If it occupies a space, it must have a limit. What limits the mind? — Daniel
The problem with the mind is that if you look at everything a body does, some specific things that happen in minds, like what the color red looks like, are nowhere to be found. — Echarmion
is? I am asking this because it seems that everything that occupies a space is limited — Daniel
What about things that do not fit into either of the categories 'exist' or 'not exist'.
— A Seagull
What things would those be? — Pantagruel
Money for example. In some tribes the concept of a standardised currency doesnt exist. But for most of the world it does. But wait it only exists when you believe it does. When you stop believing in the value of money it doesnt exist. So "to whom" is the "existence" relevant? Who do we believe when we try to qualify the existence if money? How does money "exist" or not "exist?" It has both a material and symbolic component. Both of which can "exist." And both of which can be made redundant/ discarded and no longer "exist".
It seems some things can exist and not exist simultaneously depending on what perspective is used to measure it. — Benj96
In that sense, it ‘occupies’ all of the spacetime that I do - although all of this spacetime that I consist of need not occupy all of this mind. — Possibility
Data surely occupies space in the computer. This space may be no larger or less than it was previously but rather a specific pattern or configuration of "on" switches and "off" switches but no less the information occupies the space of the computer in a certain encrypted order. — Benj96
Does the mind occupy a space? — Daniel
If consciousness is related to a type of working memory, then you could say that the finite information in working memory occupies memory space.If it occupies a space, it must have a limit. What limits the mind? — Daniel
If there are other minds then it seems to be necessarily so that each mind occupies its own space. — Harry Hindu
My mind does not overlap your mind or else how could we say that our mind are separate? — Harry Hindu
Does the mind occupy a space? — Daniel
So basically you think your whole body contains your mind? — Sir2u
If there are other minds only implies that they are separate, you cannot conclude that they occupy a space from that. — Sir2u
No. The body cannot contain the mind, because the spatial aspect of the mind need not be confined to the body. — Possibility
The spatial location of the mind is a ‘fuzzy’ concept. The highest probability of ‘measuring’ it at any one time would locate the mind in the brain, but neither the brain nor the body appears to necessarily contain it. — Possibility
do you think there is a definition which would encompass every space there is? — Daniel
like, is there a feature which is common to all spaces so that they all can be classified as such in terms of such feature? — Daniel
does my question make sense? — Daniel
Also, if they are separate, what does this mean? I mean, to be separate, wouldn't they have to occupy a different point in some kind of space? — Daniel
So the mind of a person can be outside of the body? — Sir2u
What is measured in the brain is electrical and chemical activity, is that what the mind is? — Sir2u
Data in a computer does not occupy any space at all. — Sir2u
If minds are separate then what is the medium that separates them?If there are other minds only implies that they are separate, you cannot conclude that they occupy a space from that. — Sir2u
So basically you think your whole body contains your mind? — Sir2u
Does a computer occupy space? If so, then why wouldn't the memory inside it also occupy space? The amount of memory that you can install in a computer is limited by the amount of space inside the computer.My computer memory does not overlap with yours, but I cannot prove that they occupy a space either. — Sir2u
A hard disk can be explained in the most simplistic way as a metallic disk that has its atoms rearranged to form specific magnetic patterns.
The atoms are part of the disk, no matter what the data or lack of data does to them. Filling the disk completely full will make no difference to the space occupied by the disk nor the space of the whole computer. — Sir2u
The complexity of our neural network indicates how much information we have stored in our brain, but brains are more or less the same size. — Harry Hindu
A blank drive occupies the same amount of physical space as a drive filled to capacity. What makes them different is the complexity of the patterns within that physical space. — Harry Hindu
The electrons which correlate with the concepts that humans have mentally assigned to them certainly do occupy a space within computers and microchips. — Francis
1. Everything that exists occupies a space.
2. The mind exists.
3. The mind occupies a space. — Daniel
Yeah but that's only true for objects which have meaning projected onto them. An objects mass doesn't take up any extra space but mass still exists, but it exists as a property of an object that takes up space and not as an object itself. — Francis
Does the mind occupy a space? — Daniel
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