Populist conversations misconstrue references and semantics to “Mind”, “Body”, and “Cognition”, which are confusions in theses of hard materialism, vague spiritualism, and centralism inaccuracy.
The Venn Diagram here demonstrate the correct relations and terminology coming out of compatibilist philosophies, cognition histories and sociology, and comprehensive education. Mind is an emergent property with body, and ‘the body’ is an emergent property with mind, in that the term ‘body’ emerges from the concept of ‘mindfulness’, and ‘mind’ is one with the body. Using the terms ‘mind’, ‘body’, and ‘cognition’ we have a personable intention. Cognition is simply the act or process of knowing, “mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses” (Wikipedia). Hard materialism rides too heavily on disposition which is the relationship of ‘body’ and ‘cognition’, however, disposition is only one half of the story. Vague spiritualism rides too heavily on agency which is the relationship of ‘mind’ and ‘cognition’, however, agency is only one half of the story.
The relationship of ‘mind’, ‘body’ and ‘cognition’ is intention, which is simply to define each as a person. A person is simply being regarded as an individual, “a being who has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility” (Wikipedia). The technical arguments in the Philosophy of Mind and Personalism seek to correct inaccuracies in centralising scholarship (‘centralism’), correcting propositions to be more truthful.
My Venn diagram is based on the evidence from interdisciplinary and disciplinary fields (see Bibliography). My design of the Venn is original (as far as I know), but the argument presented is common in the scholarship. The design is copyrighted, but not the argument, HOWEVER, in both cases, it needs to be acknowledged in terms of the author, Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642.
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