scholarly journals Panpsychism, causal determinism and totally global fatalism for the real physical world: mind, consciousness, mental model and their neural substrates

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoyang Yu
Keyword(s):  
Mental Model ◽  
Neural Substrates ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Living Standard ◽  
Many Worlds ◽  
Causal Determinism ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Many ◽  
Physical Laws ◽  
M Theory

What we usually view as the physical world is actually a mental model in our mind. Let’s call the mental model the tamed physical world (TPW). We can call the actual physical world the wild physical world (WPW). A flower in front of me is a mental model in my TPW. Its physical entity is in the WPW, not in my TPW as we usually think. If M-theory is correct, the brain of human is only able to detect four of the eleven possible dimensions for the TPW. If the many-worlds interpretation is correct, time is a many-branched tree for mind. The WPW is controlled by its physical laws, so all physical events in the WPW are inevitable. Minds are created by the WPW. So, all events in the minds are inevitable. So, we are powerless to do anything other than what we actually do. This is the view of fatalism. An individual’s good life is not caused by virtue. So, if you want to be fair, you need to admit that every individual in the physical world deserves the same living standard. “All events are inevitable, so whatever I do, the future will not change, so I can do anything.” This thought is incorrect. Because I cannot assume that I have the free will to choose and that the future will not change at the same time.

scholarly journals Randomness, panpsychism, causal determinism and a totally global fatalism for the real physical world: non-physical existence of mind/consciousness, mental model and their neural substrates

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoyang Yu
Keyword(s):  
Mental Model ◽  
Neural Substrates ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Causal Determinism ◽  
The Real ◽  
Neural Substrate ◽  
Physical Laws

An individual has no control even over his/her choices. His/her choices are controlled by his neurons. His/her neurons are controlled by the physical laws. So, his/her choices are controlled by the physical laws. So, he/she is powerless to do anything other than what he/she actually does. This is the view of fatalism. Specifically, this is the view of a totally global fatalism, where people have no control even over their choices. And I just argued for fatalism by appeal to causal determinism. The non-physical existence of mind or the non-physical existence of consciousness has no impact on the physical world, the choices, or the neural substrate of the non-physical mind/consciousness.

scholarly journals Randomness, panpsychism, causal determinism and a totally global fatalism for the real physical world: non-physical existence of mind/consciousness, mental model and their neural substrates

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoyang Yu
Keyword(s):  
Mental Model ◽  
Neural Substrates ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Causal Determinism ◽  
The Real ◽  
Neural Substrate ◽  
Physical Laws

An individual has no control even over his/her choices. His/her choices are controlled by his neurons. His/her neurons are controlled by the physical laws. So, his/her choices are controlled by the physical laws. So, he/she is powerless to do anything other than what he/she actually does. This is the view of fatalism. Specifically, this is the view of a totally global fatalism, where people have no control even over their choices. And I just argued for fatalism by appeal to causal determinism. The non-physical existence of mind or the non-physical existence of consciousness has no impact on the physical world, the choices, or the neural substrate of the non-physical mind/consciousness.

scholarly journals Fatalistic causal determinism, problematic informal logic and pretended free will

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoyang Yu
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Informal Logic ◽  
Physical Event ◽  
Causal Determinism ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Mind

Causal determinism is not widely accepted. My worldview is the only correct worldview; it’s a type of causal determinism; it’s fatalistic. The physical events corresponding to the mind act as pseudo mind. If my mind exists, mentality seems to be fundamental and ubiquitous in the natural world. Mind might not exist. Physical law rules the physical world; mind has no influence on the physical world; so, every physical event is inevitable. Some misunderstandings in your mind make you feel like that you have free will. We have no free will, but we assume that we have free will, so we unintentionally pretend to have free will. Brain has a tendency to survival, despite of the logic it has, so it tends to ignore determinism. Our informal logic has problems which cause a paradox about causal determinism; the future is deterministic does not mean that you are free to do anything now.

scholarly journals A biosemiotic conversation: Between physics and semiotics

2009 ◽  
Vol 37 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 311-331 ◽  
Author(s):  
Howard H. Pattee ◽  
Kalevi Kull
Keyword(s):  
Future Directions ◽  
Hierarchical Levels ◽  
The Future ◽  
Semiotic Freedom ◽  
The Many ◽  
Physical Laws

In this dialogue, we discuss the contrast between inexorable physical laws and the semiotic freedom of life. We agree that material and symbolic structures require complementary descriptions, as do the many hierarchical levels of their organizations. We try to clarify our concepts of laws, constraints, rules, symbols, memory, interpreters, and semiotic control. We briefly describe our different personal backgrounds that led us to a biosemiotic approach, and we speculate on the future directions of biosemiotics.

scholarly journals Three Real Futures for Virtual Worlds

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Boellstorff
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Critical Moment ◽  
The Future ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
The Many

