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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this is kinda offtopic because I'm not interested in his cum but I wonder if we could gather up a group of anons and pay him a visit once the dust has settled a little bit, we could very well say that we're his friends