Articulation and conceptualization are, like all processes, “embedded” in reality, in matterspacetime.
Tag: physicalism
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All along we are stuck in the paradigm where the mind owns the body, where the mind is seen as whole and the body part.
When we have a body owner paradigm the body is whole and the mind is part.
By flipping the paradigm many problems dissolve. What once were hard problems become easy ones.
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When I say “my mind” I no longer mean the owner is that of a souls or spirit but the owner of the mind is the body.
The owner of the mind is the body. I can no longer say my body either.
“Property is theft.”
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There are particulars and the entire set of unique particulars.
Everything in between are universals.
There is nothing more specific to particulars and nothing more general to the set.
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The mind is identical to the process of the body.
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This is not a new approach. Identity theorists, eliminativists, physicalists, materialists, realists are all versions of a philosophy that argues that the world is not dependent on the mind.
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If the physical is of secondary importance then what is its function to that which is of primary importance?
There is a danger to downgrading the physical over the non-physical, namely there is no access to the latter realm.
Justifications of this are in general claims of a priori knowledge and existence when we only have a posteriori knowledge to work with.
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