Being too lazy (manically preoccupied) to thread my way back through the existing discussions on duality on this list, I will simply ask if anyone here has already thrown down on Spinoza's take on duality here, or even better, is willing to now:
From Spinoza's Ethics <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics_(Spinoza_book)#Part_II:_Of_the_Nature_&_Origin_of_the_Mind>:
/Further, there is no difference between contemplating an idea and thinking that it is true, and there is no//freedom of the will <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_will>//at all. Sensory perception, which Spinoza calls "knowledge of the first kind", is entirely inaccurate, since it reflects how our own bodies work more than how things really are. We can also have a kind of accurate knowledge called "knowledge of the second kind", or "reason". This encompasses knowledge of the features common to all things, and includes principles of physics and geometry. We can also have "knowledge of the third kind", or "//intuitive knowledge <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuition>//". This is a sort of knowledge that, somehow, relates particular things to the nature of God./In Spinoza's taxonomy, it would seem that DaveW's "dark-matter/energy" attribution is what Spinoza calls "knowledge of the third kind".
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