The Ancient Philosopher-scientists Focused on Incontrovertible Facts

 The deliberations regarding reality among the ancient philosopher scientists centred on incontrovertible facts. And the contradistinctions between entities revealed by these incontrovertible facts. Rather than speciation the subject that formed the core of philosophico scientific discussion was ontogenesis. What was it that steered matter towards a definite teleological end so that such ingenious engineering marvels as the bronchial tree and the cardio respiratory apparatus, which has superb (neural) control and feedback mechanisms implemented through innervators and sensory receptors, may develop and come into existence and that too from a mass of amorphous material substance? The ancient intellectual world was discerning enough to spot the difference between the operation of nature and its laws and the activity of a CONSCIOUS PERSONALITY. But of course this discernment would be born only when a separate ontological category of "conscious personality" distinct from matter is first established. Therefore it can easily be inferred that prior to considering the question of ontogenesis it was the problem of consciousness that was tackled first. The question of who we are was first settled and once that was done the focus of enquiry shifted to consideration of the matter of organization and design of the structures of the human body, that the conscious personalities found themselves connected to. This was as can be seen a very natural progression. This prior determination of conscious personality was momentous for another reason. Nature was now constrained to "work" for the specific purpose of welfare of the conscious personality. One could always say had it not been so tied that howsoever structured the organs may be it is the result of nature operating without any purpose. But the purpose now is to construct a psycho-physical frame to make material life possible for conscious personality. Clearly, now a (super) mind is required to operate on matter consciously as nature must be kept tethered so as to prevent it from deviating from a given teleological end.