Jean Grey is what Professor X would call a category 5 mutant. She has the ability to read others minds and has the ability to move things with her mind as well but to a lesser scale then those who have more powerful telekinetic abilities. Jean Grey unlocks the barrier that was put in place to keep her powers in check and became the Phoenix. As the Phoenix, Jean Grey is the most powerful creature in the universe, a level 6 mutant capable of complete destruction.
The only one who can stop her is Wolverine because he can take the psychic blasts from Phoenix and heal the damage, anyone else would be vaporized. He fights his way towards her, trying to get the old Jean back, but she is gone her mind belongs to the Phoenix and she is set on destruction. So Wolverine would do what any friend would do in the situation that you are not yourself and you are doing a good job at destroying the whole world, he has to put her down.
Seeing how powerful the mind can be with a creature like the Phoenix, it would be critical to figure out the link between mind and body and how they influence each other. Descartes opened up a can of worms with the concept of “I think therefore I am”, what that led to because there are a couple of factors pertaining to the mind that are evident, the idea of solipsism.
Solipsism like nihilism to me are kind of absurd, but I suppose I get the skepticism, when you cannot empirically identify aspects that paint a full picture of epistemology.
Solipsism
- the view or theory that the self is all that can be known to exist. “solipsism is an idealist thesis because ‘Only my mind exists’ entails ‘Only minds exist’”
Three factors pertaining to experience and knowledge for an individual mind are:
- knowledge an individual possesses resides in their mind, their thoughts belong solely to them
- there is no obvious link between the mind and the physical, or that the mind requires a particular body to exist
- knowledge and experience are private to the individual
Here is where solipsism is absurd to me, what it basically suggests is that we cannot know things for certain other than our own mind. Descartes makes it clear that “I” does the thinking, so therefore “I” exist. However that is based on perspective, you can only describe your mind from your standpoint, so “I” is just a matter of who recounts the experience or knowledge.
Perfect example of why solipsism is incoherent, the thoughts that mind of the individual constructs are in some language which is shared between the individual (unless they speak their own) and others. Although it is true that no two people share an extramental space where they can drop ideas back and forth (that we know of, twins have been suggested to have something like that), and an individual experience of a situation is private to the individual. We may go horseback riding, your experience might not be the same as mine, but we did the same thing at the same place with all external conditions more or less the same, but you have your experience bottled up and I have mine, they are ours and ours alone.
However I can ask you about your experience and you can tell me, you are not a figment of my imagination that only exists because I do or do you?
Author: admin
Obviously my interests include philosophy. I think thinking and thought are the beginning of every great thing. It’s how we understand and perceive the world. Periodically I’ll change things up and blog about something math or computer science related or even a blog about mythology. I am not political, trendy, or savvy, but I do like a good story. That is why I try and find a movie clip that hints or encompasses what I want to blog about. Sometimes the relevance is there, sometimes it’s a reach and I just really love the movie that I put in the post. The intent and purpose of my blog is to make you think, make me think and together our thoughts can be shared in a collection of material.