What is matter?

Matter is Frozen Light: Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogue 86 …

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Good post. Thank you.

  1. Psycho-physical Monism and Anti-nominalism

Peirce held that science suggests that the universe has evolved from a condition of maximum freedom and spontaneity into its present condition, in which it has taken on a number of habits, sometimes more entrenched habits and sometimes less entrenched ones. With pure freedom and spontaneity Peirce tended to associate mind, and with firmly entrenched habits he tended to associate matter (or, more generally, the physical). Matter he tended to regard as “congealed” or “effete” mind (1891; CP, 6.25; EP, 1.293). Thus he tended to see the universe as the end-product-so-far of a process in which mind has acquired habits and has “congealed” (this is the very word Peirce used) into matter. - from Robert Burch’s entry on C.S. Peirce in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (online gratis) - Charles Sanders Peirce (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

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Black, I mean, Dark Matter Lives!!
Oh, wait…

… I think you meant to say Dark Matter Matters. :slight_smile:

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Well, maybe – Bark Matter Matters ; for example when making cinnamon coffee…

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