Part of this idea is something I thought of this morning, and there is no proof of it. Sometimes talking about a new idea leads to a comment from someone which triggers a newer idea in my mind.
Background: I have a guess going - that subjective qualities of perception are acxtual dimensions which interact with physical dimensions. Thus, there would be one to several redness dimensions, one to several blueness dimensions, one to several sound-of-middle-c dimensions, one to several smooth-feel dimensions, etc.
The reason is that none of those properties exist in physical structures or processes. For example, we interpret different electromagnetic wave lengths as different colors, but in the physical, they are all the same except being of different lengths.
Now time is a dimension because it interacts with spatial dimensions, although it is different from a spatial dimension. Similarly, subjective properties could be dimensions like time is a dimension, because like time, they interact with spatial dimensions. For example, physical processes in the brain (space) cause subjective properties, so they do interact with spatial dimensions, as a dimension should.
That means that certain arrangements of subjective property dimensions should have effects on physical structures and processes. With additional knowledge, that might lead to new technologies.
Now this morning's guess:
The brain uses both nerve impulses and chemical interactions to process information. For example, at the synapse, neurotransmitter molecules drift from one nerve to another, and some of them then dock with a neurotransmitter molecule receptor on the surface of the second neuron. The receptor is a sort of round pore, and when a molecule docks in it, that changes it's shape.
My guess, then, is that the shapes of molecules may be a point at which subjective property dimensions interact with the physical, so molecules with different shapes arranged in certain patterns, might interact with different patterns of subjective property dimension, and that might lead to new technologies.
Jim
Jim
Background: I have a guess going - that subjective qualities of perception are acxtual dimensions which interact with physical dimensions. Thus, there would be one to several redness dimensions, one to several blueness dimensions, one to several sound-of-middle-c dimensions, one to several smooth-feel dimensions, etc.
The reason is that none of those properties exist in physical structures or processes. For example, we interpret different electromagnetic wave lengths as different colors, but in the physical, they are all the same except being of different lengths.
Now time is a dimension because it interacts with spatial dimensions, although it is different from a spatial dimension. Similarly, subjective properties could be dimensions like time is a dimension, because like time, they interact with spatial dimensions. For example, physical processes in the brain (space) cause subjective properties, so they do interact with spatial dimensions, as a dimension should.
That means that certain arrangements of subjective property dimensions should have effects on physical structures and processes. With additional knowledge, that might lead to new technologies.
Now this morning's guess:
The brain uses both nerve impulses and chemical interactions to process information. For example, at the synapse, neurotransmitter molecules drift from one nerve to another, and some of them then dock with a neurotransmitter molecule receptor on the surface of the second neuron. The receptor is a sort of round pore, and when a molecule docks in it, that changes it's shape.
My guess, then, is that the shapes of molecules may be a point at which subjective property dimensions interact with the physical, so molecules with different shapes arranged in certain patterns, might interact with different patterns of subjective property dimension, and that might lead to new technologies.
Jim
Jim