Then comes your emotional being, which allows you to feel emotion, empathy, and sympathy, allowing for the transcending of social life
Some may call it identity, others may call it your inner being. — Anonymys
Thank you again.Then comes your emotional being, which informs and helps shape your emotions, empathy, and sympathy, allowing for the development of social life — Anonymys
Your physical being can be welled down to one organ: your brain, which on its own can store over eight libraries of congress worth of information. It also allows you to enjoy the tastes, smells, sights, sounds and feelings of food and sex (intimacy) . — Anonymys
are you saying that we are made up of all that is around us? Or that there is another dimention in which are realities lie? For instance, in your exlpanation of a TV, there is a central database where the information is sent to your TV. In the case of the brain, what is the database that is sending our vast emotional "programming"?The source is the thousands of creative minds that produce the programming. — Rich
When I stated " Some may call it identity, others may call it your inner being." I was simply saying that your identity is something that is there when others are not, who you truely are, or, your inner self. Not just how you appear to be. — Anonymys
In what way does my statement above remind you of interiority concept? From what I've read, his concept revolves around transcending the rational world and entering a divine one. Maybe I'm reading the wrong book, but that's what I'm getting so far. — Anonymys
And if there is interiority, then that is where consciousness resides. You can’t see it, but it’s real. — WISDOMfromPO-MO
For example, you and I are attempting to reach mutual understanding right now. And we say, aha, I understand what you’re saying. But you can’t point to that understanding. Where does it exist? — WISDOMfromPO-MO
And if there is interiority, then that is where consciousness resides. You can’t see it, but it’s real. — WISDOMfromPO-MO
Not only invisible, but it's completely unnecessary (and therefore unparsimonious) for explaining our experience.
Real? So you imagine....and overactive imagination is what we're talking about here.
For example, you and I are attempting to reach mutual understanding right now. And we say, aha, I understand what you’re saying. But you can’t point to that understanding. Where does it exist? — WISDOMfromPO-MO
In your imagination, if you're referring to some imaginary Mind entity separate from the body.
The animal is unitary, and needn't be unparsimoniously divided into body and mind. — Michael Ossipoff
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