... arxiv.org 1 fact
referenceR. Swenson authored the paper 'A grand unified theory for the unification of physics, life, information and cognition (mind),' published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, volume 381, in 2023.
Dualism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Winter 2016 Edition) plato.stanford.edu 1 fact
claimAccording to the mechanist view, the world is 'closed under physics,' meaning everything that happens follows from and is in accord with the laws of physics, leaving no scope for interference in the physical world by the mind.