Posted on 09/21/2023 3:52:12 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Don't get hung up on the word "green" in the source. This article has nothing to do with politics. Directly at least.
>>we are our minds, not our brains.
We are both.
Without the physical brain to encode it, the information making up the thinking ability and memories of the mind does not exist.
The mind is a made up term for people who don’t understand the details of consciousness. It’s a generic comprehensive term.
Like universe, body, weather, ....
They are just comprehensive general despriptors, used rather than identifying specific detailed attributes.
And people who are brain dead but have so-called "near death" or "out of body" experiences would disagree with you.
We are consciousness.
We just use our brains to communicate and interact with our environment at the lower frequencies.
The human brain is more of a transmitter and receiver than a processor.
True. But if we don’t give things a “word/name”...we can’t discuss them.
Like I said he *is* interesting even if he is,by chance,misguided.
Very good read, thank you for the post.
Glad you enjoyed it.:-)
Brain = “hardware”.
Mind = “software”.
That is of course not dealing with the philosophical and religious questions regarding the nature of consciousness and self-awareness.
CC
So now introduce the concept of “personality”.;)
The brain is an organ. The mind is what you make of it
This is the way I see it using an analogy: your body is like a car. Your brain is like the main Central computer system that runs the car. Your mind is the driver.
The driver is not actually part of the car. Rather, the driver is a separate entity that’s put in the car. When the car fails via an accident or just age, the driver leaves the car and the car goes to the junkyard. And that includes its computer brain.
The driver gets a new car that is incorruptible and fit to be in the unseen realm and spend eternity with his creator
Caroline Leaf is a neuropsychologist.
“During her years in clinical practice and her work with thousands of underprivileged teachers and students in her home country of South Africa and in the USA, she developed her theory (called the Geodesic Information Processing theory) of how we think, build memory, and learn, into tools and processes that have transformed the lives of hundreds of thousands of individuals with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), Chronic Traumatic.....”
Basically it’s a cognitive mapping theory. She really doesn’t understand the process. It’s her model to promote and write books.
Her observations are accurate but her theory explaining her observations is not.
As a priest once told me:
We ARE souls.
We HAVE bodies.
CC
That’s a pretty good analogy, except the driver is the soul and individual consciousness, and when the driver leaves the car, it’s dead.
Personality might be defined as the descriptor(s) used by one mind to describe his perception of the non-physical, interactive quality/aspect of another mind/brain/body being. “Interactive” being “the way that other being reacts to you (mostly) and others (to a lesser degree).”
Yes very good, i like it.
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