Helmut, List: On the contrary, according to Peirce, the necessary being of pure mind (3ns) does not require time, space, or matter.
CSP: If we are to explain the universe, we must assume that there was in the beginning a state of things in which there was nothing, no reaction [2ns] and no quality [1ns], no matter [2ns], no consciousness [1ns], no space and no time, but just nothing at all. Not determinately nothing. For that which is determinately not *A* supposes the being of *A* in some mode. Utter indetermination. But a symbol alone is indeterminate. Therefore, Nothing, the indeterminate of the absolute beginning, is a symbol [3ns]. That is the way in which the beginning of things can alone be understood. (EP 2:322; 1904) CSP: Thus, He [God] is so much like a mind [3ns], and so little like a singular Existent (meaning by an Existent, or object that Exists, a thing subject to brute constraints, and reacting with all other Existents [2ns],) and so opposed in His Nature to an ideal possibility [1ns], that we may loosely say that He is a Spirit, or Mind [3ns]. (R 843:27[5]; 1908) CSP: A full exposition of the pragmaticistic definition of *Ens necessarium* would require many pages; but some hints toward it may be given. A disembodied spirit, or pure mind, has its being out of time, since all that it is destined to think is fully in its being at any and every previous time. (CP 6.490; 1908) Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt On Fri, Aug 2, 2019 at 5:32 PM Helmut Raulien <[email protected]> wrote: > List, > > I think, Edwina is right, because anything that happens, like an action of > a mind, requires time, and time needs a scale, and a scale needs boundary > conditions. These may be a standstill on one side, and light velocity, or > something else, maybe infinity, on the other. So i guess, there cannot be a > mind at work (at some certain, or any, speed) without the concept of > standstill or effeteness, which would be matter. Also, a mind does not only > require time, but space too, and space and matter are two things that, > according to Einstein, are prerequisites for each other, as you, I forgot > who, already have mentioned. > > Best, > Helmut >
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