The above set of six images charters the course followed by the four principal files of this website.  The first two carry us from an intuitively 'Cartesian Theatre' of Naive Realism to its necessary replacement by a Representational epistemology.  This important matter occupies 'Epistemology' -the first of our four files. 

           The third image adds Agency  to the phenomenally given World View -which it knows  rather than is.  As the image clearly shows, the relationship is essentially concentric.  It is the subject to which the Psyche document is devoted.

           This brings us to the fourth image, which carries the concentric expansion in the reverse direction -into the Mind/Brain relationship and mutual dependence., The reciprocal dependence of mind and brain is treated at length within the Mind/Brain file.  The fifth image is added for good measure, capturing the entire sequence so far given, passing in order::

Psyche  >  Internal-World-View  >  Cortical-Sensory/Praxial-Interface

 >  Soma  >  External-Environment

           Notice particularly the Penfield 'Maniken' which preserves the body image appropriately distorted to 'impedance match' its topology to functionality. 

           We are brought finally to the sixth image that completes the overriding concentricity of the sequence of levels.  It couples the realm of Existence of each of us, to that of a Transcendence beyond.  Both subjective and objective phases of monadic existence are alike in their total lack of ontological self-sufficiency;  neither can existence in the absence of irradiances from the Platonic Realm of Logos.  As the image makes clear, two emanational influxes are involved.  That passing vertically upwards is supportive of materiality, at all of its Inorganic/Organic, or Mental/physical levels.  It is necessarily forever ongoing;  were it interrupted for a single instant, everything would vanish irretrievably into the void of Non-existence.  The second in contrast -shown entering top>down in the figure- comes and goes with conscious awareness.  It underwrites the Sleep/Wake cycle.  In entering, it brings with it the second modality of Consciousness and a quickening of the mental scene that it encounters.   

            Of the links itemized below  summarize the major divisions of The New Monadology

  • "Approach" places my 'Neutral Monism' within a listing of alternative ontologies

  • "Epistemology" replaces the 'Naive Realism' of commonsense and Mainstream neuroscience alike with a 'Representational' or Microcosmic alternative.  It is of absolutely central importance

  • "Psyche"  takes a closer look at the Mind side of the Mind/Brain ensemble

  • "Ontology" explores the implications of the ontology of  'Neutral Monism'

  • "Mind/Brain"  looks at the vexed question of which is doing what.

  • "Metamathematics"  presents an overview of the Formal Scaffolding within which my philosophy as put together.  

  • The "God Question" makes it clear that the major problem is with the question its self.

 

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