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Guille · 06-25-2005, 04:56 AM

(I'm trying to reply all the threads before I leave to Oxford).

I think the mind is just the activity of the brain. Maybe activity can be defined as un-structured matter, or a special kind of matter. I'm not sure.

There are two minds: consciousness and sub-consciousness. Consciousness is what we think and realize we do, and do it opn purpose. Sub-consciousness is all the rest. Much more. For example, it is our emotions. When we have strong, important moments, the emotional mind get's on top of the thinking one (sub consciousness, paradoxically, gets over consciousness, now it is consciousness which is sub). In the begining we, as all animals, only had only sub-consciousness, emotions. The thinking avolved from this one. There are many times in which the thinking is on top of the othe rone. Think about it. I think budhism or hinduism is all about that.

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Guille The Thinker Status: Offline Posts: 3,278 Thanks Given: 14 Thanked 9x in 9 Posts Join Date: Mar 2005 Rep Power: 48	06-25-2005, 04:56 AM (I'm trying to reply all the threads before I leave to Oxford). I think the mind is just the activity of the brain. Maybe activity can be defined as un-structured matter, or a special kind of matter. I'm not sure. There are two minds: consciousness and sub-consciousness. Consciousness is what we think and realize we do, and do it opn purpose. Sub-consciousness is all the rest. Much more. For example, it is our emotions. When we have strong, important moments, the emotional mind get's on top of the thinking one (sub consciousness, paradoxically, gets over consciousness, now it is consciousness which is sub). In the begining we, as all animals, only had only sub-consciousness, emotions. The thinking avolved from this one. There are many times in which the thinking is on top of the othe rone. Think about it. I think budhism or hinduism is all about that.