Maartenn100

You can't call it dimension, place, domain, etc. What would be a good name to point to this 'mental space' and to recognize its existence next to the physical domain in this world? Because this 'mental space' exists, doesn't it? Every day we witness it personally. The whole body of mathematics is only 'visible' in mental space. The whole body of science is only 'visible' in mental space. If there was not a 'mental space', we could not read these words, could we? So, it's time to recognize this 'mental space' as a part of the world. As some 'realm' in this world. M point is, that whatever activity happens in this 'domain', it's non-physical. Even if there are physical correlates (neural correlates); Your inner voice is not happening in the physical domain, isn't it? A measuring device cannot find it in the brain. (or in other materials). It's not part of the description of the physical world (physics) or chemistry. But it exists. Your inner voice exists somehow, somewhere, but it is not described in physics, nor in chemistry, both descriptions of our material world. And because its not described in physics or chemistry, both descriptions of what exists in the material world, it's not part of this material world. But the inner voice exists and is real. What is it made off? So, it has to be in some other 'domain' of reality. It is made of some other 'stuff' then its neural correlates. If neuroscientists talk about 'neural correlates', what does it correlate with? With something non-neural/non-physical? There are two 'things' correlating here. What is on the other side of the neural correlate? You can call it 'mental stuff'. So, my point is, as a physicalist, recognize, at least, that 'a mental domain' exists, next to the physical world, that correlates with neurons.

You can't call it: space, dimension, place, domain, etc. What would be a good name to point to this 'mental space' and to recognize its existence next to the physical domain in this world? Because this 'mental space' exists, doesn't it? Every day we witness it personally. The whole body of mathematics is only 'visible' in mental space. The whole body of science is only 'visible' in mental space. If there was not a 'mental space', we could not read these words, could we? So, it's time to recognize this 'mental space' as a part of the world. As some 'realm' in this world. You can't call it: space, dimension, place, domain, etc. What would be a good name to point to this 'mental space' and to recognize its existence next to the physical domain in this world? Because this 'mental space' exists, doesn't it? Every day we witness it personally. The whole body of mathematics is only 'visible' in mental space. The whole body of science is only 'visible' in mental space. If there was not a 'mental space', we could not read these words, could we? So, it's time to recognize this 'mental space' as a part of the world. As some 'realm' in this world.

It's idealism: everything is mind, and fysicality is the appearance of the mind of nature to a localised mind. That's not my model, that's the model or hypothesis of philosopher and computerscientist Bernardo Kastrup actually. It's called analytic idealism. We are like whirlpools in a river. Localised minds in the Mind of Nature. When we cease to exist we go back into the broader stream of Consciousness, just like the whirlpool ceases to exist and becomes back part of the greater stream. How other 'whirlpools of localised minds' look like for 'one localised whirlpool of mind' is like a brain and body. A metabolising organism. That's an appearance in the mind of a neuroscientist, a localised mind. A dissociated alter according to Bernardo Kastrup. We are dissociated alters from the broader Mind of Nature. We perceive a shared dream, like the dissociated alters of someone with dissociated identity disorder in the dream of this person, having a shared dream. When the alters cease to exist, the Mind awakens and recoginises: it was me all along.

The neural correlates are just the outer appearance of this inner world, dimension, or space, seen from the viewpoint of another mind. The neural correlates are 'this inner space and inner thoughts' seen in the perceptions of another mind. The neural correlates of consciousness do not cause the mind, they are the mind, seen from the perspective of another mind.

Science (as concept) is non-physical. Without this non-physical mind you could not read these words here on the page or any other book for that matter. Take the non-physical mind away from the world, and science ceases to exist.

There is at least one other dimension beyond the physical dimension we witness daily: the hidden 'spatial' dimension where the inner voice, inner thoughts, inner images, and dreams 'reside'. For ourselves, this dimension is visible to our 'mind's eye'. We notice our inner voice, witness our thoughts and observe our dreams. However, the same dimension and its non-physical entities are not visible to us in others or in the rest of the physical world. Thus, we do not know if ChatGPT also has such an 'inner experiential world'. Such a hidden spatial dimension. We assume it in animals. We hardly suspect it in a computer component or radio. We do not even consider that there may be other hidden dimensions tied to the physical world that we cannot discover, which are different from that inwardly noticeable non-physical space. When we see someone, we do not see their hidden non-physical dimension from which they conceptualize, dream, have inner images, and so forth. When this person dies, we also do not see what happens to this inner space. It is possible that this inner space 'expands', now that the physical matter to which this dimension was tied, crumbles. We can never directly see this space of the other, so we also do not know what happens to it after the death of the material correlates. I am asking here and now for immediate recognition from the physicalists for this non-physical dimension or space where thoughts, inner images, the inner voice, dreams, and experiences reside! That there exists at least one non-physical domain, or 'space' or 'dimension' that each of us personally witnesses, but cannot observe in others or the other physical objects, and about which we fundamentally do not know what happens after the disintegration of the material correlates of this non-physical dimension!