What happens with the human mind can be described a multiplicity of ways, all of which are mere descriptors. One of these ways is with quantum super-position. Cosmologists speculate that the early universe was in a state of quantum superposition.
A quantum superposition is a state within which square-circles exist, there is no continuity, contingency or definition in this state. There is no definitive 'thing' in existence. Everything is in a superposition, all things exist and do not exist simultaneously, a state which is totally outside of the scope of human experience.
When quantum decoherence occurs the values of intersecting waves are added to each other. If the value at one point of one wave is +4v and intersects with another wave whose value at that point is -4v, the sum will be +0v. And it is +0v that will manifest in the decohered state.
Likewise, the mind is in a superposition which collapses into a coherent state consisting of definitive 'things'. At the center of this decohered phenomenal model is the self, which stands in relation to all else in the phenomenal model. It is not possible to be someone-experiencing-themselves-as-a-conscious-entity without the self residing within the decohered model. The self is that central to the phenomenal model, so much so that when "self-esteem" is threatened it threatens to wreck the whole phenomenal model and sent the individual into paranoid insanity.
Perhaps all of our "mental illnesses" could be better treated with the understanding that the self needs to find itself at the center of a coherent phenomenal model, and it needs to find an identity for itself in the objects presented. The self, is mere perspectivalness which gains concretion in it's relations with other things. In other words, the self is a perspective on the differentiated objects of the world but has no other reference to the real world.
This is essentially the concerted theorizing of Gerald Edelman and Giulio Tononi (See: A Universe of Consciousness) and Thomas Metzinger (See: Being No One and The Ego Tunnel). Neuroscientists and a Neurophilosopher respectively.
Love is a force driving this action toward reproduction. We identify with another in what we call love, but the act is consumptive as it consumes the other for ones own identity. This is the common form of love which stands in contrast to unconditional love within which the lover does not depend on the other for identity and is therefor never personally hurt by the actions or beliefs of that other. Personal hurt comes in when the self identifies with the loved-object and this type of love is best described as the consumption of some object-dilineated for the purposes of identity. And this manifests as the feeling of being loved or having worth.
What is Love? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiaR6i0mj_8&feature=channel_video_title
The End of Evangelion http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDnvy4_rGzA
The cause here is fundamental. In order to be a conscious entity you must consider yourself to be some-one inhabiting an environment and the process by which this comes about is one of attachment, or phenomenal intentionality relations, depending on how "academic" and convoluted you want the description to be. The ego is defined according to ones standing in relation to other objects, and the most gratifying of all ego-attachments is "love", or the kind of adoration and preoccupation that masquerades as love.
You can try to describe this in terms of neurochemicals like phenethylamine, oxytocin, noradrenaline or dopamine, but those are merely constituents of what is already subsumed under the term "love". There is, in-fact, a single cause for everything we experience and that is the ego. It is the functional attachment to objects as an identity. The differentiation of objects and attachment to objects for purposes of identification is one and the same process.
In the final analysis there is only one universal cause to all things, no separation exists at the smallest scale between objects, just one causal continuum or unravelling of events. So, while many divisive people claim there cannot be a single cause, as a matter of fact there is only ever one cause. But I understand this is difficult to see after spending a lifetime learning how to discriminate.
No, experiments do show toy preferences in children. But we should not be interpreting this like Social Darwinists. The genes lay the foundations for the neurochemistry which then feedsback on itself with new information that results in further adaptation. The typical feral child doesn't meet the criteria of any "typical" male or female, or human being for that matter. The degree of imprinting, role-modelling, and the effect of encouragement, far outweigh the influence of genetics on male and female behavior. This is proved by anthropological work, the most famous of which, although somewhat discredited is Margaret Mead's Sex and Temperment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Mead
In brief, her comparative study revealed a full range of contrasting gender roles:
"Among the Arapesh, both men and women were peaceful in temperament and neither men nor women made war.
"Among the Mundugumor, the opposite was true: both men and women were warlike in temperament.
