bahman wrote: ↑Sat Aug 17, 2019 10:06 am
By mind, I mean the essence of any being/thing with the ability to experience and cause.
Sounds a lot like what I would call
consciousness (even it doesn't "do" anything as you seem to propose), but if you prefer to call it "mind".. ok..
bahman wrote: ↑Sat Aug 17, 2019 10:06 am
I have an argument for the existence of mind: Consider a change in a system, A to B. A and B cannot coexist therefore A has to vanishes before B is caused. There is however nothing when A vanishes and B cannot possibly be caused by nothing. Therefore, there should exist a mind which experiences A and causes B.
You are looking at this the only way you can - via and as thought.
Its only ever thought that identifies states A and B, it requires memory aka thought to state that A has been here before and now state B has been reached. It also requires thought/memory to detect causation.
No thought means: no state A, no state B, no causation.
But mind/consciousness IS whether there is thought or not - and what if (in reality) there is ONLY mind/consciousness?
What happens to causation, state A, B etc if there is only one "thing" (which is not really a thing)?
Do states or causation make any sense at all if there is only mind? Obviously not... it only makes sense once thought gets involved and introduces duality/separation - when it attempts to cut mind/consciousness into pieces... only then can you have state A, B and causation.
Mind/consciousness itself is perfectly independent of any states, it is uncaused - only apparent things can be caused and appear/vanish.