A Philosophy of Mind

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

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John,

I thank you for your unwavering support. These harsh feelings which are entertain towards me originate from the pretenders of philosophy who rush in always abusing and finding fault with me making me their “scapegoat” I feel there can be nothing more wrong than this.

Philosophers must nurture and cultivate not aggressively but gently and with a view of soothing and removing dislike of knowledge.

I am ever directed towards things which are neither injuring nor injured, all in order moving according; these I imitate and these I will copy as far as I can. Now can I help emulate that with which I hold so reverential?

Socrates believed, philosophers should be the servant of good, not as to the injury of the servant, but because every
one had better be ruled by divine wisdom that dwells within philosophers; or, if this is impossible, then by a teacher in order that all, as far as possible are under the same rule of friends and equals.


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Philosophers follow the same analogy as plants, if having proper nurture will grow and mature but if not planted in good soil will become the most noxious of all wild plants, unless preserved by some higher power.

Good is merely nothing more than thinking of what is truth. The noxious bully is really the slave because slaves have desires which are totally unattainable and their wants grows worse and they become more jealous, more faithless, unjust, friendless, and impious then ever. In the end, they are miserable and that makes everybody around them miserable.

They run away from the region of law and reason, and are enslaved, but if in the company of reason and knowledge and under that guidance which wisdom is truth the highest degree, which is attainable inasmuch as they follow is also most natural.
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Philosophy has been cultivated for many ages by the most illustrious philosophers, yet there is not a single matter that is not still in question for the sake of preserving truth.

In ancient times, philosophy exhibited an eagerness to behold the highest truth and to be nourished in the spirit of it. Thales was one of the seven wise men of ancient Greek philosophers. He was the author of the Ionic sect and he introduced geometry, Thales measured the pyramids and the distance from shore of ships at sea by using calculus.

One question the ancient philosophers wanted to know was whether space matter or some other substance. If space were substance then it would be like a board nailed up. But, space is not a board; it is freely spreading and offers no resistance whatsoever. Space is unbounded, it has no relationship to anything, not endowed with anything, wholly freely extends in every direction.

Space its only determinate: is the circular line based on the sun, the cubical lines, as above below, right and left; and the triangular line or plane. They all constitute the visible view of space. The only way to measure space can only be done with lines because space has no relative point.
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A perfect example understanding two in one theory is matter and motion they are inseparably held together in perfect unity and is essential moments of gravity.

On one hand matter is being-for self, motion on the other hand is continuous without interruption. Therefore, these two reciprocally regulated in one passes from one state to another and through it affirms being.
Without matter, there is no motion and without motion, there is not matter. They are contingent and abstract matter and motion unity, passes from one to the other, but they do not automatically pass over into the other, equally they offer resistance to each other, only transported by motion of these two determinations connected and each momentarily constituting one.

This is the struggle for one and the same dwelling place. Matter and motion unity constitutes a single determinateness of two bodies in one. This is similar to time and space unity is at the same time are not one.

Our universe is an ordered and harmonious system that separates itself into particular bodies and as the moment of individuality. Gravity is the determinate of material bodies and displays the first group of independent bodies that are in an essential relationship with each other in the solar system.

The universe has three existing motions; uniform, the second is partly conditional and partly free falling and unconditionally free motion. These are the principal moments of the solar system, the perfect unity of independent bodies nesting in an objective essential relationship to each other.

A universal cohesion is the relationship of one and another and expresses independence is gravitation partly conditioned and partly free yet occurring at the same time.

