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Then we call it ''mind'' in virtue of what?

Ahh... ok. Dependent on matter in the sense of ''a bullet in your brain will have some efects''? Here's the thing frustrating me because I don't under...

To make things clearer. You cannot adopt both a mainstream religion and sponozism. Except that, you can be an idealist and argue Spinoza was a great i...

So that's exactly materialism, the only difference is that in materialism there's no ''divine spark". But something divine from matter... Conscious in...

'all , though in different degrees, are...animated” - that's what Spinoza says and that's exactly panpsychism.

And by the way, I don't care much about theism. For me, getting to conscious from something that possesses 0% consciousness simply makes no sense, and...

in theism, God is conscious.

If by reality you mean matter, then yes, I don't believe consciousness can be described with that. That's the hard problem. I could be a dualist, but ...

So God is conscious after all, the only problem is we cannot understand its consciousness. That's very different than what 180 Proof and TheWillowOfDa...

Spinozism in a nutshell: there is an infinite number of attributes caused by something totally unconscious called God, but we can call it nature, the ...

Ok, now I pretty much understand. It sounds exactly like materialism. You just need enough complexity and some unconscious elements will form a consci...

I'm neither a dualist nor any other of the four mentioned. I'm pretty much an agnostic trying to find answers. I do understand the 4 types of ideologi...

Ok, now I feel I know even more due to your explanation, thank you! Indeed, as you put it, God is not an entity, therefore it doesn't think, will, and...

That makes it clearer now. But if that's the case, that's pretty much a personal God. It thinks, it wills...

Thank you! I think there are only 4 ways in which mind can exist (or not): materialism (mind emerges from matter); dualism/pluralism; panpsychism (sma...

Thank you, I've written you a private message :)

For me, materialism makes no sense. And it is not because I don't want to, or because I'm biased, by the contrary, I find people who believe in it bei...

By ''we'' you mean like a secret society made up of people who think they know everything?:joke:

The only thing I'm struggling with is to find out if spinozism can still work if the hard problem were true and materialism false. Could you please of...

I'm not interested if the hard problem is real or not, I am interested if spinozism can still work if the hard problem were true and materialism false...

1. Ok, so if that works, spinozism works, but if you're not right and there is a hard problem, then spinozism doesn't work, right? 2. In regards to co...

Can a materialist be a spinozist without contradicting himself? What about a panpsychist? Or is spinozism fundamentally different from those two ? A b...

1. So you're saying Spinozism doesn't encounter the hard problem because it is different from materialism, or because the hard problem isn't a thing t...

This is where I simply don't see how you could avoid the hard problem. When asked how come photons interacting with atoms(atoms and photons have no co...

So light(fotons) hitting my body(atoms), create an experience. So how come matter can create consciousness?

Produced by what? Formed or created by what/who, why, how....?

I am far from being an expert in Spinozism, but so far I also find him letting huge room for interpretation. You can be a materialist atheist and argu...

What exactly do you find wrong in Spinozism?

So, in your opinion, why bother with Spinoza, right? It's because: 1. Long time ago, I had a pretty similar idea about reality; 2. Some smart people s...

It seems to me like a ''personal God'', with will and desires. It is exactly the opposite I've heard many saying.

Me neighter. But from what I understand, in Spinozism, attributes don't interact with each other. So a thought is caused only by another thought. http...

A. If by ''conscious'' you mean meta-consciousness (the ability to self-reflect; abstract), and if by ''not conscious experience'' you mean qualia - y...

So God thinks and will after all?

But does spinozism encounter any problem in regards to consciousness, or it's a perfect metaphysics in this sense?

You're basically saying consciousness is a property of a body. How come? Is that a given? I don't really understand how this property appears. Any bod...

For me, that sounds like the hard prpblem. Caused by something unconscious?

How do feelings arise?

but is God conscious (not meta-conscious)? Does God will?

Q1, 4, 5 - weak emergence, you can reduce and deduce everything from the properties of its components Q 2,3 - how do you define flavor and songs? I th...

I'm not here to criticize, I have nothing against Spinoza, especially when I myself used to believe in something very similar to his view. I'm here to...

No problem, it is just your opinion is totally different from all I've heard so far, and I guess they've all read books like you did.

I truly appreciate your complex answer, though I must admit my philosophical language is very limited, so I couldn't understand everything you wrote. ...

I haven't read Spinoza, I've just watch some videos and read a few lines about his work and this is what I understand. 1. In his view, every element p...

I've watched some videos and they all claim that in Spinoza's metaphysics, you could easily call God nature. I don't see any way out of this: how can ...

So, after all, it seems to me that God is different from the rest of things. So God's intellect is the cause of all things (nature); and God's intelle...

Thank you all for your answers, I really appreciate it! So far, I guess my triangle covers 100% of possibilities. I'm waiting for more answers.

Basically my question is that if my triangle covers 100% of all possibilities

I see your point. My question wasn't necessarily referring to humans or politics as we know it, but to conscious beings and their ways of living toget...

That's correct, but it's just a combination of things inside that triangle. I want something totally outside.

A republic is a republic, while ''they aren't'' can mean many things. I offered 3 clear extremes and I stated that any future political system will be...