A Philosophy of Mind

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

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Plants are like animal nature they have a relationship with sunlight, air, and water, and have sensation and feeling. A plant nature is being-for-self like we animal natures are self-subsistent, equally in relationship with nature.

Feelings are an alternating fluctuation between two determinations; the sleep state where we are submerged with nature and awake in a state where we form relationships with other.

Self has the same goal of plants but plants do not transcend to the stage of animal independent subjective being who have the unitary mind that stands in relation with the outer world.

In we sentient creatures truly overcome gravity have a self center for support in self like the sun and the stars related to each other according to nature and return back into the sun, which holds them in one body are purely moments of form, perpetually negating their independence and bringing themselves back into unity.

The mind being present in body is a fine point not a spatial identity yet is freed from gravity free to self-move and spontaneously determine place. Therefore place lies in self-movement consumes and produces and perpetually negates, reproduces and generates heat. This is especially true of we warm-blooded animal in which sensibility and irritability reach a highly developed stage is called fluid magnet. Animal Natures can exclude, separate mind from universal substance of earth, because self is for self.

We possess sensation, is because sensation is the absolute characteristic feature of we animals, always active, present, sensation is the supreme wealth of being, because in being everything is reduced, joys, pain, any feeling, seeing and hearing. In seeing and hearing, we are simply in communion with self, self equally self has a speculative, a contemplating relationship with the outer world is theoretical, the sensible is disturbance, forced to identify self with others.

Every self finds in self purpose as a centrality to extremes; passes out of opinion above hypotheses into an intellectual plane, which makes no use of images. This kind of enlightenment is called ethics or unconscious inner working and weaving no real self-distinguishing consciousness. Reason is nothing else than pure consciousness in relation to time. Thus this inner reality of consciousness is without prophecy; just pure ideality, just a mere implicit thought within oneself, yet reason has an actual pure truth and conversely an inner soul.
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Now the most complete mastery over the entire human being is justice. The just leader cannot be unjust more than heat can produce cold. Justice, there is nothing else more precious. I mean leaders who are out for their own interest, and not about the interest of the citizens are unjust.

A true leader does not regard its own interest, always that of citizens matter; and therefore in order that leaders may be willing to rule, they must be paid in one of three ways of payment, either money, honor, or necessity these are what induces leaders to serve.

Now the worst part of is that those who refuse to rule are liable to be ruled by one who is worse than them. This fear induces the good people to take office not because they want to, but because they cannot help it.

There is no profit or pleasure, but as a necessity, and because they are not able to commit the task of being rule by anyone better than themselves.

Clearly wiser, better, and abler is justice, injustice creates division and hate and fighting, justice imparts harmony and friendship truth and the law of human life.

Now, justice is the most complete mastery over the entire human being. Socrates would say to philosophers be patient under suffering is best, and not give way to impatience, as there is no knowing whether such things are good or evil; and nothing is gained by impatience grief stands in the way of that which at the moment is most required.

Justice is not far off in a distance, it is in the hands of citizens, it is the only virtue that remains in a society when the other virtues, temperance, courage and wisdom, have disappeared It is the ultimate cause and condition runs through all the notes of the scale, and produces back in original form, and does the utmost to maintain intact harmony.

Damon told Socrates that when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of citizens always change with them. The help of music gains the habit of good order, this habit will accompany in all their actions and growth and if there be any fallen places will raise them up.

Make sure no disorder occur and feed on noble thoughts, set self in order and don’t be dazzled by the ego that is piled on humankind. The inner principles or more so the ethical order within self is a fair society where self-conscious is realized into the peace of simple universality.


Justice is a natural order governed of one by another. Injustice they know neither the ideal nor the good are at variance with harmony; only apprehending the outline are too distracted in the struggle for money, which in their eyes is the great good.

In truth leaders that are most reluctant to govern are the best and they most quietly govern, whereas, the leaders most eager are the worst.
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The tyrant drone like nature breaks out into frenzy has no ounce of shame; its better principles are purged away.

In heaven there is laid out a pattern of philosophy and those who desire it can set their house after this manner and have nothing to do with any other.

Love is called tyranny and drunks too have the spirit of a tyranny, they are not in their right mind and fancy they are able to rule others and even almighty God. Truly, the tyrant becomes what is rarely seen in dreams. How dauntless, fearlessly and lawlessly they love money, which leads to their reckless deeds in life.

What tyrant has done any good? Italy and Sicily boasted of Charondas, and some think renowned Solon as good legislator?

What war on record has a tyrant carried on successfully?

