MIND AND MATTER

ANIL MITRA, © June 2014

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THEMES TO DEVELOP

Experience and relationship

Impossibility of strict materialism

Necessity but impossibility of emergentism on this account

Alternative A, dualism and its impossibility

Alternative B, matter and mind as being of order 1 and 2

Extension of this account in the case of the universal metaphysics

Extension: mind as universal

Local interpretation

If mind does not emerge, then it must be aspects of mind that ‘emerge’

Higher mind and its organization

Consciousness—nature, problems and resolutions, and map

Question of emergence—evolution and adaptation

Question of emergence—development and environment

 

THEMES TO DEVELOP

This too continues discussion of being and experience. It seems effective to write it separately.

The themes are very tentative relative to what is contained in central statements and journey in being-detail.

Experience and relationship

Impossibility of strict materialism

Necessity but impossibility of emergentism on this account

Alternative A, dualism and its impossibility

Alternative B, matter and mind as being of order 1 and 2

Extension of this account in the case of the universal metaphysics

Extension: mind as universal

Local interpretation

If mind does not emerge, then it must be aspects of mind that ‘emerge’

Higher mind and its organization

Consciousness—nature, problems and resolutions, and map

Question of emergence—evolution and adaptation

Question of emergence—development and environment