"And the Tchambuli were different from both. The men 'primped' and spent their time decorating themselves while the women worked and were the practical ones — the opposite of how it seemed in early 20th century America."
People almost always get this wrong. God is a red-eyed, black-beast. Satan is an innocent little girl who could do no wrong, will not assume any responsibility and makes you pay for everything that happens.
Having studied neurological disorders quite at length, I can safely say that this might be a dysfunction of the temporal lobes which generally causes a feeling of a presence and perhaps possession. The dysfunction could be caused by congenital factors, aneurysm, stroke, head injury or transcranial magnetic stimulation. On the other hand, she could actually be possessed. I'm doubtful of the reality of possession, but doubt is healthy, denial is not.
A constant concern of mine when wathing Paranormal Research Society is that the "EMF" they pick-up on their recorders is the actual cause as transcranial magnetic stimulation of the temporal lobes. But they are busy looking around for ghosts.
There are also three in every ten whose aim is to live, but whose movements tend to the land (or place) of death. And for what reason? Because of their excessive endeavours to perpetuate life. - Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
I'm pretty sure none of us leave this rock and at the end of our 80 we return to the dirt. Sans cell phone. Sans teeth. Sans everything.
Everyday it's the battle with the Self, few are victorious Many fall victim of wanting to be vanglorious The Evil of Self is what drives you into destruction Kids caught up in crack, calling full of curruption The youth need encouragement, Evil of Self Don't wanna hear about self-evalutaion or development Fall victim of the negative, extravagant and competitive And all kinds of irrelevance, we blame it on environment The Evil of Self, causing destruction on his family Jealousy and greed are poison in places of society The Evil of Self, the justification for foolishness It's sad, any form of ignorance, we grew immune to it The Evil of Self, don't wanna hear constructive criticism People get a sense of arrogence when something's given to 'em Surrounded by Devil's, I find myself preforming Exorcisms World's got us going in circles, chasing materialism The Evil of Self, is what plunges you into error
More lyrics: http://www.lyricsmania.com/evil_of_self_lyrics_onebelo.html All about Onebelo: http://www.musictory.com/music/Onebelo
The word "worship" could be interpreted to mean; to give heightened importance to, or grant a sense of worth to. As in the Old english usage, c/o etymonline.org: O.E. worðscip, wurðscip (Anglian), weorðscipe (W.Saxon) "condition of being worthy, honor, renown," from weorð "worthy" (see worth) + -scipe (see -ship).
In that sense, attending to ones cell phone as if it held importance, or through some adoration or honoring, could be synonymous with worship.
I guess to clarify the question; as the part played by an actor in a play is just an appearance, and as it has no life of it's own independent of the actor, is the human "person" or "personality" just an appearance or part played by something else? Perhaps a part played by the unconscious or even further by nature herself?
A quantum superposition is a state within which square-circles exist, there is no continuity, contingency or definition in this state. There is no definitive 'thing' in existence. Everything is in a superposition, all things exist and do not exist simultaneously, a state which is totally outside of the scope of human experience.
When quantum decoherence occurs the values of intersecting waves are added to each other. If the value at one point of one wave is +4v and intersects with another wave whose value at that point is -4v, the sum will be +0v. And it is +0v that will manifest in the decohered state.
Likewise, the mind is in a superposition which collapses into a coherent state consisting of definitive 'things'. At the center of this decohered phenomenal model is the self, which stands in relation to all else in the phenomenal model. It is not possible to be someone-experiencing-themselves-as-a-conscious-entity without the self residing within the decohered model. The self is that central to the phenomenal model, so much so that when "self-esteem" is threatened it threatens to wreck the whole phenomenal model and sent the individual into paranoid insanity.
Perhaps all of our "mental illnesses" could be better treated with the understanding that the self needs to find itself at the center of a coherent phenomenal model, and it needs to find an identity for itself in the objects presented. The self, is mere perspectivalness which gains concretion in it's relations with other things. In other words, the self is a perspective on the differentiated objects of the world but has no other reference to the real world.
