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Post by Elizabeth on Oct 30, 2017 22:25:31 GMT
What is the difference between being alive and truly living? What do you all think?
I will share my response later though xD
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marduk
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Post by marduk on Dec 4, 2017 13:50:09 GMT
from a jungian perspective i would disagree with schopenhaur, jung said "until you make the unconscious, conscious it will direct your life and you will call it fate" that means if we dont understand ourselves and hence we dont challange our unconscious output with conscious thought, things will just happen to us and we wont have control over it. your conscious brain or thoughts or electrical impulses give you the ability to challenge the unconscious patterns and change them.which infers that we have free will only if we choose to understand ourselves , jung also called this understanding the otherness of the other., from the perspective of material science yes all brain activity is electric impulses, the link between meditation psychology and neuro-science can prove this point as mediators consciously change the brain waves they emit through meditation and i think bringing the consciousness into the unconscious and the ability to do so is the difference. here is an article www.mindbodygreen.com/0-12491/how-meditation-changes-your-brain-frequency.htmlThe first assumption you made is the unity of conscience, it turns out that brain is made of multiple entities that are not always in agreement with each other: Your right hemisphere can't even understand your left hemisphere. It just tries to explain the choices made and delude itself with having free will haha yeah but the example given in the video is a scenario where the part of the brain which enables communication is cut, and when the communication is cut you are obviously more likely to notice the disagreement, the video also states that in normal people that didnt happen. i think the fundamental difference in both of our thoughts is which side of the brain are both of us more tilted towards? i would assume its based on our personality, but hey atleast we are communicating :D jung also goes through this idea of the split through the concept of anima and animus, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anima_and_animusa representation of these ideas in a pattern would be i think more horizontally and you think more vertically if that makes sense am speaking from a metaphysical stance wheras you are speaking from a stance of material science , i am not dis agreeing with you when it comes to the material lenience part i just think based on the information i have consumed and the experiences i have had through intuitive reflection that there is more to it :D an analogy would be you cant only dissect the engine of a car in order to understand what it might feel when you drive it, you have to disect the engine and also take into account the seats, the wheel, the road, etc
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Post by Elizabeth on Dec 5, 2017 1:02:09 GMT
I loved that comic mdk posted. The ending was just
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