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as Objects of Knowledge. </b></font></font>Ontological philosophy
explains properties as aspects of the substances it postulates. But
when philosophers begin their argument from the point of view of the
cognitive subject by reflecting on how they know, they see properties
as objects of knowledge, and that gives rise to philosophical
problems, including problems about the nature of properties. To take
properties as objects that are known in some way is, in effect, to
see them as more basic than substances, because the objects that have
them seem to be nothing but something that has properties of certain
kinds that are present to the subject and to which he can refer. This
is the source of the problem of mind. It can be seen that there is a
difference between two basic kinds of essential properties (which
ontological philosophy explains as the difference between intrinsic
and extrinsic essential properties), but epistemological philosophy
has no way to explain how they are related to one another because it
takes properties to be basic. In its contemporary form, as we shall
see, it infects materialism. But let us begin by seeing how the
problem of mind arises.</font></font></font></p>
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Problem of mind. </b></font>The problem of mind arises when
naturalists discover that there is a basic difference between
properties which was not obvious at first. In our naive or natural
attitude toward the world, we take the natural world to be simply
what we perceive, as if the objects in space, including our own
bodies, were simply what they appear to be. This is a form of
realism, because it is to assume that those objects in space would
exist even if we were not perceiving them. But it is naive, because
it assumes that the objects being perceived actually have the
properties that they appear to have in perception, including not only
their locations, shapes, and dispositional properties (such as how
they move and interact), but also their colors, odors, sounds and
tactile properties, such as hot and cold, wet and dry. </font></font></font>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt">The
latter properties are distinctive, for they are qualitative
properties, or properties that are simply a quality of some kind that
is immediately present to the perceiver. When I perceive that a leaf
is green, for example, the surface of the leaf appears green, and the
greenness is an object of my immediate awareness. What I mean by
&quot;green&quot; is <i>that kind of quality </i>that seems to inhere
in the surface of the leaf, and I cannot define &quot;green&quot; any
more precisely than that, because what I mean is something that is
intrinsic to the object I am aware of. The quality is what makes it
the kind of object it is. Such qualitative properties are now often
called &quot;qualia,&quot; and they are involved in everything we
perceive, including not only the colors that objects have to vision,
but also the odors they have to smell, the sounds they have to
hearing, and certain tactile properties they have to touch. Such
qualities, or qualia, also characterize ones own body, but one
own body has additional qualities that are perceived in a different
way, such as pains, tickles, itches, and the like, for they are not
perceivable by others.</font></font></font></p>
<p lang="en-US" align="left" style="margin-left: 2.54cm; margin-right: 1.27cm; text-indent: 0cm; margin-top: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0.49cm; line-height: 100%; widows: 0; orphans: 0">
<font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt">The
problem of mind arises when it is recognized that the qualia that are
immediately present to us in perception are not located in the
objects we perceive in the space in and around our bodies, but are
somehow part of us as subjects, most closely connected to our brains.
