What influences our human minds?
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Ask Jeeves that question.
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I think that thoughts are quantum super positions of space time geometries and the electric circuit model of the brain is way off.\n\nRead Shadows of the Mind by Roger Penrose for more.
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I don't think that music affects people's minds.  I am so tired of people saying that music affects the way we think.  People accuse music for all the bad things that happen in society and don't bother to look at the real reason as to why things are done and why they happen.  Music is an enhancement to life and is a stress reliever no matter what type of music is listened to.  Music helps people.
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We're limited by our imagination & what we can detect by our senses or tools
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It's all about hormones.\nA natural, God-given chemical that makes us think with the little head...not the big one.
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Gray matter.  It controls everything else.\n\n\n\nIn theory...
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In our FINITE minds, we only can comprehend that everything is an effect, and has a cause.\n\nWe can not comprehend that there is a cause... but nothing caused the cause.\n\n.. ouch... my brain can't handle this!! :)
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Lmao.  It's in our nature.  Since the creation of metaphors/analogs in our language, our brains were capable of thinking of how things  are related to each other.  Even at this particular moment, you are digesting each of these words, and their meaning (in relation).  That is the dividing aspect that makes us a bit more complicated than the rest of the animals out there; and has a great deal with how we survived and how our relatives in the human chain did not.\n\nIt's a complex process of a once operating bicameral mind ie operating right brain and left brain processes with not as complex intergrations.  The theory is once man was more or less instinctual, and that he first heard god's voices from the right side of his brain.\n\nhttp://www.julianjaynes.org/bicameralmind.php\n\nThis is a theory of Julian Jaynes (link ^^^).  He historically documents the change from a bicameral minded individual, to the people we know today, whom assumed a more fully concious level of brain use.  He demonstrates how men behaved in those times, and how they lost the voices of god(s)....roughly around the time they gained a more advanced language systems and brain processes.  \n\nIt's this process that you use today, and it's a paradigm of difference hard for most common people to comphrend.  Perhaps you could think of the days when you didn't understand the bulk of the english language (as a child)...do you recall a lot of thoughts or memories before you had a language to think of it?  That would be close to what I'm discussing.\n\nThe human brain is a complex thing, and still yet to be throughly resolved, but we are curious because we no-longer have many of  the automatic instinct that other creatures do.  We exist and and dominate because of our level conciouness, and perhaps I think that's an instinct in itself.
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It's key in our inhibitions and judgement.
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people/group who influence self concept,emotions,attitudes and behaviors of a person\n\nfamily,school,peer group, mass media,religion,work place, the state.
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It is the human nature. Curiosity. We always try to do things that we are told not to. Human history is filled with incidences of curiosity. Right from Adam & Eve down to discovery of America and further on. Its all about curiosity.\n\nBut human mind is a rational one and it is up to us to draw a line as to what we should do and what we shouldn't. Its about your ethics, morals, principles and upbringing.
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We have personal choice but this is usually governed by our Limbic System, which is a complex system of nerve pathways and networks in the brain that is involved in the expression of instinct and mood in activities of the endocrine and motor systems of the body. Among the brain regions involved are the Amygdala, Hippocampal formation, and the Hypothalamus.
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that is so nice question.it is so hard to answer this question.ok what about this one.mind is a part of people,but people are a part of mind?
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Most scientific inquiry on the subject tends to lead toward a point of view that favors the mind arising as an epiphenomenon of brain activity and that there is almost certainly a causal correlation between the two.  For example, the commonly used anti-depressant Prozac functions by causing increased levels of Seretonin to be present in your brain, which has a direct effect on improving one's mood and combating depression.  At least on some level, the physical state of the brain is correlated to the functioning of the mind.\n\nThat is about as much as I'm willing to say on the subject, since I do not have advanced training in neuroscience.  I might direct you to Daniel Dennett's work (http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/~ddennett.htm ) as a "philosopher of the mind" or to work done by Susan Blackmore in her book "The Meme Machine" or any standard psychology textbook for further discussion of the nature of the mind, the brain and their connection.
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They are integrally tied in a unity of the physical and the unexplained.\n\nOur brain is....\nA convoluted, layered lump of micro-neuron pudding.\nFats and proteins forming electrochemical paths and branches.\nThe branches and paths develop loose circuits which react and modify themselves according to incoming sensory stimulus.\n\nSpontaneous interactions within the circuits, creating cascades of intangible formulations. A foundation of learned response and cause and effect experience allows the formulations to shape themselves into what we refer to as "thoughts". Thinking a volume of collective thoughts forges a "mind" or a "sentient consciousness". \n\nIf an individual's central nervous system is rendered defective, is not the mind affected as well? Of course.\n\nIn accompaniment with all this bio-stuff, is what we believe is a spirit or soul. The soul is part of God's realm and interacts with the sceintific brain in a constant struggle. This is the source of the "quiet thoughts". Your "concience"! If you can learn to "listen" to your spirit ALONG with your biological brain, you will acheive harmony.\nYour life will change.\n\nI hope this helps....I'm still working at it!
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Eventually, I think we will, but I'm an optimist.\n\nWe get closer and closer all the time. (With some pretty regular steps backward, too.) There's tons of work being done on the brain, and that's undoubtedly the engine of mind. But in areas like psychology, philosophy, psychiatry, anthropology--the list goes on and on--we refine ideas and concepts constantly, and come to clearer understanding of the mind.\n\nEven the military applications of knowledge of the mind get better and better. (I mean things like breaking down ego for purposes of getting information and so on.) I hate to think about it, but it does add to man's knowledge.\n\nWe have a heck of a long way to go, but I think we've come a long way.\n\nAs far as "using merely the human mind," what the heck else would we use? All of our tools are products of the human mind, aren't they?
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Yes I believe so.  Actually having nothing to do with the brain, our souls are released from our bodies.  You can go anywhere and see anything.  It's how you will interpret things that will change.