Now the idea that we as sentient beings are able to push back the barriers preventing our accessing yet more collective information, is as curious as is the idea of ‘making money’. I then went on to touch on an idea that our minds as units belonging to individuals are only allowed to expand according to the current state of the collective information available as our heritage from past accumulations of observation and testing. I also touched on the idea that our minds are able to function as individual units only by and because of their participation in the ‘general mind’ – which might be described crudely as being the sum capacity for all of this current information as it is held and mulled over within the sum total of sentient minds at any time. I wrote also about how were there no sentient beings like humans who bear consciousness and self-consciousness and who give these names to objects and to natural features in this way then objects and natural features would bear no recognisable structure nor any meaningful effects or purposes. We humans not only name things, we use those measurement standards we have created so as to assess things and to categorise them so that we have over the ages worked-up a body of reliable information about where we live and how things go on here – on earth. An example of a natural feature is a ‘basin’ or a ‘cliff’ the first, a basin, is a scooped out arc in land or in a seabed the second, a cliff, is a danger, and a sudden drop in height-above-sea-level. Natural features likewise get names from us which reflect their structure and sometimes as well their ‘purpose’ – which is to say, the effects and consequences on surrounding areas which they cause and display. I gave an example of an object of this kind – which we humans name an ordinary dining table. In my latest piece I wrote about how our eyes and ears and other senses inform our minds so that they can interpret objects according to those objects’ purposes and their structures.
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