• Wayfarer
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    The unit of survival is a flexible organism-in-its-environment.Bateson, Form, Substance, and Difference

    That is perfectly in keeping with the ‘mind-created world’. Bateson is one of the sources of ‘enactivism’ and a major influence in The Embodied Mind, which comprehensively deconstructed ‘the view from nowhere’.
  • Paine
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    I recognize that influence. I submit that it is incompatible with the Gerson view of Platonism.

    You seem to want to have both at the same time.
  • Wayfarer
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    I submit that it is incompatible with the Gerson view of Platonism.Paine

    Sure, but that is not a topic of debate in this thread.
  • Paine
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    So, I should not connect all the things you have said as the continuity of your thought?

    I suffer from institutional memory.
  • Wayfarer
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    They’re different topics, but there is a way of connecting them, subject of a forthcoming OP.
  • alleybear
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    If you say, the world is created by your mind, I feel your world is likely to be very much in illusion. A perceived world sounds more accurate.Corvus

    Just out of curiosity, what is the difference between a person's created world and a person's perceived world?
  • JuanZu
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    The world perceived by a mind has an external cause that may be of a different nature from the mind (classical dualism).

    The mind-created world, as I understand the OP, has no external cause and is a monism where everything that exists has mental properties.
  • Wayfarer
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    The mind-created world, as I understand the OP, has no external cause and is a monism where everything that exists has mental properties.JuanZu

    Not quite what it says. I don't claim that the mind is constitutive of objects in the way that wood is constitutive of boats or clay of pots. It is an epistemological arrgument.

    I acnowledge that the word 'created' might be a poor choice of words in the context. I'm referring more to the role of the mind in constructing or synthesising what we take to be a completely independent and external world.
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