Javier Galadí - The relativity of the duality

My talk is divided into two parts. First, I argue that the tradition of the mind-body problem hides from us the true meanings of the mental and the physical. Then, I propose the mathematical formalism associated with the corrected approach to the problem of consciousness. In the known solutions of the mind-body problem, the traditional concepts of the mental and the physical are accepted. This causes the philosophical problem to be unsolvable and induces the mathematical models of consciousness to be ill-posed. The tradition assumes that the concepts of the mental and the physical are absolute: what is physical (mental) is physical (mental) regardless of who asserts it. Here I argue that the concepts are relative to the observer in the same way that space and time are relative to the observer in Einstein's theory of relativity. Just as there is no such thing as absolute time and space, in my mathematical formulation the third person point of view is eliminated. Instead, I posit equations relating the first- person viewpoints of different observers, including their respective relative concepts of the mental and the physical. Finally, I formalize the set of transformations associated with observer changes.

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My conclusion is that the author has justified his claim that his argument should be taken seriously