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Tagged > Brain
THREAD How does the mind display itself to us?
11 Posts • 2943 Views
Philosophy Forum
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. Howev...
THREAD God in ReligionUniverse : design or necessity?
63 Posts • 14480 Views
Religion Forum
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...
THREAD Free Will
60 Posts • 14961 Views
Philosophy Forum
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...
THREAD Life & DeathWhat is the soul?
194 Posts • 41743 Views
Philosophy Forum
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...
THREAD Reality & MetaphysicsQuestioning Reality: Are we for "Real"?
118 Posts • 36325 Views
Philosophy Forum
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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 48yrs • F
There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
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 31yrs • M
cheez is to takos like you is to me
THREAD PoetryThe poems that we read
17 Posts • 15146 Views
Stories & Poetry Forum
Pier Giorgio Di Cicco (1949-) Brain Litany: Or, Overlooking the Existential Factor *"Can it be that any man has the skill to fabricate himself?" -- St. Augustine The brain is a ne...
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 35yrs • F
If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't. -Emerson M. Pugh
THREAD Life & DeathAFTER DEATH
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Philosophy Forum
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...
THREAD Mental Remote Control or Mental Compensation
4 Posts • 2272 Views
Philosophy Forum
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...
THREAD Is the Brain Really Big Enough?
15 Posts • 3407 Views
Philosophy Forum
*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. Part...
THREAD Mental IllnessAre insane people really insane
23 Posts • 9837 Views
Psychology Forum
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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 39yrs • M
Please dont say i'm crazy, i've tickled all your sences in a second.
THREAD Free Will
60 Posts • 14961 Views
Philosophy Forum
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"...
THREAD Life & DeathIf your a clone do you have a soul?
41 Posts • 19156 Views
Philosophy Forum
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...
THREAD Conscious and Sub-ConsciousConsciousness is just the tip of the iceberg
24 Posts • 12733 Views
Psychology Forum
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...
THREAD Conscious and Sub-ConsciousConsciousness is just the tip of the iceberg
24 Posts • 12733 Views
Psychology Forum
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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 37yrs • M
"I mite not change the word but i guarantee i will spark the brain that will change the world"
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 69yrs • F
But where are all the pirates?
THREAD Free Will
60 Posts • 14961 Views
Philosophy Forum
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...
THREAD Mental Remote Control or Mental Compensation
4 Posts • 2272 Views
Philosophy Forum
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...
THREAD Speed Of Time
64 Posts • 16760 Views
Philosophy Forum
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...
THREAD Free Will
60 Posts • 14961 Views
Philosophy Forum
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....
THREAD How does the mind display itself to us?
11 Posts • 2943 Views
Philosophy Forum
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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