That is, the mind become a problem with the acceptance of critical
realism. </font></font></font>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Naturalists
are forced to recognize that qualia are subjective in this sense when
they discover that perception is a physical process in which the
objects stimulate sensory organs and that somehow gives rise to the
qualia we have. In each sensory modality, what causes the experience
is a chain of causes and effects that starts in the object being
perceived, proceeds through the body, making events occur in the
brain, and the qualia come at the end of that causal chain. Thus,
qualia must somehow be part of ones brain. And if we follow this
argument to its conclusion, naturalists also come to recognize that
the space in which sensory qualia seem to be located is itself also
merely phenomenal and, thus, distinct from the space in which the
physical objects actually exist. </font></font>
</p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">This
discovery about perception is called &quot;critical realism&quot; (or
&quot;representative realism&quot;). It is realism, because it holds
that the objects being perceived really do exist in physical space as
the causes of the appearances we have in perceiving, including our
bodies. But it is critical, because it does not take the qualia that
make up those appearances to be properties in the objects that give
rise to them, but rather as parts of the subject, where their
function is apparently to represent those properties in the material
objects in real space to the subject. Likewise, it is critical
because it recognizes that the spatial relations that appear to hold
among the qualia in perception are different from the spatial
relations that hold among the material objects in real space. </font></font>
</p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Thus,
critical realism about perception makes it clear that objects with
physical properties in real space exist somehow &quot;beyond&quot;
the (complex) phenomenal properties we have. Since material objects
in real space have physical properties, it is to discover that we
must distinguish the qualia and their configurations in phenomenal
space from physical properties. They are what we call &quot;phenomenal
properties.&quot;</font></font></p>
<p lang="en-US" align="left" style="margin-left: 2.54cm; margin-right: 1.27cm; text-indent: 0cm; margin-top: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0.49cm; line-height: 100%; widows: 0; orphans: 0">
<font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt">Critical
realism gives rise to the so-called problem of mind, for it seems
that the subject to whom the configurations of qualia appear is a
radically different kind of entity from the material objects in real
space. Material objects have physical properties, including not only
the physical dispositions that make them causes of the qualia that
appear in perception, but also relations in real space. But the
subject is radically different, because he is something to which
phenomenal properties appear. </font></font></font>
</p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">When we
reflect on the perceptual appearances we have as perceiving subjects,
furthermore, we recognize that they play distinctive roles in our
processes of knowing and doing. There are other appearances similar
to perceptual appearances, albeit fainter and less detailed, which
play other roles. Traditionally, the former are called &quot;ideas of
perception,&quot; and the latter are called &quot;ideas of memory and
imagination.&quot; But they, and perhaps other appearances that our
mental processes have to us in thinking and feeling emotions, are all
<i>phenomenal properties</i>. </font></font>
</p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">To
acknowledge this fundamental difference from material objects, the
subject calls himself &quot;mind&quot; and contrasts it with his
body, which is just an object in space (albeit a special one, since
it is the one through which he acts). The mind-body is problem is how
the mind and body can be parts of the same world, that is, what are
their natures and how are they related to one another. </font></font>
</p>
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of mind. </b></font>This problem about the nature of mind is arguably
the source of all the problems encountered in modern philosophy, and
it arises in contemporary philosophy as the problem about the
relationship between physical and phenomenal properties. The question
is how to explain the natures of the two radically different kinds of
properties that are known from the point of view of the critical
realist as parts of the same world. There is not much of a problem
for ontological philosophy, and so let us consider why before we
derive the various positions on the nature of mind defended by
traditional, epistemological philosophy.</font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt"><i><b>O<img src="data:image/png;base64,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" name="OdhPOnto_up" align="right" hspace="5" width="94" height="24" border="0">ntological
