it puts a limit on human potential. I wonder what would happen if someone could escape their consicous state...
2007-04-21 22:05:17 · 12 answers · asked by dale u 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Your statement is an easily recognized tautology. It would still be a tautology even if you had omitted the telltale "merely". Here's why. We could reverse the order of your terms and the statement neither loses nor gains clarity:
*Mind is merely a state of consciousness.
Basic syntax will not suffice for the terminology you have chosen. One can theorize about the relation of the terms and then write a treatise, exposing the reasoning in more detail, but if the sum total of the treatise results in a more elaborate tautology, nothing at all is gained.
Avoiding the very serious task of examining one's own ignorance very often results in absurdity..."atoms...empty spaces...ghostly images," ect. To contribute knowingly to the ignorance is to cause its proliferation. This is just flat wrong, so you'll get no Love and Blessings, stars, thumbs up, or smily faces from Vonhiggins : - ( .
2007-04-22 04:57:31 · answer #1 · answered by Baron VonHiggins 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can just by recognizing that consciousness is all that there really is.
This is more easily understandable if one considers the actual scale of the components of an atom. If one takes into account the fact that the neutrons, protons and electrons of an atom actually have huge spaces between them it becomes clear that the atoms that make up seemingly solid objects are made up of 99+ percent empty space.
This alone does not seem too important till you add the idea that the atoms that make up seemingly solid objects are more of a loose conglomeration that share a similar attraction but never really touch each other.
At first glance this does not really seem relevant, but closer analysis reveals that this adds a tremendous amount of empty space to solid objects that are already made up of atoms that are 99 percent space. When so-called solid objects are seen in this light it becomes apparent that they can in no way be the seemingly solid objects they appear to be.
We ourselves are not exceptions to this phenomenon.
These seemingly solid objects are more like ghostly images that we interpret as solid objects based on our perceptual conclusions.
From this we must conclude that Perception is some sort of a trick that helps us to take these ghostly images and turn them into a world we can associate and interact with. This clever device seems to be a creation of our intellect that enables us to interact with each other in what appears to be a three dimensional reality.
I hope that helps to answered your question.
Love and blessings Don
2007-04-22 01:46:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
consciousness is merely a state of mind - yes
it puts a limit on human potential -sometimes as our unconscious plays imp role in problem solving
would happen if someone could escape their conscious state...--------we do it all the time during sleep,dreams ,meditation(pt improves our thought process)
2007-04-21 22:24:06 · answer #3 · answered by mit 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Consciousness is the mind. Without consciousness there is nothing. That which puts a limit on human potential is your self.
2007-04-21 22:07:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
consciousness is merely the awareness of topic by the senses in the platform of the mental plain.
Consciousness is one of the state of mind in which you are aware of the things that are going around you through your senses that which is focused.
consciousness is also the state of mind when all the senses are surpassed in their external communication and directed to the internal sphere. Here it learns to deal with virtual images only, the sense of sight, hearing, touch and smell are imaginary, or electrical impulses.
consciousness is also experienced beyond the state of mind as in dream and deep sleep. this state is called trance!!
consciousness is also experienced beyond the state of mind dream and deep sleep. here the mind deals with only pure energy and subtle electrical charges in all the sense organs, here there is no limitation of any kind.
2007-04-21 22:34:35 · answer #5 · answered by mr.kotiankar 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I actually don't like those philosophical questions very much, but still: It IS indeed a state of mind in the sense of the word that this is the MODE it is in when we are awake. It is certainly not a "state of mind" in the sense of being sane or in the sense of mood or attitude. But I reckon that is implied.
2007-04-21 22:12:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
disagree,
cosnciousness is the state of the mind as it perceives and becomes aware through senses.
It can happen, if you fall into a coma. People who have near-death experience can also answer this question.
For my experience(i don't know if to call it near-death) i fainted and fell unconscious, all I saw was bright, light and heard indistinct voices, coming from everywhere and I was calling myself and heard my own voice telling me to wake up.
2007-04-22 01:41:02 · answer #7 · answered by oscar c 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's what the subconscious is for.
For the record, consciousness IS a state of mind, it's not a case of agreeing or disagreeing... it simply IS.
2007-04-21 22:07:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
All things are a state of mind.
2007-04-23 17:03:05 · answer #9 · answered by Answerer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do believe if someone could escape their conscience state? It would be in a dead coma.
2007-04-22 00:13:29 · answer #10 · answered by saberchick 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