## Tags - Part of: [[Cognitive science]] [[Philosophy]] [[Neuroscience]] - Related: - Includes: - Additional: ## Main resources - [Philosophy of mind - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_mind) <iframe src="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_mind" allow="fullscreen" allowfullscreen="" style="height:100%;width:100%; aspect-ratio: 16 / 5; "></iframe> ## Landscapes - [Philosophy of mind - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_mind) ![[ee9303ab02f0f0db1c80e9692e05eb66_MD5.jpeg]] ## Contents - [[Identity]] ## Brainstorming What is true in philosophy of mind? Physicalism? Idealism? Panpsychism? Illusionism? Dualism? Monism? Mysterianism? I feel like big part of me personally became agnostic, as the space of all possible positions in philosophy of mind seems so large and kind of arbitrary what camp you pick. For a scientist, physicalism is useful. If you do meditation or psychedelics a lot, you'll gravitate towards idealism or mysterianism. There was a paper showing this correlation as well, but it may not be causation, but I suspect it is. And most normies in our culture usually think in cartesian dualism I feel like, maybe that's the current evolutionary baseline. From a physicalist perspective, I feel like all these positions in philosophy of mind have their own neural correlates that say how the brain constructs the model of self and other and of qualia. Dualists model a bigger boundary between inner experiential world and outer nonexperiential world, while dualists don't have a boundary and everything is one thing, either experience, no experience, or something third. Panpsychists label as experiential world everything. Illusionists label nothing. Open individualists have their model of inner self exploded to their model of the whole universe. Personally, I've experienced so many of these, that right now I'm like: Ok, all of them can feel true if you do the intellectualization or other activities that induce these states of mind, so reality maybe is incomprehensible instead and this is from scientific physicalist perspective all just useful programs for my ape brain. But it's useful to assume that this ape brain creates one conscious world simulation, like for example how Joscha Bach assumes it, as that allows you to do all sorts of engineering of mental representations and of qualia, by internal engineering by conscious actions, or by external engineering by neurotechnology. So it feels like right now in my experiential world and in my intellectual world of mental representations, specifically in the philosophy of mind, there's currently a superposition of physicalism and mysterianism. Science and engineering me prefers physicalism with laws of physics with all it's emergent laws in our brain being our qualia, philosophical me prefers mysterianism swimming in the combinatorial explosion of possible philosophy mind positions, and experiential me experiences both at the same time. [[Thoughts mind]] [[Thoughts philosophy of mind]]