Mind as a Figment of Yours, and, Reason to Pragmatism
There is much to gain in understanding how minds relate to the rest of reality, and the first steps to inquiring in this way are to understand that mind is a concept, that reality is a concept, and it is primarily in this waythat they can interact. (2)to-process
I just about know what you mean when you talk to meabout books. We can generally agree on what are and aren’t books, how we interact with them, and how theyinteract with us. (2)to-process
Given that I cannot really tell you what makes something a book by identifying the necessaryand sufficient properties of books, it should be something else, not something intrinsic to the thing itself, thatgives me knowledge of books. (2)to-process
As a subject begins to associatecomposites of particulars of their experience with each other, those composites become abstracted as particulars of experience themselves, and concepts are formed. (2)to-process
A particular of experience is anything experienced as meaningfully distinct, as I can distinguish the books on my bookshelf from each other. (2)to-process
eaning is, for a subject, the effect anything has on that subject’s actions and experiences, for instance how books are meaningful to me as things to read. (2)to-process
A concept is an abstraction of particulars of experience, as I recognize each distinct book on my bookshelf as a ‘book’. (2)to-process
Composites of particulars are nothing more than the individual particulars, until they are associated and form meaning as a whole. (2)to-process
The associations a subject makes between composites of particulars of experience are actually associations of isomorphisms, a term for when the particulars of the composite can themselves be associated (3)to-process
The point is being able to examine the various theories of what minds are, and realizing what is really going on when one theory sounds unappealing. (3)to-process
reality, or being, is also a concept (3)to-process
A subject abstracts the concept of being from the particulars which are meaningful as being. (3)to-process
what it means for something to exist and be real depends on your own conception of existence and reality (3)to-process
Anything I think might exist objectively is intrinsically subjective. (4)to-process
It isn’t so much that I like the representational theory of mind, which is physicalist, because I think it is more ‘real,’ but because they nest better in my web of concepts. (4)to-process
I’ll introduce nuance into my conceptual map by de-emphasizing my concept of truth, and prioritizing the pragmatic merit of a plurality of perspectives. (4)to-process
Remember, however, that truth is made up—it is a concept that hides what is really going on in concept-meaning interactions. Without any appeal to some objective truth, there is no contradiction. (5)to-process
However, ‘meaning’ and ‘concept’ are themselves concepts, which aren’t necessarily real. (5)to-process
The arguments I make needn’t be ‘true’ or match up with ‘reality,’ but be meaningful to those who understand them. This meaning interacts with the other meaning people have, enriching the reality that a person creates. The point is not primarily to be correct, but primarily to make an impact, so that people can question and figure out what being ‘correct’ means. (5)to-process