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I recently heard this analogy: The mind is like a computer program. The computer program is not a solid thing... it is, rather an idea... a concept that causes the computer to perform various functions.
Well, this was in a psych class... we were discussing how science did not want to consider the mind because it is not a solid, measurable 'thing'. It's funny how we have no problem acknowledging a computer program but more of a problem with acknowledging the mind. Another reason I think they don't want to go down that road is because of that fuzzy little boundary between the mind and the soul.... and science and religion/ spirituality/ philosophy. I personally believe that the mind began before conception... but that's just me. Why is it that in cultures that believe in reincarnation, people remember past lives? Did you know that if a kitten (from birth) is raised in an environment with only vertical lines, he will not acknowledge horizontal ones. For a while, he seems not to see them and to run right into them until he's acclimated... wild stuff! (please do not try this at home...lol) Then when we get into memory and some of the studies done there... it begins to look as if there is a property to memory in which it is 'created' as it happens (bad terminology.... I'll have to find some links)... It makes one question his entire existance, really. Well, it makes me think twice anyway.
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