reductionism about mind

Perhaps, particle positions and momenta completely define physical systems {reductionism, mind theory}. Knowing particle times and energies is equivalent to knowing positions and momenta.

Position and momentum information can predict all future positions and momenta.

questions

Does everything that happens in the physical universe result only from elementary-particle interactions? Are all events and objects determined by current particle and wave positions and momenta, or times and energies? Can higher-level cause affect particle and wave positions and momenta? Can there be something fundamental that is not particles and waves, positions and momenta, times and energies? Do sense qualities have extra information, more than brain anatomical, physiological, psychophysical, and biochemical information?

brain

Under reductionism, brain-particle and environment-object positions and momenta completely define future brain states.

non-physical

Perhaps, physical information can specify non-physical things, properties, or relations. Sentences about non-physical can derive from physical description. Mental processes are explainable by physical brain structures and functions. Facts about people and oneself can use more-elementary terms, without persons or first person. For example, people can be animals with physical and chemical processes.

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