Kaballah makes the attributes be described in 10 ways, and although Spinoza doesn't say that, we still have to understand him with the Jewish culture he was raised in. Speaking of God's attributes in these ways was very Jewish (and foreign to the Catholicism of the time) — Gregory
]I agree with you that "every atom would somehow be alive" would generate no ends of problems for Spinoza's account, but I don't think he's committed to the background of concepts you've used to pin the claim on him. — fdrake
States which have been caused to exist — TheWillowOfDarkness
To be conscious is to have existing states of conciousness which are caused by other things. It's just a causality, like rain making paper soggy.
In this case, we have some states which are not concious experience interacting to create a new existing state, a conscious state. No hard problem. — TheWillowOfDarkness
So a rock hitting you doesn't cause you to think ''Damn rock! I'm hurt...", but a previous thought does. — Eugen
In his view, God is nature, it possesses infinite consciousness (plus other infinite attributes), but it is not conscious and it has no will. Isn't this self-contradictory? — Eugen
Spinoza said neither God nor humans have free will. But they both have will, which is the desires of the thinking subject. — Gregory
I don't bother memorizing stuff that I don't find is true. — god must be atheist
What exactly do you find wrong in Spinozism? — Eugen
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