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Do Rocks Have Minds under FMI?

Writer: Mike Rowen
Mike Rowen
Apr 28
1 min read

Updated: Jul 9

It is fair to wonder whether FMI is suggesting that things such as rocks have minds and experience an inner life. 



The short answer is yes but nothing remotely close to what kinesin and other complex molecules inside cells would experience. 


A rock is a collection of atoms held rigidly together by strong electromagnetic bonds that severely limit the ability of its constituent atoms to move.  This means the atoms would generate a fairly uniform, almost static electromagnetic field that has little-to-no capacity for information exchange between the atoms that form the rock. 


Complex minds in FMI require a flexible and electromagnetically dynamic matter substrate to have the capability to store and retrieve information, process information, receive and decode signals, form and transmit signals, form memories, and develop more complex intelligence, which collectively create the ability to have more complex mental experience. 


Cells, organelles, and complex molecules inside cells have flexible physical structures that move, communicate, and interact with other forms of matter. These behaviors require a dynamic, electromagnetically active field surrounding and pervading their structures in order for their minds to be able to influence the behavior of their bodies.


Rocks lack such a dynamic, flexible, electromagnetically active substrate, thus have minds that would be at best only slightly more complex than the atoms they are made of.

 
 
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