The brain is a machine. It stores memories. It performs nonconscious operations such as heartbeat rate, creation of vision and color, etc... Most of what the brain and body does does not require any "knowledge" or awareness. They are operations that are done without our awareness like the digestive system. We have no control over these operations.
IF we are not the machine, who are we? Who is the witness, who is the experiencer?
2007-01-06 22:21:31 · 9 answers · asked by sfumato1002 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The brain has many processes, some of which we are aware of and some of which we aren't. We call that process the mind. We call that part of the mind that we are not aware of the subconscious or autonomic functions.
The brain has full control over these operations. It also has full control over how the world is presented to us. We don't experience the world directly. The brain takes in information from all of our senses and creates a model of the world, which is what we interact with. That's why the brain can so easily fool us at times. It just has to tweak that model, and that is our reality. When we dream, we are not seeing with our eyes, though the world the brain presents to us isn't any less real, even though it is bits of memory strewn together.
So, we are the machine. The mind, which is just the processes of the brain, is the witnesser and experiencer.
2007-01-06 22:25:27 · answer #1 · answered by nondescript 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you say that, if you mean our mind might do all the work, but who has all the emotion, I believe i have a answer. First of all you need to ask yourself, "Why do I love someone?" You love someone either cause they care for you, they love you, they would do things for you, and other stuff. In other words you love someone cause they pretty much do things for you. Now how would your body feel if it lost something like that? Bad, because it doesn't have anyone or anything there for it. All our feelings are based of the things that go on around us. In a way it is part of the machine. The best term i can find for this topic is, desires of the flesh, often used by Christians. Emotion is just another feeling we get like we do pain, or a ticklish feeling. If you are asking how do we have a attitude or how are we who we are, i have another answer. First i will tell you a story of what happened quite recently. A women that lived in Florida had a cat that she loved because of its attitude. The way it treated her and loved her but one day it died and she became very depressed so she decided she wanted another cat just like it at any price so she got some DNA from he dead cat and had it cloned for a lot of money. So the cat grew up and looked just like the other cat but something was wrong, it didn't act the same so the lady got furious about the situation. My point to this story is that your attitude isn't based off of your body when you are first born, but the things you deal with life. You can have identical twins with completely different personalities. It is what your life has gone through. You know how there are a lot of people with stage freight? Well what will a person that has been trained all of his or her life to be in front of people do once they grow up? Will they be frightful of big groups? I think not unless some mental disability is involved. What I'm trying to get at is that every body acts differently based on what it thinks is best based on experience. So in a way our experience r is the machine.
2007-01-06 22:40:16 · answer #2 · answered by Ugly Duckling 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-01 23:04:54 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are far too many variables to consider to lump all of them into an either/or. The bland and strictly mundane is only part of the equation.
2007-01-06 22:27:35 · answer #4 · answered by Invisible_Flags 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ultimately it's the spirit. In between the spirit and the brain is the soul.
2007-01-06 22:59:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How can we see inside a dark skull? The human spirit is also a place, is it light in your place, or dark?
2007-01-06 22:31:45 · answer #6 · answered by spir_i_tual 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dude! You're making my brain hurt!
2007-01-06 22:27:34 · answer #7 · answered by Voodoid 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Casper!
2007-01-06 22:26:41 · answer #8 · answered by Barabas 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sting.
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2007-01-06 22:26:05 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