PP256 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Material Monism, Eating Animals
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Mind (ruler) moves everything; decides to move it. Faster than the fastest thing we can imagine. The things that will eventually make up the universe; thoroughly blended so no distinct things are detectable. Splits into planets, sun, water, animals, etc. Introduces a casual agent but doesn"t give an account of why mind moves everything when it does; something internal could have caused mind to want to change (boredom) the cause of this boredom could have been sameness. Pluralism: there is genuine multiplicity/plurality in the world right now. If so, then material monism must be fake. Everything is in everything: q: if it is true that everything is in everything that what makes things different from each other. A: the proportions in some things is not large enough that we can sustain ourselves off things like rocks, because we would need to eat so many rocks in one sitting that our stomachs would break.
