All the things that we know of - people, trees, animals, planets, universe are made up of atoms. If so, how can these atoms arranged in a specific way (brain) make us think? Does that mean machines can think too(since they are also made of atom)?Are thoughts originating from matter or is matter a result of thoughts?
2006-09-15 11:15:40 · 10 answers · asked by ssss 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
So what happens when we are asleep?when we are dreaming?Doesn't thoughts(mind) give rise to people, places in the dream? We can never know we are in a dream unless we wake up
2006-09-15 11:29:06 · update #1
Yes to your first and second questions, no to the third, and matter is not made by thought, but it's not really the other way around either.
Thoughts are the movement of electrochemical impulses in your brain and your brain is the organic mechanism that is specifically capable of regulating, organizing and containing this type of system. Other mechanisms don't work the same way and do not produce the effect we know as thinking.
But all things that have the quality of being living things are on some rudimentary level capable of choosing, perhaps not always in a way that we would consider "free" but living things do make fundamental, chemical choices. And that is what develops into the structure we call the brain.
Good enough?
2006-09-15 11:30:38 · answer #1 · answered by anyone 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the thoughts that come from the living human brain are throughts that originate as matter.
A brain that hasn't formed yet from a zygote doesn't think. Once the electrical activity in the brain ceases for a few minutes, it cannot be restrarted. The living brain with its "beta" waves originates thoughts.a
Computers won't be able to do this for another 50 to 100 years, if ever.
Thoughts originate from matter. Matter does not materialize and crystalize as a result of thought -- the universe did not appear as the result of an idea.
2006-09-15 18:25:14 · answer #2 · answered by urbancoyote 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thought is basically processing information, since information can be manipulated by matter then anything that has matter and information to process can think. But energy is also required to move the information around and sometime information is made of energy like in computers.
2006-09-15 19:11:46 · answer #3 · answered by jetthrustpy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fireball2, there is no god.
I susect that as our understanding of the mind increase we may be able to create real intelligence in a machine.
At this time we are not real sure how the mind is aware and intelligent.
2006-09-15 18:20:11 · answer #4 · answered by Mere Mortal 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Brain is matter. Thoughs originate from there. Machines can "think" but they are useless in the common sense department.
2006-09-15 18:18:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't see how an untangible such as thought could produce matter. Thought seems more a product of highly evolved matter.
2006-09-15 18:19:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is a very difficult philosophical question. Nobody knows the answer. I puzzle over it a lot, and I can't think of a way we could ever answer it.
2006-09-15 18:21:21 · answer #7 · answered by rainfingers 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The non existent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired." -Nikos Kazantzakis
2006-09-15 18:31:32 · answer #8 · answered by JenM 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dont mind so it dont matter
2006-09-15 18:19:52 · answer #9 · answered by Apeman 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no human spirit has intelligence from God. Animals dont
2006-09-15 18:17:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