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How does the mind display itself to us?
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I guess what I was talking about was more diagram-based.
Our memories selectively displaying themselves is a good thought, and I'm sure what is displayed happens much like you explained.
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God in ReligionUniverse : design or necessity?
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In other words, this whole universe is just a bunch of electrical signals interpreted by our brain.
Imagine that a brain is kept alive, and is then connected to a computer through wires. The compute... |
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Free Will
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the choices we make are based on how the brain has been wired. every choice is predictible(hypothetically), because the brain is a physical thing and made like a computer, and every action a computer... |
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Life & DeathWhat is the soul?
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There is reality beyond the human brain, there is creation beyond the human brain. That's the whole point of meditation, to get ouf of the brain and into the mind and soul (the less physical part... |
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Reality & MetaphysicsQuestioning Reality: Are we for "Real"?
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Oh God*roll* Guess u didn't read the previous posts. Well, u r dependant on ur senses as ur 'proof' of your existance, but the thing is, that they are all just a bunch of electrical sig... |
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PoetryThe poems that we read
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Brain Litany: Or, Overlooking the Existential Factor
*"Can it be that any man has the skill to fabricate himself?"
-- St. Augustine
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If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't. -Emerson M. Pugh |
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Life & DeathAFTER DEATH
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I'm guessing we cease to exist. You know, like sleep.
To really know though you'd have to do some research on the human mind to locate where *you* are.
For example in some cases of brain d... |
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Mental Remote Control or Mental Compensation
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Where one part of the mind acts on behalf of another to do it's work for it...
This is commonly associated with lobotomies where a part of the brain is removed yet the action carried out by that sect... |
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Is the Brain Really Big Enough?
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*sleepy* Yes the brain is big enough.
I say it is absurd to immagine that the brain remembers everything per day, month, year, etc.
Surely people forgets the vast majority of everything.
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Mental IllnessAre insane people really insane
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psychologically speaking I read somewhere once that people who suffer from certain hallucinatory conditions such as schizophrenia had some sort of brain imaging done on them during an hallucination an... |
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Please dont say i'm crazy, i've tickled all your sences in a second. |
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Free Will
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if the brain is "you," then what about when it ceases to operate? when you die, are you still conscious? your body still has a brain. or would a better physical definition of "you"... |
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Life & DeathIf your a clone do you have a soul?
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Ah, I guess I'm a bit confused I thought they were able to make certain cooralations(sp) with the right/left halve of the brain and activities with various areas of the brain? So I wondered if so... |
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Conscious and Sub-ConsciousConsciousness is just the tip of the iceberg
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Excellent answers all. Can one talk to the conscious and program the sub-conscious or vice versa? Mirror imagining works as well.
Can one talk to ones brain or conscious or subconscious and create... |
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Conscious and Sub-ConsciousConsciousness is just the tip of the iceberg
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Has anyone read the book Ender's Shadow? Its in the Ender series. Well the book about the extremely intelligent boy who was genetically altered to keep his brain growing. The book was based aroun... |
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But where are all the pirates? |
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Free Will
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well, for one thing i dont think that "we" are our brains. i can explain this by saying that different parts of our brains do different things. one part is responsible for vision, one part i... |
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Mental Remote Control or Mental Compensation
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My understanding is that the brain works as a whole. When an area is removed, another area must compensate for the missing piece... like picking up the slack. Sure certain sections perform specific fu... |
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Speed Of Time
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Yeah, a mathimatical whiz would have more time, because he would not have to ponder and think over things that a average joe would , like trying to remember which formolae to use etc, he'll alrea... |
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Free Will
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well how do you know you control the mind? theres no physical evidence for it, i mean. the brain acts according to how the environment and genetics programs it to act, like a super advanced computer.... |
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How does the mind display itself to us?
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I have a theory on how and why the brain displays itself to us, our brains use memories to make intelligent advice/decisions which can involve a considerably large amount of information though the bra... |
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