[FRIAM] Baruch Spinoza

[Steve Smith]

As long as I am scattergunning this list with the rock-salt of my random 
studies, I have to toss Spinoza over the transom as well.

Being too lazy (manically preoccupied) to thread my way back through the 
existing discussions on duality on this list, I will simply ask if 
anyone here has already thrown down on Spinoza's take on duality here, 
or even better, is willing to now:

 From Spinoza's Ethics 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics_(Spinoza_book)#Part_II:_Of_the_Nature_&_Origin_of_the_Mind>: 


    /Further, there is no difference between contemplating an idea and
    thinking that it is true, and there is no//freedom of the will
    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_will>//at all. Sensory
    perception, which Spinoza calls "knowledge of the first kind", is
    entirely inaccurate, since it reflects how our own bodies work more
    than how things really are. We can also have a kind of accurate
    knowledge called "knowledge of the second kind", or "reason". This
    encompasses knowledge of the features common to all things, and
    includes principles of physics and geometry. We can also have
    "knowledge of the third kind", or "//intuitive knowledge
    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuition>//". This is a sort of
    knowledge that, somehow, relates particular things to the nature of
    God./

In Spinoza's taxonomy, it would seem that DaveW's "dark-matter/energy" 
attribution is what Spinoza calls "knowledge of the third kind".
//

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