A Philosophy of Mind

Is the mind the same as the body? What is consciousness? Can machines have it?

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Whereas electricity is immediately bound together like the north pole and south pole thus has the same fundamental reasoning determination of magnetism, yet it is more concrete than magnetism and less concrete then chemical process. The determination of magnetism is extreme punctiformity which affirmed as inner shapelessness because on one hand it is brittleness and on the other hand assumed by liquids.


Air and water enter in the place is called refraction there are two ways, ordinary refraction, and double images. Water has a greater specific weight in air therefore can contracts into a smaller space is what refraction is.
I can show refraction if I place two coins in separate glasses, one is filled with water and the other is empty. You will see that the coin in the glass filled with water is seen in a different place then from the coin placed in the glass that is empty of water.
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That coin which is seen in the glass of water is seen a coin in a different higher place then the coin in the empty glass; Those who shoot fish in water know to aim below the spot where they see the fish.

Earth bonds with the elements air fire and water into a series of procedures. One action is the meteorological, the study of the atmosphere of celestial bodies.

The process earth affirms itself with the unity of elements, air, fire and water in the form of barometric index level. The barometric changes are inside the terrestrial earth. For example earth attracts the atmosphere either more or less; the higher level of the barometric level puts an end to the forming of water and the lower level permits the form of water . The higher the level is a greater tension of earth inwardness is earth's way of showing its form.
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There was a famous scholar name Theuth who lived in Ancient Egypt, city of Naucratis the later capital of Ptolemaic Egypt, Alexandria. It was the first and, for much of its early history, the only Greek colony in Egypt; acting as a symbiotic nexus for the interchange of Greek and Egyptian art and culture. Theuth was an inventor of many arts, arithmetic and calculation and geometry and astronomy and draughts and dice, the bird Ibis was sacred to him. His greatest discovery was writing.

In those days, the god Thamus was king of the whole country of Egypt; he dwelt in that great city of Upper Egypt which the Hellenes call Egyptian Thebes. Theuth was summoned one day to show the king his inventions hoping Egyptians might benefit.

The king Thamus praised some inventions and censured others, when they came to writing Thamus refused would not accept writing Theuth said writing would make Egyptians wiser and give them better memories.

Thamus replied: “O Theuth, most ingenious parent or inventor of an art you not always the best judge of the utility of your own inventions.” These words the king believed would create forgetfulness his people would trust the written word and not learn only having only a show of learning.
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Barbara Brooks wrote:41159 views is not talking to myself.
Look around; who are you talking to other than yourself???

Do you want some advice...?
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1062 replies means someone is reading my thoughts. What do you say about that?
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Barbara Brooks wrote:1062 replies means someone is reading my thoughts. What do you say about that?
I say that is inconsequential when you-yourself spam this thread; you are replying to yourself.

Are you content to only-speak to yourself for your adult life, like a mumbling bum or hag in the streets?
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In history, there is a gallery of noble minds and heroes. If their purpose were merely a representation of their personality then history would be a very tiresome study. Thus achieving demands in the first place a willing to give not superficial rhetoric much like your slogans.

You must have lost the quality of gentleness on your way through life. If rightly educated , you would be gentle and modest.

The harmonious soul is both temperate and courageous and the inharmonious is cowardly and boorish, and uncivilized, never using the weapon of persuasion, you don't seem to know no other way of dealing or have no sense of propriety just finding fault.

It is my humble attempt to bring a constructive, deductive, and rational idea of the definite unchanging law of Nature. This is a method that has two prominent aspects, universal and consciousness. That is my only reason.

It was Socrates who carried out the command of the God of knowledge "Know Thyself" look in our selves and knows what is truth.

My answer to all of this is language is given to us all through generation and each generation is to relate all things for the sake of preserving truth. The art of discourse is one and the same given; in every generation, there is dialogue, which finds a likeness of everything. Every discourse written is a demonstration of the likenesses, which was used before. I write to permeate the true likenesses, which were used before, I mean a likeness of everything to which can be found.

The art of disputation, is an art not confined to formal courts and the congress, but is the same in every use of language; this is an art, not thrown down anyhow. Is there any principle in them not just what came into my head as mere rhetoric? A discourse ought to be a living adapted language of one generation and all generations.
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Barbara Brooks, you are a woman, and a cripple, when it comes to philosophizing...so allow me to give you a hand.

...a venerable push in the right direction...

If you write your thoughts down in a diary, addressed to no-one, then your thoughts are both worthless and meaningless.

Nobody cares what you have to say. And so, by all means, continue blabbering to yourself. You are just an imitation of thought.


I am finished with you now. Take your thoughts with you to your grave. They are going nowhere else except back into the ground.
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I will try not to grapple with mere opinion about an endeavor most important.

Philosophy of Mind is a forum I consider ethical meaning spiritual. Spirituality is the basis that shapes and preserves this forum. Here in this forum the unconscious spirit rises out of the state of heartlessness into conscious universal spirit constituting divine and human being.

What constitutes the forum ethics is its routine without opposition, absolute unbroken a sense of security and a spirit familiar to everyone conscious. There is a supreme wealth feeling everything is reduced to it joy, pain, any mental being, seeing and hearing, etc. Feeling simply means a communion with self.


My hope is like a seed becoming to being the forum sets in order inner being and mastery, principles, and peace; and when these are bound together become one entire temperate and perfectly adjusted proceeds to act a harmonious just, good, and wise society.
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Ethics is something other than the power of family hence the basis of a nation that shapes and preserves universal purpose.

