Roger846

Asserting something doesn't make it so, but everyone has different opinions, and that's okay.  

To me, the conscious experience when you see a red apple, for example, is just the association of certain memories of:

• The physical taste of the apple (certain taste receptors activating neurons to the brain) and maybe the memory of the feeling of hunger when you've eaten apples
• The people near you or the places where you've eaten apples in the past (maybe apple picking, at home, etc.)
• The neural concept of apple and red and all their associated memories 

These memories all appear in the movie screen in your mind (which itself is some kind of neural activ... (read more)

Hi.  My comment is kind of long, so sorry about that up front.  

1. In regard to 
   
   “the exact states of our minds follow in principle purely mathematically from that fundamental mathematical theory, including the fact that we know that this universe “exists”…this implies that the existence of our universe is in principle a mathematical implication of the fundamental theory that describes our universe.”
   
   The state of our minds and the existence of our universe doesn’t follow from a mathematical theory.  It follows from the reality that the mathe

Hi. I'm new to this site and stumbled across it via searching for the "Why is there something rather than nothing?" question. My own thinking about this question makes me think that the statement "The universe exists AND the universe doesn’t exist” can be true. I think that the thing we often think of as “nothing” (the lack of all matter, energy, space/volume, time, abstract concepts, laws of physics/math/logic, “possibilities” and the lack of all minds to consider this supposed lack of all) is, when thought of from another angle, a ... (read more)