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1. It is significant. It is king.
2. The language it speaks is non-verbal, action-oriented.
3. Mind never sleeps, it can feel and experience a dreamer's dream.
4. Doesn't belong to the lower realms of the world
5. Communicates on a different level
6. The mind is perception
7. It is spirit, soul, the energy of the body
I'm very interested in how the brain works, and i'm a firm believer in the computational theory of mind, which is why I think you're wrong on several of your points:
ReplyDelete1. Yes it is, and like a King, is only as powerful as its subjects (sensory inputs) allow it to be.
2. Not exactly. Remember, your brain is split in two, left and right hemispheres. Left is mostly verbal and linear, and the right sifts through perceptual information in a 'non-verbal' way.
3. Sleep is a very broad term. Is your mind awake when you're in a waking dream? What about if you're in a coma, is you mind asleep? At what level of brain activity does it have to be for you to say that it's asleep? You could argue that only when someone is actually dead that the brain is finally asleep, but that's not a very useful definition, is it?
4. What?
5. Again, what?
6. No, it's not. The (right) mind sifts through sensory information, what you're seeing, hearing, smelling, touching, and composes it into a beautiful sensory 'moment' that your left brain analyzes and tries to make sense of, looking back into your memory files, analyzing language strings, filing things in memory, constructing thoughts and logic that it sends back to the outputs (muscles, your tongue/mouth, etc). The mind is not 'perception'. That doesn't make any sense.
7. Again, this doesn't make any sense and is just mindless pseudo-spiritual nothing.
I don't claim that I know the exact methodology with which the brain works, only that I have slightly read and learned about. Sometimes I don't know what it's called, either, but my experience showed me how things are.
ReplyDeleteI strongly believe in science and reason, I have a mind with which I always try to ask, how and why and be objective at it.
To speak about the subject using scientific jargon is of absolute uselessness to my intended audience nor I am willing to add new ideas to the available literature. Call me a collector.
For the things I am trying to present, I truly appreciate the time you have spent on reading and commenting.
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2. The brain is not simply two sided, and thats it. there are multiple lobes and areas, and, to be specific there is a part called the basal ganglia which you may consider reading about.
3. Sleep is the state of body when it goes to rest, it is usually started with the NREM then REM, and the human body radiates certain pattern of brain waves. The mind is the "perceiving" body when the brain is busy dreaming. Because of the mind's presence we can remember that we had a dream while sleeping. I am not sure about comas. And I would argue that even when a person is dead, the mind is still present.
4. & 5. I tried to elaborate on that here: http://idraque.blogspot.com/2010/10/how-your-words-travel-in-time-space.html
6. partially talked about in the same blog post
7. As a scientist grow intellectually, and knows more, they recognize that all that they know is nothing but a drop in the ocean. Like A neuroscience surgeon who part times in psychology and psychiatry recognizes their incompetence and limitation in the fields of dermatology and astrology.
It is important to have a skeptical mind, but to simply attack that which your brain won't comprehend and your mind have not experienced is mere ignorance and narrow-mindedness and I don't think you're either this or that.
I wasn't trying to offend you or anything, and i'm sorry if it came out that way.
ReplyDelete2. The brain is pretty much split in half, actually. The two hemispheres act independently for most of their functions. Of course, this is a big generalization, but it's a pretty important distinction to make, seeing as how one 'thinks' verbally, and the other perceives sensory inputs; which is the opposite of what you said in your 2., that the brain 'is non verbal'.
3. Even when a person is dead, the mind is still present? How can you say that? There is no brain activity once the cells die. That's it, they're dead. Also, you say 'the mind is the "perceiving" body when the brain is busy dreaming'. That doesn't make any sense, does it? Your brain sifts through what happened during your day and organizes it, throwing away stuff that doesn't matter, and going through events that mattered. Sometimes it creates scenes that prepare you how to react if they happen, and it does other things for reasons we don't yet know. Embellishing the 'magic' of dreaming with spiritual mumbo-jumbo doesn't help anyone.
4 & 5. Um, I say it again... what? I really don't understand what you mean. I'm not trying to be purposefully obtuse, but I just don't see the point in flowery, pseudo-scientific, Deepak Chopra nonsense. It helps no one.
7. That's true, scientists don't know everything.
Astrology is not science.
Just because there are gaps in our collective knowledge doesn't mean you get to fill those in with whatever unverifiable feeling you have as a sort of 'answer' to the tough questions in life.
Science is about being able to prove your theories in a demonstrable and repeatable manner. Asking people to believe in things that you can't prove isn't science, it's faith. Describe it as faith, and I won't have a problem with it, but when you ask people to believe in it as science, that's where you're wrong.
I must have crossed the line then. Thank you for pointing that out :)
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