Mind and Reality (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Mind and Reality But here at the outset we are playing with hypotheses, and may be absolved from the responsibility of securing ourselves beforehand from all possible attacks. The first is the question of the idealists: How can any reality be conceived unless as implying or including states of consciousness? For the moment we will waive the Berkeleyan contention altogether; for we are not now concerned to prove by metaphysical analysis the universal coincidence of consciousness and reality. We wish merely a plausible hypothesis to be advanced as to the nature of what more popular thought means by reality. The second question that at the outset we avoid is the one concerning the ground of the assumed agreement between the external and the internal orders of facts. Whether this ground lies in a causal determination of our consciousness by the external world, or in a pre-established harmony of both, matters not. We take our stand, then, upon the admitted facts of popular belief. Here are feelings, sequences of feelings, thoughts, trains of thought, systems of scientific belief: all internal facts. Beyond the consciousness of these internal facts stretches (so we now assume, and only assume) another world of facts, in which something corresponds to each one of these feelings, some order of facts to each sequence of feeling, some system of facts and of laws to each properly constituted system of beliefs. The external order of the world beyond corresponds to the order of this internal world of our consciousness, but is not this order. A plausible hypothesis is required as to the nature of this corresponding external order. Many hypotheses have been suggested in answer to this requirement. The doctrine previously discussed, the doctrine of "Mind-Stuff," was such an hypothesis. Mind-Stuff was to be like in nature to consciousness; but by reason of the simplicity of its ultimate units, each of these was to be again unlike consciousness. For consciousness, it was assumed, is an aggregate of units; each unit by itself has only intensive quality, and, lacking complexity of content, is of course unconscious. Our consciousness, then, is employed in mirroring the complex relations in which the unconscious Mind-Stuff elements outside of us are involved. The usefulness of this hypothesis we have previously tested. But the motives that led to its formation are interesting. These motives were, one may fancy, twofold. There was the influence of Berkeley´s argument, reiterated as it has been in so many forms. According to this argument, external reality can be consistently conceived only by assimilating it in nature to consciousness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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