The Philosophies of Dune Part 3: Consciousness
All things are perception, unless you perceive it differently
As already mentioned previously, Dune is a story of flesh and blood and consciousness. By nature of the proscription against thinking and computing machines, humanity is forced to rely entirely on their own faculties. I believe this to be a deep idea, centering on survival, and the idea the carpenter must never become a slave to the hammer.
The Body-Mind Problem
Consciousness appears to be one of the great mysteries of the world. Thus far, folks who have attempted to reduce consciousness to merely the result of purely physical processes have been unable to account for it. In addition, folks who believe consciousness to be somehow outside the realm of the physical have also failed to account for changes in consciousness resulting from physical changes. This disagreement is known among boring philosopher types as the Body-Mind Problem.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, a 17th century philosopher and mathematician, asserted only immaterial things such as a soul are ca…
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