The law of motion concerns two things in relationship with each other, the form of the path and velocity of motion. The universe as an ordered and harmonious system is called the cosmos because it separates itself into particular bodies and as the moment of individuality. Gravitation is the determinate of material things and the solar system is the cosmos, which displays our first group of independent bodies that are in an essential relationship with each other. The cosmos has three existing motions; first the motion which is communicated from outside and is uniform, second, the partly conditional and the partly free falling motion and third, the unconditionally free motion. In the cosmos the universal motion is the uniform motion, the particular motion is gravitation and the unconditionally motion is the planetary motion. These are the principal moments of the solar system. The solar system is the perfect unity of being, a perfect group of independent bodies nesting in an objective essential relationship to each other. This is universal gravitation where cohesion is the relationship of one and another forms the turns and expresses independence dwelling together. Gravitation is motion partly conditioned and partly free occurring at the same time is the lunar motion. The cosmos is first, the Cometary’s rule the centripetal movement and second, the Lunar

Universal gravitation where cohesion is the relationship of one and another forms the turns and expresses independence, dwelling together. Gravitation is motion partly conditioned and partly free occurring at the same time. The first is the comet centripetal movement and second, the lunar centrifugal motion.

Matter is only one moment of gravity, because gravity is both inert matter and motion at the same time. Matter prevails over foreign elements whereas motion terminates in the direction of falling. The body is only thrown by gravity.

In free falling motion, the body does not become separated from the center of gravity. That which is unsupported falls, thus motion of falling is not a mere occurrence, and everything is reduced to strength when each is differing in direction and distance we fall by the force of pressure or thrust. An example, if a cannon ball was thrust with great pressure it would fly off in a tangent if there were no resistance.

Self-resistance is the affirmation of ones own force. The swinging ceases the direction of falling, deviates from gravitational pressure. Free falling motion is partly free and conditional. The quest for its center does not become separate from its center is gravity, but when it is, returns to it. One falls simply because of external pressure, thus, in falling distance increases with time.

In free falling motion weight exercises no influence; free falling motion is pure uniform conforming to the law of accelerated motion. It is relatively free reveals one but at the same time, another. Bodies fall simply because of their heaviness and in following a large body and a smaller body is equally heavy.

Of course, weight matters for example a feather does not fall like a lead bullet, but because the resistance they encounter is conforming to a law, a body, for example, falls faster in air than in water. If a body falls more than 15 feet in the first second, in two seconds, the rock falls 135 feet or 9x15. What we have thus velocity increases in time. The uniform motion, that is to say in the motion of falling, is only partly the effort of matter to reach one place, the center of gravity.
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Matter is composed predominantly of molecule consisting of neutrons and electrons are what constitute the universe. Matter is a wholly contingent one the real limit in cosmos. Matter holds together the two moments in opposition, i.e. repulsion and attraction. The reciprocally regulated rule of being is matter, two in one determination, a contingent, an indeterminate and theoretical being, only passes from one state to another and only through a force from outside does it affirm its sensuous being.

Matter is capable of both rest and motion but there is indifference in them both, matter only passes from one state to the other by another outside force. Matter constitutes a single motion of two determinations connected momentarily a single motion of two bodies; each constitutes a single determinateness takes the place of the other. From this standpoint matter is set in motion and motion forms contact with matter.

Sun is luminous matter but relates only to it and that is the reason sunshines. Sunlight reveals pure velocity and transparency is the mode and manner in which everywhere presents is pure universal actuality that has the possibility of unifying with all things it enters into community with.

Everything exists because of sunlight. Things become visible through light, meaning light and matter has a relationship; Light affirms matter, illuminates outside brightens up earth, makes it visible. Without earth connection to sunlight, earth would be a void. The relationship of the sun to earth brings the difference of day and night; The sun mounting higher and higher is daytime and when it reaches its highest point sinks to its lowest is night tine.
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The law of motion concerns two things in relationship with each other, the form of the path and velocity of motion. The universe as an ordered and harmonious system is called the cosmos because it separates itself into particular bodies and as the moment of individuality. Gravitation is the determinate of material things and the solar system is the cosmos, which displays our first group of independent bodies that are in an essential relationship with each other. The cosmos has three existing motions; first the motion which is communicated from outside and is uniform, second, the partly conditional and the partly free falling motion and third, the unconditionally free motion. In the cosmos the universal motion is the uniform motion, the particular motion is gravitation and the unconditionally motion is the planetary motion. These are the principal moments of the solar system. The solar system is the perfect unity of being, a perfect group of independent bodies nesting in an objective essential relationship to each other. This is universal gravitation where cohesion is the relationship of one and another forms the turns and expresses independence dwelling together. Gravitation is motion partly conditioned and partly free occurring at the same time is the lunar motion. The cosmos is first, the Cometary’s rule the centripetal movement and second, the Lunar

Universal gravitation where cohesion is the relationship of one and another forms the turns and expresses independence, dwelling together. Gravitation is motion partly conditioned and partly free occurring at the same time. The first is the comet centripetal movement and second, the lunar centrifugal motion.

