A Philosophy of Mind

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

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Here we are trying what knowledge is. It is best we quit feeling, it only hinders knowledge and makes an end of all virtue knowledge rests upon .The inner principle role of purpose without knowledge would be perplexed of what is essential and what is nonessential, or being happy or not seeing and hearing are inaccurate witnesses.

Knowledge leads us out of the sea of change to the highest good where all other things become useful and advantageous Truth is related to knowledge which decides whether what is right or wrong but knowledge is not truth, knowledge is wisdom, insight, understanding, and observation.

Philosophers will never intentionally be dishonest they love truth Our desires are strong in one direction will have them weaker in others; they will be like a stream which has been drawn off into another channel.

Philosophy demands not superficial consideration but profound eternal truth, justice, courage, and temperance. Not part time lovers but always sorting out is curious to learn and is never satisfied.

The true philosopher must have the gift of memory, courage and magnitude. Hypotheses, that is to say, is a step of departure into a world above. The true philosopher goes to the first principle taking successive steps, through ideas, and in ideas end. First comes shadows easily perceiving shadows then comes images and last truth in its proper region that gives the seasons, and years, and names for all things; not shadows by eyes corrupted, and the opinions of shadows.
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Philosophy few schools teach it especially without a teacher leads to a lack of pursuit; also, as matters, stand today students are conceited and see no profit in philosophy.

Socrates called learning the release from chains or more so from shadows to light. Learning has the power of elevating our mind to that, which is best in existence. This power is a given.

Love is the middle term between ignorance and learning, love is never in want or never too plenty is tossed in some region half way between ignorance and knowledge.

Descartes believed that love is between the divine and the human where mysteries and charms, and prophecy and incantation find their way.

Turn back to the period which took place thousands of years ago when philosophy was known to be the love of knowledge and viewed as essential distinctive contributions to the field of science and the intellectual world.

Philosophers be like good farmers watch over their crops nurturing and cultivating the qualities of learning.
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The heart is a silent activity through and through shapes and links together all the different parts like crystallization.

I love truth all my desires are strong in that one direction like in a stream, which has been drawn off into another straight. The whole Godly like relation between inner and outer pervades my soul like a crystal nucleus molecules that attach themselves to the surface of the nucleus whole.

Truth decides whether what is right or wrong but not knowledge not wisdom, insight, understanding, or observation. The inner self is your heart, or in other words, Inner essence imperturbable passing hither and thither lies certain of truth. Here enter into the sphere of reflection.

The heart pervades the whole Godly like relation between inner and outer like the crystal nucleus molecules integrants attach themselves to the surface of the nucleus in a kind of successive array in which depends on this series. The heart inner essence is ideal pervades the whole inner and outer pure reflection .
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Religion being all truth contains all reality. This is self-consciousness, being self-knowing self in the first instance, immediate pure simple being. This bare being filling is the heart, all truth and reality.

The heart is natural religion. Belief pervades and permeates all aspects of being a pure reflection. The Hindus believe if heart could maintain pure reflection it would pass away into transparency like sunlight.

But the heart is like a seed that germinates only when stimulated from outside. The process then is absolutely a double process.

In the heart of philosophy is constructed in soft malleable terms unlike scientific observation.

Thales believed God is water. His physical geography he treated the sea, called Thalassography named after him was more philosophical then scientific the word Thalassocracy means mastery of the sea. Thales believed water was the supreme sustainer of life. He was born the first year of the 35th Olympiad 640 B.C, he was one of the seven wise men of ancient Greek and author of the Ionic sect, and he is the one who measured the pyramids and the distance from shore of ships at sea.

Socrates believed our hearts are like charioteers driving a pair of winged horses into the sky, one of them is reason and the other is not. The powering of pair of winged horses into the sky gives heart great deal of trouble to us when we fed upon ignorance and meanness and the heart fed upon knowledge, beauty, and goodness climb upward little by little raises high.

