Consciousness, the mind-body problem and physics?
Define "substance".
substancde = hypostasis.
You are welcome.
The term realistically requires a context before definition.
From Wikipedia: The word 'hypostasis' has been met with controversy and confusion over the years, especially in the conversations between those who consider it to be a violation of the principle of Monotheism and those who do not.
In other words your submission merely adds to the confusion.
hy·pos·ta·sis (h-pst-ss)
n. pl. hy·pos·ta·ses (-sz)
1. Philosophy The substance, essence, or underlying reality.
2. Christianity
a. Any of the persons of the Trinity.
b. The essential person of Jesus in which his human and divine natures are united.
3. Something that has been hypostatized.
4.
a. A settling of solid particles in a fluid.
b. Something that settles to the bottom of a fluid; sediment.
5. Medicine The settling of blood in the lower part of an organ or the body as a result of decreased blood flow.
6. Genetics A condition in which the action of one gene conceals or suppresses the action of another gene that is not its allele but that affects the same part or biochemical process in an organism.
Which meaning is troublesome?
ruveyn
When you tell me which meaning is involved and proposed I might be able to give you an answer.
Here's an interesting quote from one of the philosophy of physics papers I read trying to decipher the philosophical interpretations of Bell's inequality that's kinda related to the topic of this thread:
This aspect of non-locality is especially problematic for microphysical reductionists (and epiphenomenalists) who,
"...often argue that only the most basic physical properties possessed by individual parts of systems can be truly causally efficacious. There can be no higher level or ontologically emergent properties-for, if there were such properties, they would either be powerless epiphenomena or, if causally empowered, they would somehow violate the microphysical laws governing the smallest parts.
But, if microphysical systems can have properties not possessed by individual parts, then so might any system composed of such parts. Were the physical world completely governed by local processes, the reductionist might well argue that each biological system is made up of the microphysical parts that interact, perhaps stochastically, but with things that exist in microscopic local regions; so the biological can only be epiphenomena of local microphysical processes occurring in tiny regions. Biology reduces to molecular biology, which reduces in turn to microphysics. But the Bell arguments completely overturn this conception."
http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/H/James.A.H ... s_Toll.pdf
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