is the mind considered a physical object on which other physical objects might lie?
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That's a philosophical question.  In fact, it's probably one of the top-ten fundamental questions of philosophy that people have been pondering for millenia.  \n\nMy take on it is, it's like asking if a story is a physical object.  The media that it is stored on is certainly physical (a book, a cd, a neural network in a storyteller's mind...) but the story ITSELF is an abstract noun; something much less tangible.  \n\nI would say the same of the mind.  The mind certainly exists on a physical media, but the term "mind" also implies the intangible aspects of a set of neural networks... what it represents and means to that person, and to other people.  Mind is to brain as story is to book.
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Yes.  Science is a belief that there are cause and effects that can be studied in a certain way, such that we may learn the underlying ways in which the physical universe operates.  It does have its limitations, however, and has limited applications in the really important areas of spiritual growth and awareness.  It is also limited in the fact that it requires and observer, and the observer influences the scientific findings, invariably.
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Then, what is a thought??  We always try to separate the mind from the body.  For instance,  is something a mental or physical problem.  A thought in your mind is a really physical complex interaction that involves neurotransmitters and electrical signals.  So when someone feels pain whether its chronic or acute, yes it is a thought yes there is a specific chain of reaction  that is occuring in the body and head.
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There is indeed a thread in philosophy that treats mathematical truth as representing some kind of eternal fixed world.  However, there are plenty of mathematical objects other than numbers that have a rich field of mathematics associated with them.\n\nFor example, one defines a group as being a set of elements and an operation between them, denoted '+' (a bit like 'addition', but not restricted to acting on numbers) such that:\n1) If a and b are elements in our group then there is an element c such that a + b = c\n2) There exists an element of our group O such that for every element a in our group, a + O = a.\n3) For every element a in our group, there is also an element b such that a + b = 0.\n4) If we pick three elements in our group, then (a + b) + c = a + (b + c).\n\nThis is an abstract definition, and doesn't prescribe what the underlying elements actually are.  All it says is that they must satisfy (1)-(4) to be called a group.  You can probably check for yourself that numbers do satisfy these rules, although there are many particular examples of groups where numbers don't provide enough flexibility to be considered as the underlying elements.\n\nNow, mathematicians spend a lot of time studying these, and other, mathematical objects, and there are many beautiful theorems associated with them.  These objects, and the theorems about them, should be considered as eternal as the numbers whilst at the same time being different to the numbers.
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all but that of the body mind and soul
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If you just memorize the Lie I've seen that my friends still accidently have a twitch to the other side so it still looks as if their lying, When they started believing the lie though that is when the shift started going to the memory and sensory side. You have to memorize the lie and begin to convince yourself of it deeply otherwise you can still tell if the person your talking about is still lying to you
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Well, that does sound fair. Heck, I'd be happy if the just quit trying to pass off beliefs as facts. \n\n“To believe in something is not the same as knowing something. Intrinsic to the concept of belief is (the) implication that there is an opposite to belief, disbelief. Not everyone will believe something is true, but all sane and rational people will acknowledge an observable fact.\n\nThe only way belief can be experienced is in the mind. Facts can be experienced both in the mind and by the senses...and what is more, unlike a mental hallucination, the sensory experience can be shared with others.\n\nIt is a common error of human beings to allow belief, to allow a mental construct accepted on faith, to become so important, so obsessive, that it is taken as the same thing as fact. Indeed, there are many emotional reasons why a person might be driven to do this, but it still remains that any belief is purely mental whatever it's origin, and the mind can be mistaken.\n\nThis means that all beliefs have as part of them an implied doubt. Facts cannot be doubted, they are observably real.\n\nWhen belief is assumed to be fact, when this mistake is made by a mind clouded by a motivation to assume belief as fact, that belief is considered beyond doubt, just as is a fact.\n\nBeliefs beyond doubt are inherently dangerous. They are dangerous because they are often acted upon as though they were facts, and the inherent weakness of this is that a belief is not a fact.\n\nBeliefs can be, and often are, wrong.” (Jennifer Diane Reitz)
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I don't think that the Big bang puts a dent in materialism.  Consciousness and the existence of the subjective reality is, to me, the first and last nail needed to sel the coffin on materialism.  the subjective reality is innately immaterial, but materialists refuse to recognize it merely because it can't fit into a materialisat schema.  Yet the subjective reality is far more assured than the objective reality, as the former can be truly known directly, while the latter cannot.
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the mind should be tied to the brain, although no one can say for sure, since those who lost their brains obviously cannot communicate to us whether or not they can still think O.o there are also people who believe that the mind is tied to part of the soul, within the 21 grams that gets lost at the time of death.
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In the mind, thoughts.\n\nhey, that was an easy one : )
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Soul is the intelligence which is beyond the mind. It is of course non-material.\n\nOur thoughts keep it improsoned during life because instead of we controlling our thoughts, our thoughts control us.\n\nTo free the soul, we need to watch our thoughts for what they are. Life is now and that is were you will find the soul if your mind is free of thoughts.
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You're referring to mind over matter and/or biofeedback. Anything is possible when it comes to the mind and body. Even science doesn't know our true potential yet. The smartest of humans only ever use approximately 30% of their total brain power. There is so much untapped power in our minds that it will never be assessed in out lifetime.
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According to quantum physics, it is speculated that reality may not exist in substance. If this theory is correct, then reality would be a subjective notion, and as such, what you want or don't want in YOUR reality will either exist or not exist. Therefore, in your reality, clouds (or anything else, as far as it goes) can have ANY shape and/or size you choose.
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In physics, matter is commonly defined as the substance of which physical objects are composed, not counting the contribution of various energy or force-fields, which are not usually considered to be matter per se (though they may contribute to the mass of objects). Matter constitutes much of the observable universe, although again, light is not ordinarily considered matter. Unfortunately, for scientific purposes, "matter" is somewhat loosely defined.\n\nSee http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matter for more information on matter.\n\nGood Luck!!!
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Yes.  The human mind is just an incredibly complex computer which can manufacture it's own connections.  All we need to do is get the software and hardware sides of our current technology up to the level of our brains and beyond...  Easier said than done, I know.
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Look at houses, cars, airplanes.  These are creations of mind produced from matter.  They represent the dominance of mind over matter.  \n\nThere is a dominance within your body as well.\n\nhttp://spaces.msn.com/up-escalator/feed.rss  -- see the blog entry on mind.
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Oh, what a question.. A question that has no immediate answer. First.. what is the mind: Mind refers to the collective aspects of human intellect and consciousness that originate in the brain and which are manifest in some combination of thought, perception, emotion, will, memory, and imagination.\n\nT H U S: If the mind is indeed a thing S E P A R A T E THING from or higher than the functioning of the brain, then presumably it will not be possible for any machine, no matter how sophisticated, to duplicate it. If on the other hand the mind is no more than the aggregated functions of the brain, then it will be possible, at least in theory, to create a machine with a mind\n\nIn essence. this has been a question from the times of Aristotle to date... We still do not know