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What is MIND?
Welcome to MIND is and please join
us in exploring that which is fundamentally ungraspable, the most complex,
intricate, subtle yet ultimately elusive entity ever (un)known to the human kind
- the Mind. In fact, it has been said that we, the humans, "exist"
only because the Mind "exists", yet there is no Mind outside or
without us. As the eyeball that can not see itself, the Mind can not be grasped by
a mind. Enigmatic terra incognita, the Mind, historically an
exclusive subject matter within philosophy and psychology, becomes a new
frontier for this new Millennium, as it begins to attract increasingly more
attention from cognitive scientists, theoretical physicists, internet/computer
(AI) systems developers, advertisers, artists and art critics,
spiritual/religious teachers and the general public. Computer science,
artificial intelligence, expert systems, linguistics, quantum mechanics, art and
literary criticism, hermeneutics, cognitive psychology, medicine, psychiatry,
psychotherapy, neuroscience, meditation, are only some of the a few most
known areas where study of the Mind is currently under way. This site is a forum
to question what Mind is. How does it work? Where is it located? How big
is it? Do animals have Mind? How about inanimate objects - trees,
mountains and rivers, the ocean - do they "have Mind"? What does it
mean to "have Mind"? Can Mind be simulated in/by a computer? If Mind
resides in the brain, is Mind bigger in a larger brain? Is its size related to
the size of the brain? What are the boundaries of the Mind, are they limited to
the central nervous system or physical body? Is it inside or outside? Where does
it come from at birth and what happens to it after death? Is Mind the same
as consciousness? soul? psyche? identity? self? me? I? awareness? attention?
memory? unconsciousness? intelligence? cognition? perception? thought?
idea? imagination? God? Universe? Time-space? Language? Are mind and body
separate? How are Mind, body and self related? Fundamentally beyond existence
and nonexistence, birth and death, the Mind, even if it manifests itself in (as)
all phenomena, can not be grasped by the senses or the intellect. To
"know" it is to be separated from it. To "be" it is to be
entrapped in your own concept of what it "is". The reality of it, the
essence, continues to elude us. The moment we name it it is not it. Besides, who
is the one who "knows" or "is" Mind? What does it mean to
"know" or to "be" Mind? What does it mean that Mind or
anything "is"? What is "is"? What does it mean that
"MIND is"? If any of these questions is important to you,
explore our site, explore the Mind, with us and contribute your insights or
comments. We would like to hear from and about you. Thank you for stopping by
and please come again. May your life go well.
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