Meanwhile, consciousness itself is a great mystery. Even one single thought is a mystery. How does Aristotelian Science say existence is independent of consciousness if consciousness itself is unknowable? How does anything physical think or dream or remember? It’s great and super interesting to know how physical things work and it can make life better (sometimes worse) but what is the mathematics of consciousness? I hear that Science is looking into it!
Aquinas and the Schoolmen emphasized that side of Aristotle's teaching. But Aristotle ultimately insisted knowledge comes from experience, inductively.
You'll find the full story in later posts like this one, here.
Meanwhile, consciousness itself is a great mystery. Even one single thought is a mystery. How does Aristotelian Science say existence is independent of consciousness if consciousness itself is unknowable? How does anything physical think or dream or remember? It’s great and super interesting to know how physical things work and it can make life better (sometimes worse) but what is the mathematics of consciousness? I hear that Science is looking into it!
I thought that Aristotle viewed deductive logic as superior to inductive logic which is not what you have displayed here.
Aquinas and the Schoolmen emphasized that side of Aristotle's teaching. But Aristotle ultimately insisted knowledge comes from experience, inductively.
You'll find the full story in later posts like this one, here.
https://aetherczar.substack.com/p/22-early-and-medieval-ages
In figure 2.2