What is the mind ? Where is the mind located ?
We are beginning to understand the working of the brain and how it reacts to external stimulus.
Parts of the brain are mapped as the receptor of certain specific stimulus and we partly understand the chemical reactions stimulated by the electrical influence which its self is stimulated by internal and external events. But where is the mind in all this, where and how do thoughts and reasoning come about. Is the mind captive in the brain or is it like the 'cloud'is to our computer system these days, separate somewhere else.
As we interrogate our surroundings and the part we play in these surroundings including the people we know and sometimes love, does the mind have the capacity to see, and more importantly understand beyond the questions currently asked of it. Is the mind personal or does it exist externally to us. Does our willingness to ask questions and delve deeper into the minds comprehension, a comprehension born of the instinctive subliminal intake of data, only a part of which the brain assimilates as fact. Or is the mind something which exists on its own waiting to be interrogated. If we agree that the brain is limited in its cognitive ability where does that super cognitive ability which is evident in some people come from. The meditative speciality that certain people have and the effect it has on them comes from a settled mind, a mind at peace but never the less a mind which has learnt to focus, but does the focus become the totality of the mind or simply a pencil beam cutting down through the fog and the clamour of events that continue even as we meditate. Is the point of our existence to ignore our existence and establish a moment when all is still so that in that moment of supreme stillness we hear our life beating on its own for ever. Is that nirvana ?
Parts of the brain are mapped as the receptor of certain specific stimulus and we partly understand the chemical reactions stimulated by the electrical influence which its self is stimulated by internal and external events. But where is the mind in all this, where and how do thoughts and reasoning come about. Is the mind captive in the brain or is it like the 'cloud'is to our computer system these days, separate somewhere else.
As we interrogate our surroundings and the part we play in these surroundings including the people we know and sometimes love, does the mind have the capacity to see, and more importantly understand beyond the questions currently asked of it. Is the mind personal or does it exist externally to us. Does our willingness to ask questions and delve deeper into the minds comprehension, a comprehension born of the instinctive subliminal intake of data, only a part of which the brain assimilates as fact. Or is the mind something which exists on its own waiting to be interrogated. If we agree that the brain is limited in its cognitive ability where does that super cognitive ability which is evident in some people come from. The meditative speciality that certain people have and the effect it has on them comes from a settled mind, a mind at peace but never the less a mind which has learnt to focus, but does the focus become the totality of the mind or simply a pencil beam cutting down through the fog and the clamour of events that continue even as we meditate. Is the point of our existence to ignore our existence and establish a moment when all is still so that in that moment of supreme stillness we hear our life beating on its own for ever. Is that nirvana ?
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