Philosophers love truth and lovers of learning absorbed in the pleasures of knowledge if we mean to be a true philosopher and not a charade.
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The principle of individuality is the color of things is called Metalleity. Every metal in its pure state has a particular color, for example, gold is yellow color whereas iron is the color loadstone.

Pigmentation, even vegetables in their indigo coloring, or the redness of blood can be traced to the metal iron. The color of metals can be altered by chemical processing or by heat. For example silver by heating it reveals the color of the rainbow in sequence red, yellow, green, and blue. Then at a point a bright lustre called silver gleam, it is only a moment and can not be prolonged.

Look at refined steel heated takes on a yellow color and quickly removed from heat keeps this color, but as soon as it is heated again becomes a darker yellow and soon purple. This purple color turns into a deeper blue, if taken from the heat and put in ashes, the deep blue is fixed, but if heated again becomes bright blue and stays that way.

Color of people is he real identity of self. and the alteration of self produces various colors; this is called the metallic principle, self that has achieved stability.

Individuality is an actual essential being free and independent character of self that constitutes “spirit of self ” a moving process or more so called the process of natural religion. Belief pervades permeates all aspects of individuality is belief of self a certainty of self belonging to each individual.
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Individuality means essentially being free and independent but only in a theoretical process because we sentient creatures contain a relationship with the outside world. Our appetite directs our need to outside. We are free only in the theoretical process, Need of an other is negative, unpleasant feeling but a necessary one. What excites our emotion exists outside self.

Thus individuality is a theoretical process free, impartial it leaves sensation out unaltered. Here truth and objectivity produces as this singular universal, determinate genus as ground.

Our individuality refuses to be led astray and abandon with idle thoughts, holds on the original content of reason until our character is made actual All the moments of consciousness, self-consciousness, reason, and character are all at the same moment together constitutes individuality or more so called the process of belief.

Individuality 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.
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Truth is framed by the mind, tested by the senses and which has a beginning and an end. The theoretical process determines logically a way of distinguishing relationship with the outer world. The sweetness of learning, embraces the most simple and general knowledge.

Reason is the absolute end of anything without it there cannot be beholding to memory of what once was. Knowledge is termed memory because recalls things to mind. I am not just speaking only of knowledge but of beauty, goodness, justice, religiousness, and all stamped with the name of essence. Those who know will always know best. Without knowledge, the ability to articulate vanishes.

The absolute end and aim is reason the intent the consequence. Knowledge the instrument of reasons the bare path of empty intentions. Comes on the scene and liberates the pathway and carry out the intention.

Freethinking is knowledge and is the ultimate absolute reason we are here; there can be nothing so remote that we cannot reason. Even as disregarded, as philosophy is today still forces its way in society and if given some help emerges into sunlight. In the decline of the Republic and in the middle Ages when the Teutonic a gulf had arisen with the people and truth was no longer philosophy appeared.

One question throughout philosophy is whether space is like a box a mere property of things or is space free, not the arrangement of things and because when things passes space remains.

Space is freely spreading it offers no resistance whatsoever, nothing is contained in it, it is unbounded, extends in every direction.

Measuring space cannot be done only terms of point, particular lines, and plane, these points, lines, and planes. What offer resistance is matter, quantum or mass and motion? Since there is motion, something moves and that something is matter.

The unfolding of things is what makes time .If we all stood still including our imaginations we would endure like space but we are all temporal and subject to change.
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Look at things as they really are and see that the unjust is in the case of the politician who does well from the starting-point like in a dream but not from dream to reality. In their dream, they go off in great speed, but in reality at the end, they tiptoe away with their ears on their shoulders looking foolish without the prize.

The just comes to the finish, receives the prize, and crown. This is the way with the just who endure to the end and have a good report they carry off the prize which society grants.

In our mind, there is a good principle and bad principle; and when the good has the bad under control, this is the accord of the good and bad principle called temperance. All things useful and advantageous rest upon good. The master is also the slave and there is good and bad principles in the mind.