theories of mind. </b></i>A solution to the problem of mind would pay
back one of the mortgages we took out on spatiomaterialism, for it
would explain how beings like us are conscious. And it can be found
in the differences among the basic properties that are entailed by
spatiomaterialism, or indeed, that are entailed by any materialism
that accepts our notion of substance and takes ontology to be
explanatory. Physical properties are different from phenomenal
properties as the extrinsic essential natures of bits of matter are
different from the intrinsic essential natures of matter.</font></font></font></p>
<p lang="en-US" align="left" style="margin-left: 2.54cm; margin-right: 1.27cm; text-indent: 0cm; margin-top: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0.49cm; line-height: 100%; widows: 0; orphans: 0">
<font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt">Material
objects in space with their physical properties present no problem,
for they are precisely what a naturalistic ontology is intended to
explain, and though we will put off the detailed ontological
explanation of physical properties, we have already seen how they
will be explained as aspects of the extrinsic essential natures of
bits of matter in space. </font></font></font>
</p>
<p lang="en-US" align="left" style="margin-left: 2.54cm; margin-right: 1.27cm; text-indent: 0cm; margin-top: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0.49cm; line-height: 100%; widows: 0; orphans: 0">
<font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt">As
naturalists, we assume that the subjects who perceive the world are
themselves material objects in the world. And we have good reason to
believe that they are rather special material objects, for they are
animals with complex brains. Spatiomaterialism will throw much light
on how the brain is responsible for the behavior and cognitive
processes that we ordinarily believe take place in experiencing
subjects like ourselves. (See <font color="#0000ff"><u><a href="/F:/Philosophy/Existentialism/The%20Wholeness%20Of%20the%20World/www.twow.net/Lo/LoOtkCbGeRRS06.htm" target="Lo"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Change:
Evolutionary stage 6</font></a></u></font> and following.) But they
are basically explanations of how the brain is a machine that enables
subject to have the beliefs, desires, and behavior that we do, and
for now, let us take it for granted that there is such an
explanation.</font></font></font></p>
<p lang="en-US" align="left" style="margin-left: 2.54cm; margin-right: 1.27cm; text-indent: 0cm; margin-top: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0.49cm; line-height: 100%; widows: 0; orphans: 0">
<font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt">Assuming,
therefore, that the brain can account for the behavior and cognitive
capacities of subjects like us in the natural world, all that is
needed to solve the problem about mind is an explanation of the
existence of phenomenal properties that shows how it is possible for
material objects to have them. The obvious explanation of the nature
of phenomenal properties, given the kinds of basic properties that
substances have, is that they are the intrinsic essential aspect of
the nature of some bits of matter that help make up the brain. That
would mean that phenomenal properties are related of physical
properties as the intrinsic essential nature is related to the
extrinsic essential nature of some bits of matter that help make up
the cognitive subject. Since bits of matter must have both kinds of
essential properties, this ontological explanation would imply that
there is an ontologically necessary relationship between physical and
phenomenal properties. That explanation of how the connection is
necessary is what solves the problem about mind that plagues
contemporary philosophy, as we shall see below: <font color="#0000ff"><u><a href="/F:/Philosophy/Existentialism/The%20Wholeness%20Of%20the%20World/www.twow.net/ObjText/OthPC.htm#32" target="Objects"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Properties:
Ontological theory of the necessary connection</font></a></u></font>.)</font></font></font></p>
<p lang="en-US" align="left" style="margin-left: 2.54cm; margin-right: 1.27cm; text-indent: 0cm; margin-top: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0.49cm; line-height: 100%; widows: 0; orphans: 0">
<font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt">This
is enough to show that consciousness is possible, if
spatiomaterialism is true, though it depends, of course, on showing
that there is a form of matter that helps to constitute the conscious
subject whose intrinsic essential nature can plausibly account for
all the phenomenal properties. Since they include not only sensory
qualia, but the complex configurations of them in phenomenal space,
there is more to the explanation of consciousness than this
ontological explanation of the basic properties of substances. To
