Li Chi and Chu Hsi

Principles of creativity and the one, reflected through the history of philosophy tend to leave one with dualism or a suspicion of dualism. The resolution of concepts such as Plato's forms removed from nature and Aristotle's forms locked with in their various structures are re-defined later by archetypes and the new Confucianists who look at the philosophy of Li Chi and attempt a synthesis or bridge between the two. Heaven or heart is then linked and dynamically active in nature. Other ideas from Whitehead and the latest studies in consciousness suggest, at the deepest layers of the psychic structures we connect to universal ideas or field consciousness. Here neurons become relative to this deep layer. Chu Hsi attempted a similar reconciliation in his Neo-Confucian philosophy but obviously did not have the science to help him.