HI! New to forum. Metaphysics / Philosophy of Mind

[facundo]

Hi everybody, I'm profoundly glad to join this forum.
My name is Facundo Bromberg, originally from Argentina where I got my M.S. ("Licenciatura") in Physics from the Instituto Blaseiro (in case you know the place). Currently I am pursuing a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence-Machine Learning at the Comp Sci department-Iowa State University.
Those are the academic hard facts. The academic soft-facts are that I am a metaphysicist, who's deepest interest is on the Mind. This encompasses Consciousness, Intelligence, the Mind-Body problem, Perception, Computation, and the nature of Physical reality. But my method is scientific. I only believe in empirical facts and logically consistent theories, thus including Eastern Philosophies (which I find deeply consistent), and of course Science.
My dreamed job would be to do theoretical research on the fundamental theory of the mind. Unfortunately that is not yet a scientific discipline .
I joined this forum because while teaching Physics this summer I wondered why all this mess with particle-wave duality, crazy interpretations of QM, the collapse of the wave length problem, etc. Why not believing de Broglie's waves are the real thing? I spent two weeks thinking on this and came up with some (quite modest) results, and then found this webpage together with Milo Wolff's work and Gabriele Lafernier's work.
And so I decided to jump in. I hope I can engage in a fruitful cooperation with all of you.

Facundo Bromberg

[haselhurst]

Hi Facundo,
Thanks for writing to us and joining our forum. I find your work and ideas very interesting and hope over time we can share ideas on the Wave Structure of Matter and how this relates to the mind (a very complex problem).
Please be patient with us. This is a small (very exclusive!) forum and not many people discuss the WSM yet. But hopefully we can do some good work here and in time we shall see where that leads!
I think the mind is one of the most interesting things in the universe, since it is the only way that we can experience both physical reality and our awareness of ourselves as part of that reality.

I have been reading Talbot's "Holographic Universe" and he has a lot on the power of the mind to affect matter (both our bodies and physical experiments). And there seems to be some evidence that the mind is not just located in the brain (WSM requires that you must combine brain , body and universe as a unity).

I have also recently read a bit on Carl Jung, and clearly his ideas of the Collective Unconscious and Synchronicity are worth exploring, as the WSM suggests mechanisms where our thinking is sending out wave signals that can perhaps subtly affect the thoughts of others. I think this is particularly noticeable in crowd behaviour (though there are obviously other more direct factors involved, e.g. sight, hearing, smell).

Anyway, just a short hello. Look forward to discussing things over time.
All the best,
Geoff Haselhurst

PS - I have added you as a 'moderator' so you can post anywhere in this forum. I limit access so that we can try and maintain a quality forum discussion (even if it means things are pretty quiet most of the time!). And i do respect your attitude about science - it is easy for our imagination to delude us (we can imagine almost anything) and this must be constrained by rules of Science (physics philosophy metaphysics) if we are to make any real progress.