Pythagoras who is so greatly loved for his wisdom, and whose followers to this day are quite celebrated for the order that was named after him?
Tyrants rarely are ever able to educate and improve societies. Look at things as they really are and you will see that the unjust are in the case of joggers, who jog well from the starting-place to the goal but not back again from the goal: they go off at a great speed, but in the end tiptoe away with their ears on their shoulders looking foolish without the crown.

The true jogger comes to the finish, receives the prize, and crown. This is the way with the just; those who endure to the end of every action has a good report and carries off the prize which society has to bestow.

Even though the unjust escape are found out at last, at the end look foolish, and when they come to be old and miserable receive from society the full payment of the debt owed them.

Socrates believed justice provide the prize and reward and gift given by god and society, in addition the palm of victory which god give the just. In the mind, there is a good principle and bad principle; and when the good has the bad under control, this is called temperance, the agreement of the good and bad rule. There is an uncontrolled nature in all of us stripped of attire.

Good is highest truth and that all other things become useful and advantageous by it perceives, understands, is radiant with intelligence has a place of honor yet higher. Those who endure to the end of every action are good carry off the prize.
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Homer makes me laugh his representation of ancient gods. Such unworthiness but he is but a man, attributing feelings to Achilles not knowing making it up, he is guilty of downright impiety also his slothful indolence rhetoric about Apollo, who was third in descent from Zeus “Woe is me”.


Homer’s representation of Zeus as this passionate rapist, mean, avarice, shows his overweening contempt of these gods and people. He persuades the reader gods are the authors of bad things and that heroes are no better than self-conceit. Homer excuses his own vices convinced that wickedness’s are always being perpetrated. He tells us that wicked men are happy, that the good are miserable; also, that injustice is profitable especially when undetected, and that justice is loss of gain.

Sheer rhetoric he utters that a just and good is an imitation for a moment only when performing some good act but at other times justice and good are beneath him, and revolts at it.

The old order of things is broken, and with the old ways sinks into the past. This gradual crumbling to pieces brings to view the form and structure of the new world. Philosophers keep a firm hold on your love and not let sounds and sights, which are incapable of absolute puts the copy hurled down, without more ado and without any justification, into the abyss of emptiness. Philosophy, the crowning glory of a spiritual world, is not found complete in the initial stages.

The beginning of the new spirit is the outcome of a widespread revolution in manifold forms of spiritual culture; it is the reward, which comes after a varied and devious course of development, and after much struggle and effort.

Out of the sea of change to the highest good where things become useful and advantageous. The saving grace is courage. Courage is a mighty agent, under all circumstances preserves, and does not lose courage; it is more than any soda or lye; or does not lose courage by grief, terror, and longing, the mightiest of all solvents in mind.

I myself believed that I if I knew what I was talking about declaring truth on matters, which are honored and loved among philosophers who love truth. Things of such high interest I have most need to be sure of my footing. I think that to do an unintentional crime is a less bad than falsehood. That is the risk, which I would rather run among enemies than friends, and therefore I did well to have courage. I am out of depth and as the saying goes, whether fallen into a little swimming pool or in mid-ocean has to try to reach the shore.
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Philosophy is given to all generations and each generation for the sake of preserving truth. This is the art of thinking, in every generation there is thinking that finds a likeness of everything. Every thought written is a demonstration of the likenesses, which was used before us. That is why I write, to permeate truth or the likenesses, which was used before me, I mean likeness of everything to which can be found.

The art of thinking, is art not confined to formal courts and the congress, this is an art, not thrown down anyhow as mere rhetoric. Discourse ought to be a living adapt language of one generation and yet all generations.

There is nothing more akin to wisdom than truth the mind is nothing but a mere monitor unconstructive process. It is knowledge that is sheer intelligence, wisdom, insight, and understanding. The true lover of learning must from earliest childhood, desire all truth and this desire being strong is in one direction will have them weaker in others goals; the philosopher being like a stream which has been drawn off into another channel absorbed in the pleasures of mind, and will hardly feel bodily pleasure, I mean, if philosophers be true and not shams.

Another criterion, the philosophical nature is sure to be temperate, having and spending, have no place in a philosopher’s character. Harmoniously constituted are philosophers they can never be unjust or hard in dealings not covetous or mean, or a boaster coward. Just and gentle, or rude and unsociable are the signs, which distinguish even in youth philosophical natures from not philosophical.

The pleasure in learning, no one loves that which gives pain, and in which after much labor make little progress. Then the mind, which forgets, cannot be among genuine philosophical natures; we insist that the philosopher should have good memory, a naturally well-proportioned and gracious mind, which will move spontaneously toward the true being of everything.
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Knowledge prevents the tyrant from growing.

