Mind is not essence. Mind is substance. Soul a spiritual thing–that cannot be located in this reality. Mind has location. It is within being. I can’t say that my mind exists apart from my flesh because I experience my mind within my flesh. Now, external stimuli exists apart from the mind, however, it is not my mind that projects itself upon such stimuli, it is rather the reception of such stimuli into the mind and its interpretation.
Do you think the definition of mind you’ve provided us is correct and adequate? If so, why?
Of course he is. Works in Tijuana as a Luchador wrestler on the weekends. During the week, he impersonates himself on the Las Vegas strip.
You don’t say! Is it also true that he and Pope Francis are long-lost fraternal twins, separated at birth?
Yep. According to conspiracy theorist websites, they came from the same pod on a planet in the EGS8p7 galaxy.You don’t say! Is it also true that he and Pope Francis are long-lost fraternal twins, separated at birth?
I think we are using different definitions. I already define Mind. What we experience is mental states which form inside our brains.
Accepting your definition why the act of experience is within your flesh considering the fact that it is soul that experience mind (soul doesn’t have any location)? How experience of mind is related to very specific soul? How our experiences do not mixed considering the fact that our souls do not have any location?
Accepting your definition external stimuli turned into mind through sensory system and brain.
I think we are using different definitions. Mind is soul in your definition. Mental state is mind in your definition.
Do you not believe that our minds are bounded to our bodies? I have never heard of anyone who can separate their mind and body.
Yes, they are separated. Mind is spiritual and body is physical.
If they came at the speed of light, they would be about fourteen billion years old. So, I doubt that theory very much. Not to derail the thread and to make this conversation relevant to the conversation, I would add if the pod were spiritual in nature, dimensionless, unbound by time and space, they could have appeared on earth instantaneously even if at different times, one twin destined for Popehood, the other for hip-wagging and slick hairddo’s. I really don’t have an opinion on the matter, but I can’t disprove the possibility that Elvis is on Tralfamador.
I’ll grant that the body is material, and the mind is more ethereal in that it’s still not completely understood. But a mind cannot exist without a body. Unless you’re God of course. A human mind exists only within a body.
Pope Francis has hinted as much, himself.If they came at the speed of light, they would be about fourteen billion years old. So, I doubt that theory very much. Not to derail the thread and to make this conversation relevant to the conversation, I would add if the pod were spiritual in nature, dimensionless, unbound by time and space, they could have appeared on earth instantaneously even if at different times, one twin destined for Popehood, the other for hip-wagging and slick hairddo’s. I really don’t have an opinion on the matter, but I can’t disprove the possibility that Elvis is on Tralfamador.
Not bad, not bad at all!
)I don’t think that’s right. But I didn’t ask for you to tell me how I myself define these things, anyway. I asked how you came up with your own definition, why you think it is correct, and why you think it is adequate or inadequate with respect to your dilemma.
I define Mind and mental state in this way because this is the minimal model to explain reality. Mind simply allows the experience. We know by fact that experience is local phenomena. So we are having a problem in our hand which is how experience could be local.