When people ponder the “mind-body problem”, the “hard problem of consciousness,” and many other so-called problems, what they’re really doing is pondering the maze of analytical, linguistic, materialist concepts and mode of thought that they’ve become trapped in, looking for a way out. The way in which they’ve framed the actual problem is incorrect; they’re barking up the wrong tree.
With a correct perspective on life, or a correct cognitive approach, these issues and other metaphysical issues (such as chasing the nature of the world through physics) would dissolve, and we make such categorical separations as “mind versus body,” “consciousness/life versus non-life,” and “self versus other.” Life—what’s actually important in life, and the meaning of so-called consciousness, etc.—would become clear just by living it and looking at it.
There are indigenous cultures who have better vision in this respect, even if some of the ideological details of their worldview are factually incorrect. These relative details are not as important as we think, and besides, there’s a lot more truth in mythology than we think with our analytically, rationalistically trapped minds. The non-human animals are also better-connected to life.
Related links:
Sophia Cycles video essays explaining various myths, in reference to the “lot more truth in mythology than we think”
Dr Iain McGilchrist: We are living in a deluded world – YouTube, explaining how the fundamental ways we think about and perceive reality are severely imbalanced/pathological and the social consequences of this
myriachromat/Inhahe – On the Word Consciousness, explaining a bit about how we wrongly separate or “bracket off” what we call consciousness from everything else
myriachromat/Inhahe – Language is the Problem, explaining how the fundamental ways we think about and perceive reality are severely imbalanced/pathological
Laurel Thompson – Language Is the Problem, explaining how the fundamental ways we think about and perceive reality are severely imbalanced/pathological, and also certain remedies to this imbalance
Facebook – Darin “Stevenson” talks a lot about the systemic problems in our cognitium in a way that nobody else likely ever did or will, but you may have to do some sifting through posts to find relevant ones