Matter is only one moment of gravity, because gravity is both inert matter and motion at the same time. Matter prevails over foreign elements whereas motion terminates in the direction of falling. The body is only thrown by gravity.

In free falling motion, the body does not become separated from the center of gravity. That which is unsupported falls, thus motion of falling is not a mere occurrence, and everything is reduced to strength when each is differing in direction and distance we fall by the force of pressure or thrust. An example, if a cannon ball was thrust with great pressure it would fly off in a tangent if there were no resistance.
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Kepler discovered the laws of planetary motion not Newton. Newton was the first to prove that the planets stood in connect to the sun but Kepler found planets impel them toward the sun. It was not Newton who proved everything turns on a path is an ellipse motion but Laplace showed not only an elliptic but also the force, which keeps the planets in orbit.

Newtonian law of descent is only part of the universal movement and already implied by Kepler. Newton did give the law ground but it was not a good one. In the first place, the extension to the moon is only a part of gravitational force. Newton merely generalized gravity by giving it a visible example such as a stone or apple falling.
It is astonishing to what is called philosophy these days without any consideration as to whether it has meaning or not. New philosophies grow every day like mushrooms out of the ground.
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Astonishing what is called philosophy these days without any consideration as to whether it has meaning or not.

All great philosophy requires discussion and high mindedness. If curiosity alone makes a philosopher, you will find many who have the name but they have only the sense of it but not absolute philosophy and if led to the true knowledge of philosophy are unable to follow. They put the copy in the place of the authentic.

In every one there is an eye of the mind which oppressed by want, hard driven by nature, entangled in the sensuous aims and enjoyments or by other pursuits gets lost or dimmed but can be re-illuminated.
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In the fourteenth century, not only was Copernicus learned in Greek, an astronomer, a philosopher, he was also a jurist and a physician. Copernicus was the first to show the sun is at mid part. Pythagorean, whose dates are commonly given as 569–475 BC, spoke of it as the innermost point of the sphere as the midpoint or center. Aristotle believed if the world which is spherical is equally in need of the light of the sun and sunlight heat, then it would be best for the sun to be at midpoint.
Copernicus regarded the sun at the center rather then with the sun moving around the center. Those common mobiles do not differ from sun being center of the world and the region of the moving planets. His demonstrated earth as a moving planet and put the immovable sun at the center of the universe.

Now, Kepler divided the law of planetary motion into three, the cometary rule, the lunary rule, and the planetary rule. It took him twenty-seven years of researching had complete faith that reason must be there in heaven.

The solar system displays a relationship a group of independent bodies essential to each other. In the heaven exist three rules, uniform cometary rule, part conditioned, and the part free or lunary rule, and last planetary rule called unconditionally free rule. These rules represent the relationship of one and another expressing independence yet dwelling together.

Planetary motion is nothing else than a unity of cometary and moon interconnectedness. Their unity is a syllogism of the relationship of reciprocal sides, sun and moon that presents planets complex terrestrial beings, the alteration of seasons and night and day.
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All animals distinguish a way of offering resistance to others. Thus feeling has consciousness, as self-consciousness free and impartial directly shuts out other. And that other over against but in such a way that the connection between appears mutually in opposition is an instinctual process.
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Mind circulates through every part of the animal configuration and harmonizes the parts with one another. Mind resembles the general process of plant nature, that which comes forth from subjectivity.

Plants differentiate into distinct parts and sustain themselves, come forth from itself into a number of individuals and then into a unity of members, such as the bud and branch are the same whole plant. This is purely a metamorphosis function, begins where the vital principle gathers itself into a point and this point sustains and produces new points.


