Hierarchy Index Cards - C
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Index-Card-C-19-04
Index-Card-C-19-06 Diagram
Card-C-19-10. DH: …when you see the Whole as experiencer, mind and body, spirit and matter disappear: these distinctions belong to what isn’t yet incorporated. Experience is reality and experience is indivisible.
Card-C-19-15. DH: Descartes started with … dualism and strove to explain the unity implied in knowledge. Spinoza started with unity — one substance — but with 2 attributes. Both D and S are in a fix: if duality is fundamental, how explain unity, or if unity is fundamental, how explain duality?
Leibniz saw the falsity of these approaches and reformed the definition of substance, rejecting the static and adopting the dynamic principle: simple substance is monad, a subject of experience, whose activity consists in perception and apposition.
(DEH: Leibniz is right. The monad is the real, and the monad is a specious present in which body-mind, matter-mind, past and future are one.
Index Card C-19
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