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| | | | | NO the mind is intangible like our soul or personality. |
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| | | | It seems to me that we would have to define "physical" to answer your question....
Is it possible that when you get down to the smallest particle, you find no particle at all, just a tiny motion? And if that were in fact true, wouldn't it be also true that all "physical" matter is only extremely complex patterns of energy? |
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| | | | | So, then what would the mind be? The same as the body, a complex energy, or something else? Another question that is slightly relevant, where is the mind? In our head, our feet, or even in us? What says that the mind can't be forty feet away, or any distance, or anywhere? |
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| | | | to quote homer simpson
"what is mind? It doesn't matter. What is matter? Never mind."
"Don't blame me because I speak with infallible logic, stupid human"
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| | | | It is possible I have answered my own question, at least to a partial degree with the following conclusion:
The mind cannot be entirely physical, no mind which is a center for inspiration or hope, anyway. There is nothing in nature which compels a beast so blunt and base as man to create and form art and music, to be so avid in the pursuit of something new and creative.
Indeed, it is likely that physical stimuli are responsible for most things which the mind does, but that does not mean in and of itself that the mind is physical. This was the separation and distinction of thought which I was struggling with in the past, and have only now realized.
It is faintly similar to prodding a duck. A duck, when prodded, will produce a result based off of the varying physical degree of the prod, but the duck in and of itself is not its own response. It is still the duck which was prodded. The key element was that the duck already existed before it was prodded, and therefore had some degree of identity before an external force was applied to it.
The mind may be shifted and formed by external stimuli, but it is what it does with these things that makes it so intangibly and amazingly unique. Emotions might be a certain release of chemicals from one part of the body to another, but it is why we experience the emotion which is something which cannot be touched.
To give meaning and definition to something, this is a function of the mind which cannot be physically shaken or touched. It is possible to mold someone's responses to a certain degree, to manipulate them into doing whatever it is which you want them to do, but that in and of itself requires a mental exercise which needs must be not of the touchable realm, if only that the manner in which it is carried out is not tangible when coaxing with words.
In effect, the word, "Why?" proves the that the mind is something else above what our bodies create and and are externally afflicted by, for, "Why?" is not found within nature, it is found within man. |
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| | | | Every seven years all the cells in our body are regenerated; no atom is the same again.
And who knows what kind of information those new atoms are carrying when they nestle into our bodies?
‘Individuality’, ‘I’ and ‘mine’ become very limited concepts when viewed this way. Our separate existence, which we believe to be the basis of our daily experiences, is no longer the central issue. It is replaced by the all-encompassing connection.
For my life, the second implication of the Zero Point Field is just as radical as the insight that separation actually does not exist:
I create my own reality.
Just as I can apparently influence a machine, I can influence all matter around me. More to the point: I do it all the time, including influencing the matter in my own body.
If I create reality, then the world is not as it is, but as I perceive it. My thoughts determine reality.
My mind is always present. Sometimes I just don't see it.
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