#Philosophy
- **Dualism/Idealism:** Most Setians are Dualistic, seeing consciousness and matter as two separate but existent things (Set and Horus respectively). Some are idealists, meaning they believe consciousness is foundational and matter does not actually exist. Setianism is incompatible with materialism, the position that only matter exists.
- **Nature vs. Non-Nature:** Nature is the deterministic, material, objective, mindless, universal cosmos of logic, math, and physics. The Unnatural is the autonomous, immaterial, subjective, conscious, personal universe of the mind. These are seen as separate due to the reasons below.
- **Property Dualism:**
> [1] The mind/consciousness and the brain/matter have different properties (Property Dualism). [2] Things with non-identical properties cannot be the same thing (The Law of Identity). [3] Therefore, the mind/consciousness and the brain/matter cannot be the same thing.
- **The Certainty of Consciousness:**
> [1] Our own mind is the only thing we can be absolutely certain exists and is the only thing we can ever know directly. [2] Matter is only known through the mind. [3] We cannot reduce something we know directly to something we know through it, and we cannot reduce something we know with certainty for something we are uncertain of. [4] Therefore, we cannot reduce the mind and consciousness to matter and the brain... Without a mind or consciousness the very concept of “knowing” or “being aware of something” makes no sense. If you were not a conscious mind you could not know or learn anything. Matter is one of these things you could not know or learn about.
# Science
- **Manipulation of Nature:** such as
>Another piece of empirical evidence is the ability for the human mind to manipulate nature. This can be seen in examples such as using advanced chemistry to make highly advanced medication that would never arise in nature without such a mind, or in our ability to level mountains for cities and roads, to stop up rivers and obliterate (or regrow) forests... Deterministic systems like nature do not manipulate themselves in such a way, it is within the "programming" to act in a specific, linear, and entirely predictable way (which is why we are able to test things consistently with the scientific method).
- **Contradiction of Nature:**
>Self-regulation, for example, is a well-known aspect of the human mind which requires us to be aware of our deterministic nature, catch it, and act differently...thanks to our consciousness and free will we can self-regulate – we become aware of this natural desire, the response our body is making towards our coworker or stranger, and then… we can simply choose not to follow it.. Placebos are another example of this, where you are given something that explicitly causes no change to the deterministic system (placebos by definition do not cause physiological change). However, the mental belief that one is being aided can cause actual, objective change in the physiology of the body, such as with pain. The mind causes physiological change to the system.
- **The Upper Paleolithic Revolution:**
>...humans existed as a species, physically/biologically, for around 150,000 years without any advances in higher consciousness. We were another animal, very slowly learning to interact with the world we lived in within a purely animalistic/survivalist mindset. Then, rather suddenly, came abstract thought, art, religion, jewelry, and eventually things like language and alphabets, cities and cultures. Our consciousness greatly leapt forwards, and began exponentially increasing on such a level that it still hasn't stopped.
