What is the mind made of?

Question

What makes the mind? Quarks? Leptons? When we think we crate an energy, what is that energy made of?

I should say that i am doing a Quantum and Astro Philosophy course and this is one the questions that has come up. My person opinion is that consiousness is all around, and we drift through it .. Its is like air and all of our experiences, knowledge feelings then interperate it expelling an energy to give back to the consiousness.
(Its been a long week)
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Answer 1

We don't know. Conciousness is a very contreversal subject. But oh, how it inspires.

Answer 2

Brains are made up of neurons and different stuff, minds are no longer actual issues and consequently are no longer made up of count, darkish or in any different case. The be conscious 'ideas' is used to communicate with a element interior a similar way through fact the be conscious 'throw' is used to communicate with a element interior the sentence that exchange into an outstanding throw. what's the 'throw' made up of? what's the 'capture' made up of? we frequently make products out of tactics, or the effects of tactics, as we hit upon it greater handy to think of roughly issues than sequence of interrelated activities. 'ideas' is the collective term for a set of colleges (reasoning, concept) through technique it particularly is happening while a human ideas is functioning. If it exchange right into a actual merchandise created from stuff then it may desire to occupy actual area and it may work together with the actual international - yet we've already got a be conscious for that - the ideas.

Answer 3

The mind is an emergent property of matter. Just as magnetism is only noticeable when the right arrangement of matter turns up, so is consciousness. Magnetism exists on the level of subatomic particles and so does mind. Just as rare earth magnets and iron magnets both manifest magnetism, so can different arrangements of matter. When a collection of matter behaves internally in a way which can be described by means of interacting probabilistic automata, it will be conscious. The best corroborated example of this appears to be within the human body, probably largely involving the central nervous system but possibly also the enteric nervous and endocrine systems. However, it is possible that it would occur in artificial intelligence or another living system, such as a colony of organisms or a hydraulic system like an echinoderm water vascular system.

Answer 4

Nobody knows. The current paradigm is that the mind is like a computer with the brain being the hardware that the software runs on. However, no one has conclusively reduced the mind to the brain. Some notable thinkers don't think that anyone will.

I'd say that it's very likely that the mind depends on the brain, even if I can't say that the mind IS the brain.

Answer 5

Learn Computer Science. then learn about Neural Networks in an Artificial Intelligence class. Takes about a year or three to learn all this.
the mind quickly looses it's mystery. But watch out, you may become an atheist on the way -- as you learn that the same brain structure that enables learning and self-awareness has a side effect: superstition! But if you knew what i know about AI and neural nets, you'd post your question in Physics or Computer Science instead of Phylosophy!

Answer 6

Note that there are many ways to look at what mind is.
My idea of mind is derived from my physicalist belief because I think physicalism is the most plausible doctrine.

I will go through some different ways to look at what mind is.

1. Dualism
Rene Descartes provides the classical statement of dualism.
Starting with the experience of his own mental existence, Descartes asks whether the idea of his mental existence is indistinguishable from the idea of his body. His answer is that it is not, concluding that the idea or essence of mind is different from the idea of body. Since two things that correspond to different ideas cannot be identical, the mind must be different from the body.

2. Idealism
George Berkeley argued that a thorough empiricist will be led to adopt idealism. According to Berkeley, if all our knowledge comes to us through sense impressions, then we can never have knowledge of material substance it self. We may posit material substance as the cause of these impressions, but there is no direct evidence for such such substance and positing such substance may lead us into contradiction. His conclusion is that there are only minds and sense impressions.

3. Logical behaviourism
Gilbert Ryle, who is a logical behaviorist, provides an influential criticism of dualism. According to Ryle, duelists are guilty of a category mistake. For example, it is perfectly legitimate to about the individual members of a football team, but it would surely be a blunder to think that the team is something that exists in addition to the members of the team. For example, if someone were introduced to the members of the team and then exclaimed "Now I'd like to meet the team,
" we would say that the person was fundamentally confused. Talk of the team is really just talk of the members of the team at a certain level of abstraction. Likewise, according to Ryle, we can talk about mental states (like pain) and we can talk of certain behaviors (like holding damaged body parts and moaning), but it would be a mistake to suppose that the mental state of pain exists in addition to some relevant class of behavior.

