This PhilPapers web site offers contributors the opportunity to non-publicly state their philosophical views. The very first question asked for this purpose is this: Mind: non-physicalism or physicalism? I prefer to respond publicly to this question.
Physicalism is the phantom dreamed up by 20C analytic philosophers to protect their territory from 20C Physics. If you think, as I do, that the big issues in Physics that have become increasingly clear to Physicists are a consequence of their realism, then you must dismiss this non-sense, and seek a better Physics.
I have spent a life-time trying to better understand WHAT HAPPENS and WHAT IS. …
This PhilPapers web site offers contributors the opportunity to non-publicly state their philosophical views. The very first question asked for this purpose is this: Mind: non-physicalism or physicalism? I prefer to respond publicly to this question.
Physicalism is the phantom dreamed up by 20C analytic philosophers to protect their territory from 20C Physics. If you think, as I do, that the big issues in Physics that have become increasingly clear to Physicists are a consequence of their realism, then you must dismiss this non-sense, and seek a better Physics.
I have spent a life-time trying to better understand WHAT HAPPENS and WHAT IS. What I call STRICT EMPIRICISM is the philosophy aspect and what I call MINDFUL PHYSICS is the physics aspect of my answer to these questions. It is an answer with immense prospects for any open-minded (so probably young) person who is prepared to abandon whatever vestiges of realism remain in her/his mind.
[Incidentally, I am a mathematician, now retired, and was happily employed for many years at UTas, and previously at UWA and Cal State San Bernardino. My ANU MSc in functional analysis was supervised by Robert Edwards, and my abandoned PhD in harmonic analysis at U Washington, Seattle, was supervised by Ed Hewitt.]