Carl Jung Quotes

To separate mind from body doesn't make any sense.

There is a great difference between mind and body insomuch as body is by nature always divisible, and the mind is entirely indivisible.

Andy Clark has several books you can find on Amazon, including 'Natural Born Cyborgs' and 'Being There.' I particularly recommend 'Being There' to anybody who still thinks the Cartesian separation of mind and body should be taken seriously.

Perhaps people need to understand some history here. Rene Descartes, in the late 16th, early 17th century, postulated that body, mind, physicality and spirituality belonged to different realms of reality that didn't interact. On a positive side, it got the Inquisition off the backs of the intellectuals and they quit burning them at the stake for disagreeing with the Church.

It seems to me immensely unlikely that mind is a mere by-product of matter. For if my mental processes are determined wholly by the motions of atoms in my brain I have no reason to suppose that my beliefs are true. They may be sound chemically, but that does not make them sound logically. And hence I have no reason for supposing my brain to be composed of atoms.

Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable.

In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter.

Without consciousness the mind-body problem would be much less interesting. With consciousness it seems hopeless.

Internal and external nature, mind and matter, are in time and space, and are bound by the law of causation.

The body cannot be the soul.

I think, therefore matter is capable of thinking.

The material world has only been constructed at the price of taking the self, that is, mind, out of it, removing it; mind is not part of it...

The line that I am urging as today's conventional wisdom is not a denial of consciousness. It is often called, with more reason, arepudiation of mind. It is indeed a repudiation of mind as a second substance, over and above body. It can be described less harshly as an identification of mind with some of the faculties, states, and activities of the body. Mental states and events are a special subclass of the states and events of the human or animal body.

Dualistic doctrines that regard mind and body as separate entities do not provide much enlightenment on the nature of the disembodied mental state or on how an immaterial mind and bodily events act on each other

Metaphysical problems about "mind" versus "matter" arise only from epistemological confusions.

We exist solely because we have a body and a mind ? a mind that arises out of the body. If this were true, we would cease to exist after our body was gone.

Can I reject everything my brain experienced? Is intellectual understanding any understanding at all?

Age and illness made one a dualist

I think part of Western metaphysical dualism is, we're always being asked to choose one over the other.

Historically, the East was more concerned with understanding the mind and the West was more involved in understanding matter.

Dualism makes the problem insoluble; materialism denies the existence of any phenomenon to study, and hence of any problem.

Many an object is not seen, though it falls within the range of our visual ray, because it does not come within the range of our intellectual ray.

We could speak about the meaning of life vis-a-vis non-consequential/deontological theories, apodictic transformation schemata, the incoherence of exemplification, metaphysical realism, Cartesian interactive dualism, revised non reductive dualism, postmodernist grammatology and dicey dichotomies. But we would still be left with Nietzsche's preposterous mustache which instills great anguish and skepticism in the brain, which leads (as it did in his case) to utter madness. I suggest we go to Paris instead.

Sensations are nothing but confused modes of thinking.