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Yes it starts with the senses, but at a certain point the mind abstracts immaterial notions from physical reality, such as justice, truth, point, line, and so o
by silent_cal 5y ago
Yes it starts with the senses, but at a certain point the mind abstracts immaterial notions from physical reality, such as justice, truth, point, line, and so on. So the mind must be immaterial.
- tikwidd 5y agoIf there is no coherent notion of physical or material, there is no notion of immaterial either. Chomsky talks about this at length in "The Machine, The Ghost and the Limits of Understanding" (previously discussed on HN here [1]). [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26448901 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26448901
- silent_cal 5y agoIf there were no coherent notion of physical & material, then we wouldn't have words for them.