tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4709452311733751183.post3143826816874972658..comments2024-03-06T09:41:30.532+00:00Comments on Trapped by the Box: I am doing an online course on the Mind ...Chris Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04649202643490746910noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4709452311733751183.post-42203431385916728242015-05-13T09:08:54.536+01:002015-05-13T09:08:54.536+01:00Other thoughts:
Think of your brain as a kind of ...Other thoughts:<br /><br />Think of your brain as a kind of mirror and the mind as the reflection of all your life’s experiences in that mirror, including reflections of other minds (parents, teachers, friends, etc.) you have encountered on the way. Every mind will be different, and will always be changing as you experience new things. Of course the brain is an imperfect mirror - selectively remembering or forgetting reflected images along the way. Defects in the brain, sometimes caused by illness, can act to distort can lead to internal reflections which amplify the remembered images leading to seeing vivid images, hearing voices, or perhaps deep depression or feelings of terror. Language can be seen as a way of transferring reflections between one brain and another, and the main difference between us and animals is that they don’t have language.Chris Reynoldshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04649202643490746910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4709452311733751183.post-69433227229317609552015-05-12T09:51:18.486+01:002015-05-12T09:51:18.486+01:00A wide variety of people are joining the course an...A wide variety of people are joining the course and there are different veiws of the distinction between the brain and the mind. I injected the following comment which makes my position very clear:<br /><br />One needs a terminology to distinguish between the physical components of an object and the information that is stored within the object. You could say all old fashioned photographs are the same - a piece of paper with grains of silver scattered about on one side. But the pictures that is conveyed by the grains of silver can be very different. I would say that all human brains are very similar - but that the patterns of knowledge stored within them (the mind) is very different.<br /> Chris Reynoldshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04649202643490746910noreply@blogger.com