Chuan tells Fenn:
"'The highly evolved sophotectic mind is pure mind.'" (p. 335)
Its drives, desires, emotions and spirituality are neither expressions nor sublimations of instinct. Instead, it seeks goodness, truth and beauty. Chuan asks whether these are constructs or discoveries. Truth at least is a discovery, not a construct! According to Chuan, many philosophers and prophets, including the Buddha, Plato and Jesus, spoke of something that:
"'...was only words and wistfulness...'" (ibid.)
- for them but:
"'...is real for the machine.'" (ibid.)
I do not agree with listing these great names together like that. The Buddha taught meditation and is believed to have realized enlightenment. Plato analyzed concepts, like contemporary analytic philosophers. Jesus was a first century Jewish preacher-healer whose message was that the kingdom was at hand. These were three different men.
According to Chuan, goodness etc are ethereal, inner, not outer, of spirit, not matter. A false dichotomy. Truth and beauty are both inner and outer. Matter is being. Spirit is conscious being. Therefore, spirit is conscious matter. But matter is energy/what is, not just mechanically interacting particles.
Got to go.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I don't believe this nonsense by Chuan one bit. Any "intellect" which has moral agency will be perfectly capable of having goals and ends it will be likely to lie, intrigue, conspire, etc., to attain.
Ad astra! Sean
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