Why Ryle Was Right

"I'll fuck your mind"

Philosophy classroom, Gilbert Ryle being dissed, nodding along. Ever since that day- about a week ago- my thoughts kept coming back to questioning materialism. Questions are healthy. If Ryle was mistaken, then our minds should operate without our bodies, without physical substance. What is a mind? They should be free, not cased in our heads, as somewhat attached, tied together. How does consciousness arise? It seems, to me, that it's so much easier to think that a mind is free, it gives us a sense of control. But if it's free, not extinguished by the death of our bodies, where does it 'go'? On holiday? Maybe no-one truly died, ideas are old. We do think, but can you define a thought? Materialism has it's right points as well. We are not real. We are digital avatars. Our thoughts are program string executions. Define reality.

So it seems my friend from Lithuania was right. I have not yet taken the longitude to enlighten myself, so all this is pure bullshit, but adding everything together for him turned out to exclude our own existence from the answer. Coolio.

you will not see much substantial philosophy here, try out this, Paulius