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25 years of biophysics imagery and information concerning the nature of senses and experience. How are we to incorporate the notion of experience into the physical sciences and how do we reason about experience mathematically?

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This is a Stanford University EE380 Lecture by Dr. Steven Ericsson-Zenith of the Institute for Advanced Science & Engineering.

4 days later

If you plan to comment it is always wiser, in my view, to review the entire video. The proposal is not abstract and nor is it invisible. According to the model the universe is finite but eternal. Infinity for me is a process. In this model it is the nonlocality and dynamics of flexible closed structure, the cells and membranes of the organism, that characterize particular senses and, eventually the mind.

I cannot make sense of your notion of visibility. Are you suggesting that there is a surface that may not be measured?

All of pure mathematics is "abstract." It is mathematical physics that, ultimately, may not be. For example, Einstein argued that the notion of spacetime is abstract (in my terms ist is not a "necessary distinction" but a "way of speaking"). In my work I have replaced this notion with energy/mass, arguing from a quantum pov that all particle necessarily have mass and allowing light to form the basis also of gravitation.

Other abstractions, are useful, but not all human inventions appear useful, and it is this utility that distinguishes between them. See the work of Charles Peirce, for example.

Dear Dr. Zenith,

What I mean by visibility is the ability of one being able to see all that real stuff that one can actually see with one's eyes whenever one has them open. I thought that there was a sort of common understanding among English speaking people of what visibility entailed.

I am not suggesting to you that any surface could exist that could not be measured; I am telling you flat out that no surface can be measured. Einstein never measured any surface in his whole life.

Joe Fisher

12 days later

I'd note that the win policy here for participants is not to vote at all foe threatening videos and to vote low on the worst videos. If you have friends on FQXi you'll need to campaign for those votes.

In other words the qualifying votes seem rigged to favor the existing vadre.

Steven

Excellent lecture!

You do a good job of showing how to stay open minded, and explaining how the nature of physical reality shapes our perceptions. I admittedly did not watch the whole thing yet, but what I heard and saw was entirely congruent and cogent.

All the Best,

Jonathan

    dear Dr steven

    couldnt be much more- finite but eternal.very charismatic just voted for yours.I too have a simple video hope you find time to view ,vote and review its about how the universe can be represented using simple geometry and the trick our brains play on us to perceive what we call reality.the video link is http://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/2223.

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