The unjust puts an end to the better principles has no ounce of shame, always in frenzy and foolish whining natures. This is the reason old love is been called the tyrant and the drunk too has the spirit of a tyrant temper. They fancy that they are able to rule others and some even rule god.

Don’t be panic over the unjust don’t be overwhelmed at their pompous ways which they assume. Let’s be clear, let us be insightful and judge the best of them have miserably enslaved have mean and rude tempers. Why because the best elements in them are in prison.

The unjust may live secure and have nothing to apprehend from others. But imagine if everyone were free, no one will help the unjust unless those who are forced to flatter them and make many promises, or having been sweet-talked.

The real slave is the unjust they are truly poor I ask then how can the unjust be master of others when they are not master of self?
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A dream from reality; Descartes believed we neither put the reality in place of dreams, nor dreams in place of reality, either I am dreaming, or am I awake. Things that stand for something in sleep is like art it can only have been formed as relating to some thing in reality not fantasy, to invent in a dream something so original that nothing similar has ever been seen before is absolutely false.

The pursuit of knowledge and truth we ought to reach, and not fall short of to have any worth. What distinguishes things are senses, distinguishes wakefulness from sleep, which is called the sphere of feeling.

Then, space and time lies in conscious power. Dreams are the denial of space and time; we can fly around in our dreams. Descartes believed everything that ever entered into mind is no truer than the illusions of dreams. He wrote that when asleep our eyes open, heads shake, arms and hands extend, but they are false delusions.

Then thought is identical with existence, Parmenides believed "Since the utmost limit of being is perfect, it resembles on every side the form of a well rounded sphere, which from its centre extends in all directions equally, for it can be neither larger or smaller in one part or another. There is no non-being which prevents it from attaining to the like."
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Talent is instinct the same as we fall asleep without setting about to. We sleep out of instinct; the same is true of gathering food. Look at the weather spiders and frogs they are weather profits, also the flight of birds at a time of earthquakes. They feel the coming change in whether by a wound is all by instinct


The skill of using words is talent one must have a good idea of words and then have experience of them in actual life, and last of all be able to follow those words in speaking, teaching, or writing.
Instinct is a remarkable phenomenon it is a purposeful action or impulse.

Unfortunately writing is a mere opinion and if I ask my writing a question, the words conserve a solemn silence. Words once written down are tumbled about anywhere among those who may or may not understand them maltreated, abused, and have no kin to protect them.
My chief aim in carrying on these arguments here is for my improvement; at the same time, I do not begrudge others from benefiting while I try to create a spirit of philosophy.

Zeno rightfully thought eternity is the same thing once and forever. Thought does not belong to quantitative progression, meaningless repetitions of the same opposition. Thought he believed has no end, cannot be equated by anything, only can understand what is imagined.

In every one oppressed by want, hard driven by nature gets lost or dimmed can be re-illuminated As a child we knew nothing we excepted any opinion at all given to us. Passion, feeling and self-seeking interests were all around us until philosophy’s gentle hand came to our aid and lifted us up to knowledge.
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Self-determination is a liberation, or more so, a being-for-self extracted from gravity. Being-for-self, is developed out of opposition. Bodies come under the might of individuality. In the solar system, light exists in two ways; as immediate and essentially affirmed, therefore, as the sun and light is the product of external conditions.


All bodies come under the might of individuality within itself. Independent in face of other determinations is as sunlight, pure sameness with self, and a reflection into self. I consider and point out the way and manner in which sunlight as a nonstop whirlpool motion, pure return absolute velocity, and everywhere present force.
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What is contained in thought is not only today and tomorrow but eternally forever, at all time. Now, right here a contradiction immediately appears has sunk into the night of the past, is no longer what is presented.

The history of the intellectual world is simple, yet it seems to involve a contradiction. The thought, which is essentially thought, is in and for it eternal. The history a philosophical consideration is to reflect immediately on what has been thought is the series of free productions.

The same about language Socrates tells a story of Theuth; the bird called Ibis is sacred to Theuth who invented many arts, such as arithmetic, calculation, geometry, astronomy, drafts and dice. His greatest discovery was the use of language.

