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Meeting of Minds is a television series, created by Steve Allen, which aired on PBS from 1977 to 1981. The show featured actors playing historical figures, but in a talk-show format. Guests would interact with each other and host Steve Allen, discussing philosophy, religion, history, science, and many other topics.
The works of Aristotle, sometimes referred to by modern scholars with the Latin phrase Corpus Aristotelicum, is the collection of Aristotle's works that have survived from antiquity. According to a distinction that originates with Aristotle himself, [citation needed] his writings are divisible into two groups: the "exoteric" and the "esoteric". [1]
Aristotle examines the concepts of substance (ousia) and essence (to ti ên einai, "the what it was to be") in his Metaphysics (Book VII), and he concludes that a particular substance is a combination of both matter and form, a philosophical theory called hylomorphism.
Aristotle Transformed (1990) Animal Minds and Human Morals (1993) Ed. Aristotle and After (1997) Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (2000) Ed. with the late R.W. Sharples, The Philosophy of Commentators, 200–400 A.D. (2003–2005) The Self: Insights from Different Times and Places (2005).
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Averroes expounded his theory in his long commentary on Aristotle's On the Soul to explain how universal knowledge is possible within the Aristotelian philosophy of mind. Averroes's theory was influenced by related ideas propounded by previous thinkers such as Aristotle himself, Plotinus , Al-Farabi , Avicenna (Ibn Sina) and Avempace (Ibn Bajja).
Aristotle describes the structure of the souls of plants, animals, and humans in Books II and III. Book III discusses the mind or rational soul, which belongs to humans alone. He argues that thinking is different from both sense-perception and imagination because the senses can never lie and imagination is a power to make something sensed ...
The only way that all human minds could possess the same correct knowledge is if they all had access to some central knowledge store, as terminals might have access to a mainframe computer (Kraemer 2003). This mainframe is the Agent Intellect, the "mind" of the universe, which makes all other cognition possible.