I view "mind" [full capabilities] as exclusive to humans, i.e.
- The mind (adjective form: mental) is that which thinks, imagines, remembers, wills, and senses, or is the set of faculties responsible for such phenomena.[2][3][4]
The mind is also associated with experiencing perception, pleasure and pain, belief, desire, intention, and emotion. The mind can include conscious and non-conscious states as well as sensory and non-sensory experiences.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind
I believe that "the mind is roughly identical with the brain or reducible to physical phenomena such as neuronal activity" ibid.
If no humans, then no minds.
As such, there is only the human mind and no other.
(1)
In your case, the mind exists regardless of whether there are no humans or not?
bahman wrote: ↑Tue Dec 05, 2023 6:11 pm
In here, I argued about different processes, namely discrete, continuous, and simultaneous.
Our reality seems continuous which means that there is an arbitrary small
interval between the events we experience.
This means that an event cannot possibly cause another event, because of the
interval.
Therefore, the mind, a substance with the ability to experience and cause, is the cause of the process.
"Our reality ..."
I have argued,
There are Two Senses of Reality
viewtopic.php?t=40265
1. The real empirical- mind-related sense
2. The illusory absolutely-mind-independent sense
I believe your sense of 'reality' is that of 2 i.e. "The illusory absolutely-mind-independent sense".
As such your argument is a non-starter in consideration of reality.
Your "The illusory absolutely-mind-independent sense" leads to Philosophical Realism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_realism
I have also explained,
Why Philosophical Realism is Illusory
viewtopic.php?t=40167
Our reality seems continuous which means that there is an arbitrary small interval between the events we experience.
In this case, you are using a
human-mind [seems and experience]
(1) to infer there is an interval caused by a 'Mind'.
Because you are relying upon a human mind to
infer, its follow your 'Mind' is a resultant thought of the human-mind.
(1).
Thus your 'Mind' [whatever that is] cannot be absolutely independent of the human mind.
Therefore, the mind, a substance with the ability to experience and cause, is the cause of the process.
If you view your 'Mind' as a substance within Substance Theory, it is not tenable.
see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substance_theory
Criticisms of Substance Theory:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substance ... #Criticism
Besides you are also relying on the Principle of Causality.
Again causality is not tenable as realistic.
According to Hume, causation is grounded on the psychological, i.e. human acts.
The notion of causation is closely linked to the problem of induction. According to Hume, we reason inductively by associating constantly conjoined events. It is the mental act of association that is the basis of our concept of causation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hum ... _causation
Because of All the above criticisms and obstructions your claim 'Mind exists' cannot be realistic.