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If the mind could be stopped, what would happen?

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TheEnlightenedOne
 
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Reply Wed 4 May, 2011 08:53 am
@maxdancona,
Once the mind stops, does it ever start up again?
TheEnlightenedOne
 
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Reply Wed 4 May, 2011 08:56 am
@G H,
Has there ever been a next?
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FBM
 
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Reply Wed 4 May, 2011 08:58 am
@TheEnlightenedOne,
TheEnlightenedOne wrote:

Does a cat have a mind to think?


I'd have to be a cat to know that, I imagine. But let me get more to the point in your next question about where the mind is...
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Fil Albuquerque
 
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Reply Wed 4 May, 2011 08:59 am
@TheEnlightenedOne,
I am starting to believe that your mind is coming to a stop...
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TheEnlightenedOne
 
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Reply Wed 4 May, 2011 09:00 am
@JLNobody,
If you oppose nothing, is there a mind?
TheEnlightenedOne
 
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Reply Wed 4 May, 2011 09:02 am
@Cyracuz,
What is awareness of mind?
FBM
 
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Reply Wed 4 May, 2011 09:02 am
@TheEnlightenedOne,
TheEnlightenedOne wrote:

Where is the mind located?


The problem with using a word like 'mind' is that grammar/syntax makes it too easy to reify abstractions and treat them as concrete entities that abide with some unchanging essence through time. I haven't been able to find anything related to mind that justifies treating it as such an entity.

You might just as well ask, 'Where is the river located?'
Fil Albuquerque
 
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Reply Wed 4 May, 2011 09:04 am
@TheEnlightenedOne,
I suppose that you did n´t thought through, that in order to oppose whatever, not nothing, you still need a mind in the first place...(in here, "oppose" in the strict sense of a human mental willing full process)
TheEnlightenedOne
 
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Reply Wed 4 May, 2011 09:05 am
@FBM,
Where does an entity begin and end?
Fil Albuquerque
 
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Reply Wed 4 May, 2011 09:06 am
@TheEnlightenedOne,
In the functional of its operational context and relative to it !
TheEnlightenedOne
 
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Reply Wed 4 May, 2011 09:07 am
@Fil Albuquerque,
Where does the mind begin and end if it opposes and joins nothing?
Fil Albuquerque
 
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Reply Wed 4 May, 2011 09:09 am
@TheEnlightenedOne,
You are up to justify how can the mind join nothing in the first place...until there you rest with a poetic projection of nonsense...
TheEnlightenedOne
 
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Reply Wed 4 May, 2011 09:10 am
@Fil Albuquerque,
In the functional of its operational context and relative to it, where does an entity begin and end at the atomic level?
TheEnlightenedOne
 
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Reply Wed 4 May, 2011 09:16 am
@Fil Albuquerque,
Where do poetic projections of nonsense arise from?
Fil Albuquerque
 
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Reply Wed 4 May, 2011 09:16 am
@TheEnlightenedOne,
TheEnlightenedOne wrote:

In the functional of its operational context and relative to it, where does an entity begin and end at the atomic level?


If the "atomic level" conceptual frame of reference is the setting for the asking, then the answer would be that it begins and ends into that extension of what is experimented as being the "atomic world" confinement field, that is, the number of particles that you can account for, or "observe" empirically !
Fil Albuquerque
 
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Reply Wed 4 May, 2011 09:17 am
@TheEnlightenedOne,
TheEnlightenedOne wrote:

Where do poetic projections of nonsense arise from?


...wishful thinking !
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TheEnlightenedOne
 
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Reply Wed 4 May, 2011 09:19 am
@Fil Albuquerque,
Is a wave separate from the sea?
TheEnlightenedOne
 
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Reply Wed 4 May, 2011 09:55 am
@TheEnlightenedOne,
If a cat could talk and was asked what time is it, what would he reply?
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FBM
 
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Reply Wed 4 May, 2011 10:14 am
@TheEnlightenedOne,
TheEnlightenedOne wrote:

Where does an entity begin and end?


They don't. They're just convenient fictions.
Fil Albuquerque
 
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Reply Wed 4 May, 2011 10:34 am
@FBM,
FBM wrote:

TheEnlightenedOne wrote:

Where does an entity begin and end?


They don't. They're just convenient fictions.


that´s a to easy of an answer...if concepts are "convenient fictions", who is to say what is "real" instead, once concepts are all you are left with ???

In the absence of anything else the "real" is what you are left with !
 

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