@visionsofsilver true, but the old idea of mind is that its not something we have. At least in the greek hermetic tradition, men have the reasoning faculities, but mind they don't have yet, until they reach Gnosis. I think it's important to understand that if someone wants to study hermetic, and platonic, traditions and texts, cause many people seem to take only an intelectual approach to these things. which is just a modern concept and misses the point I think.
The term consciousness is used because there are different levels of it. For example; people who are very religious you would call God-conscious. Or a sociopath you might say has a detached consciousness. The term mind really doesn't work. You can say we are like minded, which would indicate they we have the same ideals or beliefs, but consciousness is something different.
I don't know all that much about philosophy, since I've mainly studied physics - I think it's interesting is all, just that I spotted a comment on gravity that's at best a misconception.
Well, I don't think anyone would disagree with the idea that in order to be in sound mind you must posses a healthy brain. And, in such a way, beingness is dependent on having a mind. W/out body/brain (point of reference) there can be no beingness. Even if the mind survives a bodily death, what is there to experience? And, in a lack of reference and experience, what is there to be? I am healthy amongst the sick; I am tall among the short; I am here against the there.
The way I see it is this...
Mind is a word that we use to describe the function/workings of the brain.
A builder builds. A brain Minds.
visionsofsilver 1 year ago
@visionsofsilver true, but the old idea of mind is that its not something we have. At least in the greek hermetic tradition, men have the reasoning faculities, but mind they don't have yet, until they reach Gnosis. I think it's important to understand that if someone wants to study hermetic, and platonic, traditions and texts, cause many people seem to take only an intelectual approach to these things. which is just a modern concept and misses the point I think.
DagonFaust 1 year ago
The term consciousness is used because there are different levels of it. For example; people who are very religious you would call God-conscious. Or a sociopath you might say has a detached consciousness. The term mind really doesn't work. You can say we are like minded, which would indicate they we have the same ideals or beliefs, but consciousness is something different.
jerami101 3 years ago
I am experiencing life here in cyberspace as Mind
atree3 4 years ago
His comments about gravity are, at best, uninformed. And I say that as a someone who knows a great deal of physics.
Sal1981 4 years ago
What did you think of the content, what are you still reflecting on now that some time has passed?
openingmind 4 years ago
I don't know all that much about philosophy, since I've mainly studied physics - I think it's interesting is all, just that I spotted a comment on gravity that's at best a misconception.
Sal1981 4 years ago
Please, by all means watch and enjoy, it is a noble game, and the puzzles are a great deal of fun. (smiles)
-Lisa
openingmind 4 years ago
"I don't know all that much about philosophy, since I've mainly studied physics"
The earliest philosophers of Hellas -- Thales, Anaxagoras, Heraclitus -- were concerned primarily with physis as expressed in cosmological terms.
Metaphysics and philosophical anthropology came later.
neothomist1275 3 years ago
I don't hear any comments on gravity....
jezzej1979 4 years ago
well unless you state how he is incorrect, your opinion is worthless shit.
Dollarbob 3 years ago
Minus that which you ARE NOT, that which YOU ARE is not.
body>mind>being
civitasdei 5 years ago
Minus that which you ARE NOT, that which YOU ARE is not.
body>mind>being
civitasdei 5 years ago
Well, I don't think anyone would disagree with the idea that in order to be in sound mind you must posses a healthy brain. And, in such a way, beingness is dependent on having a mind. W/out body/brain (point of reference) there can be no beingness. Even if the mind survives a bodily death, what is there to experience? And, in a lack of reference and experience, what is there to be? I am healthy amongst the sick; I am tall among the short; I am here against the there.
civitasdei 5 years ago