LuisP wrote:Nancy_Hutchison wrote:
What "is" the mind?
IMO...a processor, like a computer.
Data collection and storage. Then "self" chooses what action to take based upon the available information.
Fight or Flight
is that instinct?
or free will choice?
Nancy
Excerpts taken for synthesis power of the underlying issue, as I see it.
Nancy
Are you not talking about “the brain” ?
Can “data collection and storage” or a Choice made upon “available information” conditioned by a imposed “programming” ….
explain
Compassion ? explain Love ? or Hate ? not to mention that so innocuous term – “Consciousness” ? I can come to love what I was conditioned to hate ! I can awake one day and “feel” compassion towards what I had only “felt” repulsion ! I can even one day awake to “subjective variables” that are at complete odds with all the “empirical data” I had known before!
What IS the mind ?
Someone goes into a coma and gets out of it speaking Mandarin, another playing the violin , another still painting beautiful, exquisite paintings. The first one never had spoken a word of it, the other never played a simple tamborete and the other even had ever painted a wall !
A kid that can’t even perform the simple task of feeding himself is put inside an helicopter, flown over a landscape he has never seen and upon landing, grabs a pencil and draws a perfect aerial perspective of it without ever lifting the pencil from the board until he’s finished ?
Another kid takes a stick from a tree and with it “feels” water 250 feet below surface ?
Yet another spends his childhood alone and his adolescence tortured by medical science, and ends up having “anomalous influence upon otherwise inaccessible material processes” ?
What IS the mind ?
Khalil Gibran had some interesting things to say.
His interpretation was the "soul" (mind) versus the "spirit".
http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/ ... lil_Gibran
Soul--mind = "head talk" that stuff that rattles around between your ears.
Processing info/data, then decisions made based upon programming.
IMO--your brain is the "hardware", your mind is the "software".
Does your spirit control your mind? Or your mind control your spirit?
The Jesus dude talked a lot about making sure your spirit controls your mind...not in the "bible", but in the documents Constantine decided to keep out of the bible.
BTW--we have more than the five senses that we are talk about in school.
There is also the "inner eyes" and the "inner ears"....more stuff the Jesus dude talked about.
Inner ears and inner eyes are not as likely to be manipulated by the mind. However, if your mind rules your spirit, your inner ears and inner eyes don't work.
Nancy