Whenever I come across a conversation concerning the mind and it’s relation to physics I think of what a Cognitive science lecturer of mine had to say on the subject.
Physicalism is a form of insistence that there is some mind-independent description of the world. Any definition of
the physical brings with it the concomitant necessity to define the mental. I’m sorry if my writing is unclear on this, but
it attempts to point out that there is no “easy route” through an appeal to the physical, as any appeal to the physical
necessarily depends on some view of the mystical, magical, never to be seen, mental. Physicalism is thus not any
kind of plausible metaphysics.
Whenever I come across a conversation concerning the mind and it’s relation to physics I think of what a Cognitive science lecturer of mine had to say on the subject.
Fred Cummins