Our own: presence, sentience, being, the sense of 'am here', non biological, awareness+conscience/knowing+power of intent; similar to the presence that we are within a dream. Zero dimensional and outside of spacetime. All the rest is just a (potentially) regenerating chemical reaction of the DNA class. Nervous systems must capture a spirit at birth by radiating a bidirectional field of mind-body consciousness as a lure, which binds spirits having sensual intents. The spirit is required to perform I/O for the nervous system: reading consciousness with awareness, filtering with conscience, and optionally writing back to consciousness to initiate thought or muscular movement or other actions in a dream. It's not a matter of contemplation, it can be known by direct experience. True knowledge (Spinoza). Right: I agree that conscience/instinct+reason have a synergy that develop (or undermine) each other. And this forms the basis for the development of virtue, or its destruction, as the case may be.
@@wayofspinoza2471 Spinoza concludes: “I have shown the cause why men are moved more by opinion than by true reason, and why the true knowledge of good and evil arouses disturbances of the mind, and often yields to lust of every kind” (IV17S). Such is the life of bondage.
@@wayofspinoza2471 In the scholium to proposition fifteen, he writes against “those who feign a God, like man, consisting of a body and a mind, and subject to passions. But how far they wander from the true knowledge of God, is sufficiently established by what has already been demonstrated.” Besides being false, such an anthropomorphic conception of God standing as judge over us can have only deleterious effects on human freedom and activity, insofar as it fosters a life enslaved to hope and fear and the superstitions to which such emotions give rise.
Quoting Spinoza does not mean you understand his propositions, ETC. I have studied and worked with my teacher and mentor for over 50 years. If you really understood Spinoza's Ethics you would want to become a student and live his ideas. By yourself, it's evident that you do not comprehend.
Our own: presence, sentience, being, the sense of 'am here', non biological, awareness+conscience/knowing+power of intent; similar to the presence that we are within a dream. Zero dimensional and outside of spacetime.
All the rest is just a (potentially) regenerating chemical reaction of the DNA class. Nervous systems must capture a spirit at birth by radiating a bidirectional field of mind-body consciousness as a lure, which binds spirits having sensual intents. The spirit is required to perform I/O for the nervous system: reading consciousness with awareness, filtering with conscience, and optionally writing back to consciousness to initiate thought or muscular movement or other actions in a dream. It's not a matter of contemplation, it can be known by direct experience. True knowledge (Spinoza).
Right: I agree that conscience/instinct+reason have a synergy that develop (or undermine) each other. And this forms the basis for the development of virtue, or its destruction, as the case may be.
I have no idea what you are communicating it's very abstract. I don't know if you understand Spinoza's philosophy explained in his Ethics.
@@wayofspinoza2471 nothing I said abstract to any degree whatsoever.
@@wayofspinoza2471 Spinoza insists that the “true knowledge we have of good and evil” is “abstract, or universal” (E4p62s; G/II/257).
@@wayofspinoza2471 Spinoza concludes: “I have shown the cause why men are moved more by opinion than by true reason, and why the true knowledge of good and evil arouses disturbances of the mind, and often yields to lust of every kind” (IV17S). Such is the life of bondage.
@@wayofspinoza2471 In the scholium to proposition fifteen, he writes against “those who feign a God, like man, consisting of a body and a mind, and subject to passions. But how far they wander from the true knowledge of God, is sufficiently established by what has already been demonstrated.” Besides being false, such an anthropomorphic conception of God standing as judge over us can have only deleterious effects on human freedom and activity, insofar as it fosters a life enslaved to hope and fear and the superstitions to which such emotions give rise.
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Quoting Spinoza does not mean you understand his propositions, ETC. I have studied and worked with my teacher and mentor for over 50 years. If you really understood Spinoza's Ethics you would want to become a student and live his ideas. By yourself, it's evident that you do not comprehend.