Do u think the mind/consciousness is separate from the body?
March 4, 2010 - 2:18 am
Do you think that the consciousness lives on when the body dies?Your opinions on the mind/consciousness being or not being separate from the body.
there are two forms of consciousness. relative personal consciousness-the knowing consciousness that is related to thinking and feeling.
and there is absolute consciousness- universal, non judgemental awareness that "SEES" the relative personal consciousness.
not my ideas. got them from hinduism and buddhism.
the book called Big Mind,Big Heart by Zen Master Roshi Merzel may contain the easiest and quickest technique to get a sense of absolute consciousness.
March 4th, 2010 at 7:24 am
no how can it be? you need a body with a brain that works to have ANY thoughts at all. you can’t have thoughts or consciousness without a body
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March 4th, 2010 at 7:59 am
I think that when you die there is no consciousness. Its gone because your gone and it was a part of you. Your consciousness follows you, its never separated from you.
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March 4th, 2010 at 8:41 am
Your consciousness is nothing more than the sequence of synapses that fire in your brain. Those synapses don’t exist outside the brain, they don’t exist after the brain dies. Think of it like this: Consciousness is to the brain like Windows is to a computer. Is it technically a separate entity, yes. But the software is nothing without the hardware to run it.
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March 4th, 2010 at 9:30 am
Are you familiar with the concept of a Turing machine? Computer theory. Basically, any computer can simulate the operation of any other computer. It just takes more time.
Which leaves us with an interesting question – is the brain a ‘computer’ by those standards, or does it have an analogous rule?
It doesn’t seem an entirely implausible concept. After all, you can probably guess what your friends will say and do, and some married folk with immense accuracy. In a sense, each of us simulates the thoughts and actions of others around them in order to figure out how they will behave, what they will do and like, and what to get them for Christmas.
So perhaps even now if you were removed from the universe, you consciousness would live on in a sense. Not in the same body or brain that you had, of course, but in the minds of others. Your friends and family, who would probably still consider if you would like something that happens, how you would react, and what you would think about Avatar 2.
If a simulation of you performs just as the real you would, are you really gone as long as the simulation is running?
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March 4th, 2010 at 10:04 am
Both! No because you needed all of it to type and ask this question… No because when we dream a night, we aren’t clearly aware of why we dream what we dream until we wake up and can connect to others and analyze. Kinda a mystery.
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March 4th, 2010 at 10:13 am
I think that consciousness is a part of the Greater Whole of who we are, Spirit. It is somehow connected with the brain, in that the brain supplies the connection to the body, but consciousness, in and of itself, is part of the Spirit (the Soul). It never dies.
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March 4th, 2010 at 11:00 am
absolutely not
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March 4th, 2010 at 11:23 am
It must be separate.
Several years ago I had an unusual experience concerning an uncle, a distant relative who lived over a thousand miles away.
While driving my car I suddenly felt the unmistakable presence of this relative that I hardly even knew. He was more like someone I had heard about than someone I knew. It was very strange; it felt as though I was momentarily lifted right out of my physical body. I seemed to be suspended somehow beyond space and time, bathed in a love so intense It felt like I could have just disappear into it at any moment if It would have let me. It only lasted for a few seconds, but it seemed to last forever at the same time. I realize how crazy this must sound. The experience was so strong that at first I was afraid I was loosing my grip on reality. I finally managed to chalk it up to an over active imagination.
Three days later I got a call from my aunt telling me that this uncle we are talking about had gone into a coma and died the day I had the experience. It felt like ice water had been poured down my back when she told me this. I had lost any real ideas of God or faith and had become somewhat of an atheist. Needless to say this experience caused me to rethink some of the conclusions I had come to.
I feel blessed to now understand that even in our darkest confusion something loves us so much that it went out of its way to assist me and bring me back to a state of absolute certainty about Gods love for us.
During the experience it seemed like there was a vast amount of information that I was somehow allowed access to. One thing that I came away from this experience understanding beyond any shadow of a doubt was that any Idea that God is unhappy with us or would judge or allow us to be punished for any reason is simply impossible.
I can’t explain the love I felt with words. They simply don’t make words big enough or complete enough to do this. The only way I can begin to convey this love to you is to say that there was simply nothing else there. Nothing but love. No hint of judgment, no displeasure of any sort. It is as though God sees us as being as perfect as we were the day we were created. It is only in our confused idea of ourselves that we seem to have changed.
I hope this is of some help to you. Good luck. Love and blessings.
Your brother don
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March 4th, 2010 at 11:42 am
there are two forms of consciousness. relative personal consciousness-the knowing consciousness that is related to thinking and feeling.
and there is absolute consciousness- universal, non judgemental awareness that "SEES" the relative personal consciousness.
not my ideas. got them from hinduism and buddhism.
the book called Big Mind,Big Heart by Zen Master Roshi Merzel may contain the easiest and quickest technique to get a sense of absolute consciousness.
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