I wouldn't put to much emphasis on emotion myself, as it is a system within the vehicle of the body for the purposes of controlling behaviour, in a conditioned, or inherited and strategic way.You are referring to experience, and the essential element of experience is emotion, which I would agree can not be described with intellect at all - it must be experienced - suggesting emotion is a force rather then a concept. To feel the force / emotion of ones body is the only way of knowing it. This is the hard problem of consciousness.
One much identify the vehicles and their actions in this hosting and distinguish the spirit, or essence of being form the vehicle. — Punshhh
I wouldn't put to much emphasis on emotion myself, as it is a system within the vehicle of the body for the purposes of controlling behaviour, in a conditioned, or inherited and strategic way. — Punshhh
It looks like a pattern but it is not one. There's no horse in the clouds. — Olivier5
It's an illusion created by your perspective. — Olivier5
You have to assume there is a third state, and this would be immortality. — FrancisRay
Not unless you mistook it for a horse, which you didn't. — bongo fury
Who said I didn't? — Olivier5
What, you mean in some very fleeting way, for a small moment, in some small corner of your mind? — bongo fury
Its only dualism from a certain perspective, or in other words, where does one draw the line between monism and dualism. From where I'm looking it's monism.This would be a dualism, whereas I am a monist. Once the wave passes, so dose the pattern that formed it, I believe.
The organism of the body, so as to protect and nurture the body within a social colony. Before we developed larger brains and intelligence, emotion was more important in controlling behaviour.What is controlling what / who? What is the strategy?
I don't attribute such importance to DNA, as it is the source of the encoding of the structure of the body, rather than the control of the organism during its day to day life, or in experience. Therefore DNA is not involved the strategic, or social behaviour.In biology we are the vehicles of DNA,
Agreed. I see the biosphere as an organism, likewise humanity as an a organism. Organisms which are divided into seperate units, or individuals.We being nodes in a lineage of life.
I don't attribute such importance to DNA, — Punshhh
I can agree with that.When I say DNA, I really mean epigenetics, or cellular consciousness.
I agree that DNA plays an important day to day role in cellular life.DNA seems to be the custodian of this.
Yes, also individual cells likewise.You see the biosphere as the main organism, and humanity as one of its components?
Both questions are not answerable from our current position. I'm not saying the answers are beyond our understanding, but are not, perhaps within our area of knowledge. It's possible that someone has got a right answer, but how could this be verified? Also, there may be beings with us who know the answers but for some reason or circumstances are not telling us.What caused the biosphere ? How did it come to be?
Also, there may be beings with us who know the answers but for some reason or circumstances are not telling us. — Punshhh
I don't know, it's speculation. My point was that there may be beings in the biosphere with knowledge of this existence, while we are in ignorance.Do you mean beings living within us?
It's Theosophy which is derived from Hinduism. Some of it is my own thinking, I've lost track of where one ends and the other begins.I think our cells are a sort of being that collectively create us.
Is this insight part of a school of thought, or is it your own construction?
It's Theosophy which is derived from Hinduism. Some of it is my own thinking, I've lost track of where one ends and the other begins. — Punshhh
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