Into the native land of truth is self-consciousness the element of freethinking, the ultimate absolute truth. We must approach this subject in the most perfect manner. Profound thought is needed, thought that exalts infinite ideas and truth, not superficial tiresome rhetoric.


Knowledge is part of the element of freethinking, because knowing is the ultimate absolute truth of consciousness. There are two ruling principles, the intellectual world, and the visible world, both derive from the senses, or we could not recognize what is equal or absolute one.

Here we occupy cultivating reason, and in advancing as much as possible knowledge and truth. Pull from mind the rhetoric that has been up to this point accepted.

Some think pleasure is good, but we finer sort of wits know good is right consciousness as moving, never leaving not ceasing, the fountain and beginning motion to all that moves.


Come all ye noble thinkers raise out of superficial unconsciousness into a world spirit that exalts great ideas, thinks away negative viewpoints. The world of thinkers has been advanced before; set over in the intellectual world and visible world.

Philosophers have an eye to see the beautiful harmonizes with and the two are cast in one manner that will be the fairest of sights. The fairest is also the loveliest and philosophers who have this spirit of harmony will be most in love with the loveliest.

True love of words that rhythm and harmony are regulated by depend on the temper of the mind. Then beauty and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on a rightly and nobly ordered mind. The power and capacity of knowledge exists in the mind, which is unable to turn by degree from ignorance to intelligence without the instrument of knowledge.

The first requisite above all here is to try to establish is most important thing in the entire world, philosophy. So let us not grapple about by pulling from mind wrong opinions that have up to this point been accepted.

Knowledge is the highest good, all things become useful and advantageous seen, and unseen. The seen is material and the unseen is not material. An example body, and mind, which is more alike and akin? Is the mind seen or not seen? I mean by seen and not seen that which is visible and that which not visible to the eye. Certainly mind is more akin to not visible and the body visible.
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Parmenides demonstrated being and not being; absolute cannot exist, for then absolute would be no longer absolute and that being is determined by a relation among those identical to their respective spheres. Very difficult to demonstrate in reference to visible things or to consider the question only in reference to objects of thought, to what may be called ideas. Therefore, the very hypothesis of paradoxes of multiplicity and motion inquired by Zeno, not only what will be the consequences to the many in relation to themselves and to the one and to the one in relation to itself and the many. But, also, the being of the many and what will be the consequences to the one and the many in their relation to themselves and to each other.

What will be the consequences in either case to them and to other, each has motion and rest, generation and destruction, and being and not being. In a word, when you suppose anything to be or not to be, or to be in any way affected, then you must look at the consequences in relation to the thing itself, and to any other things which you choose-to each of them individually, to more than one, and to all; and so of other things, you must look at them in relation to yourself and to anything else which you suppose either to be or not to be.


Two ruling powers one set over in the intellectual world, and the other the visible world. If we take a string that has been cut into two unequal parts, then divide each of them again in the same proportion. Now suppose the two main divisions to be the visible world and the other the intelligible world. Compare the subdivisions clearly, you will find the sphere of the visible world consists of images shadows and reflections. The other is the intellectual world, which is through the medium of sight or touch, or hearing of other senses. What is great and what is small arises from the distinction of the visible and the intelligible.

The intellectual world embraces nothing less than the entire system of consciousness concerns consciousness or virtue of consciousness. Life therefore can be grasped only through theory, because wherever there is inner and outer, cause and effect, and means subjective-objective, there is life.
KNOWLEDGE, it prevents the tyrannical from growing.

In self-consciousness is in the most perfect element of freethinking thought that exalts infinite ideas and truth, not tiresome rhetoric.
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Philosophers impersonate good, and not are ashamed of this sort of imitation: be most ready to play the part of acting good and revolt at opinion. The melody to words will be is the philosopher’s duty.

The art of narrating must know the different minds and have good theoretical knowledge. You just try to ascertain truth without knowledge. Mere opinion is not knowledge can be compared to someone who studies the tempers and needs of wild animals and learn how to control them also knows their cries and, knows what will quiet or anger them.


Come carry out the command of God "Know Thyself” True self hard driven by life, oppressed, entangled in materiality get lost but can be re-illuminated.

Reconciliation follows destruction is what history shows us, successions of noble thinkers and the spirited people have labored their way out of apathy.

Visualize from the standpoint of truth, which is forever directed towards things that are all in order moving. Truth is framed by the mind, tested by the senses is certainty of being "I think, therefore I am”.

Only when a narrator know the words like the musician knows the notes exactly can know the essential forms of temperance, courage, liberality, and magnificence.

