Self, Mind not Physical but Psychological Facts

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Veritas Aequitas
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Self, Mind not Physical but Psychological Facts

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The empirical self [transcendental ego], the mind, mental representations are only mistakenly claimed as physical and real, so the claimant are requested to provided physical evidences to justify their claim.

The principle is:
Whatever is claimed as real and facts must be conditioned within a human-based FSERC.
What is conditional real as physical can only be qualified to the science-physics-FSERC.
What is self, the mind and mental representations can only be conditionally real within the science-psychology-FSERC.
Peter Holmes wrote: Mon May 20, 2024 12:06 pm Phew. So the transcendental ego is a physical thing that transcends mere sense data, as is the mind that experiences mental representations of reality, rather than reality itself.

Now, since they're physical things, all we need is physical evidence for the existence of the transcendental ego, the mind, and mental representations.

Or will it be the usual excuses for why there can be no physical evidence for these physical things?

As with the myth of the soul in some religions, in philosophy, a great deal hangs on maintaining the myth of the mind. The investment has been enormous.
You are conflating too many elements.

Not long ago the human-based science-Physics FSERC only deal with "matter".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matter
The concept of materialism was refuted by Berkeley's no human independent primary and secondary qualities.

Upon the above, the science-physics FSERC adopted the concept of Physicalism;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physicalism
"In philosophy, physicalism or specifically physimonism (physical monism) is the view that "everything is physical", that there is "nothing over and above" the physical,[1] or that everything supervenes on the physical; -WIKI"

What is 'physical' in the real sense are only things that are dealt with the science-physics FSERC.

The transcendental ego, the mind, and mental representations are not physical things within the science-physics FSERC.
So if you are thinking of evidence for the above as real physical from the science-physics FSERC, that is no such things, thus impossible.

However transcendental ego [empirical self], the mind, and mental representations can be assessed as real within the science-psychology-FSERC.
This science-psychology-FSERC will rely on inputs from its own empirical observations, neurosciencs, biology, and if necessary chemistry and physics in generating science-psychology-FSERC facts.

See, your thinking is too messed up, conflating different variable and ignoring the inherent nuances.

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Re: Self, Mind not Physical but Psychological Facts

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Notes:
There are degrees of credibility and objectivity of facts and reality between different main set of FSERCs and between the subsets of FSERCs.

The point is the degrees or credibility and objectivity of the science-physics FSRC [at its best] is much higher than the science-psychology FSERC's.
This is discussed in detail in another thread.
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Re: Self, Mind not Physical but Psychological Facts

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