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The brain has a limit, not the mind.
Originally posted by Lucid Lunacy
I believe consciousness (awareness itself) to be external from the brain, and that has no bounds. The mind (read personality) is a product of the brain, and effectively filters consciousness.
Originally posted by AdamLaw
When the first Spanish ship arrived in America, The Amerindians had the Ships right in front of them for weeks before they could even see them. Being totally alien from what their mind could conceived they simply could not see the ships until their brain stopped the mental censorship over a period of a few weeks.
Originally posted by jiggerj
Originally posted by AdamLaw
When the first Spanish ship arrived in America, The Amerindians had the Ships right in front of them for weeks before they could even see them. Being totally alien from what their mind could conceived they simply could not see the ships until their brain stopped the mental censorship over a period of a few weeks.
Heard this before and I don't believe it. I could understand if they thought the ships were weird floating rocks, but invisible? I doubt it.
Originally posted by AthlonSavage
Is there anything it cant imagine or accept?
Originally posted by Taupin Desciple
Originally posted by AthlonSavage
Is there anything it cant imagine or accept?
I hope you realize those are two different questions.
There is no limit to what the mind can imagine. Anyone on this board can tell you that. If you want to get more specific though, ask a writer.
There are limits to what the mind can accept though, and that depends on a combination of your DNA and your upbringing. The hand that was given you vs. how you play those cards I guess you could say.
Some people limit themselves by playing the same game most of their life, while some get tired of the same old same old, get up from the table and join another hand. That first set of people? More times then not they're never going to be able to wrap their heads around that second type of person. Maybe they want to up the ante, maybe they want a different game altogether or maybe it's just the simple fact that their gypsy blood gets boiling again and it's time to move on.
It's people like that whom others think that their mind knows no bounds. And to a certain extent, that's true. Maybe they're constantly wanting to learn, maybe they're running from something in their own lives or maybe they keep moving on for the sake of it. Catch them and you'll find out. The bottom line is that people like that will be able to accept more because they've absorbed more in their lives. They've seen more, done more, learned more and.........lived more. They're not smarter then you so much as they're more pliable. More flexible. They're more open to new ideas.
They're chameleons. Jacks of all trades and masters of none. It doesn't matter to them if an experience is new to them, they'll adapt to it like you wouldn't believe and leave you thinking that they've done it all their lives. Test them and you'll that find out first hand. And when they do settle down they can be whatever you want them to be. They have that ability because at some point they imagined what you want, they've lived it at least temporarily, and by virtue of that, they can help you become whatever it is you want.
The only way to get people like that to settle down though is to get to their heart, but that's for another topic.
So there you go OP, I hope that answers your questions, and I hope you get the juxtaposition in what I just did.
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reply to post by HossDelgado
Math has really changed the world and how we perceive it.
Originally posted by AdamLaw
[The amount of imaginable scenarios must be limitless to someone with limitless knowledge but not to someone who was raised in a box.
How about when you can't get your brother's wife out of your head - external?
Originally posted by AdamLaw
Originally posted by jiggerj
Originally posted by AdamLaw
When the first Spanish ship arrived in America, The Amerindians had the Ships right in front of them for weeks before they could even see them. Being totally alien from what their mind could conceived they simply could not see the ships until their brain stopped the mental censorship over a period of a few weeks.
Heard this before and I don't believe it. I could understand if they thought the ships were weird floating rocks, but invisible? I doubt it.
You can choose to deny scientific facts as much as you want but perceptual blindness is real and clearly shows the boundary of the mind.
en.wikipedia.org...
Seems like a pile of crap to me. If people have never seen something before their eyes and brain can't register it? So I suppose if you brought an Eskimo to Africa and he wasn't familiar with the regional fauna and had never seen any of it before, he wouldn't be able to see a lion?
Originally posted by jiggerj
Seems like a pile of crap to me. If people have never seen something before their eyes and brain can't register it? So I suppose if you brought an Eskimo to Africa and he wasn't familiar with the regional fauna and had never seen any of it before, he wouldn't be able to see a lion?
Plus, this is implying that the American Indian had never seen a hunk of floating wood before. We're not talking about something green that's camouflaged in the woods. We're talking a wide open ocean with ships on it. No matter how strange a sight, they couldn't have been missed, and would have been an awesome wonder to the children.edit on 10/12/2012 by jiggerj because: (no reason given)