Thought I share an excerpt extracted from my manuscript 'Mind Of
A Mankind'.
Thanks.
Joe
What is a Mind and
body?
The mind is like the computer software and hard wares. I have heard
numerous occasions, from many people quasi-explanation of the mind
like this; The computer is the hardware which resembles the brain
and the software of the computer is the mind. It is a good
similitude, cleverly described and expounded.
The physicians have catalogue the brain of yours like a place of
many compartments for different body functions. The brain is the
nerves centre for your body and many messages send from different
parts of your body are connected by the nervous systems which are
meant for your body to experience external and internal sensation.
All these sensations that your body feels would then relay all the
information that the brain needs to know so that you could identify
the information and execute the orders for your body reactions to
the internal and external sensation experiences. The signals that
the brain received from the body senses react to the external and
internal conditions of the body and control the body movements.
Thus, when you feel chill breeze, your skin hairs straighten-up
causing goose pimples effect and your arms would automatically wrap
around your body to generate body heats for warmth. In wars, when
the soldiers are under extreme stress or fear, the body would
generally feel instinctive about the ambience surrounding them.
These instinct sensations are normally generated for body control
and intuitions and when they hear any slight movements or gunshots
from somewhere, they would automatically dogged for cover.
The instinct to take cover, to control the mind and body is for
survival. The body reacts to instinct and intuition feelings. The
body is the measuring instrument for the mind to gauge
circumstances around it. Hence, sometimes you wonder whether your
instinct and intuition effects are like the animals instinct and
intuition of your mind and body reactionary behaviours.
The brain surgeons operated and dissected the brain myriad of times
but still they could not extract the mind from the greyish tissues.
The brain itself is so complex and when they tried to learn more
about the functions of the brain, they could vaguely tell you where
the storage of the memories and information are stored. The
information and memories are not seen inside the brain but inside
the unseen mind. They have conceded that the mind is the memory
bank and the microchip of the brain.
The Mind of yours receives interaction information from the brain
pertinent to the body external and internal experiences. It
synchronizes your mind and body reactions. It also callisthenically
choreographs your idiosyncrasy characters and behaviours, talents,
intelligence and emotion as a human being. Intelligence of yours
develop and augmented from learning and experiencing to the
circumstances and milieu that you see, hear, taste, feel and
breathe. Without the physical body to experience and learn about
the world around you would render you as being ignorant to your own
self-consciousness as living beings. When you take for granted that
you were born to the world for the purpose of just being alive and
to die later, you could say that you are making yourself like a
life form without any physical body. Mind and Body are always about
learning and experiencing the world around you and also about the
world within you. That is the price you gain not lose, when you
realised that your body is good and your mind is god.
The mind is intangible. It has no matters or shapes, yet it is
there for you to look at and understand vaguely. The mind of human
beings is still a puzzling configuration for many psychologists or
doctors because the cerebration of the human race and animals are
very complex. None of them could actually point out for sure how
the brain and the mind really works.
The mind is not outside or far away from you but near you, We are
nearer than your jugular veins. The mind is really inside your
brain if you must know. Without a brain, you would have no
consciousness of the body and without a body, We are unable to
learn, develop and gain knowledge through life experiences on earth
or multiplying human bodies.
The mind is the consciousness
This consciousness is what they are really interested in and
enthusiastically willing to delve and explore with profundity. The
definition of a mind is very complex, just like you are trying to
define and differentiate between the essence of Faith and
Superstition, or Your Consciousness and Your Soul. Like the
empirical question of a man and a woman or a chicken and an egg,
which one of them came first?
If you ask any psychologists for the definition word of "I", they
would say that it is actually the psyche, which comprises of many
levels of thoughts and actions. These levels of thoughts and
actions are multi-level process chain reaction. They pictured the
analogy of the psyche of an individual like decks that
contemporaneously concatenated with many chest players align above
one another in multi-level complex sequence. When one player from a
level moves, the rest of the chest players in other levels will
subsequently move simultaneously. Like soldiers marching in
precision during the parade manoeuvres. The analogy denotes the
mind ability to function as a whole that represents the psyche or
"I" of an individual that makes his or her existence and identity,
unique and different from those around them.
The idea of Solipsism, Existentialism, Archetype and Collective
thought forms, taught by many modern philosophers like Kierkegaard,
Sartre, Heidegger, Sigmund Frued, Carl Jung and others, were some
of the knowledge that admit the self as something existing or
knowable.