Now Thamus was the king of the great city of upper Thebes in Egypt at the time. Theuth showed Thamus his inventions hoping the other Egyptians maybe allowed to benefit from them. Thamus when he came to the use language refused them.

Thamus said that anyone not having attained to the mysteries of knowledge only feeds on opinion. Having only the show of intelligence but knows not anything. In order to approach language in the right way or for it to be real and useful the underlining principle must be the love of knowledge and truth.

Knowledge means science. Look it up its in the dictionary. Knowledge is part of the element of freethinking, because pure knowing is the ultimate absolute truth of consciousness.

There are two ruling principles of knowledge, the intellectual world and the visible world, From senses then is derived knowledge, then before you began to see or hear or perceive in any way, you must have knowledge, or you could not have referred to equality what is equal or absolute one.
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Reason, all arts and sciences and intelligence use it in common raising the very light to sight that is brightest in the material visible world. . Let the other sciences try as much as they like to get along without reason they are unable to keep alive without it or to have any spiritual significance and truth in them.

The art of reason is between knowledge and truth midway, it functions as a centrality between extremes. Wisdom is not so far I from heaven’s pleasure honor and gain are necessary quest but if there were no necessities lovers of knowledge would rather not have them. The pleasure of knowing is our pursuit; ever learning is not so far from the rapture of pleasure. Lover of knowledge n the heart of philosophers it is the sweetness of learning raises a pang embracing freethinking and absolute reason. Reason lies in conquering when we have succeeded in canceling self to do good in the world is reason.

Let us not slave in the attainment of knowledge. Any kind of knowledge acquired under force does not stay in our mind because rigidity is powerless. Like an archer at the same time pushing and pulling the bow, one hand pushes and the other pulls, one submits and the other forbids.
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Here in this forum we give much facility in sifting out all the questions embraced in knowledge, the most simple and general; we believe everything has reason. This is the requisite of philosophy and most important truth in the world we will try not grapple with all the wrong opinion out there.

If philosophy were just opinions then it would be a very tiresome study. Therefore, we must have a willingness to give profound thought that knowledge and truth.

The love of knowledge is a chain that keeps me in the process is twofold; the slave and ruler is solely a unity of subjective and objective, self and the unconditional slave and labor. Our approach is in the right way. Or in order for it to be of real use, there is a natural way. The underlining principle come rise out of the sea of change and lay hold to philosophy, not as amateurs.
Science is knowledge an element of free thinking, because pure knowing the ultimate absolute truth of our consciousness. Science is entangled in the world of appearance. Consider this matter under investigation that in order to give certainty means of exercise logic in all things. Everyone finds in himself or herself, something thoroughly familiar, which can form the starting point for further reflection, is called reason
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What is going around purpose stands in contrast. Reason is the middle or mediating term, unites acts morally and carries out purpose. Reason the light of knowledge and truth is an action and the content of purpose, which dominates the action.

Purpose acts must be substantial in character, must be entire self and universal spirit; and must not be taken as if it were merely an act of duty. You must not think that reason is a spirit, immediate truth, and conscious life. Through reason comes universal being with feeling and philosophical devotion.

Reason grasp explicit truth just by being consciously realized external by, we become something on our own account spirit comes acts and rises out of the state of unconscious into the universal reason.

Let us not have ay of the worldly things trouble us, neither sight nor sound but nothing else than what is called the working and weaving inner pure ideal. Ideality cannot stand alone it has no support, no inherent standpoint, just simply ideality but it also has a distinct consciousness that what we do is real or true.

The power of reason distinguishes truth from error. Truth can only be seen dimly, through a glass whereas reason takes that dimly lit glass turns it into clearness. World spirit comes into being in reason; it makes one aware of its extremities, and proclaims certainty and assurance of each true being.

In every self-conscious reason appears the first positive character which self-consciousness becomes aware, pure inner essence of bare and simple truth.
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