Time/Space and Mind/Body

[a_priori]

A little over a hundred years ago time and space were irreducibly distinct. Now we know they exist on a continuum and are mathematically related.

Since there is an aspect of consciousness that must necessarily operate in the spacetime of the physical world, wouldn’t it follow that there is the strong likelihood of a mathematical “relationship” between the two? There is an aspect of consciousness firmly routed in the “before”/“after” and the “to”/“from” of the physical world. If the mind and body interact with each other on any level (and they do) wouldn’t it follow that there must be some medium or interface that may someday be found to be mathematically quantifiable?

The mind/body problem may someday be mathematically described as space and time have been?

 

[Just_Lurking]

This seems likely to me. I think that scientific research on consciousness will take off once we are capable of building robots and other advanced thinking machines. Until then, we can only study people and other animals.

 

[HelenaMT]

A little over a hundred years ago time and space were irreducibly distinct. Now we know they exist on a continuum and are mathematically related.

Since there is an aspect of consciousness that must necessarily operate in the spacetime of the physical world, wouldn’t it follow that there is the strong likelihood of a mathematical “relationship” between the two? There is an aspect of consciousness firmly routed in the “before”/“after” and the “to”/“from” of the physical world. If the mind and body interact with each other on any level (and they do) wouldn’t it follow that there must be some medium or interface that may someday be found to be mathematically quantifiable?

The mind/body problem may someday be mathematically described as space and time have been?

I don’t know a thing about the mathematics of it, but it seems to be common sense that if we have souls, or non-material minds, or whatever you choose to call it, it somehow must have some way of interfacing with the physical(our brains, most likely), else it would have no relevance to us. If your soul isn’t affecting your behavior, what good is it? Why would God punish or reward it if it wasn’t able to physically cause or at least influence a behavior or thought?

So, yes, I think at some point we’ll be able to find something that points to some kind of interface, if we really have non-material aspects to us.