[Guille]

I don't know. I'm not really sure now of my statements in the other post. The meaning of the mind is having a will. Arthur Schopenhauer believed everything was will, his substitude for god (that is what all philosophers do, substitude god with other abstract ideas, not me, I want to liberate philosophy from that) was the will. The world is pure representation, it's theater. Only the thing behind everything that is, everything that happens and everything that has the possibility to happen is the will. For him, everything had a degree of liberty and a will depending on this. The human has a bigger level than animals, animals have a bigger level than plants, plants have a bigger level than materials... The thing is that if the apple that falls of the tree and hits the head of Newton had happened to Schopenhauer, he wouldn't have developed the three laws of motion, the constant G, the study of optics, etz... He would have simply said 'It was the will of the apple to fall from the tree and hit my head.' and that would be of it, and nothing in the world today would be like it is (to worst). Before Schopenhauer, people would ahave said it was the will of god that the apple fell of the tree and hit his head. You see, that's why I say philosophers do nothing but substitude god by other abstract terms ('because god wanted to' converted to 'because the apple wanted to' makes no difference). I don't think anymore that everything alive has a mind, if the three grows towards the parts where there is light it is because it has a physical function which is incharge of making it grow towards the light.