Substance Dualism Quotes

Ontological Fourier mathematics is the complete mathematical explanation of Cartesian philosophy. It converts a substance dualism into a dual-aspect substance monism. There is only one substance - mathematics - but it can exist both dimensionlessly (as mind) and dimensionally (as matter, the product of mind). Mind adds the framing dimensions of space (extended real numbers) and time (extended imaginary numbers) to the unextended real and imaginary numbers of the frequency domain. (Ontologically, frequencies are not in space and time. They are instead the source of space and time).

We just think that we're being born, when we're born; (headfirst crying out of the smile of the womb, if we'd only known that it was all the same before getting involved in Samsara---saving motion and nervousness, not forsaking peace---I remember being forced out---to the discriminatory prickles and thorns of the world)--- We're still the same old substance, High Hearable Essence Light---(whatever it really is, & Empty)--- Unbornness is the above--- We just think that we're dying, when we die!---headfirst falling in the airplane, falling once again, from stage-emptiness to stage-emptiness---unborn and undying and undead---Birth and death not a dualism, no difference---same Dharmakaya Universal Essence--- No death, no birth, no error, no "prose", but uncreated single substance essence flow of transitory unreal words riding an unreal ride across the memory of the unreal word, I can't say that the world is Not that it is not - Because it is just from Mind

The Qur’ān does not appear to endorse the kind of doctrine of a radical mind-body dualism found in Greek philosophy, Christianity, or Hinduism; indeed, there is hardly a passage in the Qur'ān that says that man is composed of two separate, let alone disparate, substances, the body and the soul.

[...] if you are sitting opposite me, I can see you as another person like myself; without you changing or doing anything differently, I can now see you as a complex physical chemical system, perhaps with its own idiosyncrasies but chemical none the less for that; seen in this way, you are no longer a person but an organism [...]. There is no dualism in the sense of the coexistence of two different essences or substances there in the object, psyche and soma; there are two different experiential Gestalts: person and organism.

I’m going to be discussing some of the common attitudes held by people writing about free will. These come in four basic flavors: The world is deterministic and there’s no free will. In this view, if the former is the case, the latter has to be as well; determinism and free will are not compatible. I am coming from this perspective of “hard incompatibilism.” The world is deterministic and there is free will. These folks are emphatic that the world is made of stuff like atoms, and life, in the elegant words of psychologist Roy Baumeister (currently at the University of Queensland in Australia), “is based on the immutability and relentlessness of the laws of nature.” No magic or fairy dust involved, no substance dualism, the view where brain and mind are separate entities. Instead, this deterministic world is viewed as compatible with free will. This is roughly 90 percent of philosophers and legal scholars, and the book will most often be taking on these “compatibilists.” The world is not deterministic; there’s no free will. This is an oddball view that everything important in the world runs on randomness, a supposed basis of free will. We’ll get to this in chapters 9 and 10. The world is not deterministic; there is free will. These are folks who believe, like I do, that a deterministic world is not compatible with free will—however, no problem, the world isn’t deterministic in their view, opening a door for free-will belief. These “libertarian incompatibilists” are a rarity, and I’ll only occasionally touch on their views.

Yet Hirschfeld espoused an ethic directly at odds with the dualism that would come to prevail in the United States later in the century. “The number of actual and imaginable sexual varieties is almost unending,” Hirschfeld wrote in 1910. “In each person there is a different mixture of manly and womanly substances, and as we cannot find two leaves alike on a tree, then it is highly unlikely that we will find two humans whose manly and womanly characteristics equally match in kind and number.

Aristotelian hylomorphic anthropology of soul and body as form and matter of a single substance, as distinct from a Platonic or Cartesian two-substance dualism, or simple materialism or simple immaterialism or spiritualism. All three alternatives to Aristotelian-Thomistic hylomorphism are logically problematic as well as not in accord with our experience.

Substance dualism asserts that there are two kinds of fundamental substances, physical stuff and spiritual stuff, and it is a philosophical construction that isn't doing so well against examination in the marketplace of ideas—however well it seems to sell.

