And also explain me the auto-reflective properties of the mind. And also: Does mind dies with the death of the body???
2006-06-09 10:54:02 · 6 answers · asked by Love Peace 3 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
If it is located in our body, it is in our brain.
Dr. Rupert Sheldrake has an interesting take on an "extended mind" though. Good page for it is here:
2006-06-09 11:40:06 · answer #1 · answered by diogenese19348 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Technically it is in the brain. The idea of the mind is used in many metophorical ways. For example, I think with my heart. Well actually I think with my brain and use the right side of my brain to come to those conclusions or execute certain actions that make women melt. In this example we use the heart because the heart is one of the organs that keeps us alive. It pumps live giving fluid through our bodies, and when, for exmple, a certain girl broke up with me I could actually feel my heart hurting. Sometimes love can be so intense that we think we will die because that person has gone (one way or another). There have been many cases of married people who when their spouse dies they actually will die soon after because they lose the will to live or they have a broken heart.
2006-06-09 18:36:37 · answer #2 · answered by vodka 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have absolutely no idea. And you neither.
A transplant may produce new memories to the transplanted. The heart can remember. If my brain gets damaged I stay in a bed. If it doesn't, I undertake a fabulous career as a bank robber or I attempt a nice fraud or I beat my wife.
Where's our mind? The body is made up by 99.9999% of empty spaces with tiny particles whirling around it. Astronauts hear symphonies in the cosmos. And we just haven't one damn clue.
2006-06-09 19:52:15 · answer #3 · answered by Alberto . 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the mind is a product, a result of.....our thought process whos mechanism is the working brain.
we are encoded with innate reflects like "fight and flight", need to quench a thirst, need to respond to a sensation of hunger.....to physically survive as a species.
2006-06-09 18:11:17 · answer #4 · answered by mjohn28497@sbcglobal.net 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The mind is in the brain and when you die so does the mind.
2006-06-09 17:59:03 · answer #5 · answered by songbird 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In our hearts. Thats all I have to say.
2006-06-09 18:01:23 · answer #6 · answered by silhouette 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