I'm trying my best to make sense of timeless minds and disembodied minds. A timeless mind would have to be one unchanging state and have no moments in which it could think. If this mind was infinite in size then maybe you could say that all of its thoughts are contained within
that one state. Effectively it thinks all of its thoughts all at once. It would also have to take all its actions all at once, meaning that everything it does would be eternally connected to it. Effectively this means block time would have to be true if god created the universe.
Disembodied minds on the other hand make no sense because they need some way to perceive things. A prime mover may not have this problem if it contains all of reality within it. It would perceive reality the same way I can close my eyes and imagine something.
I perceive it because it's in my mind. However I can't imagine anything without using the language of my perception. I visualize it, I imagine what it sounds, smells, or feels like.
A disembodied mind would not have that language, so would it be able to imagine? If not, can it think? If not, it's not a mind.
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