A Mental-Physical-Self Topology: The Answer Gleaned From Modeling the Mind-Body Problem

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Christopher Morgan
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Abstract The mind-body problem is intuitively familiar, as mental and physical entities mysteriously interact. However, difficulties arise when intertwining concepts of the self with mental and physical traits. To avoid confusion, I propose instead focusing on three categories, with the mental matching the mind and physical the body with respect to raw inputs and outputs. The third category, the self, will experience and measure the others. With this new classification, we can see difficulties clearly, specifically five questions covering interaction and correlation. We break down the problem using both existing theories and a hypercube topology representing the solution. We show any satisfactory theory must explain both spatial interaction and content correlation, and that we cannot escape our topology, whatever our preferred fundamental substance and mind-body movement permutation. We conclude by looking outside the hypercube, noting how solutions such as existential monism, priority monism, and will-based cosmic-idealism avoid the dangers involved.
身心自拓扑:从身心问题建模中寻找答案
精神-身体问题在直觉上是熟悉的,因为精神和身体实体神秘地相互作用。然而,当自我概念和心理和身体特征交织在一起时,就会出现困难。为了避免混淆,我建议将重点放在三个类别上,在原始输入和输出方面,精神与精神相匹配,身体与身体相匹配。第三类,自我,将体验和衡量他人。有了这个新的分类,我们可以清楚地看到困难,特别是涉及互动和相关性的五个问题。我们使用现有的理论和表示解决方案的超立方体拓扑来分解这个问题。我们证明,任何令人满意的理论都必须解释空间相互作用和内容相关性,并且我们不能逃避我们的拓扑结构,无论我们喜欢什么基本物质和身心运动排列。最后,我们在超立方体之外观察,注意到存在主义一元论、优先一元论和基于意志的宇宙唯心主义等解决方案是如何避免所涉及的危险的。
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