As proposed by Karl Marx, thoughts, ideas and beliefs are material. All actions and events are controlled by ideas and thoughts. Thoughts and ideas are energy. They have all of the characteristics of energy. Thoght in action is kinetic thought whilst ideas that have not been used yet are potential thoughts.
Q1: You imply energy is material: please explain. I thought energy is what moved the electrons (in the case of electric energy).
Q2: Can thought be material if knowledge of universals can refer to two images in thought without being a third image?
Q3: Did either of these make sense, or must I elaborate?
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mrn
ANS 1: I mean that material is a product of energy. The outcomes of ideas are ideas in material form. Sorry for being vague.
The second question is hard to understand. Please explain.
Thoughts are created by neurons living their lives with each other, primarily in conjunction with our world senses.
Neurons are indeed material.
But are thoughts?
Don’t thoughts, simply by nature, belong to what we would more accurately term “spiritual”?
I’ve also read where thoughts have been speculated to be a force, like gravity and the gang … but I have my doubts.
It is for me too.
It’s an argument I’ve heard and read about proving that thought is non-material and therefore spiritual. It has to do with a concept, “horse,” referring to widely differing examples of horses in the imagination. The jump is understanding (or debating) that if the general concept is beyond imitating the material images, but applying to all, the concept is therefore beyond matter.
mrn