"Know Thyself"
A person can introspect about his or her own thoughts but cannot with 100% accuracy know the state of mind of another person. Why is this? What exactly separates two minds from being one and the same?
2007-09-09 22:29:06 · 11 answers · asked by Aken 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Two minds can never be the same because of their distinct memory banks in terms of experience, judgments, values, attitudes, inclinations, emotions, imagination etc., which over a period of time develop into demarcating lines. Since even twins brought up around the same environment seem to have distinct minds, it is also ample proof that there is a genetic influence of distinction to start with which keeps widening into more and more diversity with passage of time and cumulation of experience in the same way as 1 degree difference in direction of a rocket launches the satellite into two absolutely different directions in space.
2007-09-09 22:48:11 · answer #1 · answered by small 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Our persona, character. Our own intelligence, our own views about life - realistic, pessimistic or optimistic. Our own moral system - Good or Bad.
And many more things that define Particularity.
But all depends on the person. Some cannot introspect about his/her own thought with 100% aaccuracy either. Some do some do not (Intelligence, Emotions, etc.)
Some are introverted, some extroverted - this can help on knowing your own or other`s state of mind. - Personality.
There is the conscious and the subconscious of a person as well, that makes us different. His life, history.
So this is what separates two minds - PARTICULARITY, OWN PERSONA.
2007-09-09 23:49:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The main reason is the capacity of perception. We have a certain conception of our sphere, which we inhabit by our consciousness. Once we break this up we can actually know thoughts and feelings, the state of mind of the other person. But this does not happen on an analytical level, nor on a level, where one wants to achieve power over another person. It is only possible by a profound identification with the other and a sharp, precise intuition. This is not arbitrary at all. It is very genuine. Nevertheless, to do that you need a capacity to give up a fixed frame for your self awareness. Try it, it works, if you stay humble and at service to others.
2007-09-09 22:56:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Definitely true because the mind of another person is perfectly different from the other. Each mind has its own consciousness and very individualistic by itself. With regards to the two minds, actually there is only one however, this is separated by the right and left hemispheres in our cerebrum. That's why we have the so-called right and left brain personalities. All the things that holds are cognitive mind are divided by these two separate functionaries. In other words, to each his own.
2007-09-09 22:57:21 · answer #4 · answered by Third P 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I believe they are two separate entities in one. The heart controls the mind spiritually. The body houses them. The mind can die but, if the heart stops pumping, it's to your demise. I truly believe it is the Spirit of the soul that lives on eternally. It is present before conception, is incarnated into a body, and leaves the body following death. Peace and Blessings
2016-04-03 23:59:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hiya..
It is possible to 'step into' the mind of another but as you correctly point out we cannot do this fully.
The mind is part of our conciousness although our full conciousness embraces all our bodies ..mental emotional physical and spiritual.
We are each unique..from conception which carries pattern.. we are subject to influence..
We find as child perspective ....our own uniqueness emerges and becomes more and more evident as we grow.
We are fully diverse..in this is our richness..and also our complexity...our minds are our own and our wholeness the same...and for this we are surely blessed.
We are each unique..and in this lies the answer to the question.
2007-09-09 22:39:29 · answer #6 · answered by LenL 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The level of 'Reasoning power' plays an important role to separate two minds.
2007-09-09 22:36:08 · answer #7 · answered by MAMATA M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are all connected to the ever present energy that surrounds us all, call it god, call it Nature call it the the everything call it the matrix for all I care. Our minds are simply a part of the connection. This connection is like a thread, and although our "threads" may over lap and tangle up with one another, they only truly connect at the source of all existence. My theory is that the centre of all existence is dead bang in the middle of a meta universe.
2007-09-09 22:41:43 · answer #8 · answered by SJ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
like your question!!!!!!!
i dont really know. lol
hmmmmm we have bodies so its like what separates two bodies...
sooo.....
what if we're not totally separated! what if your mind and my mind are the same only we dont think the exact same things?
maybe thats what makes the world go round and we are all connected so a death of one person would matter and would affect the whole world.
hahah i dont know. im still thinking. heheh ^_^
2007-09-09 22:47:38 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Skulls?
2007-09-09 22:32:09 · answer #10 · answered by Phoenix Quill 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