“ If plants had consciousness they would worship the sun as its God.” The Hindus believe that if the self could maintain itself in pure sameness it would pass away into transparent sunlight. “ Schelling stated,

Individuality means essentially being free and independent but only in a theoretical process because we sentient creatures only contain a relationship with the outside world. Our wants are directed to the outside world. This need is a negative feeling but a necessary one; it pervades and permeates all aspects of being. Certainty of self belongs to individual character and in this course of this process constitutes all that self can reveal.

All bodies come under the might of individuality within itself. Independent in face of other determinations as is sunlight, has pure sameness with self, a reflection into self. First, to consider sunlight I must point out the way and manner in which I reveal sunlight as a nonstop whirlpool motion, pure return absolute velocity, and everywhere present force. .

Certainty of self belongs to individual character and in this course of process constitutes all that self can reveal. All the moments of consciousness, self-consciousness, reason, and character are all at the same moment together constitutes mind or more so called the process of belief.
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Earth is ground for individuality, it contains the Elements, air, fire and water, holds together all these elements, air, fire and water gathers them into unity into a series of events which earth maintains. Earth has the power which kindles these elements into a process, for example, lightning it is familiar to all is discharged by friction among the clouds, yet it is also known that electricity can be dispelled by moisture, whereas lightning originates in quite moist air.

The earth is the ground and everything is in totality of it. The alteration of the seasons and of the day and night and the transition from waking and sleeping is life on the earth.
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The self of earth, physical formation is dormant exposition to all its parts. Earth solid structure does not seem to possess life; its inorganic and purely mechanical formation. In general, land is split into two parts, the old world and the new world. The old world the mountain ranges that run, from west to east, southwest, or northwest. Whereas the new world mountain ranges run north and south but the rivers flow to the east.

The earth process is the past and fire and water are its principles. Earth owes its shape, stratification and species of rocks to fire, called volcanism. It is the vivifying and fructifying of the earth is the meteorological or atmospheric process. It is the result of successive changes that earth has history; evidence of this is in the earth's constitution its points of revolution. The position of the earth made by the axis with its orbit at the surface of the earth lie buried the plants and animals of a past world, great depth, in huge stratification and in localities where species of animals and plants are now extinct.
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Light is supreme perpetually going forth and returning. It is from light that we get our vigor, blood, without light we cannot grow, maybe we can grow, but we would be colorless, tasteless, and odorless growth. Therefore we must turn to light like the potato plants sprouting in a cellar, creeps from distances of several yards across the floor to the side where light enters through a hole in the wall and they climb up the wall as if they knew there way.

The same is said of sunflower plants and a host of other flowers they follow the same motion of sun and actually turn toward the sun. If you enter a meadow full of sunflowers from its east side, only a few flowers or perhaps none will be seen, because they are all turned towards the sun, but if you look from the west side of the meadow they all make a splendid show.
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Purpose is the ruin of individuality that inherently a theoretical process opposed to reason. What assures what we do is purpose, it has distinct consciousness, which causes a benefit to the world; the mind cannot ever assure us of anything.

Proving something belongs to the process of purpose through and through. Anywhere there are extremes there is reason functioning midway between opposition, in order to behold truth.

Purpose skillfully disposed in mind with a view to render things clear and intelligible it lights up the chaos and confusion, distinguishes truth from error. It cans takes a negative view towards the world turns round into a positive view.

Individuality essentially means being free and independent though but we sentient creature contains a relationship with the outside world. What excites feeling exists outside of self; therefore, individuality has a theoretical conscious process. But theoretical is also hypothetical ideality; unlike purpose descends to the other side of mere opinion. Certainty of self belongs to individuality and in this process constitutes all that self can reveal.

Little things elaborated how ridiculous! Nothing short of the most finished picture, the highest life worthy of attaining is purpose useful and advantageous. The highest virtue everyone pursues makes it the end of all actions shine radiant is purpose.
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