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The focus is not on 'a mind' but The Real Person within REALITY who has a mind as a tool [faculty] to live optimally within existing constraints. That is your focus but not mine. What is a mind that we have one rather than we are one? That is my focus. I presume you are more interested in 'what is ...

The focus is not on 'a mind' but The Real Person within REALITY who has a mind as a tool [faculty] to live optimally within existing constraints. That is your focus but not mine. What is a mind that we have one rather than we are one? That is my focus. Thus for you, it is God {a Mind] that is mindf...

I think identity and mindfulness mirror the one thing going on in a human experience. Okay, but what and/or which 'identity' are you referring to here, exactly? That is the point of having the word "mirror" included with the word "mindfulness" I leave it up to the individual to ...

I think identity and mindfulness mirror the one thing going on in a human experience. Okay, but what and/or which 'identity' are you referring to here, exactly? That is the point of having the word "mirror" included with the word "mindfulness" I leave it up to the individual to ...

I believe it is a reasonable step to confine what is mind to the following and I believe this is what is studied by Science. If you don't agree, you have to give your evidence. What is studied by Physical Science yes I have agreed with this, although it is not so much a matter of belief but of know...

Well, considering the Fact of the way that 'the world' was like, back in the very day that this was being written, and who and what created 'that world', 'the post human world' did not come quick enough. Well not from my perspective anyway. But, at least 'we' are HERE-NOW. Also, why, exactly, is th...

To me 'what is mind' is confined to the following; When a human personality confines, that personality suppresses. I will exclude formal science as Science in this discussion. More suppression. I don't follow the subsequent conversation above. I think that is because of what you suppress. I ran our...

Journey Through Consciousness: Dialogues Between MIND and Mind on Existence, Illusion, and the Magic Within MIND. You wrote: “The mind that fears (irrationally) is a mind that does not understand itself in context and this applies equally to a mind that believes it is the superior or remains indiff...

... Do Buddhist believe in god? No, we do not. There are several reasons for this. The Buddha, like modern sociologists and psychologists, believed that religious ideas and especially the god idea have their origin in fear. The Buddha says: "Gripped by fear men go to the sacred mountains, sacr...

Ask physicists about mindfulness and they will immediately spiel a list of reasons for why minds exist and how vulnerable said mind is to primordial stuff. Is this in the physics textbooks? Is the subject of mindfulness contained in any physics textbooks? Perhaps there is too much conflating "...

... Dialogues on Reason, God, and Science: Exploring the Interplay Between Primal Reason, Mindfulness, and Speculative Beliefs Philosopher 1. There is a wide range of the function of the faculty of reason within a continuum. At the lower end [primal, pure] we have something like the pseudo-rational...

Exploring the Origins of the Universe and Metaphysical Realms through Philosophy and Conceptual Conversations Philosopher 3. What began to exist? Hasn't everything basically existed in one form or another? Philosopher 2. What do you mean by this? Philosopher 3. The chair I am sitting on is made of ...

... Philosopher 1. For the supernaturalists to think “science is simply confirming” the supernaturalist idea of “The Cause” is trying to fix square pegs into round holes in very desperate psychological conditions. It is a lost cause. Philosopher 2. I don't think so. The very fact that both scientis...

All humans are embedded in their DNA code with a necessary bug [from an evolutionary default] of an existential crisis which generate terrible cognitive dissonances; i.e. all humans must-fear-death with the knowledge death is a certainty. To soothe the cognitive dissonance, a belief in the supernat...

I was referencing to your OP; "The Kalam Cosmological Argument - William Lane Craig " To topic, W L Craig Kalam Argument is debunked due to conflation and equivocation. I noted the original Kalam is restricted to the first 3 premises. Btw, I understand, Al Ghazali, the originator of the b...