
St. Augustine and the Quest for Self-Knowledge | Prof. Michael Foley
The Thomistic Institute
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Is There a Mental Insight?
Nero: Science can trace the activities of the brain when a person is thinking, but it is not clear whether it is tracing correlation or causation. Augustine kept thinking that for something to be real, it must be spatial. He did not realize that god is not in space. Space is in god, but not spatially. I distcontinue am and note the solution. The mental act that struggles trying to figure out the difference between sensible and intelligible reality? Is itself anelligible reality? It is obviously real, for if if it wasn't, it wouldn't be struggling. Only things that exist struggle.
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