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Mind (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠like everything else in nature: its organs grow like bodily organs, and a highly specific inborn endowment lets it build knowledge far beyond anything experience could determine.

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The Mind (n.) has ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠no special right to be simpler than the liver or the eye; assuming its inborn equipment must be modest is dogma, not science.

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The Mind (n.) being ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a product of nature's laws gives it no guarantee of grasping them; a machine built by physics can still churn out absurd theories.

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Mind (n.) was ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠postulated by Descartes for what bumping and turning bodies could not explain — a creative principle for the leftover phenomena.

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Mind (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not a universal organism: its limits let us build rich knowledge at all, and may also shut us out of the very domains we most want to understand — too bad.