The frequency domain of mind (a mind, it must be stressed, is an unextended, massless, immaterial singularity) can produce an extended, spacetime domain of matter via ontological Fourier mathematics, and the two domains interact via inverse and forward Fourier transforms. An inverse Fourier transform converts a frequency (mind) function into a spacetime (material) function, and a forward Fourier transform does the opposite. So, mind can causally affect the material world, and matter can inform mind about its condition, its state. This is thus the long-sought answer to the world-historic problem of Cartesian substance dualism.

Your Dualism in theology has been the cause of untold misery, creating a continual quarrel between God and the Devil; your Polytheism in science blinds the eyes and obstructs the judgement of the learned and keeps them in ignorance. What do you know about the attributes of primordial matter? What do you know about the difference between matter and force? All the so-called simple substances known to your science are originally grown out of primordial matter. But this primordial matter is a Unity; it is only One.

Gödel (and indeed the whole mathematical community) failed to realise that all valid mathematical axioms must be tautological, i.e. must be shown to have a common root, of which they are equivalent expressions. Any mathematical axioms that are not tautologous automatically fall foul of Cartesian substance dualism, i.e. they imply different ontologies and epistemologies – different and incompatible versions of mathematics – hence cannot be complete and consistent with regard to each other. In other words, Gödel simply came up with an ingenious way of showing that existence must be predicated on monism, and not on dualism or pluralism.

La mentalité exotériste, avec sa logique unilatérale et son « rationalisme » quelque peu « passionnel », ne conçoit guère qu’il est des questions auxquelles il faut répondre à la fois par un « oui » et par un « non » ; elle craint toujours « tomber » dans quelque « dualisme », «panthéisme », « quiétisme », etc. etc. En métaphysique comme en psychologie, il faut pourtant se résoudre parfois à des réponses ambiguës ; par exemple, à la question : le monde «est-il » Dieu? Nous répondrons: « non », si l’on entend par « monde » la manifestation ontologique en tant que telle, c’est-à-dire sous le rapport de sa séparativité existentielle ou démiurgique ; « oui », si l’on entend par « monde » la manifestation en tant qu’elle est causalement ou substantiellement divine, rien ne pouvant se situer en dehors de Dieu ; dans le premier cas, Dieu est Principe exclusif et transcendant, et dans le second, Réalité totale ou Substance universelle et inclusive.

The word used for ‘spirit’ in both Old and New Testaments has the meaning of ‘exhaled breath’, and is strongly associated with the idea of life. This is why Jesus ‘breathes out’ the Holy Spirit on his disciples (John 20: 22). ‘God is Spirit’ (John 4: 24) not because he is made from some non-material shadow substance but because he is the great Giver of Life, who breathed out his life to his creation, and who desires to share that life with all who will receive him. God’s plan was not that there should be a dualism between heaven and earth, but that heaven and earth should be united in one glorious reality. Human beings were created by God to participate in his plan to bring the good and loving order of heaven to the whole world, so that not just the garden but the whole earth would become a heavenly place, a place where God’s will was done. The process that God had started in the garden, human beings were to bring to completion.

Quanta and consciousness Not all quantum mechanical interpretations assume that quantum collapse occurs, but one of many competing theories about how it occurs is that consciousness causes collapse, if it does. Since these ideas focused on consciousness were developed, this form of quantum physics has been drawn by people who want to believe that consciousness is in some way special. Several followers to quantum physics focused on supernatural consciousness were woo-meisters and pseudoscientists who often suggested costly solutions to problems. Despite this also attracted respected scientists such as Eugene Wigner to quantum consciousness, a view which Wigner later repudiated. It is difficult for lay people to see at the present level of knowledge how far quantum consciousness is a reasonable theory, and how much it is wishful thinking. However, it should be noted that unless substance dualism is true, which most scientists doubt, it should be possible for conscious minds to collapse wave functions just as much as unconscious photodetectors can. If this were not the case, it would mean that our minds are composed of some non-physical material which does not make up implicit photodetectors.