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I hate to break it to you, but brainwaves are very much a physical phenomenon. What is the point of that quote in this context exactly?

• colordrops 9y ago
  Are abstractions a physical phenomenon?
  • pessimizer 9y ago
    Are brain waves abstractions?
    • colordrops 9y ago
      Yes.
    • deleted 9y ago
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    • terminado 9y ago
      Only if you consider being kept alive on life support a sufficient implementation to back the main interface of "alive.h"?
• tlarkworthy 9y ago
  Perception runs on hardware, but it's software. It's importance is non-physical. Penrose[1] divided the realms of reality into 3: platonic-mathmatical, physical reality and the mind. I think Tesla is also suggesting scientific study of the mind is distinct from physics. I agree too. Perception is bad representation of reality, but it shapes all of the human experience. Edit: I miss attributed to Mandlebrot originally. Both like tessalation! 1 https://astudentforever.wordpress.com/2015/03/13/roger-penroses-three-worlds-and-three-deep-mysteries-theory/ https://astudentforever.wordpress.com/2015/03/13/roger-penro...
  • doomlaser 9y ago
    Except that the structure of neurons and their physical connections with each other in the brain is very much physical, and we don't have the understanding of those systems on a conceptual 'software' level yet, so observations such as those made in this article are based purely on observation of the physical phenomenon.
    • tlarkworthy 8y ago
      Except that the concept of friends is non-physical
      • doomlaser 8y ago
        This article compares the physical structure of the brains of friends.