How is the mind acting on the matter?
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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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Normally, you are only aware of the thought processes in your conscious mind. You consciously think over the problems that are right in front of you, consciously choose words as you speak, consciously try to remember where you left your keys. \n\nBut in doing all these things, your conscious mind is working hand-in-hand with your subconscious mind, the unconscious part of your mind that does your "behind the scenes" thinking. Your subconscious mind accesses the vast reservoir of information that lets you solve problems, construct sentences or locate your keys. It puts together plans and ideas and runs them by your conscious mind. When a new idea comes to you out of the blue, it's because you already thought through the process unconsciously. \n\nYour subconscious also takes care of all the stuff you do automatically. You don't actively work through the steps of breathing minute to minute -- your subconscious mind does that. You don't think through every little thing you do while driving a car -- a lot of the small stuff is thought out in your subconscious mind. Your subconscious also processes the physical information your body receives. \n\nIn short, your subconscious mind is the real brains behind the operation -- it does most of your thinking, and it decides a lot of what you do. When you're awake, your conscious mind works to evaluate a lot of these thoughts, make decisions and put certain ideas into action. It also processes new information and relays it to the subconscious mind. But when you're asleep, the conscious mind gets out of the way, and your subconscious has free reign.
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The brain is convoluted. As are we all?
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Yes, Buddha says the mind is all and controls all.\n\nIf we control mind ... we control all.
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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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I wrote an Essay to define "What is Truth?" and "Why did God create man?" In order to do that, I had to define the terms you are seeking: the ability to store knowledge, process it, and act on it. Only the first two or three pages relate directly to your question, but I think you will be interested in the entirety of it.\n\nEssay\nWe must distinguish between “knowing” and having information. “Knowing” is having direct experience of reality, while “being informed,” is having definitions, descriptions, names and narratives. Knowing vs. being informed are direct antagonists of each other. Knowing is a process that begins in the visual processing of the right side of the brain and culminates in the unification of reality and the two brain hemispheres, while becoming informed takes place in the left side of the brain and culminates in the total separation of reality and the two hemispheres of the brain.\n\nThe left side of the brain breaks up the world into finite components and time sequences, and the other, the right side of the brain, focuses on the unity of things in the world. The left hemisphere is the intellectual, syllogistic logical faculty that we measure through IQ tests, which excels in communicating finite concrete ideas, in addition to the definitions and descriptions that makes up the technological processes (chemistry, mathematics).\n\nBut not everything in the world fits neatly into definitions, descriptions and linear logic. Therein lies the problem with predominantly left-brained people, and Western civilization in general, who try to use this faculty to communicate all realities. This problem is compounded by the ingrained belief of most people that information is knowledge. And worse when we try to understand ourselves.\n\n“Know thyself,” they say. But what is real? What is the truth? \n\nWe perceive the world through our faculty of consciousness, i.e., we perceive thoughts, feelings, physical forces and objects through our consciousness. But consciousness exists apart from the things we are conscious of. We are aware of thoughts and feelings, but these were not generated “consciously.” Neither is consciousness an entity (as is usually taught).\n\nWe are also taught that “will” is a separate entity, but it is not, neither separate nor an entity. Consciousness and the will are opposite polarities (passive and active) of the same function. They are not really separate. They\nare two parts of the same thing, so I shall heretofore refer to them as “consciousness/will,” or simply “C/W.” As two parts of the same thing, they act in concert together. But the will also exists apart from the functions it sanctions, initiates, selects, controls, or suppresses.\n\nWe have verbal and graphic thoughts, but we also have a “thought generator, that throws thoughts into the sphere of consciousness, but functions outside and independent of the will. This is the mind.\n\nWe also have feelings, emotions and sensations, but also a “feelings generator” (incorrectly labeled as our soul). The generator of thoughts, emotions, and sensations is one and the same. But we have no perception of its existence and activity. Something (this thing) is working outside our sphere of consciousness that is guiding our physiological, mental, sensual, and emotional functions. This hidden, subconscious, or unconscious agent is called the spirit, the psyche, or soul.\n\nMost people describe themselves with their habitual pattern of thought and emotional responses to events. And too, most people identify themselves as the thought generator (their minds) and its contents (their beliefs).\n\nThis misunderstanding is responsible for the impossibility to “Know thyself.” I have already described a hidden aspect of our selves which we share with God. Our soul or spirit is intended to be shared by God, and carries a designed and specific function. \n\nThe consciousness/will, or C/W, are the indicator
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Reading people's minds.
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Interesting puzzle:\nfMRI studies have shown that neurons in the brain associated with a task begin to fire about 800 milliseconds before the person is even aware that they want to perform an action.\n\nDo we have no free will? \n\n\nMed Hypotheses. 2001 Mar;56(3):364-6.\nIf there were no free will: Fisher CM.\n\n\nElectrophysiological findings in humans who are performing voluntary acts, indicate that the intention to act, follows brain activity rather than preceding it. This has implications for voluntary behavior and the doctrine of free will. This essay reviews the fields of human behavior, including medicine, in which this new thesis might have far-reaching significance. Copyright 2001 Harcourt Publishers Ltd.\n\nAn extract:\n\n...it should be pointed out\nthat somewhat the same conclusion may be reached on\nthe basis of rather elementary observation. Every thought,\nfeeling, inclination, intention, desire, every mental\nimpression no matter how brief or faint, must be created\nby nervous system activity. How else could they arise? Ideas would have to arise without a physical basis.\nNervous system activity must always precede. Every\nnuance of thought and feeling arises in and must be preceded\nby its own specific electrical configuration in the\nbrain. If one has the experience of ‘willing’ the nervous\nsystem to do something, the impression of ‘willing’ must\nhave been preceded by nervous system activity.\nOtherwise there would be no source and we are in the\nrealm of the supernatural. Before I think of anything, it\nmust first have taken form in my nervous system.\n\n\nTherefore: answer to your question would be 'nervous system activity'
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The enquiring mind, wants to know...
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mentally or physically?
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my thoughts xactly!  \n\nit's "their" way of controlling what we know and do!
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Do you mean like moving your arm or something?  Becuase sometimes it's before the conscious brain knows about it (like when you are burnt) and sometimes it's when you consciously choose to move it.
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We have to put our mind into whatever we do 'cause take this instance for example. If u r sitting to study and u r thinking of ur favourite TV program u r better of watching TV  than doing the thing u r struggling to do in ur mind.\n\nU must be fcused in what u want to do that is all concentrating is about.
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Take out the brain and they will pronounce you brain dead. The mind is generated by the brain. Like hologram. The mind is a part of the brain.
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The brain is the organ responsible for thought and other functions.  The mind is the abstract concept that is the culmination of all thoughts, not a physical object.
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NO--the brain is the instrument ---the mind is the performer
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Where is the psyche located in the Human body?\n\nMost people agree that the mind is in the brain.