[Carey]

I'm trying to reach a belt level so that I can upload my picture of quarks, and I'm trying to do it by making a sufficient number of posts without engaging in "spam." I got my entry printed in the latest issue of Philosophy Now magazine, to their "Question of the Month." The editor took liberties with what I wrote, so here is the original version:

How does the mind relate to the brain?
Recent findings strongly suggest that physics is reducible to the study of finite time sequence patterns. The brain, in that case, is a time-ordered sequence. A human mind is a time-ordered series of momentary experiences. Human moments transpire at a rate of ten-per-second, as determined by psycho-physical experiment. Such a human series is a substructure of the more elaborate time sequence of its host brain. Thus the relation of the human mind to its brain is one of part to whole.
The reduction of physics to time sequence patterns is obtained from Russell and Whitehead's eventism by restricting it to finite sets of events. This yields quantum theory and the definition of the quantum as a discrete temporal transition, or "step of time." A 4-D time lattice is constructed in place of a space-time continuum. Space-time is thus made of quanta, like everything in this theory. The crucial insight is this: frequency ratios are inherent in time sequence patterns, and these ratios serve as the measure of relative energy in accord with Planck's E=hf. Energy is frequency. Its reciprocal is wavelength, which measures the relative duration of quanta. Frequency and wavelength are thus obtained from time sequence patterns without reliance on either waves or particles. The quantum structure of neutrinos and electrons has been found and diagrammed, which yields the structural specification of "charge quanta." The theory is published in a 28-page booklet titled "A Theory of Everything for Physics."
Eventism was meant to solve the mind-body problem and provide a superior foundation for physics. In its simplest finite form, it does both. The elimination of spatial relations from physics means that "extension in space" does not refer to anything physical. Space is instead purely phenomenal, like color. Russell's focus on different meanings of "space" as the key to the solution of the mind-body problem is thus vindicated. Whitehead's view of nature as "temporal succession" is borne out. We are led abruptly, by this advance in physics, to a panpsychic view of the world. -- Carey R. Carlson