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Monism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Monism is any philosophical view which holds that there is unity in a given field of inquiry, where this is not to be expected. Thus, some philosophers may hold that the Universe is really just one t...
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Materialism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The philosophy of materialism holds that the only thing that exists is matter; that all things are composed of material and all phenomena (including consciousness) are the result of material inter...
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But Monism can also be defined as the thesis that there is only one spiritual or Divine reality, and that physical and psychic reality are not separate from that. This could be termed "Spiritual Monism", to distinguish it from "Neutral Monism" and Materialistic Monism.
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I prefer five groups, as follows: mentalism, materialist monism, organicism, psychophysical parallelism, and psychophysical complementarism. ... Indeed, materialist monism and organicism are clearly materialistic, mentalism is idealistic, and the other two conceptions are paradoxically both idealist and materialist.
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In fact, I would go so far as to say that as long as we don't make the mistake of defining consciousness in such a way that, by definition, it is limited to humans (or even animals with brains), that so-called "materialistic monism" would actually imply that non-organic machines should be able to have consciousness too.
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THIS IS VOLUME 18; Version 64c; Subject Index, Section Headings, Selections from the Writings, Reading List, Student Reports ... 1.1.1 Level 1: Materialistic Science (Monism)
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It will therefore be a "materialistic spirituality" whose order of operation will reflect physicalistic objects and laws, as discussed above. ... Materialistic science assumes that all phenomena are to be discovered or identified by physical measurements, or abstractions based on physical measurements.
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