I'm interested in answers from all backgrounds: science, philosophy, psychology, medicine, religion, etc. No answers just for kicks or points, please.
2006-08-19 16:39:19 · 15 answers · asked by Archetypal 3 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Your body is physical and your MND is not. Your MIND is a subtle body of energy simultaneously existing with your Soul at your Core, and with your body and brain. These three realms make up the human being.
Today only individuals with a natural access to the Esoteric realms within them are inclined to study the MIND and Spiritual realms of Man. The reason is largely due to B.F.Skinner, a behavioral scientist who was quite ignorant of the Esoteric realms in Man, and some of his colleagues presenting behaviorism [which was a projected physical plane replica of the some of the processes of the Defense Mechanism of the MIND.
That is, their own MINDs, unknown to them, put forth the idea that neither the MIND nor consciousness were necessary to study to understand Man. They believed this was a "new" idea..... it was then, and is now simply the way the MIND, using its Defense Mechanism, prevents people from discovering the MIND within themselves. I refer to what caused them to believe what they believed as Clinical_Denial, which is a number of processes of ones MIND that prevents one from doing other than what ones MIND wants one to do... for its own purposes.
To understand ones MIND takes special training, and lots of work within realms of energy that are naturally fearful to Man. So, the typical individuals MIND will automatically initiate its process of Clinical_Denial so that this person will "think" that he/she is pursuing the study of his/her MIND.... when what is happening is that this person is in Clinical_Denial of the fact that he/she is being kept from such discovery by his/her MIND. Unfortunately, there is no way to convey to such a person the reality of his/her Clinical_Denial,...until and unless the person is "ready" to begin discovering his/her MIND.... and is being facilitated in doing so by someone who has already done so.
About 95% of all practitioners in mental health and psychology today have no idea what the MIND is, nor how to go about discovering the MIND realm within themselves... and their Clinical_Denial regarding this ignorance will convince them that they already know what they need to know.
2006-08-19 18:17:45 · answer #1 · answered by docjp 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Two of the major constants in our lives is that we have a mind and a body. What are the mind and body? Are they connected or are they separate? These are questions that have been asked by many a man and philosopher. Descartes was one philosopher who tried to tackle this mind body problem. He believed they are separate substances and his stance is called dualism. I will attempt an analysis of his belief of dualism and give some of the arguments of philosophers like Shaffer, Spinoza and Broad.
In Descartes sixth meditation from Meditations on First Philosophy, he states his belief on the mind body issue. Descartes believed that the mind and body were separate substances. The notion of a substance to Descartes, was that which can exist independently of anything else. He believed that there is only one infinite substance which is god, but the mind and body are finite substances. Descartes believed that finite substances needed only God to exist. These two finite substances were the corporeal substance (the body) and the thinking substance (the mind).
Descartes also stated that we all know that the body is observable and measurable. The mind on the other hand is not directly observable other than the person who owns it. Also, since the body is extended in three dimensional space, it can be divided into specific parts, the mind however does not occupy space and cannot be divided. The nature of the body according to Descartes was that, unlike the mind it was divisible.
"There is a great difference between mind and body, inasmuch as body is by nature always divisible, and the mind is entirely indivisible."1
2006-08-19 16:45:09 · answer #2 · answered by Baby Jack born 4/5/09 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Not to me. They must work in harmony so a person will be in peace and be able to achieve what is possible . If your mind is awesome and your weight becomes 700 lbs. and you have failing organs- you cannot do what your mind has thought of before. Your mind would get suggish and stop working ahead of anything except getting your next food, how to go potty, and who can I con to get a Big Mac!If your body is in superb condition and your mind is lax or uninspired,damaged,etc. then you cannot accomplish as much. I am a 54 yr old white woman from a small town in Texas, B.S.,Eng. & coun/guid double major,past teacher,mom of 3,gramby of 7,4th child of 4 living(3 infants died and a set of twins died before term. was the last to make it )
2006-08-19 16:53:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
From a religious point of view:
Catholics believe that once you die, your soul leaves your physical body and either goes to Hell, Purgatory or Heaven.
Lutheran's believe that if you've lived a "good" (giving back to the Church, etc) Life, your soul goes to Hell or Heaven.
I've been baptized in both Churches and I would have to say they are seperate- simply because when my Dad's body had shut down- his brain was still active. He squezzed fingers, could breathe on his own w/o the Ventilator & "hung on" until 7/31/01 when his brain said, "Enough!".
I'm interested in the answers as well!
2006-08-19 17:00:11 · answer #4 · answered by psu_330 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That, which is you, is separate from that body that you are using!
Fact, cut off the bodies arms and legs, the you remains. Have a heart replacement, you remain.
When YOU leave this place, the body remains.
Where were you before you came here?
2006-08-19 16:57:49 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
there's a chop up in this. The idealist states the innovations is cut loose the physique. it rather is termed the substantial view of the innovations. Materialists, on the different hand, have self assurance that the innovations is a handy fiction for purposes of dialogue via fact the "innovations" is in basic terms a approach of the same old frightened equipment and the rather some endocrine equipment. thoughts for the idealist originate interior the spirit at the same time as the materialist says that it is the end results of the endocrines on the same old frightened equipment. presently the materialist view is attaining attractiveness via CAT and MRI scans of the innovations in action.
2016-09-29 11:21:18 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are, of course, two discrete systems, but the mind is no use without the body (Star Trek situations excluded) and the body can't work without the mind, so in the sense that they are interdependent, they are not truly separate.
2006-08-19 16:45:44 · answer #7 · answered by old lady 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No matter what background the answer is no, the mind and body are not separate.
2006-08-19 16:49:37 · answer #8 · answered by Goldenrain 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I cant really know but consider this:
Can the body live actually without the mind?
Can the mind work without a body to live in?
Maybe they're separate but they cant work separetely!
2006-08-20 15:14:27 · answer #9 · answered by Rose 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No, it's a package deal. Your mind could be thinking all day and if your body didn't cooperate, you wouldn't get far.
2006-08-19 16:52:29 · answer #10 · answered by butrcupps 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