RE: Mind from the Inside
September 12, 2016 at 12:06 pm
(This post was last modified: September 12, 2016 at 12:10 pm by bennyboy.)
(September 12, 2016 at 10:59 am)Whateverist Wrote: I'm with you in being interested in the mind. But I'm not interested in it as an amusement park to be played in. I'm just curious to know its nature. So I'm not interested in 'disciplining' the mind so that 'I' can do stuff with it. I'm more interested in the mind phenomenologically. So when it comes to dreams, I find the actual details the interesting part .. not flying around in them like Ironman. It is very hard to understand the mind/self without influencing/distorting what it is you think you're studying at the same time.
That's like saying it's hard to understand your house without ever opening the door and stepping out into the bigger world. Why take that position? Why limit what wondrous things you might experience by convincing yourself that everything that matters is already right there with you in your little box?
I can't get how an understanding of the physical world has led people to be so disinterested in embracing a broader experience.
I also can't understand why half a dozen people have come to this thread to tell me they have no interest, or see no value, in what I wanted it to be about. It saddens me-- it's almost like an interest in the mind and its potential to experience is equivalent here to religious fuckery.
Does nobody here have mental experiences, or processes involving how they experience, that they take value in?
