Floating Man

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While he was imprisoned in the castle of Fardajan near Hamadhan, Avicenna described the earliest known thought experiment, now famously known as the "Floating Man" thought experiment, to demonstrate human self-awareness and the substantiality of the soul. He referred to the living human intelligence, particularly the active intellect, which he believed to be the hypostasis by which God communicates truth to the human mind and imparts order and intelligibility to nature. His "Floating Man" thought experiment tells its readers to imagine themselves in the air, isolated from all sensations, which includes no sensory contact with even their own bodies. He argues that, in this scenario, one would still have self-consciousness. He thus concludes that the idea of the self is not logically dependent on any physical thing, and that the soul should not be seen in relative terms, but as a primary given, a substance.

More: http://maysaloon.blogspot.com/2009/04/what-is-avicennas-flying-man-argument.html

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[CerebralCreation]

@gamolly mmm to be honest I felt it incessant in a way.. so I created another version of it.. a lil more enhanced but basically the same notes :) I hope you can hear it some day when I upload it and lemme know which is better :D

thank you for the kind comment in any case :)

You should read the concept behind the "floating man".. fascinating

[gamolly]

This is quite.. Captivating I might say.

It felt to me as if my soul was put into a quite bizarre bowl where this music stirred it creating chaos.. A chaos of emotions. . Chaos of a good type.

*hat off*