So you agree with my definition of what is mind?bahman wrote: ↑Tue Mar 09, 2021 7:48 pmCall mind as mental activity. Problem resolved.Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Tue Mar 09, 2021 5:39 amThat is not an answer to my question.
In my and the conventional definition of mind, that definition of mind has helped to cure mental problems of individuals and thus contributed to humanity. It is also related in progress in education, intelligence, emotional states, sports, etc.
Unfortunately it has negative implications as well when people understand they can program and influence the mind of others via various negative ideology.
So I ask in a similar vein,
What positive benefits do you have for the individual[s] and humanity from your definition of what is mind?
The mind is the set of faculties including cognitive aspects such as consciousness, imagination, perception, thinking, intelligence, judgement, language and memory, as well as noncognitive aspects such as emotion and instinct. Under the scientific physicalist interpretation, the mind is produced at least in part by the brain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind
There are ways out of that.I am already bored with my short life. I am very well aware that eternal life is like Hell. But we cannot avoid it.Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Mon Mar 08, 2021 5:54 amAt the extreme, the idea of an independent mind is about an independent soul that survives physical death to eternal life. This is related to an existential & soteriological cognitive dissonance and the subliminal threat of eternal death in hell.There is no benefit in eternal life. It is just life.
But in general it also psychologically comforting to believe in an independent mind for various general reasons driven by crude reason [cause and effect] to relieve a general cognitive dissonance that there must be an independent mind.
Buddhism-proper do not believe there are independent minds and independent souls that survive after death.
To deal with this cognitive dissonance, Buddhism introduces its Life's Problem Solving Technique.
Buddhism's 4NT-8FP is a Life Problem Solving Technique.
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