@pyrrho314 : meaning a lot of what plato says becomes junk (the world being imperfect copies of our concepts when clearly it's the other way round. However, some of the things he said make sense if you realize he's misaprehending a physical process re: the mind. And indeed, the concept of a "form" is still quite useful, and moreso to those that know it's not a metaphysical but cognitive concept.
I am explaining it that way, I call it an imaginary body. Why discuss "spirit body"... because the thing mistaken for a metaphysical entity is actually just this neurological figure in the mind, physical in that an embodied mind creates it.
However, just because people have thought it was metaphysical, much of what they discuss about it, their experiences, are in fact real experiences.
It's like Plato's forms. It's obvious to me that a "form" is really a metaphysical take on a "concept"...
@pyrrho314 : meaning a lot of what plato says becomes junk (the world being imperfect copies of our concepts when clearly it's the other way round. However, some of the things he said make sense if you realize he's misaprehending a physical process re: the mind. And indeed, the concept of a "form" is still quite useful, and moreso to those that know it's not a metaphysical but cognitive concept.
I like the word spirit, and I'm keeping it.
pyrrho314 7 months ago
I am explaining it that way, I call it an imaginary body. Why discuss "spirit body"... because the thing mistaken for a metaphysical entity is actually just this neurological figure in the mind, physical in that an embodied mind creates it.
However, just because people have thought it was metaphysical, much of what they discuss about it, their experiences, are in fact real experiences.
It's like Plato's forms. It's obvious to me that a "form" is really a metaphysical take on a "concept"...
pyrrho314 7 months ago