In a message dated 7/3/02 2:33:53 AM GMT Daylight Time,
gershomdreamer@yahoo.com writes:
> Gary's Response: The mind is not a collective noun but a singular noun.
> Each and every human being has one singular mind. It is the term for our
> experience of thinking and being aware. It is our experience of processing
> our thoughts, memories, feeling, emotions, and all our sensory events. It
> is our sense of awareness and it is our belief that we can have thoughts
> that we are not aware of, hence the idea of sub-consciousness and
> un-consciousness.
>
> Are you serious when you stated that : "I have no need for a mind in my
> metaphysics yet. If I find a good candidate referent for the word "mind",
> you'll be the first to know. what do I know :) André
>
> What term would you use to replace 'mind'?
> Gary
>
Hi Gary,
I am butting in here a little?
Please forgive me?
I am happy to read Pirsig using the term mind as he is careful to state that
we have to deal with a language loaded with detritus and garbage?
However, we must be careful not to almost immediately fall back into a
Cartesian mind set!
Squonk.
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