2007-09-28 13:44:39 · 5 answers · asked by wats2004 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Have you read Betrand Russell? He is claimed by America to be the only American philosopher; but he is claimed by other countries as well.
In his books, he tells the story that when he was a boy, his grandmother would tell him things. One day, he asked her, "What is matter?" She replied, "Never mind." He asked her, "What is mind?" and she replied, "Never matter". No wonder Russell was a bitter old man!
In the physical sense, the mind is a part of the body; thoughts are electrical impulses running through the mind.
But, in another sense, the mind is ethereal, man's connection with the spirit world and thoughts are his communication with those spirits.
2007-09-28 14:06:15 · answer #1 · answered by Nothingusefullearnedinschool 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, an person is more than a physical body. We have a soul as well. The mind can be referring to either the physical brain or the soul in control of it. In the same way, thought can be the electrical pulses in the brain or the soul controling them.
2007-09-28 13:50:00 · answer #2 · answered by Coachstoll 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
these generic questions have been asked and answered since the beginning of time. yes we are more than a physical body.
2007-09-29 07:51:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
a guy or woman is extra suitable than his actual physique by using fact there is somebody interior of our physique that governs our activities. ideas additionally purposes on the command of that needed element merely like our mouth, palms, and legs. ideas types out the advice and shops the advice even though it particularly is our awareness that analyzes the advice and makes the ideal determination approximately our action. frequently we circulate against our very own ideas and hear the middle. What makes us do this? there is likewise yet another element that like keeps shooting like a digital camera or how could we see our domicile in Bombay mutually as we are in manhattan? Our inner-self is as genuine as our outer self yet we are too linked to the outer self that we expect of of ourselves by using fact the actual physique yet we are so plenty extra suitable than that.
2016-12-14 03:15:26 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our bodies are puppets, our brains the center for all the strings, thoughts the strings themselves. Our soul controls these strings.
2007-09-28 17:01:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