Dualism (Or How Humans Process Thought)

 

Dualism (Or How Humans Process Thought)

If a group can have cognitive function and communication there has to be some process to do so. 

The term dualism was originally coined to denote co-eternal, binary the opposition, a meaning that is preserved in metaphysical and philosophical duality discourse but has been more generalized in other usages to indicate a system which contains two essential parts.

Moral dualism is the belief of the great complement of or the conflict between the benevolent and the malevolent. 

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dualism often refers to the dichotomy between the "subject" (the observer) and the "object" (the observed)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dualism

The purpose of the dialectic method of reasoning is the resolution of disagreement through rational discussion, and, ultimately, the search for truth. One way to proceed—the Socratic method—is to show that a given hypothesis (with other admissions) leads to a contradiction; thus, forcing the withdrawal of the hypothesis as a candidate for truth (see reductio ad absurdum). Another dialectical resolution of disagreement is by denying a presupposition of the contending thesis and antithesis; thereby, proceeding to sublation (transcendence) to synthesis, a third thesis.

Fichtean/Hegelian dialectics is based upon four concepts:

1.   Everything is transient and finite, existing in the medium of time.

2.   Everything is composed of contradictions (opposing forces).

3.   Gradual changes lead to crises, turning points when one force overcomes its opponent force (quantitative change leads to qualitative change).

4.   Change is helical (periodic without returning to the same position), not circular (negation of the negation).

The concept of dialectic (as a unity of opposites) existed in the philosophy of Heraclitus of Ephesus, who proposed that everything is in constant change, as a result of inner strife and opposition.Hence, the history of the dialectical method is the history of philosophy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectic

For the world or the state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality

Descartes in his Passions of the Soul and The Description of the Human Body suggested that the body works like a machine, that it has material properties. The mind (or soul), on the other hand, was described as a nonmaterial and does not follow the laws of nature. Descartes argued that the mind interacts with the body at the pineal gland. This form of dualism or duality proposes that the mind controls the body, but that the body can also influence the otherwise rational mind, such as when people act out of passion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Descartes#Dualism

There are 2 worlds the relative and the absolute. 

IMHO dualism suggests either this or that. What if there is an intermediate step, that of transition. If either a light is on (lit) or off (dark) there is a transitional state that exists when one goes from on to off or vice versa. One can cut the power but an electric light can continue to produce light, however briefly, as the transition period takes place. This can have a more universal application as being transitions from one experience to the next. This (perhaps?) may be thought of as a Hegelian step after the thesis and antithesis collide producing a transformative synthesis. ©