An ethical forum is regulated by words and character on the temper of the mind, and love of beauty, harmony, grace, and good rhythm. Here we depend on an ordered mind, true nature of the beauty and grace and good in everything. Socrates believed ethics just as learning to read, be everywhere eager to make words known. Only when we know the letters exactly can we ever become musical and know the essential forms of temperance, courage, liberality, magnificence, and their kindred when a beautiful mind harmonizes with the fairest of sights to the philosopher who has an eye to see it.

This pathway of consciousness called ethics presses forward true knowledge and clearness of spiritual complete experience of being arrives at the knowledge of being. Through thought comes truth and with truth comes compassion of others is in the mind of everyone and most good.
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A remarkable thing the mind it feels, perceives, reasons, wills and thinks; individual moments in totality, consciousness, self-consciousness, reason, and spirit, all at the same time, together constituting a moving process of mind. The mind is fine as a point like the sun it moves in place, or from one place to another in a circle rest upon a center.

Hegel bellieved the essential feature of mind is Liberty: i.e. it is the notion's absolute negativity or self-identity. Considered as this formal aspect, it may withdraw itself from everything external and from its own externality, its very existence; it can thus submit to infinite pain , the negation of its individual immediacy: in other words, it can keep itself affirmative in this negativity and possess its own identity. All this is possible so long as it is considered in its abstract self-contained universality. This universality is also its determinate sphere of being. Having a being of its own, the universal is self-particularizing, whilst it still remains self-identical. Hence the special mode of mental being is 'manifestation'. The spirit is not some one mode or meaning which finds utterance or externality only in a form distinct from itself: it does not manifest or reveal something, but its very mode and meaning is this revelation. And thus in its mere possibility mind is at the same moment an infinite, 'absolute', actuality.
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The mechanical sphere of feeling is revealed in voice, which can be magnificent in its utterance of feeling.

Now metals do sound but they do not show a specific quality like having a voice. Yes, metals sound but only when struck. Voice I a spiritual nature vibrating inwardly causing the air in us to vibrate. Motion is what makes the bodies vibrate into voice. It is the spiritual mechanism here subjective becomes objective.

Sound is intriguing, for example, when a body sounds it enters into a higher sphere of consciousness the immediate reflection of self-feeling which is what differentiates self from the outside world.

Now can you see a process maintaining a genuine self-contentment, satisfaction of self?

When bodies sound they enter into a higher sphere affects the innermost feelings and inner being is revealed, meaning inner being coming into existence.

In order for bodies to sound requires continuity, homogeneity that is why especially precious metals give out clear sound, This phenomenon of sound is so hard to grasp, it took me years to reach this point of understanding sound because it varies causing it to be difficult to exhibit.


Outside affects feelings and because of it, we have a voice. We sound our own accord, announce our spirituality, it is only activity that makes body vibrate into voice, therefore voice lies in our power.

The particular sound strictly speaking, is revealed through instruments that have their own specific sound. The inner oscillation of is capable of giving out a sound in two ways, by friction and vibration. Vibration is the moving to and fro, an elasticity and friction sound is noise, badly made instruments you hear clatter.
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Being is not merely intelligence in relation with nature but being thoughtful and observant.

The theory of being is speculatively thought. Hypothetical thinking must come first before speculative thinking; one can neither think without thoughts nor conceive without concepts.

We learn how to think by a formal exercise of thinking totally removed away from the realm of appearance.

For example, removed away from the realm of appearance Earth ties together all the elements air fire and water into a series of procedures creates a meteorological process, a barometric index level from the unity of elements, air, fire, and water all affirm whole earth being.

Being is pure matter but not matter seen, felt, or tasted, having color, stone, salt. Being is pure thought, without ruling, or division within. Being is subject to air, and fire, water, earth process here begins the roots of individuality.
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Do away with hypothesis go direct to the first principle of being start the discovery purely by the power of knowledge in order to attain certainty of being; the pure state of being is immediate abstract complete, like space its immediate being contains no difference within. The pure state of being is immediate like space containing no difference. Being is pure matter not seen, felt, or tasted, having color, stone, salt matter but pure ideal without division within only exist through labor

Laboring anything into something has not only positive significance but purposeful, something becomes through work. Knowledge and labor are the chains that keep me in bondage from which I cannot sway away in attaining my purpose.
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In an ethical society we see attained the self-consciousness of purpose. It is knowing ones own heart as the law of all hearts, knowing recognized and universal essential nature into the light of the actual now. By purpose done self-consciousness gets satisfaction maintaining a genuine self-contentment.

Belief is held the examination of purpose, as it truly is by which the progress through the complete succession purpose comes about.

Conviction is purely self-conscious ideal, it has no hold, and it cannot stand-alone it is just simply ideality bondage, a chain from which we cannot get away from.

Purpose is the ruin and overthrow of self-feeling rest upon conviction and intention, no handing oneself over to mere opinion and criticism that hamper purpose, and as a matter of fact, can make one powerless.

The opposition of feeling abolishes feelings makes active an actual realized individual objective being. No lamenting or remorse can stop purpose: all those sort of feelings arises from the imagination which ends with emptiness, just waiting and seeing whether there is a possibly a better line cast them. Purpose at times goes to war in the mind, as though purpose and self were two distinct things. Self prevail over purpose and that is a struggle, like the struggle of division.


Purpose gives filling to the empty self is a faculty skillfully disposed in mind renders clear and intelligible each self. Here self seeks to become free is the free the neutral point and can be compared with the centre such as two poles one pointing north, while the other points south like magnetism.
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