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Consciousness the Final Frontier
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Everything has limits.
BSM1
What? Me worry?
Except what doesn't...
everything? what is the contrast to mind that limits it? makes it measurable and defines mind?
there is roughly 6500 known spoken languages in the world right now.
there are approximately 40000+ denominations of one religion right now.
there are 8 billion humans +/1 on this ball spinning through space.
they have been untold cultures that have risen and fallen throughout history and no doubt to come.
when will the mind reach it's limit of languages? expression of cultures? volume of words? identification of things?
The skull? The blood-brain barrier?
ajay0
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The mind is just a mass of thoughts and corresponding emotions.
Swami Chinmayananda states in this regard...
'Thoughts appear in the mind every second, in a continuous stream, and these constant thought disturbances --- each dying, yielding its place to a new one --- give us the apprehension of a solid factor called the mind. Similarly, the tip of a flame also, (it can be experimentally proved) is never steady, but the flickering is so fast, that it gives us an illusion of a definite shape and solidity.'
Considering this, yes the mind or mass of thoughts obviously have limits as every thought have a beginning and an end. In meditation, one enters the state called no-mind or thoughtless Awareness, transcending the habitual and compulsive thought process..
you misread that. the thoughts and emotions arise from the mind. like a wave on the ocean, they come and go. the mind, then is like the ocean, from which these waves arise.
one can attain thoughtless mind and emotionless mind but one can't attain mindless mind.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Yes. For as long as an active mind lasts.
No, I don't think so. And when we remove sensory input, like in a sense deprivation tank, consciousness expands. Same with NDEs.
a skull is not necessary for a brain and neurons can be found in other places not related to the brain; which is made up of neurons.
intelligence can be found in neural connections not necessarily in the brain.
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/healthy_aging/healthy_body/the-brain-gut-connection
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-mind-of-an-octopus/
when electrical impulses cease to exist?
hmmm, so is it like to meditation? where the mind moves away from external sensory input?
You asked about the mind; the mind is “what the brain does.” Limitations on the brain are limitations on the mind.
sealchan
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The mind is a very sphexish thing