11 papers in the library · publishing 2018
October 11, 2018 Xiaoyang Yu preprint
Thought can be copied from one person to another. Thought is a pattern. Pattern is more than thought. Patterns are everywhere. Pattern can be copied between nonlife and life. For example, when a person sees a ball, the ball's shape as a pattern can be copied into the person's mind. When the person says the word "ball", the sound "ball" is a pattern copied from the ball in his mind.Currently we...
September 28, 2018 Xiaoyang Yu preprint
Nomological determinism does not mean everything is predictable. It just means everything follows the law of nature. And the most important thing Is that the brain and consciousness follow the law of nature. In other words, there is no free will. Without life, brain and consciousness, the world follows law of nature, that is clear. The life and brain are also part of nature, and they follow the...
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In the universe, the physical interactions among any number of elementary particles, are strictly controlled by physical laws. So, the physical activity of any elementary particle, is strictly controlled by physical laws. So, the physical activity of any elementary particle, is inevitable. Any physical object, is a set of elementary particles. So, the physical activity of any physical object,...
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Humans intuitively perceive a distinction between an "inner" self that they control and an "external" world that is beyond their direct influence. This perceived dichotomy forms the foundation of agency, decision-making, and self-identity. However, from a hard determinist standpoint, this distinction is illusory. If the brain generates thoughts, then the process of thought formation is governed...
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I proved that we cannot know whether a being has subjective experience or what a being experienced subjectively by physical method.
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The subjective experience is the “soup” of classical conditionings, or the “soup” of symbols/ meanings/information. I can never know whether other people have subjective experience. I don’t have subjective experience. On contrast, all the meanings belong to the subjective experience.
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Consciousness is only a byproduct of brain’s physical activities. Consciousness has no influence on the physical activities of the brain.
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What we usually view as the physical world is actually a mental model in our mind. Let’s call the mental model the tamed physical world (TPW). We can call the actual physical world the wild physical world (WPW). A flower in front of me is a mental model in my TPW. Its physical entity is in the WPW, not in my TPW as we usually think. If M-theory is correct, the brain of human is only able to...
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An individual has no control even over his/her choices. His/her choices are controlled by his neurons. His/her neurons are controlled by the physical laws. So, his/her choices are controlled by the physical laws. So, he/she is powerless to do anything other than what he/she actually does. This is the view of fatalism. Specifically, this is the view of a totally global fatalism, where people...
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Humans are limited in what they know by the technical limitation of their cortical language network. A reality is a situation model. The universe is a collection of self-driven mathematical entities. If we are happy to accept randomness, it’s obviously possible that all other so-called “worlds” in the many-worlds interpretation don’t exist objectively. The so-called “physical interaction” (aka...
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I proved that subjective experience is a physical event.