4. Materialsim / Physicalism
Noam Chomsky sketches a radical approach to materialism. According to Chomsky, the notion of body is itself subject to revision by the sciences. For example, the concept of body employed by Descartes was soon superseded by the Newtonian notion of body, and research in particle physics during the last century has continually revised our understanding of the nature of physical bodies. This being the case, Chomsky argues that the very notion of the mind/ body problem is ill defined. It is ill defined because we have no clear conception of what the body is. Moreover, he suggests that if our understanding of mental phenomena seems incompatible with our understanding of the physical body, then our understanding of the physical body will have to change to accommodate the mental. Our ultimate understanding of body will be shaped by (among other things) our theories of the mental.

Answer 7

The 'mind' is a symbolic idea used to represent the natural processes of stimulus and response occurring in the brain. Human beings have taken it one step further by isolating themselves from nature and creating imaginary beings called 'self'. These imaginary beings are the collected memories of sensory experiences and preferences used to filter the world around and separate the being from the doing.

There isn't any 'mind' any more than there is 'soul' or 'you' but you were told to build this and shown how to do so through 'self esteem' conditioning. All misery is the result of your habit of separating your 'self' from everyone and everything around it. 'You' are the result of 'your' own isolation. This is 'mind'.

Answer 8

I tend to think its to do iwth electrical energy created from the neurons and neurotransmitters in the brain. Sparks of energy creating thought... but that's just my opinion!

Answer 9

mind made of thing that made people feel sad lonely all the feeling u think off if u can work ur mind well u can faced any thing i did and now i am total coxie **** at school who does sputid things
mind its there for to know what is right and wrong to feel sad when bad things happens and if ur asking what the mind really is it a place where toughts live
i really rite crap to piss peple off
later dudes

Answer 10

Brain Cells!

Answer 11

I'm don't know about the physiology of mind, but i would be interested to know what is found out at this level.

From what I know the smallest particles physicists start to uncover are in the shape of a spiral or vortex. This is how I understand intelligent energy which gets represented physically as consciousness. It's like every object of life, has a unique spiral of energy that is being held in a form. The form is observable and by observing it, we find out about the cause underneath, the energy that created the form.

The mind is possible because of how human brains are constructed. Basically, one picks up vibrations of energy from the outside of us - exterior input - via various sensory organs: sight, hearing, touch, smell, etc. and then this information travels along the sensory neurons to the middle of the brain. Here it triggers images which can be processed with the mind. So everything we can pick up with our senses from the outside world is reflected within. We have both external and internal: vision, hearing, smells, feelings, etc.

The internal images are processed in the brain by weilding of one's mind. Thinking is the 'innate you' using one's mind (capabilities of the brain to reflect), to process inputs received from the outside world. If you look close you will see you 'hear your thoughts', you 'hear yourself talking', what is happening is you are using your inner hearing and processing possibilities and conclusions regarding what you observed or what happened. One is talking to themselves, this phenomena makes it that 'thoughts' are visible. From this processing, you make a decision on how to respond to the stimuli. The thought energy formed as decision, then goes down from brain via motor neurons and builds energy charge in the body muscles to move it for action. RE: you think to move your arm to pick up a book. the decision you are aware of to pick up the book.

This detail shows the movement of different forms of energetic information and how it gets to the inside for processing and moved to the outside as your reaction.

The thing is that, the mind is not who we are, but rather a mechanism to reflect. When we hear ourselves thinking, then what we are seeing is not ourselves, but rather the reflection of ourselves. The illusion of many people is that they are the thinker, mainly because they can observe this. I think therefore I am - kind of mentality. While absorbed in thinking, one's innate awareness or true self is using one's energy to think. While engaged in thinking one is not aware, one's energy as pure awareness is diverted into the work and task of thinking.

Who we are is the energy behind the thinker and this is the intelligent energetic aspect, the mind and thinking is an intermediate go-between, a reflection, that can allow us to come to realize this aspect as ourselves. I don't believe science will ever be able to identify this aspect as an object, because it hides behind the object and is only made visible by the object. As source it's not manifest.

As source you think, which has the practical aspect to channel your energy of intention of what you want to do or create, and move it to the outside world through action. To answer your question:
This energy is made up of 'your intention', it is a part of yourself being moved from the inside to the outside through the chain of vibration through objects of sublter (thought) to more gross forms (emotion, feelings, action) to manifestation or movement of your body. Moving your body, you affect everything else and it causes a chain reaction, effecting all other objects' vibrations. And so it goes, on and on and on.

But I think eventually science and spirituality will eventually link together and between the outermost limits of discovery of both fields the source of creation will be known to be there - between the two fields of discovery.

Betsy












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