Psychons and Intentyons, Part 4: Client-Server Dualism

The stories in my previous two posts are fantasies, of course.  But in my opinion, they are particularly coherent fantasies, and they are the curious kind of fantasy that might be true, in the sense that we have no evidence that the possible world they describe is not in fact our world.

We currently have no evidence of the details of the real psychophysical interaction mechanism.  But maybe the real mechanism is similar to my two stories in that it is not consciousness itself that has a direct influence on matter; rather, there is a medium of communication of meaningful messages between the physical domain and the conscious domain.

This theory could be called “client-server dualism”.  According to client-server dualism, the conscious mind is like a server that exchanges meaningful messages with a client program running in the brain.