Ergo, my cake mixer being turned on is not physical. — Banno
Yes, the on/off state of the cake mixer is not physical. — TheMadFool
Think on that. Take your time. — Banno
Something not being a physical object, but a state of a physical object, doesn't make the thing not a physical thing. — Pfhorrest
I don't think so. There's a physical difference between a cake mixer being on, and it being off. Same seems to go for a brain. — Banno
Right? — TheMadFool
Wrong. There would be a corresponding change in the mass between a living brain, which itself includes electrical current, and a dead brain, which does not. — Banno
Wrong. There would be a corresponding change in the mass between a living brain, which itself includes electrical current, and a dead brain, which does not.
Your OP was a distracting thought, but I don't see that it can be carried far. — Banno
My Mind is not physical. — TheMadFool
All things that don't have mass are not physical
Between a dead me and an alive me there's something missing which doesn't have mass. — TheMadFool
Sometimes the brain is online, and sometimes it is not. — darthbarracuda
He said, knowing the right way to spend a Saturday was, of course, relieving the growing pressure of a system-in-a-vacuum, by compulsively describing it to others. Scan the available threads and choose a receptive one. Saturdays. He was on the wrong side of 1/mounting-irritability-due-to-others-incorrigibly-failing-to-properly-contextualize-according-to-the-triadic-system and the storm clouds looked real bad this time. Past memories of having the wrong vibe at barbecues howled at his heels. Could people sense it? The system shuddered in its casing 'why aren't you explaining me online!!' He imagined a gallery of Peirce and people he knew in biosemiotics being like hey man why were you in on this if you weren't ready to post about it on the forums. He looked at the rose in the glass cake-case: wilting. It was time to come back.One way to spend your Saturdays. — apokrisis
Seems to me you are pressing too hard on a relatively insignificant point in order to carry your OP. — Banno
Success!Not trying to be funny — csalisbury
Fail!The above is my best imaginative attempt at understanding what it's like to have reached that point. — csalisbury
Troll!Not funny or mocking, but certainly intended to provoke. — csalisbury
Hyperbole!t's not funny to me; it's scary. It's like a spider in a hole. — csalisbury
It seems to me you have a loud and firm internal (inescapable?) voice that quickly stifles anything approaching surprise... — csalisbury
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