The Material Mind

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One of the objections to correspondence as a test of reality, is the

believe that we can never know any object in itself. That thinking is

always there tainting our perceptions, that even in seeing a rock,

we can't detach the seeing from the recognition of it as a rock, and

that recognition is a thought. So the world of matter must always

remain out there untouched by our mind, and there can never be any

unmixed correspondent between an image, and its object.

 

This objection is based on the fallacy that a thought is something

insubstantial. A thought is a material process in a brain. A thought

is an exchange of neurotransmiters and electricity between neurons. A

mind is a choreography of chemicals and occupies the same spatial

dimension as a rock.. That the brain experiences its own workings as

detached sensations doesn't divide the universe into two incompatible

realms. All is one, all is matter/energy, and matter/energy

is the unknown.

 

Pete