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By: belathor

belathor — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 06:49:00 +0000

“The mind takes up no space, it does not have its basic existence in time.”

You are taking yourself out of the time perspective. The mind itself may not be matter, nor may it necessarilly be the pattern of neuron firings in the brain, but whatever it is, it exists in time. This sounds to me like an extraordinary claim. What is a “basic existence”? I’m typing this text using my mind. I’m creating a string of sentences, and I assure you these thoughts are occuring within the confines of space-time. You seem to be implying that our minds exist outside the universe even though it is impossible to come up with evidence to assert this in the first place.

As far as you first claim in the quote above, how do you know the mind takes up no space? How do you define the mind anyway?

By: multidimid

multidimid — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 19:00:23 +0000

The differences between your “mind” and brain”.

In physical life, your conscious mind is largely dependent upon the workings of your physical brain. The brain to some extent keeps the mind to a three dimensional focus. It orients you toward the environment in which you must operate, and it is because of the mind’s allegiance with the temporal brain that you perceive, for example, time as a series of moments.

The brain channels the information that the mind receives to your physical structure (the body) and because of this, physically speaking and in life as you think of it, the mind is to a large extent dependent on the brain’s growth and activity.

The brain is a camouflage pattern. It takes up space. It exists in time. The mind takes up no space, it does not have its basic existence in time. The reality of the inner universe does not take up space, nor does it have its basic existence in time.

Your camouflage universe, on the other hand, takes up space and has an
existence in time, but it is not the real and basic universe, any more than the brain is the mind.