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Originally Posted by Lloyd Gillespie

Yeah Steve, except for the next one after it, 'ad infinitum...'

Originally Posted by Lloyd Gillespie

How Does A Brain See Itself, Without A Mind...?

Btw Mohan, excellent post... The title may seem strange, but seriously ask yourself; 'Do we need a mind, if we have a brain...?' If everything in the brain exists within the neural biological perception network, and I do mean everything, every essence agent tool we use, and every aspect of possible essence__Then what's mind but an extra, completely unnecessary word, to confuse us...? Can brain see mind...? No...! How does brain know mind

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Originally Posted by Frank

Something I learned recently was that Eddington had made a number of statements about logic and mathematics, one being his fundamental contention:

"My conclusion is that not only the laws of nature but the constants of nature can be deduced from epistemological considerations, so that we can have a priori knowledge of them." Arthur Eddington, "The Philosophy of Physical Science" Cambridge, 1939

One way to interpret that statement is that the constants

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Originally Posted by Lloyd Gillespie

Hi Guille, this is an excellent thread starter, as it hits the point I have been recently mulling over in my head. Your point, "Probably you know that the basis of mathematics is logic. But, how exactly does mathematics relate to logic? Is it logic's language, or just a type of use of it?", is exactly what I will try to address.

If we truly look at the mind and its possessions, we find the logic processor you mention, and we also find the mathematics processor___why are these

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Originally Posted by Lloyd Gillespie

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The Fallible Human Mind/Ego/Soul of Logic

Again Eric, you offer no deffinition of this, otherwise, mythical logic. You know, it seems everyone wants to assume their own perfection and completeness of understanding of ideas, when in fact all ideas and minds are truly incomplete___being itself___is incomplete___yet most speak from an ego as if it possessed complete omega knowledge and wisdom___I think this point quite important. Let's just say that possibly, the mind

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