A set-theoretical requirement for nonphysical specificity in embodied evaluations of physical models of mind.
When confronting assertions that minds are physically driven, humans necessarily engage their capacity to imagine objects moving in ways unexhibited in visual examples of physical phenomena. This variety of mental imagery, however, being unspecifiable in a given human in point-to-point mappings on to physically constrained events (even in principle), therefore has a physically undefined necessity. Intervention in neurologic patients, therefore, if done according to criteria no more comprehensive than those delimiting physical paths from stimuli to responses, could not provide for that necessity. Provision for necessarily embodied mental imagery might be feasible if, in a given human, every progression through that human's mental space is permitted unique specification in mathematical hypotheses of brain.
Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation, Division of Research, New Orleans, LA 70121, USA.
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D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology; D001931:Brain Mapping; D006801:Humans; D008433:Mathematics; D008959:Models, Neurological; D008960:Models, Psychological