What is the brain?
Other · asked by user [] · 2007-08-19 · 5 answers
From these articles:
http://mindreality.net/is-your-brain-really-necessary
http://wintersteel.homestead.com/Life_Without_Brain.html
The only biologist to propose a radically novel approach to these questions is Dr Rupert Sheldrake. In his book A New Science of Life Sheldrake rejected the idea that the brain is a warehouse for memories and suggested it is more like a radio receiver for tuning into the past. Memory is not a recording process in which a medium is altered to store records, but a journey that the mind makes into the past via the process of morphic resonance.
I like this, the brain as a radio receiver instead of a big warehouse, interesting?
http://mindreality.net/is-your-brain-really-necessary
http://wintersteel.homestead.com/Life_Without_Brain.html
The only biologist to propose a radically novel approach to these questions is Dr Rupert Sheldrake. In his book A New Science of Life Sheldrake rejected the idea that the brain is a warehouse for memories and suggested it is more like a radio receiver for tuning into the past. Memory is not a recording process in which a medium is altered to store records, but a journey that the mind makes into the past via the process of morphic resonance.
I like this, the brain as a radio receiver instead of a big warehouse, interesting?
user [38] · 2007-08-19
Sanskrit citta, consciousness, is also translated as heart or mind, not as brain. Brain is just an interface. Memories are stored in the subtle body and accessed under the supervision of Paramatma. Look at the model described here: http://www.veda.harekrsna.cz/encyclopedia/tattvas-1.htm#2user [12] · 2007-08-19
Dead linkYes, brain is the hardware, but what kind of hardware is it? It is common to think that our memories are stored there. After all, we dont have memories of anything before this brain! But using the brain as the radio receiver is very interesting, how this brain, gross physical thing can access the subtle physical elements of memory.
user [38] · 2007-08-19
sorry, http://www.veda.harekrsna.cz/encyclopedia/tattvas1.htm#2Brain as a hardware doesnt do anything; its the jivas desire and Paramatmas concession.
user [12] · 2007-08-19
That way even our legs dont do anything, we have the desire and Paramatma lets us walk. In fact the legs just get in the way.user [38] · 2007-08-19
Yes. Legs, etc. are all interfaces for jiva to operate in the material world. Matter itself is jada, inert."Without the Supreme Personality of Godheads energy, dull matter cannot create the cosmic manifestation. Its power does
not arise from the material energy itself but is endowed by Sankarsana." (CC 2.20.260)