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CP 7.367. On the theory that the distinction between psychical and physical phenomena is the distinction between final and efficient causation, it is plain enough that the inkstand and the brain-lobe have the same general relation to the functions of the mind. I suppose that if I were to ask a modern psychologist whether he holds that the mind "resides" in the brain, he would pronounce that to be a crude expression; and yet he holds that the protoplasmal content of a brain-cell feels, I suppose: there is every evidence that it does so. This feeling, however, is consciousness. Consciousness, per se, is nothing else: and consciousness, he maintains, is Mind. So that he really does hold that Mind resides in, or is a property of, the brain-matter. The early students of electricity, who assumed that an electrical current resides in the metallic circuit, had infinitely more reason for their mistaken opinion. Yes, without exaggeration, infinitely more; for the ratio of something to nothing is infinite. END
We near the end of this cursory exploration. I claim no authority to interpret Peirce. Nor is this dive that deep. I have a more simple agenda -- to alert folk to Peirce, to alert folk to my broad inference which is Triadic Philosophy, and to maintain the Peirce is as relevant or more relevant to the future than any American philosopher and most European philosophers of the modern era.
I think he is a mind that could have made creative strides next to Bohr and Einstein. I think he lives in heaven but is highly reticent because of the circumstances of his life and the mincemeat people make of his admittedly difficult body of largely unfinished work. I think some of the greatest Peirce interpreters are with him. They understood that holism minus semiosis is laughable and that consciousness without God is incomprehensible. Such comments are a purgative. After which one experiences some ease.
We near the end of this cursory exploration. I claim no authority to interpret Peirce. Nor is this dive that deep. I have a more simple agenda -- to alert folk to Peirce, to alert folk to my broad inference which is Triadic Philosophy, and to maintain the Peirce is as relevant or more relevant to the future than any American philosopher and most European philosophers of the modern era.
I think he is a mind that could have made creative strides next to Bohr and Einstein. I think he lives in heaven but is highly reticent because of the circumstances of his life and the mincemeat people make of his admittedly difficult body of largely unfinished work. I think some of the greatest Peirce interpreters are with him. They understood that holism minus semiosis is laughable and that consciousness without God is incomprehensible. Such comments are a purgative. After which one experiences some ease.