All great writers require discussions of high speculation and hence comes loftiness of words abstracts and defines rationally the idea of good, and runs the challenge of all objections, and is ready to refute anyone, not by opinion, but truth, and never stumbling at any step of the argument. Unless we can do all this, you would all say that we know neither the idea of good nor any other good are only apprehending opinion, and not knowledge.

Knowledge requires an unwearied solid person who is a lover of work of any line or we will never be able to endure the type of knowledge, is that which raises a pang in the heart of philosophers. The sweetness of learning, embraces freethinking and absolute reason; a philosophical mind always loves knowledge of a sort that shows the everlasting not so far from the heaven of pleasure.
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That is why Socrates talks about old love as tyrant like a drunken person not right in the mind cannot control self never mind other fancy they can control almighty god. Phaedra |ˈfēdrə; ˈfedrə| Greek Mythology
The wife of Theseus. She fell in love with her stepson Hippolytus, who rejected her, whereupon she hanged herself, leaving behind a letter that accused him of raping her. Theseus would not believe his son's protestations of innocence and banished him.




Truly, of tyrants, what pursuits make society better? What tyrant has been a good legislator that has done any good?

Italy and Sicily boasted of Charondas, and there is Solon renowned as a good legislator? Thales the Milesian or Anacharsis the Scythian and other ingenious philosophers have attributed to society? Pythagoras is so greatly loved for his wisdom; followers are to this day celebrating the order, which was named after him.

Italy and Sicily boasted of Charondas, and Solon they were renowned among them; but what city has anything tyrant improves?


There is in history a gallery of noble minds and heroes Thales, for an example, the author of the Ionic sect was born according to the best calculation in the first year of the 35th Olympiad 640 B.C. Thales had already considered the sun, mountains, earth, sea, rivers as independent powers but he revered water as god.

He even has a science called Thalassography after him, about physical geography, which treats the sea, the word Thalassocracy means mastery of the sea.
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Justice provides according to reason; the palms of victory , which is good, and these we imitate as far as we can, how can anyone help not imitating something so worthy?

Justice provides the prizes, rewards, and gifts the palms of victory given to good leaders.

There is good and bad and when the good has the bad under control is called temperance, meaning, and the agreement of the good and bad principle. Only by good, do all other things become useful and advantageous. The good like the jogger comes to the finish line receives the prize, and crown. This is the way with good; those who endure to the end of every action and have a good report carry off the prize, which a society has to bestow.
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Opinion and prejudice is simply conceit knows how to belittle every reality and turn away from it and takes pride of this mere barren ego.

Opinion a one-sided view sees nothing, takes from nothing as a determinate, and does not advance. .

Lodged in the mind is knowledge as a pilot wholly directed toward reality. An element of freethinking is knowledge, and the ultimate absolute truth. But profound thought is needed, one that exalts infinite ideas and reality not superficial rhetoric.


We finer sort of wits know good is knowledge will band anyone who is ignorant of good have no right opinion which is the fountain and beginning motion to all that moves.

The power and capacity of knowledge exists in mind already but mind is unable to turn from ignorance to intelligence without the instrument of conviction, which turns becoming to being by degree.

In heaven is laid out a pattern of a good which those who desire may behold, and in beholding good may set their house in order. The philosopher lives after this manner and has nothing to do with any other order. A servant of good should be the starting point for all scientific study a reawaken of consciousness, no grappling pulling from mind opinions this point we accepted.
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One main question philosophy deals with is whether space is free or merely a physical substance in time. If it is said that space is a property of time then space must be like a box and even when empty maintain a particular being. But space is not property of time, it is free spreading, offers no resistance whatsoever it is "non-being being and being non-being."

If space were property of time then when removed, space must be removed too. Time is the truth of all things and the continuous abstract unfolding of things. This is what makes time and similar to space as an out and out abstract ideal being that in as much it is, it is not and in as much it is not, it is. Present time has tremendous right time because as soon as I pronounce it dissolves, flows away and passes over into another moment. Present time is the only standpoint the universal of all moments which passes away and does not rest.

If everything stood still even imagination then everything would endure but all things are subject to change. The only standpoint is present time, it will not come to be, nor was it, but it is.

Time is merely apparent change therefore; material things are temporal because they are subject to change. Then time is relativity just keeps going on and on, no beginning and no end, the only absolute timelessness of time is present.

The same is true of virtue and evil are timeless abstract universalities, same as, space and time, the sun, Elements, stones, mountains event the pyramids. What endures in time has higher value than what perishes. Look at Achilles the flower of Greek life and Alexander The Great, they perished but their infinite power and individuality survives, only deeds, and acts remain.