explain those complex phenomenal properties is to explain what I will
call the &quot;unity of consciousness.&quot; We cannot do that,
however, until we have considered the forms of matter entailed by
spatiomaterialism (as we shall in <font color="#0000ff"><u><a href="/F:/Philosophy/Existentialism/The%20Wholeness%20Of%20the%20World/www.twow.net/Lo/L/LoOtkCaL07.htm" target="Lo"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Change:
Contingent laws of physics</font></a></u></font>), and explained how
the brain works (in we shall in <font color="#0000ff"><u><a href="/F:/Philosophy/Existentialism/The%20Wholeness%20Of%20the%20World/www.twow.net/Lo/LoOtkCbGeRRS06.htm"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Change:
Evolutionary stage 6</font></a></u></font> and following). For the
spatiomaterialist explanation of the unity of mind, see <font color="#0000ff"><u><a href="/F:/Philosophy/Existentialism/The%20Wholeness%20Of%20the%20World/www.twow.net/Lo/LoOtkCbGeRRS06Unity.htm" target="Lo"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Change:
Unity of consciousness</font></a></u></font>.)</font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">In order to
suggest how such an explanation is plausible, however, let me just
say here without further defense that the relevant form of matter
will turn out to be the photons that are generated by the active
mammalian brain. That is, the firing of neurons involves the rapid
acceleration of charged objects (ions), and since in mammals, many
such neurons fire in a synchronized way (throughout the projection
from the thalamus to the neocortex), the whole brain is like a
complex antenna generating photons with a very complex structures in
space and time. The intrinsic essential aspect of the nature of those
bits of matter can explain phenomenal properties, including not only
the simple qualia but also how they appear to be configured in
phenomenal space, not to mention the differences between perception
and memory and imagination.</font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt"><i><b>E<img src="data:image/png;base64,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" name="EpistCmt" align="right" hspace="5" width="202" height="20" border="0">pistemological
theories of mind. </b></i>Epistemological philosophy does not attempt
to explain things ontologically, except as an afterthought to an
argument that attempts to justify knowledge of some kind, that is, as
realism about the objects of which it tries to show that we have
knowledge. Instead, it uses reflection on how we know to introduce a
theory about the nature of reason, and and starting with some kind of
knowledge that is taken as unproblematic by that theory, it tries to
justify knowledge of something else. Success is realism, but realism
leads to metaphysical dualism, that is, an ontology that postulates
kinds of substances that are so utterly different from one another
that it is not possible to explain how they are related to one
another at all. And the ontological problems of realism lead, as we
have noted, to anti-realism, the denial that we have the kind of
knowledge defended (which may entail it own distinctive metaphysics).
</font></font></font>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt">Though
both modern and contemporary philosophy start by reflecting on how we
know, the problem of mind took different forms for each period,
because they had different explanations of how we know, that is,
different theories about the nature of reason. Modern philosophers
had a theory about the nature of reason that was based on reflecting
on how individual minds know, and so its realism led to mind-body
dualism. Contemporary philosophers had a theory about the nature of
reason that was based on reflecting on knowledge as an
intersubjective process, and so its realism led to property dualism
(and puzzles about the relationship between physical and phenomenal
properties). Let us consider each in turn.</font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt">I
will give a brief account of the problem of mind in modern philosophy
in order to provide a context in which to understand the approach of
contemporary philosophy. </font></font></font>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt"><i>M<img src="data:image/png;base64,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" name="OdhPModern_up" align="right" hspace="5" width="87" height="21" border="0">odern
philosophy. </i>Though the ancient atomists were critical realists,
naive realism otherwise dominated ancient and medieval philosophy. It
was the rise of modern science that led to the rediscovery of
critical realism. Modern science presupposed an ontology that
ascribed only physical properties to objects in nature, and it
implied that perception depends on a chain of causes and effects
starting in the object and ending somewhere in the brain. Though
modern scientists and philosophers alike recognized that sensory
qualia are parts of the subject, it was Descartes who first saw how
to use it to pursue a new form of epistemological philosophy.
