Just like the chicken v. egg question, what influences change first the physical or the mental?

Question

you can apply this any ways you want...(biology, politics/ethics, etc...)

Answer 1

Neither come first... It is truly beginningless when thought about logically.. It is more a choice of perception, one thinks one, one thinks another... mental and physical are linked together so well, there's no beginning for either, just continuation and constant transition.. You can say one came first, but it implies that it is the beginning, and since something cannot arise out of nothing, then this idea is debunked..

Simply speaking, there is no beginning or end, just transition and change within particles and atoms, in both the form and formless realms(mental and physical). Cheers!

Answer 2

One description of life is as follows:
a 3 part system:

1. the rigid structure (spine, physical body)
it's state is easily thrown out-of-equilibrium.

2. The nervous system (feelings, senses)
it's function is to detect changes in environment or
outside forces impacting the first system.

3. The muscular system (brain, muscles)
Its function is to correct the equilibrium of the first system
based on input data from the second system

In this system which theoretically is all that is needed to be considered life as we know it, the influence for change is a product of the physical needs and the mental enacts that change (or in this case to not change)

Motive to change: needs, pain, drives:
all physical in origin

impetus to change: logical choice of action, resolution: mental origin

Enactment of change, muscular action, directed or focused thought, will is enforced: Physical in origin

I'm not sure if this helps but your question implies a living being and if so maybe seeing it as a three part process is more accurate. Though it doesn't parallel the chicken/egg metaphor.

Answer 3

think the question both chicken and egg are physical products there is nothing different as they are having some physical nature. but ur question is something about subtle matter. very easily from the life u could understand subtle matters allow any to visible or group. ifluence change takes place as a circle arise in water while put stone in the way the change arise in mind as it is the subtle to make the physical

Answer 4

All things are mental.