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Originally Posted by Tahliba
Dialectical Materialism - this asserts the primacy of matter the independent existance of matter and mind, but recognizes interaction between matter and mind and solves the matter-mind controversy by way of categorical conversion.
What does all that mean?
What is matter?
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Matter is the material reality that composes the universe. Physics uses the term mass, mass having the occuapation of space and the quality of weight. The term the natural world is also used. Generally, matter is that which we can see.
Linked to matter or material is the opposite immatertial reality. Maxism-Lenism concerns itself with that which we can see, the material reality of the universe. However, Nkrumahism recognizes the existence of the unseen reality. Supreme Leader of the Revolution Comrade Ahmed Sekou Toure spelled out the imeteriial reality in detail in his work "Revolution and Religion" (Revolution and Religion -- Excerpts from Enhancing the People's Power). Thus, while a great deal of energy is wasted arguing that there is no GOD by Marxist-Leninists, Nkrumahists-Toureists avoid this debate. We certainly cannot prove that GOD does not exist. But, we know that the universe exists in as much as we know that we can see our own reflections in the mirror. The light whichs reflects our image in matter. But, that in the mirror itself is not matter. It has no form or weight. So, we can understand that there is a reality other than that which we can see in the universe. This other reality is the immaterial reality.
Those of us who believe know that the universe was created by a reality that no living person has ever seen.
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What is the matter-mind controversy and what is a categorical conversion??
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That term is somewhat unclear. But, basically there is no mind where there is no brain. Thus, the brain is matter, or the material reality. The mind is immaterial reality. We cannot see the mind; but, we can see the effects of the mind: thinking and creating. Mind and brain goes togetehr hand in hand. We cannot have one without the other as far as we know in our condition as living beings.