CB quotes Marx: > "My dialectic method is not only
different from the Hegelian, but is its direct opposite. To Hegel, the
life-process of the human brain, i.e., the process of thinking, which,
under the name of "the Idea," he even transforms into an
independent subject, is the demiurgos of the real world, and the real world is
only the external, phenomenal form of "the Idea." With me, on the contrary, the
ideal is nothing else than the material world reflected by the human
mind, and translated into forms of thought. "<
It's also important to remember that the "material world" includes our brains, so that the various chemical and biological processes there imply that our thoughts are not exactly the same as the outside material world. Thoughts may be a reflection of the material world, but the "mirror" is distorted and imperfect. For example, a cat sees the world differently than I do. So does someone imbued with heroin or neoclassical ideology.
JD
