bahman wrote: ↑Sat Mar 07, 2020 11:54 pm
Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Sat Mar 07, 2020 8:29 am
bahman wrote: ↑Fri Mar 06, 2020 6:13 pm
I already provided my argument "There is a change, therefore there is a mind". You don't pay any attention to it!
Where there is change, there is only change. A = A.
What do mean? When there is a change we go from one state of affair to another state of affair. X to Y. I think that is obvious.
Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Sat Mar 07, 2020 8:29 am
How can be 'mind' from change in the fundamental sense?
In the crude sense, yes change can enable emergence.
When clouds changed, there is rain.
Thus in this case,
when Y changes, there is X.
X can by anything, not only mind as you have alluded above.
No, we go from one state of affair to another state of affair when there is a change. I already argue that something must vanish to allows something else to exist. Any change is the result of destruction of one state of affair [water molecules] and causation of another state of affair [ice molecules].
I have already explained many times.
When water turned to ice, there is only a shift in the distance between the H20 molecules, there is no destruction of one state of affair [water molecules].
Note the law of conservation of energy:
the law of conservation of energy states that the total energy of an isolated system remains constant; it is said to be conserved over time. This law means that energy can neither be created nor destroyed; rather, it can only be transformed or transferred from one form to another.
-wiki
There is no need to an independent mind as entity to explain the above.
Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Sat Mar 07, 2020 8:29 am
That is what physics about, the relation between properties of matter.
In Physics, there is no matter-in-itself.
In basic Physics we have the reality of one moving marble knocking another marble and causing the other marble to move.
However in advanced and Quantum Physics, the reality of Physics is not independent but intertwined with the human participant [observers and actors].
So matter exist as a result of the collapse of the wave function which this is due to intervention of mind. Mind itself is the result matter activity. This means that mind should exist and exist not at the same time. Exist to cause the collapse of the wave function and exist not in order to emerge. Don't you see the contradiction?
I did not argue the 'mind' is the result of "matter" activities.
The mind [my definition as per wiki] is merely a convenience to represent a collection of activities of the human brain which can be verified empirically.
In your case, the mind is an independent entity by itself, which is an illusion.
Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Sat Mar 07, 2020 8:29 am
There is no absolute matter-in-itself but what is matter in Physics is human-mind-intertwined matter.
Therefore the mind is merely an emergent and not an independent entity by itself.
I agree that matter is an illusion. But mind is a real thing.
I disagree.
I do not agree with 'matter' in the philosophical sense.
1. Matter [scientific], i.e. physical things can be observed, experienced and verified by Science, so matter in this case is real and objective. How can this be an illusion?
2. Your mind as an independent entity is merely indirectly inferred from the above real matter -physical thing from 1 and their changes.
You don't have direct proof your mind [your definition] exists as real.
Show me the direct proof of mind [your definition], not just 'changes', speculations and blah, blah, blah.
3. You can challenge to prove the existence of real Matter [scientific], object, brain, mind [my definition], anything empirically evident as emergence. Name your challenge.