The first question is, “What is the mind”.<\/p>\n
I agree with Socrates that to begin we need to understand the question. “Mind” is a loose term that includes different phenomenon that are (seemingly) associated.<\/p>\n
I am not discarding this paltry scrapheap of words because at least it includes a reasonable philosophical strategy, and that is in itself worthy of further application of insight and continued investigation of its field of vision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The first question is, “What is the mind”. I agree with Socrates that to begin we need to understand the question. “Mind” is a loose term that includes different phenomenon that are (seemingly) associated. I am not discarding this paltry scrapheap of words because at least it includes a reasonable philosophical strategy, and that is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[159,242,128,20,250],"tags":[251],"metadata":[],"class_list":["post-2632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-evernote-entries","category-journal","category-philosophy","category-tid-bits","tag-mind"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2751,"url":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2013\/10\/28\/monday-october-28-2013\/","url_meta":{"origin":2632,"position":0},"title":"Monday October 28, 2013","author":"Pala","date":"October 28, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The following is inspired by my notes beginning in chapter 2 of Scaruffi's book. 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