Descartes so-called method of doubt was to deny everything that it
was possible to doubt. As a critical realist, that led him to doubt
the existence of his own body and the natural world in which it
exists. </font></font></font>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">R<img src="data:image/png;base64,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" name="OdhPMindBody_up" align="right" hspace="5" width="59" height="40" border="0">ealism
about the external world: mind-body dualism. </font>Descartes could
not doubt that he was having ideas, and thus, he argued that he had
indubitable knowledge of his own existence. Descartes affirmed the
certainty of this knowledge by asserting, &quot;I think, therefore I
am.&quot; From this foundation, Descartes introduced a theory about
the nature of reason that implied that any ideas that are equally
clear and distinct are true, and thus, he set out to show that we
could know both the existence and nature of the external world. Given
his goal, the success of modern realism was realism about the world
of material objects in space. Descartes' plan was to justify modern
science philosophically, that is, from a foundation that is prior to
what science learns about what happens in the natural world from
observation. But apart from other difficulties in his argument, his
project foundered on the problem of mind-body dualism.</font></font></font></p>
<p lang="en-US" align="left" style="margin-left: 2.54cm; margin-right: 1.27cm; text-indent: 0cm; margin-top: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0.49cm; background: #66ccff; border-top: 6.75pt double #000080; border-bottom: 6.75pt double #808080; border-left: 6.75pt double #808080; border-right: 6.75pt double #808080; padding: 0.28cm 0.46cm; line-height: 100%; widows: 0; orphans: 0">
<font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt">The
rational method he used was discussed in <font color="#0000ff"><u><a href="/F:/Philosophy/Existentialism/The%20Wholeness%20Of%20the%20World/www.twow.net/Lo/LoOteM.htm" target="Lo"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Method</font></a></u></font>,
and the dualistic ontology to which it led was discussed in <font color="#0000ff"><u><a href="/F:/Philosophy/Existentialism/The%20Wholeness%20Of%20the%20World/www.twow.net/Lo/LoOtdO.htm" target="Lo"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Ontology</font></a></u></font>.
Descartes' dualism of mind and body was the problem of mind in modern
philosophy. Critical realism made it clear that physical properties
are fundamentally different from phenomenal properties, and that made
it seem that the objects with those properties were substances with
opposite kinds of essential natures, namely, mind and body. As
Descartes saw it, body is always divisible into smaller parts,
whereas mind has a unity that does not permit division, because all
the qualia that seem to be located in space have an appearance for
the subject at the same time. And whereas mind can think in this
sense, body cannot, for it has only the properties that physics
ascribes to it (which Descartes thought came down to extension, that
is, geometrical properties). The difference in their essential
natures left no plausible explanation of how they interact, and
attempts to solve it (such as Spinozas claim that substance can
have two opposite essential natures and Leibnizs claim that
nothing exists but minds, or &quot;monads,&quot; as he called them)
were embarrassing failures.</font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">A<img src="data:image/png;base64,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" name="OdhPIdealism_up" align="right" hspace="5" width="66" height="41" border="0">nti-realism
about the external world: idealism. </font>The inability to explain
how mind and body are related as parts of a single world doomed
attempts to justify knowledge of the natural world, and the British
empiricists (Locke, Berkeley and Hume) followed the skeptical
argument to its conclusion, doubting in the end that the natural
world is anything but perceptual ideas (or impressions of sensation,
as Hume put it). Locke did not recognize that the principle of
empiricism (that all our knowledge about the natural world comes from
experience) leads to skepticism about the existence of the natural
world, but Berkeley embraced this skeptical conclusion ontologically
and defended idealism explicitly. However, Hume and the subsequent
tradition of empiricism merely dismissed all attempts to explain the
natural world ontologically as meaningless metaphysics (though
idealism is all that empiricism has to offer to those who look for a
theory about what exists). </font></font></font>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt">The
second phase of modern philosophy struggled with the problem of mind
in a different way. Kant held that science has knowledge only of the
phenomenal world, and thus, he was not a realist. But he was still a
dualist, because he believed that, in addition to mind, there are
things in themselves in addition to the phenomenal world. Hegel
sought to overcome Kant's dualism and defend the claim of reason to
know the real nature of what exists, but the only way he could do was
by defending absolute idealism (that is, by holding that everything,
including the natural world, can be reduced, dialectically, of
course, to an idea at the bottom).</font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt">Spinoza
stands out among modern philosophers, because his way of denying
mind-body dualism was to deny that body is a different substance from
mind. He took mind and body to be related as two attributes of the
same substance. (That is close to the implication of ontological
philosophy, except that Spinoza believed that the world is a single
substance. He could not explain the relationship between the
attributes of thought and extension as the relationship between the
intrinsic and extrinsic essential aspects of substances, because
there are no relationships among substances in his view.) </font></font></font>
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