Motion is time past, present, and future. The past is history, the foundation of being, and the starting point. Present is because the past and future are not the result of the past and is pregnant with the future. The immediate collapse of sameness is time is opposed to space yet they are held together in unity, a contradiction of unity. In a peculiar situation, each is separate and precisely this separating proclaims ground and truth.
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You will not find many who have the name of philosopher, most have only a sense of philosophy, a copy in the place of authentic and if led to the true philosophy are unable to follow.

Philosophy the fullest blossom of consciousness when first appeared there was was a decline in the Ionic states of Asia Minor. reconciliation after destruction. Philosophy appeared in the decline in Athens at Socrates and Plato time. In the fall of the Rome Empire philosophy expanded after the decline of the Republic; It also appeared in the middle ages when the Teutonic philosophy found new life.

Every philosophy belongs to time and each principle reigns for a certain time. Anaximander conveyed everything as a commencement in time


Knowledge is not common ordinary intelligence or that kind of institution of higher education where reason is blemished, bankrupt through idleness, and self-conceit. Philosophy is a given, a secure course, full and rich of meaning, which lie deep down in the philosophers heart the highway of truth, inspiration of profound and creative higher insight that can only be won by slaving for it.


Philosophers by the light of reason truth forces its way to acknowledgment when the right time comes, and hence never appears too soon, and the public is ripe to receive it arrive at the perception of the absolute good.

Things that move from without are mindless but moved from within are mindful. This is the nature of the mind self-moving never leaving never ceasing eternity, like the sun, everywhere traversing the whole heaven, the sun soars upward and orders the whole world;

Descartes believed we do not comprehend God that there is an infinitude, which we cannot comprehend, nor possibly reach in any way; nature is finite and limited, and it is sufficient that we should understand our ignorance.
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The whole Godly like relation between inner and outer is the crystal nucleus lets molecules integrants attach themselves in a kind of successive series to the outside of the crystal.

Hauy the French mineralogist expounded the law of crystallization as metaphysical becoming physical material is silent activity that sets forth without action, crystallization merely shapes and links together all the indifferent parts.
Fix your mind on what has disquieted society of today. Life has fallen into such disunity it becomes the task of philosophy to undo the disarray and reawaken a spirit of reason.

When a gulf has arisen between people life is no longer satisfying need reason. This was so with the Ionic times, people then were buried in quagmire in such a way, duties, rights, roamed wild of unfettered fancies.

Descartes never fancied his mind to be in any more perfect than those of anyone else He had often wished that he was equal to others, or at least have a more clearly distinct memory. My knowledge was formed by a method a discipline that gave me a purpose and raised my knowledge little by little gradually to the highest point of my brief duration life will permit me to reach.
I got involved with philosophy when I read Hegel's Natural Law in 1972, the book about a hundred pages but took me two years to read. I began to read Plato, and fell in love with Socrates the wisest person in the world. I decided to sweep out all the cobwebs from my mind to understand Hegel’s complex ideas, so I began writing a diary. I stopped writing in it in 1994 and ended up with 17 diary books. Diaries were very helpful for venting everyday frustration to learn philosophy. In 1983 I began to write philosophy myself and for anyone else traveling the same path of those who love knowledge.
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Philosophy by natural charm forces its way and very likely if helped by society will some day emerge into light again


In the spangled heavens used as a pattern and with a view to that higher knowledge; like the beauty of figures or pictures excellently wrought by the hand of Daedalus, or some other great artist, to behold appreciate the exquisiteness of work, that in them he could find the true equal or the true double, or the truth of any other proportion.

The heaven is framed by the Creator of heaven in the most perfect manner the proportions of night and day, or of both to the month, or of the month to the year, or of the stars to these and to one another, and any other things that are material and visible can also be eternal and subject to no deviation --that would be absurd; and it is equally absurd to take so much pains in investigating their exact truth.

There too is a perfection which all philosophy ought to reach, and which students ought to attain, and not to fall short of the pursuit of knowledge, only then philosophy can have value otherwise no profit .

Turn back to the epoch, which took place thousands of years ago in a new light a distinctive character and specific contributions to the field of science and intellectual world. Philosophers watch over like good farmers knowledge nurturing and cultivating gentle qualities, and preventing wild ones from entering. Not in an aggressive spirit but gently and with a view of soothing and removing dislike of love of knowledge.

Knowledge is worthy to be called wisdom has been ordained in nature like a dye prepared and dressed with much care and pains; and whatever dyed in this manner becomes a fast color, and no washing either with lye or some potent solvent can take away the bloom.
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