"'The highly evolved sophotectic mind is pure mind. It has its drives, desires - emotions, spirituality - but they are not expressions or sublimations of raw instinct.'" (p. 335)
Are the highest human motivations sublimations? Of course, someone might define them as such. But they remain our highest motivations.
"'What Gautama Buddha, Plato, Jesus, oh, many human philosophers and prophets, what they spoke of - but for them it was only words and wistfulness - it is real for the machine. The good, the true, the beautiful.'" (ibid.)
Surely we experience real goodness, truth and beauty and do not just wistfully talk about them?
"'Those are what it seeks. And they are ethereal. Inner, not outer.'" (ibid.)
Surely goodness, truth and beauty are concrete, not just ethereal, and outer as well as inner?
"'Constructs, or discoveries? I cannot say, except that they are in the realm not of matter, but of spirit.'" (ibid.)
We construct theories to understand discoveries. Good actions and beautiful objects are material. We discover truths about matter. Spirit is materially based consciousness.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
While I agree with most of the caveats you gave about the "spirituality" of the sophotects, I don't agree that human spirituality is based only on the material.
Sean
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