Originally posted by mikelomHow about a pink elephant sitting on a chair?
Right! That's it! I'm alerting you for making me think of a pink elephant! 🙁
Whilst I'm guilty of this myself, I'd like to know how so many people can make so many definitive statements in this thread about what the mind is and isn't capable of? Most psychologists agree that there is still vast amounts of knowledge that we need to acquire before we can grasp the complexities of the old gray matter, yet some people on here seem to know something we don't!?
Originally posted by StarrmanWrong. You shallow "firecracker" of an answer in fact isn't even worthy of comment, you are over/under-defining consciousness for starters. No one knows how the human brain works, especially the cerebral cortex, your electrical impulse mish-mosh analogy misses the mark.
It is neither absurd, nor pointless. Believing there is anything out there beyond the ether of consciousness is looking through rose-coloured glass. There's no evidence for it being any different from a dream state.
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Originally posted by eldragonflyLol, first of all, we may not know everything, but we know a long way from nothing about the brain, secondly what you're talking about isn't the brain it's the notion of Mind as some reified entity, and thirdly you're just replacing the unknown with an utterly unsupportable notion.
Wrong. You shallow "firecracker" of an answer in fact isn't even worthy of comment, you are over/under-defining consciousness for starters. No one knows how the human brain works, especially the cerebral cortex, your electrical impulse mish-mosh analogy misses the mark.
My answer is about as shallow as yours is grounded in the real. Way to go!
Now take it to debates, spanky.
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Originally posted by Bosse de NageI guess as a synonym for 'consciousness' it works, how useful it is, I'm not sure. I tend towards trying to fnd the right word with the right definition, if I can. I'm not sure there's a concept that 'mind' could be applied to that isn't better explained by another word. You?
You're a genius / idiot.
What for you is a useful definition of 'mind'?
Originally posted by StarrmanSo the subconscious is not part of the mind? 😕
I guess as a synonym for 'consciousness' it works, how useful it is, I'm not sure. I tend towards trying to fnd the right word with the right definition, if I can. I'm not sure there's a concept that 'mind' could be applied to that isn't better explained by another word. You?
Originally posted by StarrmanThat which thinks, feels, wills, etc, is what I'd call 'mind'. I don't think merely being conscious is quite the same as thinking.
I guess as a synonym for 'consciousness' it works, how useful it is, I'm not sure. I tend towards trying to fnd the right word with the right definition, if I can. I'm not sure there's a concept that 'mind' could be applied to that isn't better explained by another word. You?
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Originally posted by PalynkaThat depends on how you define mind. If you're just saying the place where conscious and subconscious exist it's no different from brain. I was trying (perhaps unrealistically) to ascertain what differs mind from brain.
So the subconscious is not part of the mind? 😕