Well, I can't really say much about what the hypothetical joe blow thinks about this. A brain absent a mind is a non-functional brain, I imagine. — Wosret
↪Banno Nope. Philosophers have to learn that there is nothing out there except systems in a a quantum state. Forget about this stuff about atoms. Plus there is no boundary.
↪Thanatos Sand There are only quantum states.
Whatever you and the neurologists wish to make up does not change that physicists can only find quanta.
There is no glass nor is there shape.
Just the probability equation and what is observed by humans.
It has to be observed.
There is nothing there except quanta. — Rich
You find me the quantum definition of a teacup. It doesn't exist
You are making it up with your mind and then want to insert it into the .... where? Your own textbook on physics?
I don't care about the quantum definition of a teacup. Quanta is your nonsensical fixation. — Thanatos Sand
Oh, those good old days of Aristotle and Newton. We do miss them don't we? Life was so much simpler.
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