in the last couple of posts I have been trying to
make sense of Spinoza's argument that mind is an
attribute of substance - one of the two (of an
infinite number) revealed to us
and at the same time trying to make some sense of
my own idea that the mind is the inside of the world
the intuition for this idea - the inside of the world -
is just that the mind - as we know it - it would seem
is inside the body -
and then to see how far you can take this notion -
can it be extensively applied?
i.e. - if we regard extension as outside - logically
you might argue - all extension - all outside has an
inside - therefore mind is everywhere
one difficulty though is - that it is usually argued -
mind is not extensive - i.e. not spatial
on the other hand - such a view doesn't make sense
if something exists - it exists in space
so are we talking about a different kind of space -
or a different kind of entity inhabiting space?
the mind - awareness - recognizes space - and itself -
in space
the 'in space' here - though - is a different kind to
the existence of the physical object in space -
it still seems to me that it is intuitively clear that
mind is in space in the sense of inside it
and physical objects - the material world?
in space - as in the 'surface of space'
this view is to argue that 'space' has two dimensions -
two metaphysical dimensions
inner space - outer space?
