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Allamah Misbah’s Puzzle … M. Legenhausen (45

            existed  all  along  with  the            Jumping Between the Horns:
            body  in  order  for  it  to  have        Fuzzy Logic

            taken the developed forms of              Allamah Misbah’s dilemma is
            consciousness characteristic of           based  on  the  assumption  that
            human beings.                             either there is a first moment

               Since  the  soul  does  not            when  ascending  substantial
            attach  to  the  body  at  any            motion occurs and the human
            specific  instant,  it  must  have        spirit  animates  the  body  or

            been  there  in  some  primitive          that the ascending motion was
            form  right  from  the  start.  Of        always  present  and  the  spirit
            course, the sort of consciousness         was  there,  too,  although  in  a

            possessed  by  a  quark  is  not          tenuous  way.  However,  there
            going to be very sophisticated.           is another possibility:
            Tye calls it undirected or bare              The  ascent  and  appearance

            consciousness. (Tye, 2021)                of  the  soul  might  have  no
               Tye contends that panpsychism          definite  first  moment  and  yet
            allows  for  the  emergence  of           they  may  have  appeared
            the consciousness characteristic          gradually, so that prior to this

            of  the  human  mind  from                gradual  appearance  they  did
            what,  by  comparison,  is                not  exist  at  all.  This  third
            merely  corporeal,  although              possibility  can  be  illustrated

            the stirrings of  consciousness           by means of fuzzy logic.
            are  already  present  in  all               Fuzzy logic was introduced
            things,  and  the  human  soul            by  Lotfizadeh  in  1965.  (Ref:

            becomes        incorporeal      by        Belohlavek  et  al,  2017)
            advancing beyond its primitive            Remarkably,        Zadeh      was
            levels. (Tye, 2021: 77)                   motivated  to  develop  fuzzy

                                                      set  theory  because  of  vague
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