I don’t think there are two things, the Physical—and Consciousness; I think there is only one, and that it is neither physical nor mental. — Dominic Osborn
it seems Bergson is more dualistic than me — Dominic Osborn
He thinks Space (and perhaps Matter) is something opposed to Time, Consciousness, Will, etc.. — Dominic Osborn
I however think Space is inseparable from these things, that it is an (infinite) continuum, like Time and Consciousness, and that it is indivisible, even in thought: you can’t even point to one bit and point to another, and say, This bit is different from that bit. It doesn’t exist independently of thought or consciousness, but exists only inasmuch as it is Consciousness. You aren’t in it, you are it.
So I don’t think there are two things, the Physical—and Consciousness; I think there is only one, and that it is neither physical nor mental. — Dominic Osborn
“We must never stop asking ‘Why?’”. We must gawp at the “majesty” of the universe. What is the best emotion we can have? —“A sense of wonder”. And what must we think of ourselves? —We must be gleefully tiny. — Dominic Osborn
So Physicalism is the philosophy of the worldly, the secular; Idealism that of the otherworldly, the religious. — Dominic Osborn
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