As Leibniz will later point out in his Monadology;
<82. As for minds, or rational souls [see 29]: I stand by my view, just expressed,
that basically there is the same thing in all living things and animals so that both
the soul and the animal begin only when the world begins, and never come to an
end, any more than the world does; but I maintain that there is something special
to be said about rational animals, as follows. Their little spermatic animals, to the
extent that they are no more than that, have only ordinary souls, ones that can
feel; but when the select few come, through an act of conception, to have the
nature of a human being, their feeling souls are raised to the level of reason, and
to the privileges of minds.
Is it reasonable to cast aside these privileges of the reasoning mind to better speculate on
something that is chaotic, fluid and ever-changing in its nature or shall we focus on those
privileges that are the gift of the reason of the Rational and conscious mind?
Observer as Subject; the Shifting Material Construct.
It could be said that we are all contending on a personal battleground, one of thought and reason,
one that will either define mankind as sensory animal churning him as flotsam on a ceaseless
chaotic sea of the material apparatus or something yet to be born into conscious
understanding of greater things; the birth then, so to speak, of the Observer or he
who is triumphant, Transcendent Man. Do we choose to entertain
the simulation aspect of mind-body theory and apply ourselves diligently to coherence with that
which remains steadfast within this tempest of the material realm? For if consciousness is not an
aspect of the shifting material nature of the universe what can be said of the sensual experience
or of their merits?
If John Locke’s argument within the realm of Empiricist thought of mankind as a tabula
rasa was correct there would the merit of infinite variety within man’s sensual experience.
Perhaps, with this infinite variety, we would never have been capable of thinking consistently
enough to develop such things as language, for all mankind would be drowning in a vast and
heavy sea of variety and sensual experiences without any coherence other than a prison of his
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Vico has an interesting quote about this while discussing Descartes proposition that "I think therefore I am."
The importance of fashioning oneself in the correct metaphysical configuration cannot be overemphasized. This is as important as a correctly folded protein vs a denatured protein…one is functional and the other is stripped of life because it no longers has the LIGHT within it.
Ok, I jumped around a bit because it is a complex subject but I know anons are brilliant critters and hopefully, you will understand something of the SHITTEST now more than you did. To close we should examine the mythos of the Birth of the Buddha into the higher realms as well…for he defeats Maya/Mara (she is the same mother) or the material but it is not a physical defeat but one of patterning himself metaphysically and spiritually into being born as a higher being. It is worth noting that someone who is going to be born into the higher realms MUST DIE HERE…you cannot occupy the two separate realms at the same time, polluting the spiritual body with the material realm. There is much left out of the Buddha's storyline like the fact that he was probably tortured to death during the 7 hours between his final test and his ascension. For he must die to this world to be born into the next as surely as an infant is tortured in birth here exiting the FLESH body of its mother's vagina and the excruciating trauma of being born.
There are much better more emotional and detailed descriptions of the TEST but I know you can find them and read them if you have an interest in the full story. Basically, this is the story of all men who are born into the higher realm and it is a template for you to follow so that you too can finally BE BORN, rather than stuck here dead with the rest of us. ;)
I will give a few lines from a paper I wrote on Transcendental Rationalism a month ago…perhaps this will help as well.
material environment or this hidden transcendental being whose presence is established
regardless of his fluid material environment.