This is essentially the concerted theorizing of Gerald Edelman and Giulio Tononi (See: A Universe of Consciousness) and Thomas Metzinger (See: Being No One and The Ego Tunnel). Neuroscientists and a Neurophilosopher respectively.
Love is a force driving this action toward reproduction. We identify with another in what we call love, but the act is consumptive as it consumes the other for ones own identity. This is the common form of love which stands in contrast to unconditional love within which the lover does not depend on the other for identity and is therefor never personally hurt by the actions or beliefs of that other. Personal hurt comes in when the self identifies with the loved-object and this type of love is best described as the consumption of some object-dilineated for the purposes of identity. And this manifests as the feeling of being loved or having worth.
What is Love?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiaR6i0mj_8&feature=channel_video_title
The End of Evangelion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDnvy4_rGzA
The cause here is fundamental. In order to be a conscious entity you must consider yourself to be some-one inhabiting an environment and the process by which this comes about is one of attachment, or phenomenal intentionality relations, depending on how "academic" and convoluted you want the description to be. The ego is defined according to ones standing in relation to other objects, and the most gratifying of all ego-attachments is "love", or the kind of adoration and preoccupation that masquerades as love.
You can try to describe this in terms of neurochemicals like phenethylamine, oxytocin, noradrenaline or dopamine, but those are merely constituents of what is already subsumed under the term "love". There is, in-fact, a single cause for everything we experience and that is the ego. It is the functional attachment to objects as an identity. The differentiation of objects and attachment to objects for purposes of identification is one and the same process.
In the final analysis there is only one universal cause to all things, no separation exists at the smallest scale between objects, just one causal continuum or unravelling of events. So, while many divisive people claim there cannot be a single cause, as a matter of fact there is only ever one cause. But I understand this is difficult to see after spending a lifetime learning how to discriminate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Mead
In brief, her comparative study revealed a full range of contrasting gender roles:
"Among the Arapesh, both men and women were peaceful in temperament and neither men nor women made war.
"Among the Mundugumor, the opposite was true: both men and women were warlike in temperament.
"And the Tchambuli were different from both. The men 'primped' and spent their time decorating themselves while the women worked and were the practical ones — the opposite of how it seemed in early 20th century America."
A constant concern of mine when wathing Paranormal Research Society is that the "EMF" they pick-up on their recorders is the actual cause as transcranial magnetic stimulation of the temporal lobes. But they are busy looking around for ghosts.
movements tend to the land (or place) of death. And for what reason?
Because of their excessive endeavours to perpetuate life. - Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWj7oWlVtag
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HM_(patient)
What I don't understand is; Where are you going?
I'm pretty sure none of us leave this rock and at the end of our 80 we return to the dirt. Sans cell phone. Sans teeth. Sans everything.
Everyday it's the battle with the Self, few are victorious
Many fall victim of wanting to be vanglorious
The Evil of Self is what drives you into destruction
Kids caught up in crack, calling full of curruption
The youth need encouragement, Evil of Self
Don't wanna hear about self-evalutaion or development
Fall victim of the negative, extravagant and competitive
And all kinds of irrelevance, we blame it on environment
The Evil of Self, causing destruction on his family
Jealousy and greed are poison in places of society
The Evil of Self, the justification for foolishness
It's sad, any form of ignorance, we grew immune to it
The Evil of Self, don't wanna hear constructive criticism
People get a sense of arrogence when something's given to 'em
Surrounded by Devil's, I find myself preforming Exorcisms
World's got us going in circles, chasing materialism
The Evil of Self, is what plunges you into error
More lyrics: http://www.lyricsmania.com/evil_of_self_lyrics_onebelo.html
All about Onebelo: http://www.musictory.com/music/Onebelo
In that sense, attending to ones cell phone as if it held importance, or through some adoration or honoring, could be synonymous with worship.