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Within a comatose state the body is without wakefulness and awareness of the eternal world. Is this a kind of idealist-rationalist bliss? If such a mind can survive without having to deal with the outside, would it remain in this state to do so? It is interesting that coma patients when they recover do not… Continue reading Coma, time, idealism
However, in physics, things exist such as point particles (no length or breadth), forces (only location), and wave functions (probabilities of being found at certain places), which do not fit the spatiality criterion but are not mental in nature. There are also things which lack spatial character yet are actual, such as numbers. Mind and… Continue reading Mind and body…
All things were together; then came Mind and set them in order. (Anaxagoras, 500~428BCE) 1. While Anaxagoras is considered the first Western philosopher to place mind above matter, this quote should also be noted that it suggests that matter came first before mind. I wholly agree that matter comes first. I also agree that there… Continue reading On Anaxagoras
What is there to represent (phenomena) without the senses and the sensing of the world (noumena)? A non-sensing being would have nothing to think about (no phenomena) without the objects of the physical world. In other words, thought is always, firstly, about things, real things, and then, and only then, is it about abstract (mental)… Continue reading Know thy place
“Those who step into the same river have different waters flowing ever upon them.” (Heraclitus, in Freeman, 25) Heraclitus observing the world accepted change as the its fundamental nature. Often Heraclitus is paraphrased as everything is in flux. Time is seemingly a fundamental part of observed material reality. It can be observed to pass at… Continue reading Sleep, time, reality
Avicenna was an Arabic philosopher who lived from 980 to 1037. He followed the Greek wisdom, consciously rejecting Islamic theology. He wrote in “On The Soul” the following thought experiment: If I were blindfolded and suspended in the air, touching nothing … I would not know that I have a body. But I would know… Continue reading Avicenna’s Flying Man experiment
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