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Question: Can you give me a definition of nature!? What all does it include!? What does it exclude!?
For example:
Does it include brains!?
Does it include minds!?
Does it include imagination!?
Does it include memory!?
Does it include all memory, or just accurate memory of the physical!?
also address whether or not these are valid questions:
What is the nature of lying!?
What is human nature!?
Is our conceptual system a part of human nature!?
Is human nature a part of nature!?
Is the conceptualization required to understand this question a part of nature!?
And, if some of the above aspects are not a part of nature, then what are they a part of!?
Why do we ask what their natures are if they aren't a part of nature!?Www@QuestionHome@Com
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
Yes, brains and mind!.
But "mind" is free-floating final-causitive agent, the purpose of man's being!. The freedom to think or not to think is the only freedom it has, but that presupposes the freedom to choose what one thinks when he/she thinks!.
Imagination is a faculty of the mind!. Some will learn to exercise it!. Some will choose to become actuaries!. It is not a prerequisite for being conscious!.
Memory in a physiologically normal mind will fit within parameters of what memory is capable of, and one can learn to better it, or not to care, or to ruin it with drugs and drink!.
But these are intangibles, identifiable by concept only as opposed to ostensive definitions at which we can only point, as to a "blue sky!." Describing the sun's wavelengths that create blue does not put the picture of "blue" in anyone's mind!.
Lying is saying something, or allowing something to be believed, when you know that "what it is" is something other than what you led another to believe!.
Sometimes lying is morally correct!. If you ask me a question, and either way I answer it you get an answer I think is none of your business, lying is the only way to point in another direction!. I don't want you to know everything about me, and if i say, "It's none of your business," you may infer something I don't wish to have you infer!. It's none of your business!.
Human nature is to see an ideal, a realizable goal, that is the highest concept concerning the subject that you can think of!. "Being Tiger Woods" is an ideal of how good to be--you just cannot "be" Tiger Woods! Tiger is a golfer "qua golf!." "Brent Favre" is a quarterback "qua quarterback!."
Man's ideal is to be "qua Man," and the standard of that particular "qua" is the purpose of man's life, just as the qua of golf is the purpose of golf--as low a score as possible and below your next closest opponent!.
Concepts, being of the mind, are of nature and they are IN existence!. Human nature is a part of nature and the definition of "human nature" is everything I've been trying to describe!.
All my descriptions were "absolutes" without any pre-destinations of character or integrity or profession or abilityt or education or intelligence built into it!. All men are equal under that law; but we are not all Tiger WoodsWww@QuestionHome@Com
Everything is nature that naturally came here!. For example, humans are yes nature but their materialistic things are not!.
There is some sort of nature for everything like the nature of lying, the nature of a calculator no matter if it is man-made or not!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
Nature is all inclusively and exclusively; God!Www@QuestionHome@Com