The Picture On The Wall
Avicenna has other ways to discover that the mind cannot be something material. Most of them are only based on grasping the intellectual knowledge in the mind but cannot contain or operate with anything related to material.
The picture on the wall that I see is stretchy to my eye. But the mind cannot feel anything else. More precisely, the mind isn’t a sense organ of the human body. Avicenna wrote about that: Man is a rational, mortal animal.
It is meant that the mind cannot be part of the body. Avicenna gave a conclusion about death: if a person’s body dies, the mind isn’t destroyed.
This didn’t help them to think that life is enjoyable in general for Muslims because they believe that the body and mind are revived and dispersed after death. Avicenna was attacked in the 12th century by the great theologian Al-Ghazali, who called him a heretic for the Islamic tenet of the resurrection of the dead.
But at this time, Avicenna’s prescription and work were also translated into Latin and many other languages. His dualism became popular among other philosophers and theologians. Avicenna said, “The secret conversation is a direct encounter between God and the soul, abstracted from all material constraints.
Aristotle elucidated about body and mind and how they are so closely connected, and his views were absolutely accepted by other theologians between the 16th and 17th centuries. Descartes returned to a dualism that was closer to Plato’s, Aristotle’s, and even Avicenna’s.
Avicenna and Descartes conclude that “I” and “self”, are totally distinct from the body because they may be eternal.
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