We are at a critical moment in the study of virtual worlds, where there is great need for theoretical work to clarify what research on virtual worlds can offer. In this article I seek to help set our theoretical affairs in order, with regard to the future of virtual worlds (and thus our research on virtual worlds). First, the false opposition between “virtual” and “real” fails to capture the many ways virtual worlds are real (and the many ways that not everything in the physical world is real). Second, virtual worlds are valuable to study regardless of their size; we should not mistake size for significance, and encourage study of larger and smaller virtual worlds. Third, virtual worlds share features with each other and with other online socialities, but also have specific aspects that differ; studying both these similarities and differences is valuable to comprehensive and comparative research.

scholarly journals Causal determinism, computational theory of mind, and a totally global fatalism for the objective world from the third-person perspective of a dedicated personality state

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoyang Yu
Keyword(s):  
Physical World ◽  
Computational Theory Of Mind ◽  
Causal Determinism ◽  
The Third ◽  
Person Perspective ◽  
Neural Substrate ◽  
Third Person ◽  
Third Person Perspective ◽  
Physical Laws ◽  
The Third Person

An individual has no control even over her choices. Her choices are controlled by the neural substrate. The neural substrate is controlled by the physical laws. So, her choices are controlled by the physical laws. So, she is powerless to do anything other than what she actually does. This is the view of fatalism. Specifically, this is the view of a totally global fatalism, where people have no control even over their choices, from the third-person perspective. And I just argued for fatalism by appeal to causal determinism. The non-physical existence of mind or the non-physical existence of consciousness has no impact on the physical world, the choices, or the neural substrate of the non-physical existence of mind/consciousness.

The future role of the psychiatrist in Europe – a UEMS perspective

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (01) ◽  
pp. 35-42
Author(s):  
M. Hermans
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
General Interest ◽  
Future Role ◽  
Personal Opinion ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Many

SummaryThe author presents his personal opinion inviting to discussion on the possible future role of psychiatrists. His view is based upon the many contacts with psychiatrists all over Europe, academicians and everyday professionals, as well as the familiarity with the literature. The list of papers referred to is based upon (1) the general interest concerning the subject when representing ideas also worded elsewhere, (2) the accessibility to psychiatrists and mental health professionals in Germany, (3) being costless downloadable for non-subscribers and (4) for some geographic aspects (e.g. Belgium, Spain, Sweden) and the latest scientific issues, addressing some authors directly.

Every Olive Tree in the Garden of Gethsemane

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy Babcox
Keyword(s):  
Olive Tree ◽  
Photographic Images ◽  
The Future ◽  
Olive Trees ◽  
The Many ◽  
Radical Transformation

Every Olive Tree in the Garden of Gethsemane is a suite of photographic images of each of the twenty-three olive trees in the garden. Situated at the foot of the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, the Garden of Gethsemane is known to many as the site where Jesus and his disciples prayed the night before his crucifixion. The oldest trees in the garden date to 1092 and are recognized as some of the oldest olive trees in existence. The older trees are a living and symbolic connection to the distant past, while younger trees serve as a link to the future. The gnarled trunks seem written with the many conflicts that have been waged in an effort to control this most-contested city; a city constantly on the threshold of radical transformation.

Causal determinism and a totally global fatalism from the third-person perspective

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoyang Yu
Keyword(s):  
Human Brain ◽  
Human Language ◽  
Causal Determinism ◽  
The Third ◽  
Person Perspective ◽  
Neural Substrate ◽  
Third Person ◽  
Third Person Perspective ◽  
Physical Laws ◽  
The Third Person

The human brain and the human language are precisely constructed together by evolution/genes, so that in the objective world, a human brain can tell a story to another brain in human language which describes an imagined multiplayer game; in this story, one player of the game represents the human brain itself. It’s possible that the human kind doesn’t really have a subjective world (doesn’t really have conscious experience). An individual has no control even over her choices. Her choices are controlled by the neural substrate. The neural substrate is controlled by the physical laws. So, her choices are controlled by the physical laws. So, she is powerless to do anything other than what she actually does. This is the view of fatalism. Specifically, this is the view of a totally global fatalism, where people have no control even over their choices, from the third-person perspective. And I just argued for fatalism by appeal to causal determinism. Psychologically, a third-person perspective and a new, dedicated personality state are required to bear the totally global fatalism, to avoid severe cognitive dissonance with our default first-person perspective and our original personality state.

Envisioning Entrepreneurship’s Future: Introducing Me-Search and Research Agendas

2021 ◽  
pp. 104225872110268
Author(s):  
Dean A. Shepherd ◽  
Johan Wiklund ◽  
Dimo Dimov
Keyword(s):  
Research Agenda ◽  
Practical Problem ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Entrepreneurship Research ◽  
Research Opportunities ◽  
The Future ◽  
Research Agendas ◽  
The Many

The future of the field of entrepreneurship is bright primarily because of the many research opportunities to make a difference. However, as scholars how can we find these opportunities and choose the ones most likely to contribute to the literature? This essay introduces me-search and a special issue of research-agenda papers from leading scholars as tools for blazing new trails in entrepreneurship research. Me-search and the agenda papers point to the importance of solving a practical problem; problematizing, contextualizing, and abstracting entrepreneurship research; and using empirical theorizing to explore entrepreneurial phenomena.

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