The Alternative Viewpoint

The standard materialist view is also insufficient many other ways, i think. A conception that portrays the world as made up of objects is in some really fundamental way deadd for human beings. The problem with this seems to be mostly experiential. People know their internal experiential life is composed of emotions and motivational states. These are so real and relevant that virtually everything that people do is predicated on them. Now i am going to suggest to you to day that there is an alternative viewpoint. And i think also it's one that, although you may be hearing about it formally for the first time, is also something that you know unbelievably deeply. Thousands of years ago, plato