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• admin Says:
  October 5th, 2009 at 8:36 pm
  I believe the phone call can solve all mind/body problems.
• admin Says:
  October 5th, 2009 at 8:36 pm
  The mind and body are inseparably linked. The mind cannot function without the body, and the body cannot control itself without the mind. The problem is not how they come into contact, but how they exploit that contact to their advantage. The body will seek sustenance until satisfied, will rest when tired, etc. It will attempt survival for as long as it possibly can, without thought or reflection on the best way to do that. The mind, without sustenance or rest, becomes depleted and does not work well. You must first put the mind in control of the body and its appetites, and remember that to control does NOT mean to restrict. If the mind restricts the body too much, then both suffer. However, the mind appears to be capable of great things beyond the capability of the body, such as understanding, inquiry, and logic. If you are to fulfill your virtue as a human being, it is necessary to pursue the knowledge of that virtue with your mind as much as possible. So it ends up being a balance between time spent nourishing and time spent in reflection. You want to spend as much time excersising your mind as you possibly can without depleting it's power.
• admin Says:
  October 5th, 2009 at 8:36 pm
  The apparent distinctness of the two substances is an illusion that results from the suppression of the integration of the world (its connectedness in terms of gravity and causation generally) in the cognitive processes required to render the infinitely complex world intelligible. These processes occur at a very basic level of phenomenological activity, but are reflected in our treatment of material things as methematically distinct, and in our treatment of the part-whole relation. (See Hume's reasoning for claiming that the only real things are atoms– the standard part-whole relation is paradoxical unless we deny or subordinate the reality of all things other than the things of one scale of being, and this deep-sixes the part-whole relation anyway.)
  ___As regards the question of the one and the many, if everything is connected to everything else, the number of the things in the world is ambiguous, as are the boundaries of things. Treating material things as distinct collections of properties works fine only as long as we treat their interconnections (gravity, attractive forces, causation in general) as invisible forces, a fine example of convenient fictions that encounter trouble only in ontology, that is, at the highest level of descriptive generality. The basic problem here is the attempt to shoehorn a multi-dimensional reality into a 2-dimensional linear conceptual apparatus, (i.e. language, including the language of mathematics).
  ___Once this part of the problem is straightened out, the mind-body problem pretty much evaporates. Well, it does take some other tracings-out of the consequences, but the fundamental problem is removed.
• admin Says:
  October 5th, 2009 at 8:36 pm
  If you are looking for the answer to your question, why are you telling us how to find it. You obviously tried that and got nowhere.

  My soul/mind contacts my physical self/body/reality/object through my emotional center. When what I desired (addiction) is fullfilled, it feels good, when not, it feels bad.
  Basically these are the two emotions. To reverse the process when it is not satisfying, one needs to focus on subjects which will be more rewarding. Simple actually. No need to prove it with words or symbols. Just experiment.

  Naturally if this is a homework question, print my answer, stick it to your monitor or other appropriate place and keep looking.

• admin Says:
  October 5th, 2009 at 8:36 pm
  The mind body dilemma is an illusion created by material and spiritual perspectives. The body and the mind are all one inseparable system only separated by our intellectual efforts to be scientific and objective. This probably happened around the time of Aristotle when it became evident that neither spirituality nor materialism provided the world we sensed was possible.

  This remains a hang up of modern education. It has been a very productive concept for the material perspective because science has been secretly employing the principle of non-contradiction. But modern science will not now admit this because it denies the mystic power of the "scientific method" whose productivity has always rested upon the perspicacity and tenacity of a very limited number of individuals.

  This attempt to be scientific coevolved in our intellectual realm as objectivity. Intellectually the effect has been the isolation of the mind from the body and the castration of our intellects as objectivity's function is to isolate reason from the influence of self.

  It is all one integrated system. The separation is artificially contrived by us. The application of objectivity is endemic and prevents us from ever rationally knowing our self. It is assumed the self can only be subjective. Within the self is the proper place to begin using rationality because it leads to self understanding once the proper perspective is discovered. The only source of this needed information is the self.

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