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On the Ontology of Being

"I think therefore I am"

This dualism Descarte has left western thought with glorifies the mind, thought, consciousness? over the body.

But what of Being?

In the Western mind we tend to conceptualize consciousness as a product of our physical manifestation. But is this mistaking the image of a process for the process itself. Are neurons firing in the brain, the origins of consciousness, or merely a representation thereof?

Consciousness does not proceed the physical, however the former seems to be possible without the latter, as when we dream. But yet we look out onto the world from the perspective of a body. The experience of consciousness is always from the perspective of a body, a being.

So what of being? What of the felt experience of being an organism? A being, a primate, a human being.

The body, this apparent generator of consciousness influences consciousness. The 'master' influenced by its vehicle and vice versa.

Thus we are not a mind within a body, but rather a mind body system. A manifestation of consciousness. The incarnation of the mind at large.