Mind and Matter

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They say the world is our idea. That is to say thatit is a construct of our sensations and perceptions, and memory as well. This is the subjective view of our objective world. The world exists objectively on its own, nothing comes into that fray. But in absence of our perceptions and sensations, does it manifest simply because of its presence and existence? Its being to becoming is rather conditional, conditional in the sense that certain happenings and events in its very existence happen to be the brainwork of our perceptions and sensations. Otherwise, it remains dead as dodo in its very existence. Our mind, on the other hand, remains as usual with or without the pre-existence of the world, remains active and sensitive as ever in our spatio-temporal world, 'more ghostly than a ghost'. The material or the physical world has just been constructed and construed in our mind's worldview as it were taking the self. That is, mind is out of it, never an integral part of it. It neither acts on it nor be acted on by any of its constituents. Let us take a quick look at what Edwin Schrodinger has to say regarding mind and matter duality : "Mind has erected the objective outside world of the natural philosopher out of its own stuff. Mind could not cope with its gigantic task otherwise than by simplifying device of excluding itself - withdrawing from its conceptual creation. Hence the latter does not contain its creator." He also said that the localization of the personality, of the conscious mind inside the body is only symbolic and just for an aid and extension of practical use.